Art by Medium: Rag Paper

Ever dreamed the dream of flight? That ache, standing in the wind, to expand your wings, to feel the air rush by, to let yourself be carried across the world into a different mode of...

Breathing In the Spirit of Shohaku Soga, 2003 by Eikoh Hosoe is a contemporary color photograph of Kazuo Ohno, a Butoh dancer. Hosoe's theatrical image is hand-signed on recto (front...

A single oak tree in a meadow with the grass aglow in early morning. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. This is a photograph printe...

Ernesto Neto Quem paga o arrego, spray! (Who pays the bill, spray!), 2012 Ink on Cotton Rag Paper, signed & numbered. Signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 45 on the fro...

Though this may look like a woodcut or screen print, it is a kind of photography. Cyanotypes are a 19th century alternative (cameraless) photographic process. This monotype was print...

Roberta Fineberg’s Black and White Canals, Amsterdam, 2024 renders the Dutch urban landscape with the crispness of an etching. In the artist's Cities series the photograph is 20" x 1...

In 1986 African-American musician Dee Dee Bridgewater left the United States and moved to Paris, France where she lived for the next fifteen years with her family, two daughters and ...

Starting with photographic base elements, such as the figure or the landscape, Haider transforms the scenery into a surreal world through heavy post-production. She uses photographs,...

In this series, Perrine explores the profound relationship between light and color, both essential elements in her artistic expression. Without light, there would be no colors, and i...

I wish to confront the documentary tradition of Western photography by creating work that merges the realistic with the abstract. By intentionally questioning my own artistic allegia...

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...

Starting with photographic base elements, such as the figure or the landscape, Haider transforms the scenery into a surreal world through heavy post-production. She uses photographs,...

Starting with photographic base elements, such as the figure or the landscape, Haider transforms the scenery into a surreal world through heavy post-production. She uses photographs,...

Hues of colour, tones of life. Each artwork of the series shows a story, a tone, an element of existence in this world. There are countless shades to it. The images are just a select...

Hues of colour, tones of life. Each artwork of the series shows a story, a tone, an element of existence in this world. There are countless shades to it. The images are just a select...

Scherezade Signed and dated 1999 in pencil, Artists proof printed on 100% cotton rag colorful, harem scene w multiple figures in Arabic palace IMAGE SIZE: 17.5" x 23.5" PAPER SIZE:...

Ever dreamed the dream of flight? That ache, standing in the wind, to expand your wings, to feel the air rush by, to let yourself be carried across the world into a different mode of...

James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist st...

Each unique cyanotype is 9 inches wide by 24 inches tall. The flowers are a pale blue, not white as in traditional single exposure cyanotypes. Though these look like screen prints or...

A single oak tree in a meadow with the grass aglow in early morning. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. This is a photograph printe...

This piece titled "Celadon" is an original artwork made from pencil, watercolors, and charcoal on cotton rag paper by Christine Kim. This piece is shipped with the pictured wooden frame and measures 23.25"h x 16.25"w x 2.25"d. This piece was displayed in 2023 group exhibition "Lucky 13", which featured work having to do with themes of luck, tradition, and superstition. "Forests not only have connections with spirits and gods, but it is also linked to our subconscious world of emotions, intuition, memory and imagination. In this cut paper diorama, I wanted to carve out a figure and replace it with the mysterious depths of a forest that is growing wild...

James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20.5 inches. Signed lower margin. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist ...

The subject wears a tribal mouthpiece lip plate and carries a rooster in her arms. Rooster, 1996 by Jean-Michel Voge, is a contemporary color photograph of a villager, a female nomad...

A glimpse between tree trunks of distant Monterey pines dissolving into the light and fog. This is a hand-stained contact photo using the antique cyanotype process from the 1800s. Th...

A unique monotype of two freshly cut agapanthus from my garden using the 19th century photographic process of cyanotype. These flowers only bloom for two months of the year each summ...

Figures and Portal in Red, Yellow, and Black - Abstract Latin American School Bold abstract painting by Latin American California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20...

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...

Photographer Roberta Fineberg captures an afternoon sun shower near the Piazza Navona in Rome. A figure holds a pink umbrella in sunlight appearing in between buildings in a narrow R...

These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. The paths are crowded with towering eucalyptus, bay laurel and madrone tr...

A study in contrasts, colors, and cultures, the man in a white turban and collar sits peacefully against a backdrop of tiles and lace. Lace curtains, Mor...

In the artist's abstract art on paper series, Be the Dance, 2023 by a.muse is a colorful one-of-a-kind work - an invitation for self-expression and to let go, get lost in the dance o...

A single oak tree in a meadow with the grass aglow in early morning. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. This is a photograph printe...

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...

Gorgeous burst of blue behind a flat top mountain with splashes of orange in this abstract geometric landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999). Signed and dated lower right "Erle...

The photograph Toshio Shibata, #189 Yunotani Village, Nigata Prefecture, 1989 by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is signed (on recto) by the photographer. The 13" x 19" print is numbered on recto (front of photo). Available: 87/100; 52/100. Printed in 2005, the photograph is from a portfolio of masters of Japanese photography...

From the transformative to the ephemeral, the birth and death of a butterfly with a broken wing is reimagined in a photo series by Roberta Fineberg inspired by a poem by the 13th Century Persian poet Rumi who wrote: ‘Whatever you know, or don’t - only love is real...

View From My Window is a contemporary color photograph by Roberta Fineberg. A room with a view in Palermo, Sicily -- a city founded in 734BC. Looking out towards the hills of Palermo...

A photographer obsessed with the passing of time and family ties, Roberta Fineberg captures the intimate space of a grandmother and her grandson sharing lunch in a local brasserie in...

These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. The paths are crowded with towering eucalyptus, bay laurel and madrone tr...

Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). At the Weir Trap, ca. 1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20 inches. Signed lower margi...

Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Newfoundland, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses. Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I. During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter. In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson...

Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Mallorca, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. Ships rolled with matting removed. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses. Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I. During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter. In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson and the Waughs. About 1940, Clymer moved to New York City, and in 1946, he and his family settled in a home on Schunnemunk Mountain in New York (close to Newburgh, New York, in the Hudson River Valley). He lived there until circa 1978, when he moved to his granddaughter's house near Schenectady, New York, where he later died. Clymer worked with ease in the mediums of watercolor and oil painting, much like James Fitzgerald...

This is the larger hand-printed version of the same blue and white landscape also available in a 12 x 18 inch size. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyan...

In this series, Perrine explores the profound relationship between light and color, both essential elements in her artistic expression. Without light, there would be no colors, and i...

Joy of Color, 2002 by Yasuhiro Ishimoto is a contemporary color photograph from an extensive documentary photography series of Japan that Nagano shot on assignment. The image is hand-signed on recto (front left margin) by the photographer. This is an archival pigment print on Hahnemule Fine Art paper printed 2005 under the direction of the photographer. The 19" x 13" work is from the portfolio "Masters of Modern Photography. Japan," Tokyo. Edition available: 87/100. Provenance: Private Collector *** Artist’s Bio: Yasuhiro Ishimoto a Japanese photographer was born in 1921. His work was chosen by Edward Steichen to appear in the Family of Man exhibition and catalogue at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955, and Steichen also selected his work for a three-person exhibition in 1961. From 1973-1993 Ishimoto produced a number of in-camera color abstractions that appeared as covers for a Japanese magazine. Ishimoto's exhibitions, include New Japanese Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in 1974, solo shows in 1960 and 1999 at the Art Institute of Chicago, a retrospective in 1989–1990 at Seibu Museum of Art in Tokyo, and an exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, in 1996. His later photography addressed the transitory nature of life as shown in photographs of clouds...

Forget the Destination, 2023 by a.muse is a one-of-a-kind work on paper. The art is a visual poem on wanderlust, inviting viewers to embrace the unknown. For a traveler without a map...

The art Mindset, 2023 by a.muse embodies ideas on the mind as a fertile landscape for thoughts and emotions wandering freely. The colors, shapes, and textures within the monotype rep...

It Doesn't Have to be Perfect by a.muse suggests that striving for perfection is not always the goal. Transcending the limitations of perfection, personal expression resides in the ...

In a Cities series by Roberta Fineberg, a contemporary photograph of a Greco-Roman statue in Ostia Antica, former Old Port of Rome, rendered in a Pictorialist style. The photographer RF captures the spirit of Ancient Rome for Roman God...

These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. The paths are crowded with towering eucalyptus, bay laurel and madrone tr...

One of the most celebrated 20th Century artists, French-American woman artist, painter, printmaker, and sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) at 81 years old was photographed in 1992...

Ocean Photography, Water Prints, Fine Art Photography-Calm Before Storm ABOUT THIS PIECE: This fine art photography for sale titled "Calm Before Storm" ...

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...

Man & Woman, ca. 1975-80. Gouache on Arches rag paper, Sheet measures 23 x 30 inches. Image measures 22 x 29 inches. Signed lower left. Excellent condition. Unframed.

Wild Texas Longhorns Colored Photography Longhorn Fine Art Prints ABOUT THIS PIECE: This series was captured on a local Texas ranch, where the land stretches wide and the longhorns...

Parrot, ca. 1975-80. Gouache on Arches rag paper, Sheet measures 23 x 30 inches. Image measures 22 x 29 inches. Signed lower left. Excellent condition. Unframed.

This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...

"Free Fallin" Photography 18" x 27" in Edition of 24 by Larsen Sotelo Not framed. Ships in a tube Signed and numbered by the artist. Comes with COA issued by the artist. Available ...

Brand-new addition to the Foggy Woods Collection of forests in northern California near San Francisco. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process a...

Mist and Ice, Greenland, 2019 by Jean-Michel (JM) Voge captures the beauty of an eco-friendly natural world, an image split in two (diptych), drawing our attention to climate change ...