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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Monotype
Afternoon Autumn
Located in Santa Fe, NM
unique monotype 14" x 18" paper size 9" x 11.5" image size unframed
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

House with Fence /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Screenprint The Rolling Stones
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Kazuhide Yamazaki (Japanese-American, 1951-2023) Title: "House with Fence" *Signed and dated by Yamazaki in pencil lower right Year: 1983 Medium: Original Monotype on Arches ...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Acrylic, Monotype, Paint

Horse and Groom/Yellow Apron
Located in New York, NY
Gigi Mills' work is born out of her desire to simplify and reduce each moment to its essence; she achieves this by omitting mundane details from life that can often obscure genuine e...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Pink Lake, square abstract monoprint
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

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Paper, Monoprint, Monotype

Strömen 11
Located in Wien, 9
> Monotype, ink, varnish on red Ingres paper > signed and dated lower right Barbara Szüts was born in Bad Bleiberg in Carinthia (AUSTRIA) in 1952. She studied painting with Carl Ung...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Varnish, Ink, Monotype

Behind Bars No. 1, abstract mixed media on paper, grey
Located in New York, NY
This unique print is 1 of 3 in the series. Behind Bars No. 1 is a monotype with mixed media on white BFK Rives printmaking paper and hand pulled by the Artist on the etching press. ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Mixed Media, Etching, Monotype

Abstract Pattern & Decoration Monoprint Monotype Painting Print 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

RedHerring, mixed media monotype on paper, abstract blue and red
Located in New York, NY
Monotype with chine collé on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper. Approx image size: 20" x 15.75" Paper: 30" x 22" At the core of the dialogue between the artist and the work is an ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype

Nude. Contemporary Figurative Nude Monotype Print, European artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude monotype print by Belarussian artist, Siergiej Timochow. Print depicts a woman with flowers. The composition is monochromatic in blue. Monotype on textur...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Monotype: 'Love Letters'
Located in New York, NY
Voyaging among humanity words and thoughts of affection and care which fill the air, leaving traces of love. Can you feel them? Angelica’s multi-layered works are informed by her on...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Cotyledon 1
Located in New York, NY
Monotype
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Abstract Modernist Colorful Bold Monoprint Monotype Painting Print 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

Abstract Modernist Colorful Bold Monoprint Monotype Painting Print 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

Fall Birch , colorful monorpint, nature trees
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype, Archival Paper

Cloud Ocean 3 by Katherine Warinner Relief Monotype on Paper in Blue
Located in Atlanta, GA
Cloud Ocean 3 captures the essence of a shifting tide—fluid, contemplative, and textural. Warinner uses printmaking to evoke the interplay between ocean and atmosphere in soft gradie...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype

Matisse in the Souk II
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype Completed after a recent trip to Morocco, this print continues Grooms’ series of tributes to modern masters. Grooms imagined this scene as he followed the footsteps...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Veiled Glance
Located in Dallas, TX
A Professor of painting at Southern Methodist University in Dallas since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy before receiving a Magistero degree in printmaking at t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Snowman with Black Hat
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

Tiepolo Clouds
By Zolita Sverdlove
Located in Dallas, TX
Inscribed "Tiepolo Clouds" at lower left, "A. P." at lower center and signed "Zolita Sverdlove '85" at lower right This monotype is printed on BFK Rives paper
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Opus 22, Ukiyo-e monotype landscape print, 2011
Located in New York, NY
Keiji Shinohara was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. After 10 years as an apprentice to the renowned Keiichiro Uesugi in Kyoto, he became a Master Printmaker and moved to the United ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Figure, black and white, monochromatic mysterious female nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Monotype

PARTHENOCISSUS - Oil and Monotype Painting on Panel of Creeping Ivy in the Woods
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Parthenocissus came about in the spring, I was focusing quite a bit on my monotypes in the print studio and wanted to create a painting that incorporated my monotyping technique in a...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Oil, Monotype, Panel

MAYAPPLES IN JUNE HEAT - Oil & Monotype on Yupo Panel - Abstract Floral Painting
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting came about mid summer, while I was beginning my paintings as monotypes and working through them after. The mayapples were flourishing and their shape became a motif thr...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Oil, Monotype, Panel

Balustrade Vase C
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype collage/woodcut. Since 1985, Woodman collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark to produce monotypes, woodcuts and lithographs with the same inventiveness and exubera...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

"Dogs and Water II"
Located in Lyons, CO
Susan Hall depicts moments suspended in the mysterious light of this place of marshland, wave-broken coast line and tawny, rolling hills.
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Italian Contemporary Art by Federica Frati - Ex Voto
Located in Paris, IDF
Monotype on paper, Framed 25 x 25 x 3 cm 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 sh...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype, Paper

Approaching Slains Castle #7, black white and grey monotype
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype Ms. Murray is notable for capturing the crystalline quality of northern light. She has an extensive exhibition history and she is represented in both private and public co...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype, Archival Paper

Collage of Monotype: 'Manahatta #5'
Located in New York, NY
From my ongoing series, 'Portable Landscape or Landscape for the Traveler.' Before European contact, the Lenape Manhattan's original inhabitants called the island Manahatta, which me...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Mixed Media, Monoprint, Monotype

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

Daytona
Located in Burlingame, CA
monotype ev ed 6/6 from 1996. The artist spend 12 years focused on monotype ev prints in very limited edition. Works from this series are all over the world and included in important...
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20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Bottles No 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype ev edition 5/6 with hand coloring. the overall paper size is 23 1/2 x 23 inches. Kim Frohsin spend 12 years making monotype ev's, and works from this series are included in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Gouache, Mixed Media, Monotype, Pastel

"Green Apples III"
Located in Lyons, CO
Kushner completed a series of monotypes, many with collaged decorative papers. He worked from still-lives of flowers, fruits, pitchers and Betty Woodman ceramic vessels. These prints...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Pink Plumeria IV
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

'Okina #23
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype The ‘okina is the Hawaiian representation of the glottal stop. It is a separation of doubles. The monotypes in the ‘Okina series are doubles; the prints are divi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Fließen 8
Located in Wien, 9
Barbara Szüts was born in Bad Bleiberg in Carinthia (AUSTRIA) in 1952. She studied painting with Carl Unger at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1974 to 1980. From 1986 ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Varnish, Pencil, Monotype

Children, Michele Zalopany black white Christmas holiday winter scene children
Located in New York, NY
Tender, black and white scene of children bundled up in sweaters and hats for snow. Evoking the chilly weather and the spirit of winter holidays, this painterly monotype is ready to ...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

A Glass of Red Wine /// Contemporary Pop Art Modern Alcohol The Rolling Stones
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Kazuhide Yamazaki (Japanese-American, 1951-2023) Title: "A Glass of Red Wine" *Signed and dated by Yamazaki in pencil lower right Year: 1981 Medium: Original Monotype on Arch...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype, Acrylic, Paint

Lambs Ears III
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype with collage.
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Italian Contemporary Art by Federica Frati - Ex Voto 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Monotype on paper, Framed 25 x 25 x 3 cm 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 sh...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype, Paper

"Cowboy's Delight IV"
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype Juarez’s most recent prints are four groups of monoprints Cowboy’s Delight II, Copper Mallow, Yucca Bloom and Flowers and Pearls. Juarez gathered wild flowers from ar...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Collage of monotype: 'Manhatta #4'
Located in New York, NY
From my ongoing series, 'Portable Landscape or Landscape for the Traveler.' Before European contact, the Lenape Manhattan's original inhabitants called the island Manahatta, which me...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Monoprint, Monotype

Collage of monotype: 'Manhatta #2'
Located in New York, NY
From my ongoing series, 'Portable Landscape or Landscape for the Traveler.' Before European contact, the Lenape Manhattan's original inhabitants called the island Manahatta, which me...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Monoprint, Monotype

Candlestick - Contemporary Figurative Monotype Print, Warm tones, Still life
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960. He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus. His acrylic and ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

A window - XXI Century, Contemporary Abstract Monotype Print, Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960. He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus. His acrylic and ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Still life with hands and apples - XXI Century, Figurative Monotype Print
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960. He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus. His acrylic and ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Nude - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Monotype Print
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960. He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus. His acrylic and ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Pitcher and Peaches III
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype with collage. Kushner recently completed a series of monotypes, many with collaged decorative papers. He worked from still-lives of flowers, fruits, pitchers and Bett...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Man and Fridge II
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated in pencil lower right: "Sara Zielinski 2016". A fine impression in fine condition.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Monotype on paper: '0 (Zero) #2'
Located in New York, NY
"She is the dark night and the black soil that holds within itself the intense power of light, the secrets and the forces of all life. She is the mouth, the vagina, the passionate an...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Paper, Monotype

"Green Beans I"
Located in Lyons, CO
Kushner completed a series of monotypes, many with collaged decorative papers. He worked from still-lives of flowers, fruits, pitchers and Betty Woodman ceramic vessels. These prints...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Big Lone Pine
Located in Fairfield, CT
Ashforth is precise in how she studies her subject, researching color and consistency of ink, paint or drawing medium. Her approach is summed up by Christopher Shore, Master Printer ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

"Untitled I"
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype. Barbara Takenaga's latest prints are a series of Untitled hand colored monotypes, which she describes as follows: Making these monotypes was a wonderful new experience for me. They combine a painterly, abstract background with a graphic structure of hard edged, flat forms. Those dark shapes can be read as either positive/foreground space (body silhouettes or curtains) or as negative space that frames a central image (landscapes, columns, creatures). Similarly, the white lines and dots...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Matador - Monotype Lithograph - Late 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Matador is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1970s. Original Two Colors Monotype Lithograph (unique copy) on paper. Mint conditions. Torero is an excellen...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Lithograph, Monotype

Insects - Original Monotype On Paper - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Insects is a beautiful artwork realized by an artist of the 20th century. Original Monotype. In excellent condition. Hand signed on the lower right margin.
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Monotype and collage on paper: 'I will meet you there #1'
Located in New York, NY
The ladder enables the soul to climb to the hereafter where the ancestors reside. It is a means of ascending or descending to places otherwise inaccessible. In the shamanic tradition...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Monotype

"Untitled III"
Located in Lyons, CO
The artist describes this project: Making these monotypes was a wonderful new experience for me. They combine a painterly, abstract background with a graphic structure of hard edged...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Monotype on Embossing Paper: '0 (Zero) #3'
Located in New York, NY
I will meet you there, back in the eternal cosmic waters. Angelica’s multi-layered works are informed by her ongoing efforts to create a less reactive and more responsive presence i...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Paper, Monotype

Sunflower Bouquet III
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype with collage. Kushner recently completed a series of monotypes, many with collaged decorative papers. He worked from still-lives of flowers, fruits, pitchers and Bett...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

"A Golden Place", Minimalist, Abstract, Wheat Field, Blue, Collage, 2021
Located in Franklin, MA
Monica DeSalvo’s “A Golden Place” is a 16 x 12 inch abstract minimalist collage on paper with a golden wheat field, a bold graphic shape containing brig...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Monotype

Power Station: 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

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