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Medium: Monotype
Gray Iris III: Cyanotype Monotype on Archival Paper, Contemporary Art
Gray Iris III: Cyanotype Monotype on Archival Paper, Contemporary Art

Gray Iris III: Cyanotype Monotype on Archival Paper, Contemporary Art

Located in Oakland, CA

This gray and white Japanese-inspired monotype was made using freshly-cut long-stemmed wild iris (iris douglasiana) that grow along the California coast. Their impossibly long stems ...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Landscape #IV
Landscape #IV

Landscape #IV

By Thomas Monaghan

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "Landscape #IV' c.2000 is an original color monotype by American artist Thomas (Tom) Monaghan, b. 1961. It is hand signed and numbered 1/1 in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 8 x 15.75 inches, the sheet size is 15 x 22 inches. it is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist: Born in Chicago in 1961, Monaghan received his MFA from the University Northern Illinois. He moved west to Sonoma County in his mid-twenties and starting showing in galleries in San Francisco in the early 1990's, his move having a profound impact on his painting. The first impression of that sparkle on water upon the great lakes in Chicago continue his drive to seek out natural beauty in the landscape. Monaghan has had regional acclaim and International showing, include, International Art Fairs in San Francisco in 2011 and 2012. Selected exhibitions 1993 Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA., 1993 Heirloom Gallery, Chicago, I., 1994 Marinscapes., 1995 John Mallon, Editions Limited, Indianapolis, IN., 1996 Marinscapes., 1997 John Mallon, Editions Limited, Indianapolis, IN., 1998 Ira Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA., 2000 Erickson & Elins Gallery, San Francisco, CA ., 2001 Ira Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA, 2002 Ira Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA., Erickson Fine Art Gallery 2008. Selected collections The Prudential, Merrill Lynch, LaSalle National Bank, Chicago Mercantile Exchange...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

A Mineral Exoskeleton - Contemporary Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2024
A Mineral Exoskeleton - Contemporary Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2024

A Mineral Exoskeleton - Contemporary Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2024

By Laura Moriarty

Located in Kent, CT

In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological forma...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Blue and White (Single 16 x 16 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)
Blue and White (Single 16 x 16 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)

Blue and White (Single 16 x 16 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)

Located in Oakland, CA

This minimalist patterned collage calls to mind West African indigo textiles, Japanese Shibori fabric or perhaps the work of Ellsworth Kelley. The pattern mounted on wood panel was ...

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2010s Minimalist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram

Misty Maple I: Monotype Cyanotype on Archival Paper, 18 x 24 inches, signed
Misty Maple I: Monotype Cyanotype on Archival Paper, 18 x 24 inches, signed

Misty Maple I: Monotype Cyanotype on Archival Paper, 18 x 24 inches, signed

Located in Oakland, CA

Though these pale mint green botanical monotypes resemble woodcuts or linocuts they are actually cyanotypes, a form of kind of photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist al...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Square Forms, Large Abstract Monotype by Mitch Lyons
Square Forms, Large Abstract Monotype by Mitch Lyons

Square Forms, Large Abstract Monotype by Mitch Lyons

By Mitch Lyons

Located in Long Island City, NY

A large, unique print on canvas by American Artist, Mitch Lyons (1938-2018), signed lower right. The canvas is unstretched and will be shipped rolled in a tube.

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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Pink Plumeria IV

Pink Plumeria IV

By Robert Kushner

Located in Lyons, CO

Color monotype with collaged antique paper. Robert Kushner is a painter and a sculptor. He gained attention in the early seventies as a performance ar...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Untitled #1
Untitled #1

Untitled #1

By Barbara Diethelm

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "Untitled #1" 1992 is a original monotype on paper by Swiss artist Barbara Diethelm, born 1962. It is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist. Printed and published by Aurobora Press, San Francisco. The artwork (image) size is 7 x 6.75 inches, framed is 18.5 x 17.5 inches. It is framed in a wooden maple frame. It is in very good condition, frame have very minor scratches. About the artist. Barbara Diethelm was born and raised in Zürich. After attending college in Zürich she moves to the United States in 1982. 1983 – 1988 Studies Graphic Design and Fine Art (with Mel Casas, Mark Pritchett und Tom Willome) at S.A.C. in San Antonio, Texas. Studies Humanities and Management at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio. 1988 – 1990 studies Painting (with Sam Tchakalian...

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Late 20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Large 3D Cast Paper Abstract Oil Monoprint Unique Monotype Painting John Walker
Large 3D Cast Paper Abstract Oil Monoprint Unique Monotype Painting John Walker

Large 3D Cast Paper Abstract Oil Monoprint Unique Monotype Painting John Walker

By John Walker

Located in Surfside, FL

John Walker British (b. 1939) Salsipuedes Forms (1991) Monoprint relief print with dry pigment, monotype Hand signed lower right Provenance: Garner Tullis Workshop A monotype is literally one of a kind; it is not a method of multiplication. The artist makes an image with a liquid medium on wood, metal or glass, and paper is laid over the moist image and bonded under pressure the paper is then removed bringing with it the transposed monotype. John Walker (born 1939) is an English painter and printmaker. He has been called "one of the standout abstract painters of the last 50 years." Walker studied in Birmingham at the Moseley School of Art, and later the Birmingham School of Art and Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Some of his early work was inspired by abstract expressionist art and post-painterly abstraction, and often combined apparently three-dimensional, sculptural shapes with "flatter" elements. These pieces are usually rendered in acrylic paint. In the early 1970s, Walker made a series of large Blackboard Pieces using chalk first exhibited at the opening of Ikon Gallery, in Birmingham Shopping Centre, Birmingham in 1972 and the Juggernaut works which also use dry pigment. From the late 1970s, his work marked allusions to earlier painters, such as Francisco Goya, Edouard Manet and Henri Matisse, either through the quoting of a pictorial motif, or the use of a particular technique. Also during this time, he began to use oil paint more in his work. His paintings of the 1970s are also notable for what has come to be termed canvas collage, the application of glued-on, separately painted patches of canvas to the main canvas. Beginning in the 1970s John Walker was one of the most influential and imitated painters working in the UK; he exhibited alongside Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, represented his country at the 1972 Venice Biennale, had extensive survey shows at both the Tate and Hayward galleries and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1985. After spending some time in Australia, Walker got a position at the Victoria College of the Arts in Melbourne. He produced the Oceania series around this time which incorporates elements of native Oceanic art. Walker is currently the head of the graduate painting program at Boston University. Walker won the 1976 John Moores Painting Prize and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1985. In September 2010, Walker and five other British artists including Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland, Ian Stephenson, Patrick Caulfield and R.B. Kitaj were included in an exhibition entitled The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art From the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, at the Yale Center for British Art. His art was influenced by Boston Expressionism. Along with Aaron Fink, Gerry Bergstein, Jon Imber, Michael Mazur, Katherine Porter, Jane Smaldone, John Walker, and Philip Guston. Through Garner Tullis at Experimental Press he met Sean Scully, Friedel Dzubas, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Francis, William Wiley, and others. Select Group Exhibitions (partial list) 1965 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition. Walker Art Center, Liverpool. 1966 Recent Aspects of British Art. Australia and New Zealand (traveled). 1967 4 Artists. Betty Parsons Gallery, New York. John Walker, Michael Kidner, Bruce Tippett, Michael Tyzack...

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1990s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monoprint, Monotype

Abstract Expressionist American Modernist Oil Monotype Monoprint Painting
Abstract Expressionist American Modernist Oil Monotype Monoprint Painting

Abstract Expressionist American Modernist Oil Monotype Monoprint Painting

By Larry Brown

Located in Surfside, FL

Larry Brown Long-time established New York painter as well as faculty member the The Cooper Union, Brown works in oil on canvas and tempera paints on paper. He deals with themes of science and universality. EDUCATION: 1970 M.F.A. in Painting, University of Arizona 1967 BA in Painting, Washington State University SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Mixed Company: Women Choose Men, AIR Gallery, New York, NY Easy Breezy, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY From Stone and Plate: Contemporary Prints from Tamarind Institute, California State University Change of View Tamarind Institute Gallery, Albuquerque, NM Animal As Muse, The Norton Museum of Art, W. Palm Beach, FL Painting--Larry Brown, Joseph Haske, David Schoffman, Helander Gallery, New York, NY Paper Houses, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY Curators Choice, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Current Trends in Abstraction-- Larry Brown, Bill Drew...

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1980s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monoprint, Monotype

Holding Together  Torn Apart, mixed media work on paper, pastel pink and silver
Holding Together  Torn Apart, mixed media work on paper, pastel pink and silver

Holding Together Torn Apart, mixed media work on paper, pastel pink and silver

By Karin Bruckner

Located in New York, NY

Printmaking composite with Japanese paper, pencil and silver leaf on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper. Paper: 22" x 22" Frame: 25" x 25" At the core of the dialogue between the a...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype, Yarn, Newsprint

Blue on Blue Monotype Collage on Wood Panel, Abstract, 36 x 36 Inch
Blue on Blue Monotype Collage on Wood Panel, Abstract, 36 x 36 Inch

Blue on Blue Monotype Collage on Wood Panel, Abstract, 36 x 36 Inch

Located in Oakland, CA

This collage on wooden panel was made by cutting up and reassembling hand-printed botanical cyanotypes (blueprints or sunprints) of leaves from my own garden. While cyanotypes are tr...

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2010s Minimalist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram

Large Abstract Modernist Monterey Series Mixed Media Monotype Colorful Painting
Large Abstract Modernist Monterey Series Mixed Media Monotype Colorful Painting

Large Abstract Modernist Monterey Series Mixed Media Monotype Colorful Painting

By Terence La Noue

Located in Surfside, FL

Terence La Noue was born in Hammond, Indiana in 1941. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1964. After going to Berlin as a Fulbright Meister Student ...

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1980s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paint, Mixed Media, Monotype

Day of the Dragon
Day of the Dragon

Day of the Dragon

By Harold Town

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Harold Town (1924-1990) is the best-known and most dynamic artist from the "Painters Eleven" group. His reputation goes beyond his association with the group as arguably one of Can...

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1960s Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Intaglio, Monotype

Burst Variation 15 - Abstract Woodcut Print Metallic Silver Turquoise Blue, 2015
Burst Variation 15 - Abstract Woodcut Print Metallic Silver Turquoise Blue, 2015

Burst Variation 15 - Abstract Woodcut Print Metallic Silver Turquoise Blue, 2015

By Eve Stockton

Located in Kent, CT

This woodcut print on paper is composed of a central, circular, metallic silver shape spreading outward into an abstract pattern over a bright turquoise blue background that contrast...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype, Woodcut

Con Suture - Lithograph on Paper by Leo Guida - 1985
Con Suture - Lithograph on Paper by Leo Guida - 1985

Con Suture - Lithograph on Paper by Leo Guida - 1985

By Leo Guida

Located in Roma, IT

Con Suture is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1985 by the italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original Lithograph and Chalchography, unique specimen. Hand-signed a...

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1980s Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Lithograph, Monotype

Burst Variation 156 - Abstract Woodcut Print Circle Pattern Blue, 2025
Burst Variation 156 - Abstract Woodcut Print Circle Pattern Blue, 2025

Burst Variation 156 - Abstract Woodcut Print Circle Pattern Blue, 2025

By Eve Stockton

Located in Kent, CT

This woodcut print on paper is composed of a central, circular shape in violet on a blue patterned background. The monotype brings to mind the tradition of Japanese printing while be...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype, Woodcut

Portrait with Striped Background
Portrait with Striped Background

Portrait with Striped Background

By Kismine Varner

Located in Houston, TX

Bold portrait monotype with striped blue background by American artist Kismine Varner, 1990. Signed in pencil lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with ...

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1990s Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Abstract Pattern & Decoration Monoprint Monotype Painting Print Pierre Obando
Abstract Pattern & Decoration Monoprint Monotype Painting Print Pierre Obando

Abstract Pattern & Decoration Monoprint Monotype Painting Print Pierre Obando

By Pierre Obando

Located in Surfside, FL

Pierre Andre Obando creates process oriented abstract paintings. He was born in Belize City, Belize and grew up in the Caribbean, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Miami, Fl and Jackson, MS. Pierre Obando completed his MFA at Hunter College and completed his undergraduate studies at New World School of the Arts, Miami, Fl. His work was featured in the Queens International Biennial in 2004, and 2006 at the Queens Museum of Art. His work has been in group exhibitions at Angela Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY; Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY; MACO Mexico Art Fair in Mexico City; Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA; The Painting Center, New York, NY; and Dean Project, New York, NY. In 2008, he had a solo exhibition at Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY and in 2009, at project space show at Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY. He has participated in the Atlantic Center for the Arts Artists-in-Residence Program. In the fall of 2012, he participated in the group show Caribe Now, at the Nathan Cumming Foundation, which was organized by El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. Contemporary Pattern and Decoration piece, The original movement was championed by the gallery owner Holly Solomon. The P&D movement wanted to revive an interest in minor forms such as patterning which at that point was equated with triviality. The prevailing negative view of decoration was one not generally shared by non-Western cultures, The Pattern and Decoration movement was influenced by sources outside of what was considered to be fine art. Blurring the line between art and design, many P&D works mimic patterns like those on wallpapers, printed fabrics, and quilts. There is a close connection between the Pattern and Decoration movement and the Feminist art movement. The P&D movement arose in opposition to the Minimalist and Conceptualist movements. Mary Grigoriadis, Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Miriam Schapiro, Robert Zakanitch were early proponents of this style. The artist lives and works in New York City. Education: 2001 MFA, Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY 2000 Study Abroad, Slade School, UCL, London, United Kingdom 1997 BFA, Painting, New World School of The Arts, Miami, FL Solo Exhibitions: 2015 ‘Like New’, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY 2009 ‘Nowhere’, Rush Arts, New York, NY 2008 ‘Noise’, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY Group Exhibitions: 2018 ‘Revival: Contemporary Pattern and Decoration’, El Museo at Hostos, Bronx, NY Including artists: Abelardo Cruz Santiago Pierre Obando Antonio Pulgarín Keisha Scarville Mickalene Thomas and others. 2017 Locust Projects Contemporary in Miami benefit auction including artists Dara Friedman, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Larry Bell, and more 2017 ‘Browsing Chamber’, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2015 ‘#BemisPainters, 1982-2015’, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE 2015 ‘Spat Spell’, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY 2013 ‘Un-Natural Constellations’, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY 2012 ‘Caribe Now’, Nathan Cummings Foundation/El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY 2012 ‘Lucid Fence’, Dean Project, New York, NY 2012 ‘Abstract Gambol’, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY 2012 ‘Reenacting Sense’, Yace Gallery, Long Island City, NY 2010 ‘Continuing Color Abstraction’, The Painting Center, New York, NY 2009 ‘West/East’, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA 2009 ‘Alternative Abstraction’, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Including works by Stephen Antonakos, Warren Isensee, Gary Lang, Melissa Meyer and Katherine Sehr...

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monoprint, Monotype

One Cat D

One Cat D

By Fritz Scholder

Located in Bozeman, MT

Born in 1937 in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder knew what he must do at an early age. As a high school student at Pierre, South Dakota, his teacher was Oscar Howe...

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Late 20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Seascape Diptych 23, Large Blue Horizontal Woodcut Print of Water, Ocean Waves
Seascape Diptych 23, Large Blue Horizontal Woodcut Print of Water, Ocean Waves

Seascape Diptych 23, Large Blue Horizontal Woodcut Print of Water, Ocean Waves

By Eve Stockton

Located in Kent, CT

This large, horizontal diptych of two woodcut prints on paper evokes the peacefulness of ocean waves depicted in shades of blue, bright royal blue offset by soft, pale blue tones. Th...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Monotype, Woodcut

Factory XI: modernist urban architectural collage on monoprint in red, framed
Factory XI: modernist urban architectural collage on monoprint in red, framed

Factory XI: modernist urban architectural collage on monoprint in red, framed

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This framed work is one-of-a-kind colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. The work itself is 20" x 16", and it is framed to 26" x 20" in a contemporary, simple white wood...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Ink, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype

Emily Mason - Heart monotype signed & inscribed in artists frame, Wolf Kahn wife
Emily Mason - Heart monotype signed & inscribed in artists frame, Wolf Kahn wife

Emily Mason - Heart monotype signed & inscribed in artists frame, Wolf Kahn wife

By Emily Mason

Located in New York, NY

Emily Mason Untitled (For Douglas), 1990 Carborundum etching and monotype on paper Pencil signed, dated and inscribed "For Douglas" Vintage wood frame included This work was created ...

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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Mixed Media, Etching, Monotype

Spring Clover II (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 14 x 24 inches)
Spring Clover II (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 14 x 24 inches)

Spring Clover II (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 14 x 24 inches)

Located in Oakland, CA

This long narrow blue and white monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual flowers of fresh-cut Dutch clover growing wild. This unique print is the same size as ...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Balance is Possible, Blue and White, Handmade Cyanotype, Organic Modern on Paper
Balance is Possible, Blue and White, Handmade Cyanotype, Organic Modern on Paper

Balance is Possible, Blue and White, Handmade Cyanotype, Organic Modern on Paper

By Kind of Cyan

Located in Barcelona, ES

This one-of-a-kind cyanotype monotype layers soft, sinuous bands of blue to create a serene, wave-like field of motion. The artist shapes light-sensitive chemistry directly on waterc...

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2010s Post-Modern Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Lithograph, Monotype

Snowman with Black Hat

Snowman with Black Hat

By Gail Norfleet

Located in Dallas, TX

Gail Norfleet earned her BFA at The University of Texas at Austin, and her MFA at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Among others, she has had solo exhibitions in Dallas at The...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

BeingTagged, mixed media, 22 x 30 inches. Neon, abstracted work
BeingTagged, mixed media, 22 x 30 inches. Neon, abstracted work

BeingTagged, mixed media, 22 x 30 inches. Neon, abstracted work

By Karin Bruckner

Located in New York, NY

Oil Monotype w/ Wool Fiber, Japanese Paper, Ink Transfer, Clothing Tag, Metal Leaf and Coffee Hand pulled on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper Edition: Unique

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Wool, Paper, Coffee, Ink, Mixed Media, Monotype

Estate No. 044059

Estate No. 044059

By Otto Neumann

Located in New Orleans, LA

Signed and dated "55" in pencil. Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker. His monotypes evolved from sharp, angular, black and whites to late abst...

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1950s Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Pin, Realist Framed Monotype by John Beerman
Pin, Realist Framed Monotype by John Beerman

Pin, Realist Framed Monotype by John Beerman

By John Beerman

Located in Long Island City, NY

The upper corner of a bowling alley silhouetted against the sky in the fading evening light. Only the word "Pin" and a crowned bowling pin can be seen of the sign on the facade. This...

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1990s Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Pale Day, Impressionist Monotype Print by Stephen Lack
Pale Day, Impressionist Monotype Print by Stephen Lack

Pale Day, Impressionist Monotype Print by Stephen Lack

By Stephen Lack

Located in Long Island City, NY

A unique monotype by noted Canadian artist and actor Stephen Lack. The image measures 16 x 22 inches on a 22.5 x 27.5 inch sheet. The artwork is signed, dated, titled and numbered ...

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1990s Impressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Embryo, Abstract Expressionist Monotype Etching by Jane Kent
Embryo, Abstract Expressionist Monotype Etching by Jane Kent

Embryo, Abstract Expressionist Monotype Etching by Jane Kent

By Jane Kent

Located in Long Island City, NY

Jane Kent, American (1952 - ) - Embryo, Year: 1984, Medium: Monotype Etching, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: Working Proof 1/1, Image Size: 23.75 x 23.75 inches, ...

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1980s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Etching, Monotype

Italian Contemporary Art by Federica Frati - Lovers

Italian Contemporary Art by Federica Frati - Lovers

Located in Paris, IDF

Monotype & collage on paper Federica Frati is an Italian artist born in 1977 who lives lives and works in Brecia, Italy. She is graduated from art school Foppa where she learned the...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Monotype

Italian Contemporary Art by Federica Frati - Eaters 2

Italian Contemporary Art by Federica Frati - Eaters 2

Located in Paris, IDF

Monotype on paper, collage Federica Frati is an Italian artist born in 1977 who lives lives and works in Brecia, Italy. She is graduated from art school Foppa where she learned the ...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Canvas, Monotype

Jane
Jane

Jane

By Kim Frohsin

Located in Burlingame, CA

'Jane' in pink and dark blue. Monotype EV with mixed media hand coloring including ink, gouache, pencils. Ed 1/4. Kim Frohsin, who is often associated with the Bay Area Figurative m...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Color Pencil, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, Monotype

"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" Woodcut & Monotype signed by Summers
"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" Woodcut & Monotype signed by Summers

"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" Woodcut & Monotype signed by Summers

By Carol Summers

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. In the image, an abstracted volcano erupts in a joyous burst of purples and oranges. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Art: 8 x 11 in Frame: 17 x 19 in Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MoMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and non-western as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype, Woodcut

Abstract Monotype Circle Series by Wilma Fiori, Denver Modernist Art
Abstract Monotype Circle Series by Wilma Fiori, Denver Modernist Art

Abstract Monotype Circle Series by Wilma Fiori, Denver Modernist Art

Located in Denver, CO

This original abstract fine art monotype by renowned Denver artist Wilma Fiori is a compelling example from her celebrated Circle Series. Rendered in nuanced shades of blue, gray, an...

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1990s Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Pink Lake, square abstract monoprint

Pink Lake, square abstract monoprint

By Rachel Burgess

Located in New York, NY

The coastal landscapes of Maine have been the main source of inspiration for Rachel Burgess for many years. Burgess’s ongoing fascination with how land meets water— along rivers, lak...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Monoprint, Monotype

Fog at Dawn
Fog at Dawn

Fog at Dawn

Located in Atlanta, GA

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

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2010s Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Morning Valley Light
Morning Valley Light

Morning Valley Light

Located in Atlanta, GA

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

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2010s Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Silver Eucalyptus I ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Silver Eucalyptus I ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Located in Oakland, CA

Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...

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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Paper, Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Glimpse of a Horse
Glimpse of a Horse

Glimpse of a Horse

By Darren Vigil Gray

Located in Austin, TX

Darren Vigil Gray (b. 1959, American) Title: "Glimpse of a Horse" Medium: Monotype Print on Paper Dimensions: 27" x 39" framed Markings: Signed in Pencil LR "Darren Vigil Gray" ...

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Late 20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Untitled, c.1974-1976 (SF129s)
Untitled, c.1974-1976 (SF129s)

Untitled, c.1974-1976 (SF129s)

By Sam Francis

Located in Greenwich, CT

Untitled (SF129s) dating to c.1974-1976 is a mixed media, silkscreen monotype on handmade paper, 30 x 22.5 inches sheet size and estate-stamped verso (copy of Francis estate certific...

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20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype, Screen

Monotype art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Monotype art available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add art created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, yellow and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Kismine Varner, Carol Summers, Laura Moriarty, and Brad Brown. Frequently made by artists working in the Abstract, Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Monotype art, so small editions measuring 0.01 inches across are also available