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Medium: Woodcut
Night Heron - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Night Heron is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917).
Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-colored, published by London,...
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1870s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
dot pool screen
Located in Columbia, MO
Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut, Birch, Acrylic
exit lanes
Located in Columbia, MO
Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Birch, Acrylic, Woodcut
midway & wave
Located in Columbia, MO
Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Birch, Acrylic, Woodcut
Ex-Libris - Desire Acket - Woodcut - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex-Libris - Desire Acket is an Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century.
Woodcut B./W. print on paper. The work is glued on cardboard.
Total dimensions: 20 x 15 cm.
Excellent condit...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
parallel bars pool
Located in Columbia, MO
Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Birch, Acrylic, Woodcut
pearl lane
Located in Columbia, MO
Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Birch, Acrylic, Woodcut
pool ground & yellow
Located in Columbia, MO
Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Birch, Acrylic, Woodcut
Goosander - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Goosander is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .
Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Nam...
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1870s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Chamber
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts ...
Category
1980s Abstract Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$1,600 Sale Price
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Women Fishing - Woodcut Print by Harunobu Hishikawa - Late 19th Cent.
By Harunobu Hishikawa
Located in Roma, IT
Two women fishing is an original modern artwork realized by Harunobu Hishikawa in the Late 19th Century.
Very good reprint, glued at upper corners.
Passepartout.
Woodcut Print Oba...
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19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Regards sur le passé -Kandinsky original wood engraving abstract expressionist
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Ragards sur le passé" - is an original woodcut engraving of Wassilij Kandinsky which was edited by Nina Kandinsky from his work from 1912. The work is in the artist's characterist...
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1910s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Picasso, Sans titre (J/Vollard 193; Monod 10485), Hélène chez Archimède (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin de Montval-Maillol paper. Paper Size: 17.3 x 12.6 inches; image size: 11.4 x 8.7 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné referenc...
Category
1950s Cubist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$1,116 Sale Price
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Beauties under a Maple Tree Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Houston, TX
Three Beauties under a maple tree from the series "A Contest of Fashionable Beauties of the Gay Quarters". The woodblock print is printed on rice paper....
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1780s Edo Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Mother Love (Madonna and Child) — American Expressionism
By Max Weber
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Max Weber, 'Mother Love' (Madonna and Child), woodcut, 1920, edition not stated, Rubenstein 35. Signed in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margins (1 5...
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1920s Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Sea and Cliffs in Guernsey - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
HERMANN-PAUL (1864-1940)
Sea and Cliffs in Guernsey, 1921
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /125
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of the e...
Category
1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Plate from Kanadeon Chushing - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kuniyasu - 1820
Located in Roma, IT
Plate from Kanadeon Chushingura is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kuniyasu in 1820 ca.
Woodcut Print Oban Dyptich Format.
Enya Hanga...
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19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
NANIGOS - CUBA, 1927
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Portland, ME
Yunkers, Adja (American, born Latvia, 1900-1983). NANIGOS - CUBA, 1927. Miller 1. Color Woodcut. Edition of 250 published in Sweden in 1942 in the magazine Creation (Miller notes an ...
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1920s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
'Court' — WPA Social Conscience, Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Claire Mahl Moore, 'Court' also 'The Authorities', woodcut, 1936, edition 5. Signed 'Mahl' and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on ...
Category
1930s Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Utagawa Kuniyoshi -- No. 65 Kawachi sekkai 河内右灰 (Limestone from Kawach)
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
No. 65 Kawachi sekkai 河内右灰 (Limestone from Kawach), 1852
From Series: Sankai medetai zue 山海目出度図絵 (Celebrated Treasures of Mountains and Seas)
Woodblock print
Oban...
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1850s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
'Seated Figure' — American Expressionism
By Max Weber
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Max Weber, 'Seated Figure", woodcut, edition not stated, 1919-20, Rubenstein 17. Signed in pencil. A fine impression on cream Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 to 3 1/8 in...
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1920s Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Cerberus - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Cerberus - Hell plate 6 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited editio...
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1960s Surrealist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
'Tenant Farmers' — Depression Era, WPA
By Lou Barlow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lou Barlow (Louis Breslow), 'Tenant Farmers', color wood engraving, 1936, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '15/25' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh c...
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1930s American Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Kandinsky, Improvisation 7, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle Paris, Hommage à Wassily Kandins...
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1970s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$716 Sale Price
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20th century woodcut ink black and white figures musical instruments dramatic
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Chamber Music" is an original wood engraving by Robert Franz von Neumann. It features a room full of men in the thralls of creating music together. A small audience stands outside their circle.
Image: 5.5" x 7"
Framed: 14" x 15.56"
1888 - 1976 Born in Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany, Robert von Neumann...
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1930s American Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Nir Hadar, baseball
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Hadar takes euphoric moments and try to generate a three dimensional feeling with every image inviting the viewer to jump into the game and to be part of it.
There's a hidden message...
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2010s Pop Art Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Lesser Black-Backed Gull - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Lesser Black-Backed Gull is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .
Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & S...
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1870s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
The Hunt - Original woodcut - Signed
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY
The Hunt, c. 1910
Original woodcut
Signed with the stamp of the artist's studio
Numbered on /220
Titled in the board
50.5 x 65.4 cm (c. 19.6 x 25.5 inch)
Excellent condi...
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1910s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Urania
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$1,750 Sale Price
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Utagawa Kunisada(Toyokuni III) -- A Woman Diver Combing Her Hair 美人合 春曙
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Diving Woman Combing Her Hair, 「美人合 春曙」髪をとく美人
from the series Spring Dawn: A Contest of Beauties (Haru no akebono...
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1820s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Le Soldat Prussien (The Prussian Soldier)
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Sagot, 1898.
Wood engraving on cream wove paper, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (216 x 158 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 11/25 in pencil, lower right. With the blindstamp of t...
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Late 19th Century French School Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Handmade Paper, Woodcut
woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: color woodcut. Catalogue reference: Gabler 44. Printed in Paris and published in 1953 by Editions d'Art d'Aujourd'hui, of Boulogne. Sheet size, including margins: 11 3/4 x 8 ...
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1950s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Roman Vestal Virgins - Woodcut Print by Paul Baudier - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Vestal Virgins is an original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s.
Good conditions.
Paul Baudi...
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1930s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
"The Court Jesters, " Two Woodcuts by Andre Derain
By André Derain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Court Jesters" includes two original color woodcuts by Andre Derain. This is from an edition of 200. It features two vignettes of brightly-clad j...
Category
1940s Fauvist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
'The Garden' — Celebrated Contemporary African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Margo Humphrey, 'The Garden (Adam and Eve)', reductive color woodcut, 1989. Signed, dated, and annotated 'A/P' in pencil. Signed and dated in the image, lower right. A fine, richly-inked, artist's proof impression, with fresh, vivid colors, on BFK Rives, heavy, off-white wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Scarce.
Image size 27 1/4 x 39 1/8 inches (692 x 994 mm); sheet size 29 1/2 x 42 inches (749 x 1,067 mm).
ABOUT THIS WORK
"Humphrey continued to reinterpret stories from the Bible with African American figures. In 1989 she published the woodcut print 'The Garden' at Magnolia Editions in Oakland, CA. For this rare foray into relief printmaking, she employed the reductive method, which uses only one block that is successively carved for each color segment, reducing the block with each cutting. Technically challenging, this lush and elaborate print is a testament to Humphrey’s skills as a printmaker. A youthful Adam and Eve are depicted in a luxuriant tropical landscape. Here, Humphrey chooses not to include the traditional symbols of humanity’s downfall but instead portrays them as being protected by angels in an atmosphere of idyllic bounty. ...Although Humphrey challenges traditional representation of Christian themes, her images are not iconoclastic but present a broader, more inclusive engagement with religious spirituality."
— Adrienne L. Childs, 'Margo Humphrey, The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: Volume VII,' Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2009, page 71.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
American printmaker, illustrator, and art teacher Margo Humphrey was born in Oakland, California, in 1942. She earned a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the California College of Arts and Crafts and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from Stanford University.
Humphrey began teaching in 1973 at the University of California Santa Cruz and has since taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has also taught at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji; Yaba Technological Institute of Fine Art, Ekoi Island, Nigeria; the University of Benin in Benin City, Nigeria; the Margaret Trowell School of Fine Art in Kampala, Uganda, and the Fine Art School of the National Gallery of Art, Harare, Zimbabwe. In 1989, she was appointed Department Head of Printmaking at the University of Maryland in College Park.
Humphrey has worked in lithography, monoprint, and woodcut with significant printmaking ateliers, including the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and the Tamarind Institute in New Mexico. She was one of the earliest African-American woman artists to distinguish herself as a lithographer in a highly technical, male-dominated profession and was the first to have her prints published by Tamarind in 1974.
Humphrey’s imagery combines historical perspective, autobiography, and fantasy to illuminate her experience as an African American woman. Bold, saturated color, animated figures, and syncopated rhythmic arrangements are hallmarks of Humphrey's oeuvre. Though Humphrey labels her distinctive style "sophisticated naive," the narrative complexity and technical skill of her works attest to her artistic virtuosity. Joyful, expressive, and at times humorous, her works offer engaging commentary on the presumptions of American culture and myth while embracing her personal vision of authenticity and spirituality.
She developed her 1987 work The Last Bar-B-Que, a vividly colored transformation of the Last Supper, following a three-year period during which she examined portrayals of the iconic subject by artists from Pietro Lorenzetti to Emil Nolde. Her narrative work The Garden, a monumentally scaled reductive woodcut, is a further example of an archetypal subject—Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden—debunked and rendered with fresh, life-affirming vibrancy.
Since her first solo exhibition in 1965, Humphrey’s works have been exhibited internationally. They are held in major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Hampton University Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, and the National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. In 1996, she was invited to be part of the World Printmaking Survey at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
In 2011, Hampton University Museum mounted a 45-year retrospective of Humphrey’s work Her Story: Margo Humphrey Lithographs and Works on Paper, jointly curated by Robert E. Steele, executive director of the David Driskell...
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1980s Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Portrait of the Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro - Woodcut by Toyohara Kunichia - 1863
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of the actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro is an original artwork realized in 1863 by Toyohara Kunichika (30 June 1835 – 1 July 1900)
Oban.
From the series "Karu asobi hana no senzei", The pleasures of summer in a consecated area. Breast Portrait of the actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro in yukata at night, behind in the darkness houses.
Signed: Kunichika ga.
Publisher: Izutsuya. Censored by Aratame. Wood engraver: Horicho.
Excellent impression with blind printing and glossy black printing and Kirazuri mica at upper black margin, a little bit creased.
Toyohara Kunichika (30 June 1835 – 1 July 1900) was a ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock print artist. Talented as a child, at about thirteen he became a student of Tokyo's then-leading print maker, Utagawa Kunisada. His deep appreciation and knowledge of kabuki drama...
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1850s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Oscar Weissbuch, Westchester Hills (NY), New Deal, WPA-era wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
New York City native Oscar Weissbuch (1904-1948), attended the Yale University School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League, NY. He participated in the NYC-WPA printmaking project...
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1930s American Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled (A rose by any other name...)
Located in San Francisco, CA
vitreograph on paper, hand-colored with unique text and drawing; created during an artist's residency at Pilchuck Glass School 22 x 30 inches/55.9 x 76.2 cm
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20th Century Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Jacob Heller “Tropical Mexico”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous cubist wood cut of a Mexican village. It is titled tropical Mexico and is by the artist Jacob Heller. Really kool sky with lines for rain and ovals for clouds.There is not m...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
PUMPING JACK
Located in Portland, ME
Frasconi,Antonio. PUMPING JACK. Color woodcut, 1953. Edition of 8. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 3/8, all in pencil. 17 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches (image) on a...
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1950s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
"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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Monotype, Woodcut
Titre pour "Le Sourire"
By Paul Gauguin
Located in London, GB
Paul Gauguin
Titre pour "Le Sourire"
1899
Woodcut
Paper size 13.8 x 21.9 cms (5 1/2 x 8 5/8 ins)
Image size 10.5 x 20.8 cms (4 1/8 x 8 1/8 ins)
Kornfeld 61
Signed in lower left corn...
Category
1890s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Hand Fan Clown - Original Woodcut Print by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Fan Clown is an original xilography artwork realized by Mino Maccari.
Included a white Passepartout: 49 x 34 cm.
The state of preservation is very good.
The artwork represen...
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Mid-20th Century Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
The Lovely Discussion - Woodcut by Mathilde Hérouard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Mathilde Hérouard in the 1920s.
Mounted on paper.
Signed in the plate.
Very good condition.
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1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Ex Libris - PF - Original Woodcut by M. Fingesten - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - PF is an original xilograph artwork realized by Michel Fingesten in the 1930s
Hand-signed on the lower center.
Hand-written note on the lower center.
Good conditions.
Includes passepartout: 30 x 24 cm
Ex Libris is a Latin phrase meaning a bookplate that identifies the owner of the book into which it is pasted.
Michel Fingesten (Butzkowitz, 1884 - Cerisano, 1943) was a Czech painter...
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Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Fat Thursday - Original Woodcut by Ernest Florian - Late 1800
By Ernest Florian
Located in Roma, IT
Fat Thursday is an original xylograph realized by Ernest Florian during XIX-XX century.
Original title: Jeudi Gras, printed on plate on the upper margin in the center. On the lower ...
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Late 19th Century Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Tsukuda Sumiyoshi no Yashiro - Woodcut by Hiroshige II - 1853
Located in Roma, IT
Tsukuda Sumiyoshi no yashiro (Sumiyoshi Shrine on Tsukuda Island) is the original title of this superb ten colour woodblock print on paper, by the Japanese master, Utagawa Hiroshige ...
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1850s Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut, Paper
Back to the Land “Farming” by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Colour woodcut
Located in London, GB
Back to the Land “Farming” by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Colour wood engraving
19.3 x 10.5 cm (7 ⁵/₈ x 4 ¹/₈ inches)
Initialed and titled in the plate and numbered, 4th state ...
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1910s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Color, Woodcut
Squall
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Yal...
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Late 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$3,000
"Farewell, " Sunset Landscape Woodcut by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Farewell" is an original color woodcut by Carol Summers. The artist signed the piece. This woodcut depicts a river flowing through green hills beneath a blood-red sky. The edition number is 20/50.
24 1/4" x 37" art
32" x 45" frame
Carol Summers 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...
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1990s Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Hewitt, Charlie. UNTITLED COMPOSITION. Woodcut, not dated, but circa 1995. Edition of 100. Signed and numbered in pencil. 20 x 24 inches. In excellent condition.
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1990s Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
3 Panel Hand Colored Japanese Woodcut Print Lithograph
By Keisai Eisen
Located in Soquel, CA
3 Panel Hand Colored Japanese Woodcut Print Lithograph
Three panel hand colored woodcut lithograph from Nanso Satomi hakkenden, Tale of the Eight Dogs...
Category
Early 19th Century Edo Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
"Krankes Mädchen" original woodcut
By Erich Heckel
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Printed in 1920 for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition of 500. Catalogue refere...
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1920s Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
untitled ( Pikachu Pokémon )
Located in New York, NY
untitled woodcut by Kjell Otterness from the early 2000s printed in an edition of 6. Pickachu Pokémon
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Early 2000s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
'Winter Serenity' —from 'Solitude' for Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Naoko Matsubara, 'Winter Serenity' for the portfolio 'Solitude', woodcut, 1971, edition 100. Signed and numbered '58/100' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream laid J...
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1970s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Lassitude
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur, Lassitude, 1912, woodcut, signed and numbered (24/35) in pencil. Reference: Sylvain Laboureur 682, third state (of 3). From the edition of about 35, published b...
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1910s Cubist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
'Venus' — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Venus, Ex Libris - Hanns U. Herta Heeren', woodcut, 1923, edition not stated but small. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op.154' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. A fine impression, on cream Japan paper, with full margins (15/16 to 2 11/16 inches), in good condition. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards (unframed).
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Translation: Venus Ex Libris for Hanns and Herta Heeren.
Image size 5 15/16 x 4 inches (156 x 102 mm); sheet size 9 5/8 x 6 inches (245 x 152 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
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1920s Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Ariadne by Jill Moser
By Jill Moser
Located in New York, NY
Jill Moser, Ariadne, 2021
Woodcut print on Khadi 100 % cotton paper
Signed and numbered by the artist on recto
Paper size: 8.25 x 8 in
Edition of 18
Published by Eminence Grise Editions, New York
Printed by Andrew Mockler...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
"Der Hirte" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original color woodcut. Catalogue reference JH 771. Published in 1919 for Genius. Image size: 9 1/2 x 7 inches (240 x 178mm), on wove paper with full margins. This print is f...
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1920s Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Mountain Landscape in Switzerland - Original Wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Pierre GUSMAN (1862-1942)
Mountain Landscape in Switzerland, 1924
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (c. 12,7 x 9,5 in)
Edited for the 'Imag...
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1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
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