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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Lotus
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Screenprint from 20 screens with embossing. On Velin Arches mould-made paper
Based on 'Lotus', textile dyes on hand-made Indian paper, 1978
Signed and dated in pencil, lower centre. ...
Category
1980s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color, Screen
Edge of the Woods.
By William Harry Warren Bicknell
Located in Storrs, CT
Edge of the Woods. 1916. Drypoint. 7 7/8 x 9 3/4 (sheet 10 7/16 x 13 1/8). A rich impression in printed on Japanese paper with an oak leaf watermark. Signed and annotated '3rd state'...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Octavio Paz Suite: Nocturne VI
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph and chine appliqué
64.5 x 54 cms (25 3/8 x 21 1/4 ins)
Edition 50
Paper: Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper
Other Collaborators: Image transferred from Mylar to...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color, Lithograph
Willow Border
By William Seltzer Rice
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM SELTZER RICE (1873 – 1963)
WILLOW BORDER, ca 1915-20 Color woodcut. Signed Wm. S. Rice and titled in pencil, both very lightly. Image 10 x 9 inches. On fibrous paper. Sheet...
Category
1910s Other Art Style International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Dusk
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Yal...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Flores para la Ñusta II
By Ana Maria Hernando
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with cut outs, Edition 30.
Flores para la Ñusta translates as "Flowers for the Ñusta". The artist states:
"In the Andean cosmology, the Ñust...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Heads)
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracu...
Category
1980s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Dormir, Dormir, dans les Pierres.
By Yves Tanguy
Located in New York, NY
TANGUY, Yves. Dormir, Dormir, dans les Pierres. By Benjamin Peret. Illustrated with three full-page plates printed recto only, and 10 vignette head- and tail-pieces after drawings ...
Category
1920s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Outgoing Fog (South Bristol, Maine)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on paper, 1976
Painted in South Bristol, Maine
Signed by the artist lower left
Condition: Excellent
Category
1970s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color 3-D lithograph in Plexiglas box, Edition 50
Red Grooms revisits the rich subject matter of his New York City neighborhood in his new three-dimensional lithograph “Extra! Ext...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Souper a New York
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-, Souper a New York, etching on zinc, 1907, signed in pencil bottom left margin; also annotated “No 11/20 imp” bottom margin. Reference: Sylvain Laboureur ...
Category
Early 1900s French School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Lotus
By Hiroki Morinoue
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut, Edition 30.
Lotus is a twenty-six color woodcut from seven woodblocks printed in an edition of 30, plus proofs, on white Thai Mulberry paper. In this print, a compe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Maggie
By Marcus Harvey
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen, 2016, on Somerset wove, signed and numbered from the edition of 25, published by Shapero Modern, London, printed by K2 Screens, London, imag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Young British Artists (YBA) International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
House on Cliff Walk, Newport, Rhode Island
By Clifford Isaac Addams
Located in Storrs, CT
House on Cliff Walk, Newport, R.I. 1931-1932. Etching and drypoint. Hausberg catalog 13 state .i/ii. Edition 75 in this state. 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 (sheet 9 x 13 1/2). A rich impression pr...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Baigneuse Debout, à Mi-Jambes — French Impressionism
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Pierre Auguste Renoir, 'Baigneuse Debout, à Mi-Jambes (Woman Bathing, Standing Up to Her Knees in Water)', 1910, etching, edition not stated, Delteil 23. Unsigned as published. A fin...
Category
1910s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled
1989
Aquatint, Edition of 20
44.5 x 32.4 cms (17 1/2 x 12 3/4 ins)
22.9 x 15.2 cms (9 x 6 ins)
SF15235
Category
1980s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Aquatint
POSTER SIZE MEXICAN LINOCUT - DESPERTAR (Awakening)
By Adolfo Mexiac
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ADOLFO MEXIAC (Mexican b.1927 - )
DESPERTAR, (Awakening) 1960
Linoleum cut signed, titled and dated. image 19 1/4 x 27 1/2. Sheet 24 x 31 1/2
Generally very good condition save for a loss along the top sheet edge and creasing in the lower right part of the sheet. This print was most likely produced at the TGP (El Taller de Grafica Popular...
Category
1960s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Linocut
New Year’s Eve and Adam
By John Sloan
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Sloan, 'New Year's Eve and Adam', etching, 1918, edition 100, (only 85 printed), Morse 190. Signed, titled and annotated '100 proofs' in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, l...
Category
1910s Ashcan School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Olivetti
By Giovanni Pintori
Located in New York, NY
Pintori, Giovanni. Olivetti. 1967. 2nd printing. 1st Printing 1946.
Offset Lithograph. Rare
Giovanni Pintori (1912 – 1999) was an Italian graphic designer and painter. His most famous works are the advertisement posters for Olivetti typewriters...
Category
1960s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Offset
The Thingly Thingness of Things
By Enrique Chagoya
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30. (Irregular shape)
The artist states:
“2013 is the year of the snake and I am celebrating it in this print to honor the Chinese calendar but with a pre-Columbian twist. In the Chinese horoscope...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Sam Francis - Michel Waldberg - Metaphysique Du Vid
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Sam Francis Exhibition Poster. Color lithograph 1986
Painter and printmaker who was prominent among the group of painters known as the second generation of Abstract Expressionis...
Category
1980s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
“Valparaiso”, Approach of evening."
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
After
WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeil. Photogravure
10x12 2/4" paper size, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2" image size
Signed in pencil with artist’s butterfly monogram.
This photogravure is from the...
Category
1890s Photorealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
ABS, Photogravure
Dancing in the Dark
By Joan Snyder
Located in New York, NY
Joan Snyder has been called an autobiographical, even confessional artist, who draws from her experiences and surroundings to create her paintings. While her subjects vary widely, Sn...
Category
1980s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
LA PARADE
By Georges Rouault
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871 – 1958)
La PARADE 1932 (CR.203, W.211) color etching and aquatint 1932.
Edition 270. Frontispiece from “Cirque”. ...
Category
1930s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Playing with Lives (First Responder)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Playing with Lives (First Responder)
Watercolor on Arches paper, 2020
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed with the artist's embossed "Yummy" blindstamp lower right
...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
UNICEF Bouquet - Tom Wesselmann, Pop Art, Still-life, Print, Screenprint
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1998.
From 'Meine Kindheit - Schmerz und Heilung, UNICEF'.
Signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 100.
Image: 63.5 x 54.5 cm Sheet: 78.8 x 70 cm
Category
1990s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Aboriginal Child Frightened by Abstraction and Time
By William T. Wiley
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with chine collé, Edition 30.
William Wiley uses current political and social issues to comment on life in our time. His stunning draftsmanship, and freeform lov...
Category
1990s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Paris Suite 1 (Spring)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Paris Suite I (Spring)
1980
Lithograph on J.B. Green handmade paper, Edition of 60
48.9 x 48.9 cms (19 1/4 x 19 1/4 ins)
RM17031
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Japanese Beauties Enjoy a Full Moon
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Burbank, CA
"Sun, Moon and Stars". Three beauties enjoy a full moon on the veranda of a teahouse or restuarant. The woman on the left kneels and adjusts her lavishly printed kimono. The beauty in the center has her hair down, and behind her is a screen against which shadows are beautifully silhouetted, which adds an air of mystery. The seated woman on the right is perhaps a geisha, as we see a shamisen lying next to her. Before her is a tray with an assortment of foods. One may surmise that the beauties are being compared to the sun, the moon, and the stars. On the left we glimpse a full moon shining over the peaceful bay, and boats at harbor. Original first edition Japanese color woodblock print triptych...
Category
1840s Edo International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut, Mulberry Paper
Theater Design For Mistinguette
By Charles Gesmar
Located in New York, NY
Charles Gesmar
French Poster Artist and Costume Designer
Costume design in the form of a Rose for the entertainer Mistinguette. Perhaps for her production at the in Moulin Rouge i...
Category
1920s Art Deco International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Brushed aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on German Etching paper
71.8 x 56.5 cms (28 1/4 x 22 1/4 ins)
Edition of 32
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
York Factory II
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Screenprint, 1974, on Arches Cover Black paper, signed, dated and numbered an AP aside from the edition of 100, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles., sheet: 46.9 x 112.8cm (18½ x...
Category
1970s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM
Color lithograph, 1968
Unsigned as issued in DLM
Published in Derriere le Miroir (Behind the Mirror), calle...
Category
1960s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Soaring New York' — 1930s American Modernism, New York City
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Soaring New York', aquatint, soft-ground etching, roulette, 1931-32, edition 25, Duffy 165. Signed, dated, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmosp...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Auction
By Bernhard Kretzschmar
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Kretzschmar (1889-1972), Auction, etching, drypoint, and burnished aquatint, 1921, signed and dated (’20) in pencil lower right [also initialed in the plate lower left] Refe...
Category
1920s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
OIL BOAT
By Arthur Dove
Located in Portland, ME
Dove, Arthur (American, 1880-1946). OIL BOAT. Watercolor and crayon on paper, 1932. Signed "Dove," lower right. Provenance, Alfred Stieglitz, American Place Gallery; Terry Dintenfass...
Category
1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor, Crayon
Python Sebae (African Rock Python Skull)
By Jacob Crook
Located in New Orleans, LA
Python is a hand-pulled mezzotint in an edition of 25. This is #7/25.
Jacob Crook was born in St. Louis, MO in 1985. Crook works primarily in the intagli...
Category
2010s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
'La Pêche' (Fishing) — French Cubist Woodcut
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Raoul Dufy, 'La Pêche' (Fishing), woodcut, 1910, from the second edition of 220 printed in 1953. With the estate stamp 'ATELIER RAOUL DUFY' in the lower left margin. Numbered '106/220' in pencil, lower right. Titled in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (3 to 5 inches), slight toning at the sheet edges, well away from the image; otherwise in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 12 1/2 x 15 13/16 inches (318 x 402 mm); sheet size 19 9/16 x 25 3/4 inches (497 x 654 mm).
From the suite of four woodcuts entitled 'Les Plaisirs de la Paix' (The Pleasures of Peace), originally published by Éditions de La Sirène, Paris in 1926. The other three works in the series are 'La Danse' (The Dance), 'La Chase' (The Hunt), and 'L'amore' (Love). See our other listings for 'La Danse' and 'L'amore'.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Minneapolis Art...
Category
1910s Cubist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Wuxtry! [Extra!]
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in New York, NY
Albert Abramovitz (1879-1963), Wuxtry! [Extra?!], linocut in colors, c. 1936, signed in pencil lower right and titled lower center [also initialed in the plate]. In very good conditi...
Category
1930s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Linocut
![Wuxtry! [Extra!]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_5153/1491148788368/IMG_0968_master.JPG?width=240 "matt abramovitz")
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY DOCUMENT, 1754 Signed by Wm. Shirley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY, (Boston - September 10, 1754)
William Shirley (Captain General and Governor in Chief)
Printed and manuscript Document signed. 13 x 17" Complete with official seal...
Category
1750s Other Art Style International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Ink
Bon Fire Night Circle (13 totally nude men arrayed in a circle in the desert)
Located in New Orleans, LA
13 nude guys form a circle in the desert. This is number 1 from a limited edition of 12. The work is signed on the back. A book of the artists work will be published in early Spring
London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga...
Category
2010s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
C Print
'Fantasia Americana - 1880' — Mid-Century American Surrealism
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
Category
1940s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'Surveillance Is Your Busywork'
By Barbara Kruger
Located in London, GB
Original subway poster, c. 1980, on wove paper, unsigned as issued, 28 x 71.3 cm.
'Surveillance Is Your Busywork' is an unused subway lithograph placard, produced in the early 80s b...
Category
1980s Conceptual International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Une Niit d'avril a Ceos
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in New York, NY
Une Niit d'avril a Ceos, theatre program for a production with sets by Maurice Denis with advertisement for La Revue blanche, 1894. Lithograph.
Ref:...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
PERSONNAGE VIRTUEL
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Portland, ME
Hayter, Stanley William. PERSONNAGE VIRTUEL. BM182. Engraving,
soft-ground etching and scorper, 1947. Edition of 70, signed, dated,
and numbered 42/70, all in pencil. 11 3/4 x 8 7/8...
Category
1940s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
THE RUG WEAVER
By Gustave Baumann
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GUSTAVE BAUMANN (1881 – 1971)
THE RUG WEAVER, 1910 (Chamberlain 26)
Color woodcut signed in pencil. Unnumbed from an edition 100 as published in the Hills o’ Brown...
Category
1910s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife 1
By Lovis Corinth
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LOVIS CORNTH (German 1858 - 1925)
JOSEPH und POTIPHARS WEIB 1, 1914 (S. 168)
Drypoint, Unsigned, platemark 7 3//8" X 9 5/8 " on good watermarked laid paper. Full margins, deckl...
Category
1910s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
Generations 10
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper
53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins)
Edition of 35, Set of 24
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
Prin...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
La Casita Azul
By Emilio Sanchez
Located in New York, NY
“LA CASITA AZUL”
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “La Casita Azul” circa 1970. The image size is 21.50 x 31.25 inches and the paper size 23.13 x 33 inches. Printed in an edition of 100 this impression is inscribed “91/100” - the 54th impression of 100. Pencil signed in the lower right and inscribed in the lower left.
“Best known for his architectural paintings and lithographs, Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) explored the effects of light and shadow to emphasize the abstract geometry of his subjects. His artwork encompasses his Cuban heritage...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Red Sea I
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
105.4 x 74 cms (41 1/2 x 29 1/8 ins)
Edition of 100
Paper: Arches Cover
Signature: Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions: Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's c...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Etel Adnan, Compotier 111, etching, signed, 2015
By Etel Adnan
Located in London, GB
Etching with extensive hand colouring, 2015, signed, dated ‘14 and numbered ‘II’, aside from the edition of 15 black and white etchings, published by Gallerie Lelong, Paris, 38 × 56 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Pastel
'The Bather' — 1930s American Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'The Bather', wood engraving, 1931, edition 120, Burne Jones 63. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Image size 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches (137 x 200 mm); sheet size 11 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (283 x 368 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Impressions of this work are held in the following public collections: Burne Jones Collection, IL; Chegodaev Collection, Moscow; Kent Collection, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library, NJ; Pushkin Museum, Moscow; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection, NY.
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Root
By Rodney Carswell
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Ed. 25
The artist describes his work:
My work has often been described as belonging to a category of ‘reductive, geometric abstraction’. In the last decade ho...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Graphite
'Havoc in Heaven' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Havoc in Heaven', lithograph, 1948, edition 30-35, Fine and Looney 270. Signed, titled, and numbered 'Ed 35' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. Printed...
Category
1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
#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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled IV (from set of 8)
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen.
Exhibition History: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 'Pia Fries: Schwarzwild', 2 June - 2 July 2006.
Category
1990s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
'European Landscape' —Mid-century American Surrealism
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'European Landscape', drypoint, edition 50, 1942. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '7/50' in pencil. A superb, finely nuanced impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/4 inches); in excellent condition.
Image size 10 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
An impression of this work is included in the permanent collection of the Syracuse University Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
Category
1940s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
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