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Birthday 3-7-65
By Jim Dine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Birthday 3-7-65
Lithograph, 1965
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 23
Published by ULAE, their chop stamp lower left (see photo)
Printed by Ben Berns...
Category
1960s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Seated Couple
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Inspiration (Seated Couple)
Graphite on paper, c. 1967
Signed twice in pencil by the artist on recto (see photos)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 x 16 inches
Note: Although not t...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Pastel on paper, 1922
Initialed and dated lower right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
The Orange Chicken...
Category
1920s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Pastel on paper, 1922
Initialed lower right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014.
Condition: excellent
Image size: 11 8 7/8 inches
Frame size: 18 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
The Orange Chicken...
Category
1920s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Provincetown (Sunbathing)
By Peter Grippe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Provincetown (Sunbathing)
Sepia ink on tan paper, 1966
Signed in ink lower center (see photo)
Exhibited: Art from Lexington Homes, Lincoln Massachusetts...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Iron Point
By Mel Bochner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Iron Point
Aquatint, 1985
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Annotated: AP 4/6 lower center (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Annotated: AP 4/6 (There was also a regula...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Matsu (Pine)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Matsu (Pine)
Woodcut, 1968
Signed: "'Matsu' Naoko Matsubara" in pencil by the artist (see photo)
Annotated in pencil "Ed 25" (see photo)
Edition: 25
Condition: 7" long waterstain at bottom edge of sheet starting ca. 6" in from lower left corner. Does not effect image. Light foxing throughout, especially in margins. Matting covers the foxing up.
Image size: 22 x 43 1/4 inches
Naoko Matsubara (1937 - )
Matsubara Naoko (松原直子) was born in 1937 on Shikoku Island into an old Shinto family, and grew up in Kyoto, where her father was a senior priest. She was educated at the Kyoto Academy of Fine Art (BFA, 1960); and was a Fulbright Scholar at what is now Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (MFA, 1962). She was also a Special Invited Student at the Royal College of Art in London (1962).
After travelling extensively in Europe and Asia, Naoko Matsubara returned to Japan for two years, before being lured back to the United States. There she worked as personal assistant to the late Prof. Fritz Eichenberg, and also taught at the Pratt Institute of Graphic Art in New York, as well as at the University of Rhode Island. Subsequently she lived in Cambridge, Mass.
In 1972 Naoko Matsubara moved to Canada, and now lives in Oakville, Ontario. She has continued to be extremely active as an artist: locally, nationally and internationally. Since 1960 she has had some 75 solo exhibitions, in the USA, Canada, Japan, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Mexico. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions.
Public collections owning work by Naoko Matsubara include: Albertina, Vienna; Art Institute of Chicago; British Museum; Carnegie Institute; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; Detroit Institute of Art; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Haifa Museum, Israel; Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art; Royal Ontario Museum; The White House, Washington DC; Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art; Yale University Art Gallery.
Naoko Matsubara has published some 20 books and portfolios of her work, including most recently Tibetan Sky (Calgary: Bayeux Arts Publishers, 1997; Preface by the Dalai Lama); Tokonoma (Bath, England: Old School Press, 1999); and Konjaku monogatari (Tokyo: ALIS, 2002). Her work also includes a large mural and donor pillar for the new YMCA building in Oakville, Ontario (2003); mixed-media screens; and paintings. In 2005, the Royal Ontario Museum commissioned two large works from Naoko Matsubara for the Museum's Bloor Street window case. The artist generously donated a third work, Emerald Summer (2006). The three works (each 195 cm. high by 95 cm. wide) will be rotated at regular intervals into the outside window. This is the first commissioned artwork to be displayed on the Museum’s Bloor Street Plaza.
Recent major exhibitions have been in Tokyo, Kyoto, Indiana, and Toronto (Royal Ontario Museum). Further exhibitions are currently being planned in Seattle and Tokyo; new books in process include In Praise of Hands. She also continues to travel widely; is frequently invited to speak about her work; and also publishes essays, in both English and Japanese.
Naoko Matsubara’s work has been the subject of countless articles and reviews; documentary films (including two from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation); and several book-length publications: notably Mokuhan: The Woodcuts of Munakata and Matsubara (text by Joan Stanley-Baker; Victoria, BC: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1976); Naoko Matsubara: Development of Artistic Style and Technique (text by Barbara Woodworth; MFA thesis, Harvard University, 1985);.and Tree Spirit...
Category
1960s Abstract Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Xylon 21 Naoko Matsubara USA
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Xylon 21 Naoko Matsubara USA
Woodcuts, two which are printed in color, 1970
2 of the 5 woodcuts signed in pencil (see photos)
Five original woodcuts, two of which are signed in pencil
With introduction entitled Honest Pinetree by Frizt Eichenberg
The images are:
The Quaker’s Meeting, double page woodcut cover on grey/green paper, signed in pencil, with usual centerfold
Publisher: Sekton Schweiz de Xylon, Zurich
Date: August 1970
Edition: 500
Sylvan Snow, double page woodcut (with usual centerfold), signed in pencil, dedicated and dated, depicting a forest
Verso: Dragon, double page woodcut, with usual centerfold, depicting a dragon
Indian Dancer, double page woodcut in black and green (with usual centerfold), depicting dancer
Verso: Chinese Dancer. woodcut in red, depicting a dancer
Condition: Very good, usual handling issues for paper portfolio
Centerfolds as issued
Signle filio: 19 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches
Double folio: 19 3/8 x 27 inches
Publisher: Sekton Schweiz de Xylon, Zurich
Date: August 1970
Edition: 500
Provenance: Amity Art Foundation, Inc.
A rare dedicated example with a dedication in pencil “For Frank” and dated 1970
Note: Matsubara graduated from the Kyoto University of Applied Arts in 1960. She then pursued an MFA in the School of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on a Fulbright Travel Grant, and since then has traveled extensively and taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn—a rare distinction for a Japanese woman. She also studied one year at the Royal College of Art, London. Currently she lives and works in Oakville, Canada.
Naoko Matsubara’s style is influenced by her teacher Munakata Shiko (1903–1975), who worked in the mingei (folk art) tradition. Her works are part of the collections of many museums around the world such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Albertina in Vienna, the British Museum in London, the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress in Washington, the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts, the Haifa Museum in Israel and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. She was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
(Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Naoko Matsubara (1937 - )
Matsubara Naoko (松原直子) was born in 1937 on Shikoku Island into an old Shinto family, and grew up in Kyoto, where her father was a senior priest. She was educated at the Kyoto Academy of Fine Art (BFA, 1960); and was a Fulbright Scholar at what is now Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (MFA, 1962). She was also a Special Invited Student at the Royal College of Art in London (1962).
After travelling extensively in Europe and Asia, Naoko Matsubara returned to Japan for two years, before being lured back to the United States. There she worked as personal assistant to the late Prof. Fritz Eichenberg, and also taught at the Pratt Institute of Graphic Art in New York, as well as at the University of Rhode Island. Subsequently she lived in Cambridge, Mass.
In 1972 Naoko Matsubara moved to Canada, and now lives in Oakville, Ontario. She has continued to be extremely active as an artist: locally, nationally and internationally. Since 1960 she has had some 75 solo exhibitions, in the USA, Canada, Japan, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Mexico. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions.
Public collections owning work by Naoko Matsubara include: Albertina, Vienna; Art Institute of Chicago; British Museum; Carnegie Institute; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; Detroit Institute of Art; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Haifa Museum, Israel; Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art; Royal Ontario Museum; The White House, Washington DC; Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art; Yale University Art Gallery.
Naoko Matsubara has published some 20 books and portfolios of her work, including most recently Tibetan Sky (Calgary: Bayeux Arts Publishers, 1997; Preface by the Dalai Lama); Tokonoma (Bath, England: Old School Press, 1999); and Konjaku monogatari (Tokyo: ALIS, 2002). Her work also includes a large mural and donor pillar for the new YMCA building in Oakville, Ontario (2003); mixed-media screens; and paintings. In 2005, the Royal Ontario Museum commissioned two large works from Naoko Matsubara for the Museum's Bloor Street window case. The artist generously donated a third work, Emerald Summer (2006). The three works (each 195 cm. high by 95 cm. wide) will be rotated at regular intervals into the outside window. This is the first commissioned artwork to be displayed on the Museum’s Bloor Street Plaza.
Recent major exhibitions have been in Tokyo, Kyoto, Indiana, and Toronto (Royal Ontario Museum). Further exhibitions are currently being planned in Seattle and Tokyo; new books in process include In Praise of Hands. She also continues to travel widely; is frequently invited to speak about her work; and also publishes essays, in both English and Japanese.
Naoko Matsubara’s work has been the subject of countless articles and reviews; documentary films (including two from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation); and several book-length publications: notably Mokuhan: The Woodcuts of Munakata and Matsubara (text by Joan Stanley-Baker; Victoria, BC: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1976); Naoko Matsubara: Development of Artistic Style and Technique (text by Barbara Woodworth; MFA thesis, Harvard University, 1985);.and Tree Spirit...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled Female Nude
By Steven Assael
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Female Nude)
Graphite and sgrafitto on yellow paper, 1987
Signed lower right
Note: Steven Assael is represented by Forum Gallery in New York. In 1977 he won the Charles Ro...
Category
1980s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Nude in a Mirror
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude in a Mirror
Ink and wash on paper, n.d.
Signed in red ink lower right (see photo)
Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, page 153, a monograph on the artist's drawings
Note: a cop...
Category
1960s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Columns of Herakles
By Ossip Zadkine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Columns of Herakles
Lithograph in Grey printed Zerkall-Vellum paper, 1960
Signed in pencil by the artist 'O. Zadkine' at the lower right corner (see photo)
Numbered in pencil 102...
Category
1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marble relief of a trireme from the Temple of Fortuna, Praeneste, from Vasi
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Marble relief of a trireme from the Temple of Fortuna, Praeneste, from Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal Cav. Gio. Ba...
Category
1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Noon Time Lull
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Noon Time Lull
Etching, c. 1930
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Note: An image done in South Carolina.
An impression of this image is in the permanent collecti...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Spring in Brown County
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Spring in Brown County
Oil on canvas mounted on phenolic resin support, c. 1925
Signed lower right: L. O. Griffith (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Painti...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Desolation, S.C. or Deserted Cabins, Beauford, S.C.
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Desolation, S.C. or Deserted Cabins, Beauford, S.C.
Etching & Aquatint, c. 1930
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Annotated "Trial Proof" in pencil lower left co...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Brittany Landscape with Figure
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Brittany Landscape with Figure
Etching & color aquatint, c. 1920
Signed lower right (see photo)
Numbered lower left: "No. 21" (see photo)
An early ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Sunbathing
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sunbathing
Etching and color aquatint on watermarked Umbria Italy paper, c. 1915
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Annotated: "No. 6" in pencil lower left (see p...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
A Bit of New England
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A Bit of New England
Oil on canvas,, 1908
Signed lower left corner: L. O. Griffith
Condition: Excellent
Canvas size: 26 x 38 inches
Frame size: 33 3/8 x 45 1/4 inches Note: origi...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Storms (At Sea)
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Storm (At Sea)
Oil on board, c. 1908
Signed: L. O. Griffith lower left (see photo)
Titled on label verso
Image: 6 5/8 x 8 3/4"
Frame: 10 x 12 x 1 1/2"
Provenan...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Burst of Sound
By Misako Shimizu
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Burst of Sound
Lithograph printed in colors
Signed and titled in pencil in Japanese (see photos)
Edition: 30 (5/30)
Provenance:
Ralph Drake, Cleveland, OH, noted collector of decorat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Impression B
By Toshi Yoshida 1
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Impression B
Color woodcut, 1959
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
A trial proof, prior to the edition of 100, signed and numbered
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 14 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
by decent to his heirs
"Printmaker and painter Toshi Yoshida was born on July 25, 1911, into the respected Yoshida family of artists of Tokyo, Japan. Father Hiroshi was a celebrated landscape painter and printmaker, and mother Fujio established herself as the first female Yoshida artist as well as an Abstract artist later in her career. Younger brother Hodaka was an Abstract printmaker whose style, completely separate from his family's historic traditional bent, later influenced Toshi. Hodaka's wife Chizuko would become a pioneering female Japanese artist whose own exploration of Surrealism and Abstraction challenged the status quo. Toshi, however, as the eldest sibling, was expected to follow in his father's footsteps, and from an early age he was trained by Hiroshi in his studio.
Unable to attend formal schooling due to the polio-induced paralyzation of his leg, Toshi would instead help with his family's printmaking studio and go on sketching trips with Hiroshi. As he got older, these trips would include India and Southeast Asia, working from morning to night taking night trains to get from one destination to another. Among Toshi's favorite subjects were the animals he discovered along the way. However, these trips ended as Japan entered military dictatorship in the mid 1930s, and artists whose work showed signs of Western influence were barred from exhibiting. At this time, Toshi left Japan for China and Korea, where he would remain for the duration of the war. He stuck to patriotic themes to remain in business, and after the end of World War II, as Japan struggled to recover from wartime economic depression, he earned his living creating traditional Japanese woodcut landscapes...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Dona Ascensione
By Kenneth M. Adams
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dona Ascensione
Off set lithograph, 1932/published 1950
Signed in pencil by the artist lower right (see photo)
Titled in the stone, lower left
From: New Mexico Artist...
Category
1930s American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
Morning Paper
By Alessandro Mastro-Valerio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Morning Paper
Mezzotint, 1941
Signed in pencil lower right
Publisher: 32nd Presentation Print of the Chicago Society of Etchers
Edition: 350
Illustrated in GREAT AMERICAN PRINTS 1900-1950 by Norman and June Kraeft
Reference: Old Print Shop No. 86
Condition: Excellent
Original brown paper hinges in the upper corners recto
Plate/Image size: 8 7/8 x 5 15/16 inches
Impressions of this image can be found in the permanent collection of:
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Wichita Art Museum
Hope College, Kruizenga Art Museum
University of Connecticut, Benton Art Museum
Amherst College, Mead Art Museum
"Mastro-Valerio was educated at the Salvador Rosa Institute in Naples, Italy (1906-1912), and came to the U.S. in 1913. He settled in Chicago, and after a brief period as a commerical artist, established a portrait studio near the Loop. Among his patrons were the industrialists Harvey S...
Category
1940s American Realist Nude Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Blue Wing
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blue Wing
Etching, c. 1940
Signed in the lower right (see photo)
Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis, after his tenure o...
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Action Plus
By Clarence W. Anderson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Action Plus
Lithograph, 1950
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Edition 250
Published by Associated American Artists, New York
Illustrated: AAA catalogs 1950-01 and 1950-02
Reference: AAA Index No. 1072
Condition: Excellent
Slight aging to paper
Image size: 9 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches
Sheet size: 12 x 15 7/8 inches
Clarence William Anderson
Clarence William Anderson (1891–1971), born in Wahoo, Nebraska, and known professionally as C.W. Anderson, was a writer and illustrator of children's books. Anderson had an interest in horses and drawing. When he wasn't out riding horses, he was drawing them, taking great interest in their bone structure and conformation. Anderson started his career by illustrating for other authors, but eventually began developing texts to accompany his realistic and lively black and white drawings. He is best known for his "Billy and Blaze" book series.
The adventures of Billy and Blaze revolve around proper care of the horse, while teaching a lesson. Anderson would go to great lengths to give accurate information. He would even go on to write Heads Up, Heels Down as a training tool for young horse lovers. All of the stories Anderson wrote would be based on true stories or people that he knew-only the plots were fictitious.
By the end of Anderson's life, he had written and illustrated over thirty-five horse books, and had also created covers for the Saturday Evening Post. Anderson is the namesake for Andy's Summer Playhouse, a youth theater in Wilton, New Hampshire.[1] Anderson also was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists.
Artwork portfolios
• All Thoroughbreds, Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1948 – 20 illustrations
• Post Parade, Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1949 – 15 illustrations
• Turf and Bluegrass, Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1950 and 1952 – 15 illustrations
• Grey, Bay, and Chestnut, Harper and Brothers Publishers 1952 and 1955 – 10 illustrations
• Colts and Champions, Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1955 and 1956 – 10 illustrations
• Accent on Youth, 1958 – 10 illustrations
• Bred to Run, 1960 – 12 illustrations
• The Look of a Thoroughbred, 1963 – 8 illustrations
• Before the Bugle, 1965 - 9 illustrations
• The World of Horses, 1965 – 8 illustrations
• Fillies and Colts, year unknown – 5 illustrations
• Man O'War, Horse of the Century, 1970 – 8 illustrations
Works
As author and illustrator
• And So to Bed...
Category
1950s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude Reclining on a Mat
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Reclining on a Mat
Ink on paper, n.d.
Signed in red ink lower right
Same model used in Elliott & Wooden pages 198 and 199
Condition: Excellent
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Warren Shaull, Dodge City, KS (collector's stamp verso)
Aaron Bohrod (21 November 1907 – 3 April 1992) was an American artist best known for his trompe-l'œil still-life paintings.
Education
Bohrod was born in Chicago in 1907, the son of an emigree Bessarabian-Jewish grocer. Bohrod studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York between 1926 and 1930. While at the Art Students League, Bohrod was influenced by John Sloan and chose themes that involved his own surroundings.
Career
He returned to Chicago in 1930 where he painted views of the city and its working class. He eventually earned Guggenheim Fellowships which permitted him to travel throughout the country, painting and recording the American scene. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York. Bohrod completed three commissioned murals for the Treasury Departments Section of Fine Arts in Illinois; Vandalia in 1935, Galesburg in 1938 and Clinton in 1939. During World War II, Bohrod worked as an artist; first in the Pacific for the United States Army Corps of Engineers' Army War Art Unit...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
City Park, Winter
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
City Park, Winter
Lithograph, c. 1947
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Published by Associated American Artists
Printed by George C. Miller, New York
Edition: c. 250
In the Bohrod papers at Syracuse University, the artist states that it is a view of Pittsburgh. It depicts the George Washington Monument in Allegheny Commons Park, dedicated in 1891. The sculptor f the monument is Edward Ludwig Albert Pausch (1856-1931).
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 9 1/4 x 13 7/16 inches
Frame size: 19 x 23 inches
Provenance: Estate of Adolf Dehn
Reference: AAA Index No. 848
Aaron Bohrod (21 November 1907 – 3 April 1992) was an American artist best known for his trompe-l'œil still-life paintings.
Education
Bohrod was born in Chicago in 1907, the son of an emigree Bessarabian-Jewish grocer. Bohrod studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York between 1926 and 1930. While at the Art Students League, Bohrod was influenced by John Sloan and chose themes that involved his own surroundings.
Career
He returned to Chicago in 1930 where he painted views of the city and its working class. He eventually earned Guggenheim Fellowships which permitted him to travel throughout the country, painting and recording the American scene. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York. Bohrod completed three commissioned murals for the Treasury Departments Section of Fine Arts in Illinois; Vandalia in 1935, Galesburg in 1938 and Clinton in 1939. During World War II, Bohrod worked as an artist; first in the Pacific for the United States Army Corps of Engineers' Army War Art Unit...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le monocycle (Performer on a Unicycle)
By Bernard Buffet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le monocycle (Performer on a Unicycle)
Color lithograph, 1968
Signed and numbered in pencil lower left corner
From the portfolio "Mon Cirque" (My Circus)
Edition: 120 (12/120)
Reference: Sorlier, Buffet Lithographs, No. 166
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 26 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches
Sheet size: 28 1/4 x 20 inches
Provenance: Robert Henry Adams, Chicago
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard Buffet
Born 10 July 1928
Paris, France
Died 4 October 1999 (aged 71)
Nationality French
Education École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Marie-Thérèse Auffray
Known for Painting, Drawing, Printmaking
Movement Expressionism
Awards Member of the Salon d'Automne, 1947
Member of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, 1947
Prix de la Critique, 1948
Prix Puvis de Chavannes, 1950
Officer of the Légion d'Honneur,1973
Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, 1974
Bernard Buffet (French: [byfɛ]; 10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
He produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative. The artist enjoyed worldwide popularity early in his career but was shunned by art pundits later on.
Today, there is a renewed interest in Bernard Buffet's oeuvre. His works can be seen in the collections of the world's leading museums, including the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the Tate, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Biography
Bernard Buffet was born in 1928. He hailed from a middle-class family with roots in Northern and Western France. His spent his childhood in Paris. His mother often took him to the Louvre Museum, where he got familiar with the works of Realist painters, such as Gustave Courbet. This is likely to have influenced his style. In 1955, he painted a work that paid tribute to Courbet's Le Sommeil.
Bernard Buffet was a student at the Lycée Carnot during the Nazi occupation of Paris. He travelled to drawings courses in the evenings despite the curfew imposed by the Nazi authorities. He then studied art at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (National School of the Fine Arts) and worked in the studio of the painter Eugène Narbonne. Among his classmates were Maurice Boitel and Louis Vuillermoz. He met the French painter Marie-Thérèse Auffray and was influenced by her work.
Buffet's mother, Blanche, died from breast cancer in 1945. Seventeen-year-old Buffet...
Category
1960s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Trout Fishing on the Gunnison (Colorado)
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trout Fishing on the Gunnison (Colorado)
Lithograph, 1941
Signed and dated '42 in pencil lower right
Annotated lower left:
"40 Prints-The Gunnison River, Colorado-For Anne & Jack"
Ed...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
As We Were
By Art Werger
Located in Fairlawn, OH
As We Were
Mezzotint printed on Hannemuelle Copperplate paper, 2014
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Chop stamp of the publisher, The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Deneb
By William T. Wiley
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Deneb
Color lithograph on BFK Rives, 1996
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Titled and inscribed "Ed 265" lower left
Publishers chop stamp l;ower left
Printed by Shark's Ink,
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Early Morning Rain
By Norman Ackroyd
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Early Morning Rain
Etching & color aquatint, 1977
Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition: 40 (39/40)
Published by Associated American Artists, New York
Condition: Mint
Image/Plate size: 16 1/2 x 15 3/8 inches
Sheet size: 25 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches
Reference: AAA Index No. 2486
"Norman Ackroyd (RA) is one of Britain’s most celebrated living landscape artists. He is renowned for his evocative and atmospheric visions of the British Isles. Working in both etching and watercolour, he is equally as adept at capturing the calm of a Summer’s daybreak as he is the ferocity of a winter sea.
Born in 1938 in Leeds, he studied at Leeds College of Art (1957-61) and the Royal College of Art in London...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Actresses in Their Dressing Rooms
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Actresses in Their Dressing Rooms
etching & aquatint, 1879-1880
Unsigned as usual for all canceled plate impressions
Reference: Delteil 28, Shapiro 50 vi/vi with the cancelation line...
Category
1870s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Aquatint
On Christmas Day
By Gene Kloss
Located in Fairlawn, OH
On Christmas Day
Drypoint and aquatint, 1979
Signed lower right: Gene Kloss (see photo)
Inscribed lower left:
"Artist's Proof", and titled "On Christmas Day"
An "artist's proof" imp...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Untitled
By Dorothy Heller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Watercolor on paper, 1990
Signed lower left corner
Provenance: Gift of the Artist to one of hr patrons
Distinguished Midwest Private Collection
Conditi...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Red Mountain
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Red Mountain
Three color lithograph, 1986-7
Signed, titled and dated in pencil lower right
Annotated "B.A.T." for Bon a Tire lower left corner
This example is the printers guide for printing the editon of 40
Printed on BFK Rives paper
Printed at Derriere L'Etoile Studios, New York
Printer: Maurice Sanchez
Condition: Excellent, never framed
Image/Sheet size: 45 1/4 x 30 inches
Louisa Chase came to prominence in the 1980's as one of the outstandingNeo-Expressionist painters. Her work then was characterized by bold colors and brush strokes, often incorporating natural elements and fragments of the figure. Louisa Chase's works have been featured in gallery and museum shows in Cologne, Nurnberg, Luzem, Switzerland, Toronto, and Tokyo, and various galleries and museums throughout the US. She has also been featured at the American Pavillion at the 1984 Venice Biennale. Also in 1984, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston organized as travelling exhibition of her work. In 1997, the Madison Art Center organized a retrospective of her prints, Louisa Chase: Prints, 1981-1996. She has been a featured artist at the University of Wisconsin's Tandem Press and at the Tamarind Press; ahe was also invited to do a print for Lincoln Center in New York City. The recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chase's works are in the permanent collections of such museum as The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), The Brooklyn Museum of Arts, The Corcoran Gallery and The Library of Congress (Washington D.C.), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Art, and the Chazin Museum of Art of the University of Wisconsin, Madsion and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison WI).
Bibliography: Elizabeth Armstrong, Painters who print (Minnapolis: Walker Art Center, 1984); Ruth S...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Baby, Baby
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Baby, Baby
Etching & aquatint printed in colors, 1991
Signed, dated, titled & numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 35 (4/35) plus 10 AP
Condition: Excellent, colors fresh
Image...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Before Day Light
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Before Day Light
Drypoint, c. 1940
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis.
In the 1930’s...
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
untitled (Duck taking to flight, flushed by a dog)
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Duck taking to flight, flushed by a dog)
Drypoint & Aquatint, c. 1940
signed lower right
Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis, after his ...
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
The Swan
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Swan
Etching and soft ground intaglio, 1957
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled and numbered lower left (see photo)
From the second edition of 75 impressions, printed...
Category
1950s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Pencils and Pens
By George Rickey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pencils and Pens
Graphite on paper, 1987
Signed and dated by the artist lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 13 5/16 x 10 11/16 inches
Rickey, a noted kine...
Category
1980s American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway
By Jared French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of an Italian Town with Women in a Doorway
Graphite on cream wove paper, c. 1960
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
A master of ...
Category
1960s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
#90 Strange Creature
By Norbert Lenz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
#90 Strange Creature
Oil and pencil on board, 1932
Signed and dated in the image lower right (see photo)
Provenance:
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, OH
Condition: excellent
Archival framing
Image size: 10 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches
Frame size: 25 x 24 inches
Painter, illustrator and commercial artist Norbert Lenz was born in Norwalk, Ohio and received his artistic training at both the Huntington Polytechnic Institute and the Cleveland School of Art. During his career Lenz exhibited his paintings and drawings at such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art. Today the art of Norbert Lenz is held by the Columbus Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art.
Lenz was also a very highly regarded commercial designer of stamps. He worked for a number
of years at the House of Farman, a leading vendor of first day covers...
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist landscape with organic shapes
By Charles Harris ( Beni Kosh )
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Surrealist landscape with organic shapes
Watercolor on paper, 1960-1970
Signed CE Harris lower right corner (see photo)
Stamped with the artist’s estate stamp verso (see photo)
Reference: Beni Kosh Collection Estate Stamp #705
Provenance: Estate of the artist
A wonderful example by one of the few African American Surrealist painters.
“An African-American born Charles E. Harris, the name under which he painted until the early 1960s when he took the name of Kosh. His paintings span the period 1949-71, and reflect abstract and surreal figurative subjects which include Cleveland street scenes, jazz clubs, and depictions of Christ.”
Courtesy of Rachel Davis Fine Art
“Beni E. Kosh was born as Charles Elmer Harris, in Cleveland Ohio. He changed his name in the 1960’s, which translates to “Son of Ethiopia”. He rarely exhibited or sold his work and was affiliated with the African-American artists’ “Sho-nuff Art Group” and the Karamu House and studied under Cleveland artist Paul Travis. His style is very diverse and he experimented with Cubism, portraiture and abstractions in series. His paintings span from 1949 – 1971, and reflect abstract and surreal figurative subjects, which include Cleveland street scenes, jazz clubs, and depictions of Christ. He received little recognition during his lifetime and was only “rediscovered” literally days after his death when hundreds of his paintings were rescued by an art dealer.”
(Courtesy Pennsylvania Art...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Infant Jupiter Nursing from the She-Goat Amaltheia (The Birth of Jupiter)
By Luigi Quaini
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Infant Jupiter Nursing from the She-Goat Amaltheia
(The Birth of Jupiter)
Red chalk and wash on off-white paper, c. 1700
Unsigned
Attribuuted to Quaini by Dwight Miller, the sch...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Baroque Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
The Jolly Corner. A portfolio of 21 etchings.
By Peter Milton
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portfolio of 21 photosensitive etchings and engravings on Rives Heavyweight Buff
Signed by the artist in pencil on frontispiece
Plate No. II:2; Signed by the artist
Numbered 27/150 in pencil on the colophon page along with chop marks of artist/printers Robert E. Townsend and Gretchen Ewert, and the chop of Impressions Workshop, Boston
Edition: 150
References And Exhibitions:
A portfolio edition of Henry James' ghost story first published by "The English Review" in December, 1908
Principal Portfolio Edition
Published by Aquarius Press Baltimore, MD
Reference:
Kneeland McNulty, Peter Milton: Complete Etchings 1960...
Category
1970s Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Etching
Halle aux Chapeaux
By Jules Chéret
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Halle aux Chapeaux (House of Hats)
Color lithograph poster, 1892
Signed and dated in the stone (see photos)
Condition: Excellent, mounted on coated linen backing
Image size: 47 1/2 x 35 1/2 inches
Framed dimensions: 57 x 42 inches
Reference: Broido, No. 830, illustrated plate 30
Jules Chéret
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jules Chéret (31 May 1836 – 23 September 1932) was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of Belle Époque poster art. He has been called the father of the modern poster.
Early life and career
L'Etendard Français, Chéret's 1891 poster...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
L'Angellus (The Angel)
By Alfredo Müller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'Angellus (The Angel)
Etching, engraving and acquatint on Arches paper, 1908
Signed lower right by the artist (see photo)
This is a first state impression printed in a brown/black ink
There was also a color edition of 50 impressions published by Sagot
Reference: Wurzer 27
Provenance: Edmund Sagot, the publisher
Sagot Heirs
Condition: Rich impression. Verso: print has staining. Printer's crease visibile from verso only.
Image/Plate size: 19 1/4 x 15 1/2" (48.9 x 39.37 cm)
Sheet size: 24 x 17 3/8 inches
From the British Museum:
"Colour etcher. Born in Livorno from a family of wealthy Swiss cotton merchants, studied with Giuseppe Ciaranfi and Michele Gordigiani in Florence. In 1886 exhibited with Fattori, Achille Lega and Tommasi in the Prima Esposizione delle Belle Arti in Livorno. In 1888 he and his family moved to Paris, where he studied first with François Flameng until 1892 and later with Carolus-Duran. Müller remained in the French capital until the outbreak of the First World War, taking French citizenship in 1913. He worked in the countryside at Barbizon, Suresnes and elsewhere, but also made frequent visits to his native country, where he exhibited regularly in Florence with the Promotrice Fiorentine. His early work was indebted to Fattori and Plinio Nomellini, but he soon became interested in the Impressionists and was credited by the critic Mario Tinti with introducing the luminism of Monet into Italian art.
Müller was a member of the Société des Artistes Indépendents and exhibited regularly in the Paris dealer...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La Grande Cascade de Saint Cloud
By Alfredo Müller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Grande Cascade de Saint Cloud
Color aquatint on watermarked Arches J Perrigot paper, 1905
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right. (see photo)
Edition: 100. Numbered "39" in pencil lower left.
Titled in pencil verso
Published by Edmund Sagot, Paris, his dry stamp lower right below signature.
Image: 23-1/8 x 17-3/8" (58.7 x 44 cm.)
From the British Museum:
"Colour etcher. Born in Livorno from a family of wealthy Swiss cotton merchants, studied with Giuseppe Ciaranfi and Michele Gordigiani in Florence. In 1886 exhibited with Fattori, Achille Lega and Tommasi in the Prima Esposizione delle Belle Arti in Livorno. In 1888 he and his family moved to Paris, where he studied first with François Flameng until 1892 and later with Carolus-Duran. Müller remained in the French capital until the outbreak of the First World War, taking French citizenship in 1913. He worked in the countryside at Barbizon, Suresnes and elsewhere, but also made frequent visits to his native country, where he exhibited regularly in Florence with the Promotrice Fiorentine. His early work was indebted to Fattori and Plinio Nomellini, but he soon became interested in the Impressionists and was credited by the critic Mario Tinti with introducing the luminism of Monet into Italian art.
Müller was a member of the Société des Artistes Indépendents and exhibited regularly in the Paris dealer George Petit's annual exhibitions of colour prints. He made his first print in 1896, a lithographic portrait of the poet Paul Verlaine in the Café Procope. The following year Müller made his first colour aquatints. Among them were a series of illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy. In style his etchings and aquatints were influenced by Manuel Robbe. Very occasionally he combined drypoint or soft ground etching with aquatint. Müller's principal publisher was Pierrefort, who also issued prints by Toulouse-Lautrec. After 1903 he largely abandoned aquatint for pure etching. Fourteen of his colour etchings were reproduced over a number of months in the weekly magazine 'Le Courrier français'. Müller also made a small number of colour lithographs, some of which were published by the Parisian print dealer Sagot. A single monotype of Mallarmé done in 1911, thirteen years after the poet's death in 1898, is recorded. Müller made a few landscape prints and a couple of etchings of fishing boats, but his principal subject was young women in long dresses. Often there is an aura of fin-de-siècle wistfulness. When he returned to Italy, he lived first in Taormina, then in Florence, and finally settled in a villa at Settignano. Müller largely abandoned printmaking after 1914. Only three more prints by him made in 1920, 1925 and 1933 are recorded after he moved back to his native country. Müller was a regular exhibitor in Florentine exhibitions, the most significant of which was the 1922 Primaverile Fiorentina. He returned to France in 1930 where he died in 1939. (Text by Martin Hopkinson)"
Said to rival the fountains at Versailles, La Grande Cascade is still turned on for a few hours every Sunday in June. The Grande Cascade, constructed in 1664-1665 by Antoine Le Pautre has survived.
The château was expanded by Phillipe de France, duc d'Orléans in the 17th century, and finally enlarged by Marie Antoinette in the 1780s. Napoleon I and Napoleon III also used the palace, which was a U-shaped scheme of three sections, open to the east. Destroyed by fire (with the exception of a few outbuildings and its majestic garden) in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War. The burned-out shell stood until 1891, when it was demolished. The gardens were replanned by André Le Nôtre...
Category
Early 1900s French School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Woman's Head
By Elie Nadelman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Edition of 50 printed by Charles White in 1951 for the estate
Bibliography:
Lincoln Kirstein, Elie Nademan (New York: The Eakins Press, 1973),, 20
Elie Nadelman
Born 1882, Warsaw...
Category
1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Blue Horizon (near Sante Fe, New Mexico)
By Elmer Ladislaw Novotny
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blue Horizon (Near Sante Fe, New Mexico)
Signed by the artist lower right (see photo)
Oil on board, 16 x 27 5/8 inches
Condition: Very good. Housed in the or...
Category
1970s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun)
Graphite on paper, 2005
Signed: "Sedrick Huckaby III" lower right (see photo)
In April 2008, Huckaby was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for "stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment"
Provenance: Valley House Gallery, the artist's dealer for many years Inv. #12949
Image size: 6 3/4 x 10 inches
Sedrick Huckaby (b. 1975)
Born in Fort Worth in 1975, Huckaby has been creating some form of art since his childhood. In 1995, he began his formal art studies at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. After a brief stay he transferred to Boston University, where he received a BFA degree. He then earned a MFA degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Huckaby is known for his powerful use of color and his exploration of cultural roles and the heritage of the African American family. His work has evolved from portraiture to objects and interiors that venerate his personal family legacy rooted in Fort Worth, Texas. Portraying these familiar subjects on a large scale and pushing his use of materials, Huckaby defines the significance of family and tradition while touching on the subject of ethnographic stereotypes in our culture.
For the past few years he has concentrated his efforts on a series of quilt paintings. One of the series he created is a tribute to both of his Grandmothers and a celebration of the African American quilting tradition. He used the actual quilts sewn by family members as models for his paintings. These quilts document significant events in his family history. According to Huckaby, the paintings represent an artistic family legacy. The colorful, rhythmic abstracted patterns come together like the musical notes in African American musician John Coltrane's famous jazz composition, A Love Supreme, from which the painting series acquired its name.
He has earned national acclaim for his work over the past several years. Huckaby has received the 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
The Model
By William C. Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Model
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
signed lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
A few bits of adhesive residue verso
Colors fresh and unfaded
Housed in a Marin style metal gilt frame
Sheet size: 19 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches
Frame size: 30 x 35-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches
A major example of the artist's cubist watercolors
Provenance: Estate of the artist
By decent to his daughter Gretchen
Realted to a watercolor illustrated in William H. Robinson and Christine Fowler Shearer, "Against the Grain: Modernism in the Midwest," American Art Review Vol. XXII, no. 4 (August 2010), page 86
William C. Grauer (1895-1985)
William C. Grauer (1895-1985) was born in Philadelphia to German immigrant parents. After attending the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, Grauer received a four year scholarship from the City of Philadelphia to pursue post graduate work. It was during this time that Grauer began working as a designer at the Decorative Stained Glass Co. in Philadelphia.
Following his World War I service in France, Grauer moved to Akron, Ohio where he opened a studio in 1919 with his future brother-in-law, the architect George Evans...
Category
1930s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Automne
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Automne (Autumn)
Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, 1927
Signed, titled, and annotated in brown ink (see photos)
Condition: Good
Signature and inscrption fade...
Category
1920s French School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Derriere Le Miroir-Page 6-7
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derriere Le Miroir-Page 6-7
Color lithograph, 1973
Unsigned (as issued)
From: Derriere Le Miroir, No. 201, January 1973
Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris
Printer: L’Imprimerie Arte, Adrien Maeght
Edition: Large (unspecified)
There is also a deluxe edition of this issue of DLM, signed and numbered on the justification page, edition 150
Condition: Fresh colors
a few spots of foxing near the centerfold, appropriate to it's age
Sheet/Image size: 15 x 22 inches
Derriere le Miroir (Behind the Mirror)
The art...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Terrazza
By Jeanette Pasin-Sloan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Terrazza
Lithograph, 1987
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Published by Kandfall Press, Chicago (their stamp verso)
Landfall drystamp recto lower left
Edition 125 (92/125)
Provenance: Stanley Yulish, Cleveland, Ohio
Reference: Szoke 23
Condition: Excellent, never matted ir framed
Image size: 19 3/4 x 15 1/2"
Sheet Size: 27" x 22"
"Jeanette Pasin Sloan's paintings, drawings, and prints display technical feats of virtuosity. The artist uses a photo-realistic style to depict reflective objects set against patterned backgrounds. However, she subverts both genre and style, infusing the traditional genre of still life painting with highly abstract tendencies. Closely-cropped, and set in carefully manipulated compositions, the subject matter of Pasin Sloan's work takes second stage to its formal intensity.
Pasin Sloan was born in Chicago in 1946. She graduated from Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York, and received an MFA in graphic arts from the University of Chicago...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Engraver's Tools
By Armin Landeck
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Engraver's Tools
Engraving, 1974
Signed and annotated in pencil by the artist (see photos)
This a "Trial Proof" impression with graphite additions
Regular Edition: 100
References And...
Category
1970s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Minneapolis at Dusk
By Richard Haas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Minneapolis at Dusk
Etching & aquatint printed in colors, 1993
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 65 (19/65)
Condition: Excellent
This image depicts the Wells Fargo Center designed by Cesar Pelli
Richard Haas (American, b.1936) is a practitioner of the trompe l'oeil artistic style, a technique that uses realistic images in a way that tricks the eye into perceiving the painting in three dimensions. Haas has painted hundreds of murals that incorporate trompe l'oeil methods in the depiction of the architectural features of the building. He was born in Spring Greene but grew up in Milwaukee, WI. He graduated in 1959 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Bachelor in Art. Instructors for his courses included Joseph Friebert (American, 1908–2002) and Robert Von Neuman (German, 1888–1976).
Haas returned to his birthplace to work as a helper for his stonemason uncle, and he had an opportunity to view the work of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867–1959). He spent several years as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan before he moved to New York City in 1968. Haas spent 10 years teaching at Vermont's Bennington College, splitting his time between the school and New York. Haas worked for many years as an Abstract painter who used traditional canvas media. He later developed an interest in drawing and etching the details of late 19th century and early 20th century New York City buildings.
The artist’s first outdoor mural, a commission to paint the cast iron façade at the corner of Prince Street and Greene Street, was completed in 1975. His other notable murals include Fort Worth, Texas' Homage to Chisholm Trail...
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Pyramus and Thisbe
By Augustus Edwin John
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pyramus and Thisbe
Etching, c.1906
Signed along bottom edge in pencil "Augustus E John"
Edition: 25
Reference: Dodgson 91 ii/II
Condition: Excellent
Plate: 5 1/8 x 4" (13.02 x 10.16 ...
Category
Early 1900s Young British Artists (YBA) Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Pastel on paper, 1922
Signed with the artist's initials in pencil
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Francis M. Nauman (label)
Private collection, NY
A very early abstract/cubist work by Kelly. Created while the artist was studying with Arthur Carles in Philadelphia.
Leon Kelly (October 21, 1901 – June 28, 1982) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, PA. He is most well known for his contributions to American Surrealism, but his work also encompassed styles such as Cubism, Social Realism, and Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of his time. His large output of paintings is complemented by a prolific number of drawings that span his career of 50 years. Some of the collections where his work is represented are: The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Boston Public Library.
Biography
Kelly was born in 1901 at home at 1533 Newkirk Street, Philadelphia, PA. He was the only child of Elizabeth (née Stevenson) and Pantaleon L. Kelly. The family resided in Philadelphia where Pantaleon and two of his cousins owned Kelly Brothers, a successful tailoring business. The prosperity of the firm enabled his father to purchase a 144-acre farm in Bucks County PA in 1902, which he named "Rural Retreat" It was here that Pantaleon took Leon to spend every weekend away from the pressures of business and from the disappointments in his failing marriage. Idyllic and peaceful memories of the farm stayed with Leon and embued his work with a love of nature that emerged later in the Lunar Series, in Return and Departure, and in the insect imagery of his Surrealist work. "If anything," he once said,"I am a Pantheist and see a spirit in everything, the grass, the rocks, everything."
At thirteen, Leon left school and began private painting lessons with Albert Jean Adolphe, a teacher at the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. He learned technique by copying the works of the old masters and visiting the Philadelphia Zoo, where he would draw animals. Drawings done in 1916 and 1917 of elephants, snakes and antelope, as well as copies of old master paintings by Holbein and Michelangelo, heralded an impressive emerging talent. In 1917, he studied sculpture with Alexander Portnoff but his studies came to an abrupt halt with the start of World War I. Being too young to enlist, he joined the Quartermaster Corp at the Army Depot in Philadelphia, where he served for more than a year loading ships with supplies and, along with other artists, working on drawings for camouflage.
By 1920, the family's fortunes drastically changed. His father's business had failed due to the introduction of ready made clothing and his marriage, unhappy from the beginning, dissolved. Broken by circumstance Pantaleon left Philadelphia to begin a wandering existence looking for work leaving Leon to support his mother and grandmother. He found a job in 1920 at the Freihofer Baking Company where he worked nights for the next four years. Under these circumstances Leon continued to develop his skills in drawing and painting and learned of the revolutionary developments in art that were taking place in Paris.
During the day he was granted permission to study anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathy where he dissected a cadaver and perfected his knowledge of the human figure. He also met and studied etching with Earl Horter, a well known illustrator, who had amassed a significant collection of modern art which included work by Brancusi, Matisse, and Cubist works by Picasso and Braque. Among the artists around Horter was Arthur Carles, a charismatic and controversial painter who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Leon enrolled in the Academy in 1922, becoming what Carles described as, "his best student".
In the next three years Leon work ranged from academic studies of plaster casts, to pointillism, to landscapes of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, as well as a series of pastels showing influences from Matisse to Picasso. Clearly influenced by Earl Horter's collection and Arthur Carles he mastered analytical cubism in works such as The Three Pears, 1923 and 1925 experimented with Purism in Moon Behind the Italian House. In 1925 Kelly was awarded a Cresson Scholarship and on June 14 he left for Europe.
Paris
The first trip to Europe lasted for approximately three and a half months and introduced Kelly to a culture and place where he felt he belonged. Though he returned to the Academy in the Fall, he left for Europe again a few months later to begin a four-year stay in Paris. He moved into an apartment at 19 rue Daguerre in Paris and began an existence intellectually rich but in creature comforts, very poor. "I kept a cinderblock over the drain in the kitchen sink to keep the rats out of the apartment" he once explained. He frequented the cafes making acquaintances with Henry Miller, James Joyce and the critic Félix Fénéon as well as others. His days were split between copying old master paintings in the Louvre and pursuing modernist ideas that were swirling through the work of all the artists around him. The Lake, 1926 and Interior of the Studio, 1927, now in the Newark Museum.
Patrons during this time were the police official Leon Zamaran, a collector of Courbets, Lautrecs and others, who began collecting Kelly's work. Another was Alfred Barnes of the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia.
In 1929 Kelly married a young French woman, Henriette D'Erfurth. She appears frequently in paintings and drawings done between 1928 and the early 1930s.
Philadelphia
The stock market crash of 1929 made it impossible to continue living in Paris and Kelly and Henriette returned to Philadelphia in 1930. He rented a studio on Thompson Street and began working and participating in shows in the city's galleries. Work from 1930 to 1940 showed continuing influences and experimentation with the themes and techniques acquired in Paris as well as a brief foray into Social Realism. The Little Gallery of Contemporary Art purchased the Absinthe Drinker...
Category
1920s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel