Art by Medium: Rag Paper

Monoprint & hand embellishment on paper. Naga Kanya, 2018, monoprint, fantasy, marbled rag paper, pink, purple, blue

This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog and wildflowers are in the woods across the bay fr...

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...

These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer. Al...

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...

Amsterdam IX is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade and is b...

These are three 11 x 8.5 inch (45 x 60 cm) original hand-printed original cyanotype photographs sold together. Cyanotypes are an antique photographic process dating back to the nine...

New. A nearly 30 inches (29 5/8") hand-printed version of the smaller landscape of the same name. There are just 5 editions of this largest size. All are unframed. The tree is a na...

These graceful leaning Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. They become top-heavy as they grow and their lower branches are knocked off in the wind, causing them to lean more and more each year. These are the misty woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, shortly after sunrise. The California coastal redwood...

A framed edition of this cyanotype sold to Timothée Chalamet at The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles. One of 10 mini editions of the same photograph printed by hand using the antique ...

This piece titled "Peek A Boo" is an original piece by Branche Coverdale and is made from acrylic gouache on Stonehenge rag paper. This piece measure...

Giclee print on archival cold press cotton rag, edition 10 of 25 with 5 APs. In this new series of paintings, Moore explores themes of wanderlust and memory. From glowing neon signa...

Painted Faces, 1996 by Jean-Michel Voge, is a contemporary color photograph 13" x 19" of two women with painted faces from the Surma tribe in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Africa. Th...

A solitary oak tree is backlit by the glow of sunrise at dawn along a trail. The scene is a hiking trail in the hills of Oakland, California. This is a one-off mini studio proof. A h...

These are two separate 40 x 26 inch cyanotypes (unique monotypes) made using the same tree branches flipped over facing the opposite direction, the result being a symmetrical mirror ...

This pair of monotypes contain the silhouette of a single branch of the native Californian Bay laurel. Although they look like screen prints or block prints these are cyanotypes, a f...

This contemporary, geometric abstract drawing on paper has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Primavera Pop 30 is a mandala shap...

This multicolored drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Poptic 22.02 is a predominately vibrant fuchsia pink, yellow an...

Towering Monterey pines lean into the blue mist of the valley beyond. These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. The photograph is of the coastal redwood...

Rosie Emerson, born in 1981, is a contemporary artist working almost exclusively on representing the female form. Emerson’s figures draw reference from archetypes old and new, from Artemis to the modern day super model, each solitary figure, an allegory of her own fantasy. Interested in surface, the interplay between photography and painting. Emerson’s works are playful constructs; Photography is used, not as a device for capturing reality but for creating romanticised optical illusions. Inspired by her love of theatre, performance, shrines and rituals, she uses lighting, costume, set and prop making, alongside printmaking and painting to create other worldly one off pieces. Her photography is inspired by both the drama of the baroque, and ethereal qualities of Pre Raphaelite works. Other important influences include late medieval and renaissance paintings, Japanese prints, and magical realist literature. Emerson’s screen...

This is a hand-printed photograph using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. This is a negative (reversal of the dark and light tones) of the original photograph of a branch of a magn...

These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...

This contemporary geometric abstract drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Pop Flower 44B is a predominately light gold...

This is the silhouette of wild mugwort (artemisia) or chrysanthemum weed which grows in the woods in northern California. It is a fragrant herb that smells similar to sage. Though t...

Sitting at Desk – circa 1945. Frank Sinatra at home in Toluca Lake. Note the portrait of FDR on the wall. Sinatra said after meeting him “He’s the greatest man alive today and here’s...

Amsterdam VIII is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade and is...

"Shakespeare Mirror Nr 1" Photography 32" x 24" in Edition of 10 by Lika Brutyan Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Not framed. Ships in a tube. Lika Brutyan is American photographer, was born in a family of scientists and artists in Yerevan, Armenia. Her training and work in psychotherapy has lead her to a deep curiosity in human nature. While still in the field of psychology, she started to shoot. Over the years she became more and more interested in photographing human emotion and behavior. This interest combined her great appreciation for fashion has lead Lika down the path of fashion photography and portraiture. Lika’s work are shown across the U.S, Great Britain, France, Italy, Romania. Her photographs have been published in various magazines, many of them belong to private collections. Selected Exhibitions 2019 - Sublimation at Voies Off Festival, Arles 2019 - Sublimation at Fondazione Luciana Matalon...

"Michelle" Nude Photography 28" x 20" inch Edition 1/20 by Lika Brutyan Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Not Framed. Ships in a tube. Lika Brutyan is American...

This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process and the biggest the artist has ever made. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sensitive photo emulsion. The blue and white pattern seen in each leaf is a sun print or lensless photograph of tiny plants laid on top of the painted area. The tiny flowers in the pattern across the painted silhouette are of the same species as the larger painted flower. "Cow Parsnip" and "cow parsley" are common names for this giant white native Californian wildflower...

Frank and Dean recording. October, 1958. Sleep Warm album recorded by Dean Martin for Capitol Records in three sessions between October 13-15, 1958 with arrangements by Pete King and...

Agapanthus are also known as "The Lily of the Nile". The crisp silhouettes of the giant agapanthus blooms were hand-printed using living fresh cut agapanthus flowers from the artist'...

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican) Santorini, 2019 Inkjet on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta 315 gr. Frame: custom made aluminium profile. Mounted on aluminium. No glass. 44 ...

This work features a photographic portrait of Helen Frankenthaler, taken by renowned musician and photographer Jim Arkatov, founder of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchester, and author of the 1998 book "The Creative Personality". The photograph is hand signed and dated '92 by Jim Arkatov. Framed alongside the photograph is a typed letter, hand signed in marker with a personal annotation ("Thanks again!!") by Helen Frankenthaler, thanking Mr. Arkatov for sending her glossy prints of his photograph and stating that she looks forward to seeing his book. Arkatov's original signed portrait, along with Frankenthaler's original signed letter, are elegantly framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV plexiglass. There is also a die-cut window in the back of the frame to reveal Arkatov's signature on the back of his photograph. Measurements: Framed 14.25 inches (vertical) by 19.75 inches (horizontal) by 1.75 inches (depth) Photographic portrait of Helen Frankenthaler: 9.25 inches (vertical) by 7.25 inches (horizontal) Letter from Frankenthaler to Arkatov: 7 inches (vertical) by 6.25 inches (horizontal) This collection was acquired from the Estate of Jim Arkatov. Below is an excerpt from his 2019 obituary in the Los Angeles Times: "...His was an immigrant’s story, a child from Russia who landed in San Francisco, befriended violinist Isaac Stern — whose fame was still to come — took up the cello and decided to pour his life into making music. James Arkatov found work with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and then with the philharmonic in San Francisco before coming to L.A. as a Hollywood studio musician who worked on movie soundtracks and backed up Ella Fitzgerald on some of her more memorable recordings, such as “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Books.” Amazed at the dazzling talent around him in Hollywood, he came up with a simple but lasting idea — form their own orchestra. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra made its debut on an April evening in 1968, as hundreds squeezed into the newly built Mark Taper Forum. Arkatov played cello as usual as the ensemble drifted through the works of Mozart, Vivaldi, Haydn and other legends of the classics who’d written music specially for smaller orchestras. Arkatov, who lived long enough to see the orchestra celebrate its 50th anniversary, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 98. “The orchestra represented a contextualized part of L.A. that had simply never been captured,” said his son, Alan Arkatov, the chair of the education and technology program at USC’s Rossier School of Education. “L.A. simply didn’t have this type of ensemble.” Arkatov was born in Odessa, Russia, on July 17, 1920, and moved around Europe before sailing with his family to San Francisco, where his father opened a photo studio. One of his early childhood friends was Stern, who would become an international star who performed on the world’s biggest stages. Arkatov, who began playing the cello when he was 9, formed a string quartet with Stern when they were teens. After stints as a cellist in San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, Arkatov became a member of the NBC Orchestra, the studio musicians who supplied the soundtracks for the movies that kept Hollywood humming. Pulling from the talent of Hollywood like an NFL team on draft day, he cobbled together a roster capable of handling the delicate and nuanced music written for chamber orchestras. In contrast to the L.A. Phil, which filled the stage with 100 or so musicians, the chamber orchestra was but half that size. The idea was to create a group that would play works written expressly for such an orchestra, many of them from the Baroque era. “The ensemble was never meant to compete with the Philharmonic,” Arkatov’s son said...." Helen Frankenthaler Biography: Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, she expanded the possibilities of abstract painting, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. She produced a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound and continues to grow. Frankenthaler was born on December 12, 1928, and raised in New York City. She attended the Dalton School, where she received her earliest art instruction from Rufino Tamayo. In 1949 she graduated from Bennington College, Vermont, where she was a student of Paul Feeley. She later studied briefly with Hans Hofmann. Frankenthaler’s professional exhibition career began in 1950, when Adolph Gottlieb selected her painting Beach (1950) for inclusion in the exhibition titled Fifteen Unknowns: Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery. Her first solo exhibition was presented in 1951, at New York’s Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and that year she was also included in the landmark exhibition 9th St. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture. In 1952 Frankenthaler created Mountains and Sea, a breakthrough painting of American abstraction for which she poured thinned paint directly onto raw, unprimed canvas laid on the studio floor, working from all sides to create floating fields of translucent color. Mountains and Sea was immediately influential for the artists who formed the Color Field school of painting, notable among them Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. As early as 1959, Frankenthaler began to be a regular presence in major international exhibitions. She won first prize at the Premiere Biennale de Paris that year, and in 1966 she represented the United States in the 33rd Venice Biennale, alongside Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jules Olitski. She had her first major museum exhibition in 1960, at New York’s Jewish Museum, and her second, in 1969, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, followed by an international tour. Frankenthaler experimented tirelessly throughout her long career. In addition to producing unique paintings on canvas and paper, she worked in a wide range of media, including ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, and especially printmaking. Hers was a significant voice in the mid-century “print renaissance” among American abstract painters, and she is particularly renowned for her woodcuts. She continued working productively through the opening years of this century. Frankenthaler’s distinguished, prolific career has been the subject of numerous monographic museum exhibitions. The Jewish Museum and Whitney Museum shows were succeeded by a major retrospective initiated by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth that traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI (1989); and those devoted to works on paper and prints organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1993), among others. Select recent important exhibitions have included Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959 (Gagosian, NY, 2013); Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2014); Giving Up One’s Mark: Helen Frankenthaler in the 1960s and 1970s (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2014–15); Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler (Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2015); As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings and No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts...

Born in Hollywood and raised in the urban sprawls of Los Angeles, Julio’s artistic aesthetic was shaped early on by the platinum light and expansive concrete horizons of southern Cal...

Driving Home – Frank Sinatra circa 1950 driving his Cadillac. Hollywood, CA. From Sinatra Family Archive Giclee 300gsm smooth archival rag paper and archival ink Each fine print i...

For the love of vinyl – circa 1945. Frank Sinatra relaxing at home in Toluca Lake, CA preparing to listen to some music. Note daughter Nancy in the edge of the right frame. From Sin...

"Thinking of Rodin" Nude Photography 28" x 20" in Edition of 20 by Lika Brutyan Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Not Framed. Ships in a tube. Lika Brutyan is ...

"Brooke (Blue Waves)" Nude Photography 40" x 30" in Ed. 3/3 by Larsen Sotelo Not framed. Ships in a tube Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finis...

"Interlude No 2" Photography 28" x 20" inch Edition 3/20 by Lika Brutyan Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Not Framed. Ships in a tube. Lika Brutyan is America...

Live at The Sands – Frank Sinatra circa mid 1950s. Performing at the Copa Room, Sands Hotel. Las Vegas, NV. Giclee 300gsm smooth archival rag paper and arch...

"Timeless: Blooms in Crystal" is a beautiful rendering of April blooms and antique bottles collected by the artist. In this mesmerizing watercolor painting, the artist masterfully ca...

"Line Hotel Nr 3" Photography 40" x 30" inch Edition of 10 by Lika Brutyan Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Not Framed. Ships in a ...

Frank Sinatra recording at Capitol Records. Sinatra was recording his classic album "Songs for Swingin' Lovers!" at KHJ Studios in Hollywood, CA. "Songs for Swingin' Lovers!" was Sin...

Frank Sinatra at home in Hoboken New Jersey. Circa 1939. Relaxing in bed reading the cartoons from the newspaper. Photo taken by Nancy Sinatra Senior. G...

Heading Home – Frank Sinatra circa 1953 getting into his Cadillac. Hollywood, CA. Giclee 300gsm smooth archival rag paper and archival ink Each fine print is numbered and embossed ...

Frank Sinatra during a break from recording at Studio A at Capitol Records. Approximate Date: 1956-1957. Capitol Photo Archives Archival digital print. Printed on 100% Cotton Rag...

"Untouched Nr 1" 40x30 in Photography Edition 3/10 by Lika Brutyan "Untouched Nr 1" 40" x 30" inch Original photography by Lika Brutyan from the ""Untouched" series Edition 3/10 Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Not Framed. Ships in a tube. Lika Brutyan is American photographer, was born in a family of scientists and artists in Yerevan, Armenia. Her training and work in psychotherapy has lead her to a deep curiosity in human nature. While still in the field of psychology, she started to shoot. Over the years she became more and more interested in photographing human emotion and behavior. This interest combined her great appreciation for fashion has lead Lika down the path of fashion photography and portraiture. Lika’s work are shown across the U.S, Great Britain, France, Italy, Romania. Her photographs have been published in various magazines, many of them belong to private collections. Selected Exhibitions 2019 - Sublimation at Voies Off Festival, Arles 2019 - Sublimation at Fondazione Luciana Matalon...

Live from the Rustic Cabin – Frank Sinatra circa 1938. Performing at the Rustic Cabin. Likely taken in rehearsals or during a live performance. Photo by Nancy Sinatra...

"Untitled 2" (En Rouge) Photography Edition 2/7 32" x 24" in by Larsen Sotelo Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish Limited Edition of 7 2020...

Portrait of Frank Sinatra circa 1939. Taken at their apartment on Garden St, Hoboken, NJ. Photo by Nancy Sinatra Senior. This striking photo is one of the family’s favorites. This is...

"One Eye" Black & White Photography 32" x 32" in Edition of 7 by Larsen Sotelo Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish Shot with a 35mm analogu...

Relaxing on Tour – Frank Sinatra circa April 1962 at a stop on his 30 stop World Tour for Children. They stopped in Honolulu, HI on the way to the first concerts in Japan. This was f...

Frank Sinatra in his early years. Circa 1940. Hoboken, NJ. Taken by a family member. Giclee 300gsm smooth archival rag paper and archival ink Each fine print is numbered and emboss...

Bronze Bust – Frank Sinatra posing at the studio of famous Sculptor Jo Davidson. Circa 1946. Note the famous bust of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

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...

This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco...

Very last of the "Falcon" edition available! Emerson has pioneered a technique of printing with delicate charcoal powders, which give the image a softne...

"Hourglass Nr 1" Photography 24" x 32" in Edition of 10 by Lika Brutyan Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Not framed. Ships in a tub...

This new series of painting is an exciting transition for Kinney as he is best known for assemblage and sculpture. “Anim”, the Latin root word of animal, means life, soul or breath. ...

"Peonies in Liquid Elegance" is a beautiful rendering of April blooms and antique bottles collected by the artist. In this mesmerizing watercolor painting, the artist masterfully cap...