Art by Medium: Woodcut

Polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e) on paper. Edo period, mid-19th century. This dynamic ukiyo-e print depicts a kabuki actor captured in a moment of heightened theatrical tensi...

This piece titled "Lisa's Trip" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut monoprint mounted on panel. This piece measures 14.5"h x 19"w. Born in Mexico City,...

Fritz Eichenberg, 'The Pimp', wood engraving, 1980, artist's proof before the edition. Signed in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 3/16 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 12 x 9 3/4 inches (305 x 248 mm); sheet size 18 x 14 inches (457 x 356 mm). ABOUT THE ARTIST Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990) was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion, social justice, and nonviolence. Eichenberg was born to a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany, where the destruction of World War I helped to shape his anti-war sentiments. He worked as a printer's apprentice and studied at the Municipal School of Applied Arts in Cologne and the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, where he studied under Hugo Steiner-Prag. In 1923 he moved to Berlin to begin his career as an artist, producing illustrations for books and newspapers. In his newspaper and magazine work, Eichenberg was politically outspoken and sometimes wrote and illustrated his reporting. In 1933, the rise of Adolf Hitler drove Eichenberg, who was a public critic of the Nazis, to emigrate with his wife and children to the United States. He settled in New York City, where he lived most of his life. He worked in the WPA Federal Arts Project and was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists. In his prolific career as a book illustrator, Eichenberg portrayed many forms of literature but specialized in works with elements of extreme spiritual and emotional conflict, fantasy, or social satire. Over his long career, Eichenberg was commissioned to illustrate more than 100 classics by publishers in the United States and abroad, including works by renowned authors Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Poe, Swift, and Grimmelshausen. He also wrote and illustrated books of folklore and children's stories. Eichenberg was a long-time contributor to the progressive magazine The Nation, his illustrations appearing between 1930 and 1980. Eichenberg’s work has been featured by such esteemed publishers as The Heritage Club, Random House, Book of the Month Club, The Limited Editions Club, Kingsport Press, Aquarius Press, and Doubleday. Raised in a non-religious family, Eichenberg had been attracted to Taoism as a child. Following his wife's unexpected death in 1937, he turned briefly to Zen Buddhist meditation, then joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1940. Though he remained a Quaker until his death, Eichenberg was also associated with Catholic charity work through his friendship with Dorothy Day...

Philip Sutton Heather - 1967 Print - Woodcut 33.5'' x 26.5'' Edition: signed and numbered in pencil 12/25 Image Size; 18"x 18" Condition Note; Handling Creases. Philip Sutton studi...

Watanabe Shozaburo, 1936. Woodblock in colors on handmade mulberry paper, Koban 182 x 120 mm, full margins. With the Shôtei artist seal in red ink, upper right. Signed "Shotei" and titled in English on the matrix in graphite. With the "Made in Japan" export stamp and the Watanabe catalog number stamp 179, both in blue ink, on the bottom sheet edge, verso, as issued. Adhered to a card stock matrix with deckle edges, as issued. A beautiful pre-war impression of this serene and peaceful scene, good gradient inking and luminosity in the lantern. Printed by hand with cherrywood blocks. *Marc Kahn, Shotei catalog S10; Watanabe 179 Born in Tokyo in 1871, Hiroaki Takahashi...

Woodcut on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Vingt fables de La fontaine, 1961. Published by Éd...

Paris: L'Estampe Moderne, 1897. Color wood engraving on light-weight, cream-colored imitation vellum, 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (342 x 252 mm), full margins. With the L'Estampe Moderne ...

Woodcut print on paper, realized in the Early 20th Century. Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 100. Ver good condition, matted. Powerful black-and-white woodcut depicting a sol...

Wonderful etching, originally page 365 in a book De L'amerique by Alain Manesson Mallet, circa 1683, depicts the artist's concept of the appearance and activities of the native occupants of America in graphic detail. Unsigned. Displayed in a black and giltwood frame. Image, 6.5"H x 4.5"L. 1683 Manesson Mallet "Bresiliens" Amerindians, Indigenous Native Brazilians, Brazil, South America, Antique Print...

Martyn Brewster (b.1952) 'Blue Trees ' Carborundum & relief print 2025 Image 20.0 x20.0 cm Edition 60 Unframed Martyn Brewster’s abstract paintings are strongly linked to the Englis...

Japan: circa 1770. Woodcut on cream laid paper, 7 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (182 x 63 mm), narrow margins. Laid down to non-archival board with scattered soiling and some adhesive staining...

Dante in Doubt, from the Series "The Divine Comedy", is a woodcut print by Salvador Dalì, realized in 1963. Good conditions. Not signed. Plate n.7 (as reported on the back of the a...

Karl Michel, 'Viel Gluck 1923 Wunscht der Graphikverlag, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothenfelde', woodcut, 1922, edition 20. Signed and numbered op. 135d and 20/20 in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream Japan paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/8 inches), in good condition. With the artist’s blind stamp in the top left margin. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards, unframed. New Year's Greeting - "1923, Good Luck Wishes from the Graphic Press, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothfelde." Image size 5 x 3 1/2 inches (127 x 89 mm); sheet size 6 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (168 x 149 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...

Raoul DUFY The Fisherman (Angling) Original woodcut Signed stamp of the artist's studio Justified Artist Proof (aside the edition numbered on /220) Titled in the board 50.5 x 65.4 c...

Jacob Otto Pins (17 January 1917 – 4 December 2005) was a German-born Israeli woodcut artist and art collector, particularly of Japanese prints and paintings. Jacob Pins was born in ...

Actor Iwai Hanshiro as a Samurai is an artwork realized by Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825), in the early 19th Century Color woodcut, signed or inscribed in the top right and bottom lef...

Woodcut print realized by Escher in 1931. It belongs to the series "Emblemata". Signed with initials in the plate lower right. Ref. F.H. Bool, J.R. Kist, J.L. Locher and F. Wierda...

Medium: original woodcut. Printed in 1950 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 33) and published in Paris by Maeght. Size: 15 x 21 3/4 inches (377 x 553 mm). There is a...

Signed, lower right, with artist's chop mark in Hiragana, 'Tensen-e' 天泉絵, for Ogyū Tensen 荻生天泉 (Japanese, 1882-1947) A large, early-20th-century, hand-colored Japanese woodblock sho...

Lyonel Feininger, “Kreuzende Segelschiffe 2 (Cruising Sailing Ships 2)” 1919, Woodcut. Prasse W175. Edition 275 unsigned for portfolio Die tunlte Jahresgabe des Kreises graphischer ...

Great Spit-on Bird is an Original woodcut print realized by Sonia Léwitzka. Good condition on acream colored paper. Signature on the lower right corner. On the back of the paper, ...

Woodcut on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Vingt fables de La fontaine, 1961. Published by Éd...

Polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e) on paper. Edo period (19th century). A finely executed interior genre scene depicting elegantly dressed courtesans and attendants engaged in a...

Touched by the influence of Andy Warhol, champion of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard served as enfant terrible of the 1980s New York art scene. In this bright yellow, red, ...

A colorful and attractive hand-colored 19th century woodcut engraving entitled "A Game of Lacrosse" after a drawing by W. H. Hall. It was published in New York in Harper's Weekly on May 10, 1884. It depicts a scene from an intense lacrosse game. This hand-colored woodcut engraving is presented in a red mat that measures 16" high x 20.63" wide. The sheet measures 10.63" high x 15.88" wide. There is a central fold, as issued. The print is in excellent condition. Lacrosse is the oldest sport in North America, possibly originating as far back as the 1400's. The sport was first invented by Native Americans, who originally played it as a means to toughen braves for war or to settle tribal disputes. It was played by between 100 and 1,000 participants at a time. There were no strict boundaries and the game could cover miles and take days to complete. It was very violent with many injuries, which were sometimes fatal. The game was unknown to whites until the 17th century when a Jesuit priest observed Heron Indians playing it. He thought the stick and netting resembled the "crosier" carried by bishops during religious ceremonies, This led to the name "la crosse". A Canadian dentist standardized the rules of the game in 1867 and the 1st college team was created at New York University in 1877. The game gained national attention and popularity in 1956 when the Hall-of-Fame football player Jim Brown...

Title "The Golden Pavilion" 金阁 Date 1933; (posthumous edition, likely 1950's/60's). Publisher Yoshida Family Studio Image Size 9 5/8 x 14 3/4 Impression Very Fine. Sk...

"Grave of Santa Anna's Leg" Original Woodblock Print, Signed Artist's Proof Boldly colored woodblock print by Carol Summers (American, 1925-2016). This piece is a segment of a grave, with a headstone that has a skull and cross. There are two bright green plants flanking the headstone. Below the headstone and plants, there is a large arched blue shape, with a crescent moon and stars. A red leg, bent at the knee, cuts across the blue arch. Signed "Carol Summers" along the right edge of the blue shape. Numbered and titled "A/P Grave of Sant Anna's Leg" along the left edge of the blue shape. Presented in a silver colored aluminum frame. Frame size: 32.245"H x 27.25"W Paper size: 29.75"H x 24.5"W 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...

Woodblock print on paper. A refined and atmospheric Japanese woodblock print depicting a tranquil coastal inlet rendered in an economy of line and muted colour. The composition is n...

This exquisite woodcut after Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), titled Improvisation 7 (Improvisation 7), from the album XXe Siecle Paris, Hommage a Wassily Kandinsky, originates from th...

1922 Initialed, titled, and dated in pencil, lower margin Woodcut on cream wove paper with original colophon (Edition of 125) 10 x 15 inches (25.4 x 38.1 cm), sheet This work is ...

Fernand SIMEON (1869-1931) Concert: the Conductor, 1920 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /160 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of the edi...

Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....

Medium: original woodcut. Reference: Dupin 1295. Published for the Jacques Dupin catalogue raisonne "Miro Graveur IV" in 2001. Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (320 x 248 mm). A ric...

Detroit-born Leo Meissner lived in New York and was respected as a painter, draftsman, and illustrator, but is most known for his wood engravings. His ski...

Woodblock print on paper. Japan, Edo period. A refined bust-length portrait depicting a court official or learned gentleman, shown in three-quarter profile and wearing formal attire...

Engraving on paper. A finely executed devotional engraving representing the Transfiguration of Christ, with Christ shown at the center, standing upon clouds and flanked by Moses and...

"House Cleaning in Preparation for the New Year" - Japanese Woodblock on Paper House cleaning scene by Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753-1806). This print was originally published around 1796-1799, with this example being a later reprint. The full scene is five sheets - there are two more sheets to the right that show more members of the house. However, it is these three sheets that contain the majority of the action - a maid sweeping at a mouse, a lady fainting, and a painting moved aside to allow for cleaning. Presented in a new black mat. Mat size: 24"H x 38"W Paper size: 17.75"H x 33"W Print Impression: 14.63"H x 29.5"W Utamaro Kitagawa...

Louis JOU (1881-1968) Crucifixion (Stabat Mater), 1924 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 edit...

Souls of Contumacy is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed, as issued. Plate n.3 (as...

The Souls of  Contumacy -  from the Series "The Divine Comedy"-  Song 3 -  Purgatory is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Co...

A striking botanical woodcut by the well-listed artist Clare Leighton (1898-1989). Beautifully presented in a simple wooden frame with a cream mount. Unsigned. On paper. Image size: ...

The Virgin and the Child is a Woodcut print on cream-colored paper realized after Albrecht Durer, a reproduction of the early 20th Century fro...

Signed Lower Right Titled Lower Left Numbered Lower Center Josef Zenk (1904-2000) Josef Zenk was born in New York City in 1904. After graduating from high school he studied ...

Medium: wood engraving (after the watercolor). Printed in Paris in 1955 at the atelier Coulouma for "Mille nuits et une nuit" (1001 Nights) which was the last major portfolio by Kees...

Hair Wave - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman Limited Edition 01/04 This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Immerse yourself in ...

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...

This artwork titled "Pecheur de Sawara, Japon" (Fisherman of Sawara, Japan) 1936 is an original color woodcut by French artist Paul Jacoulet, 1896-1960. It is hand signed in pencil b...

This piece titled "Breeze Before the Leap" is an original print by Jun Lee and is made by reduction woodcut. This piece measures 44.25"h x 31.25"w fr...

Woodcut on vélin Utopian paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Gauguin, A portfolio of 12 color woodblocks, Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-19...

Bijinga is an original modern artwork realized by Keisai Eisen in the 1830s. Oban from the series "Keisei dochu Sugoroku, mitate Tokaido gojusan stugi" (...

A dramatic mid-nineteenth century ukiyo-e print by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), depicting actors Actors Ichikawa Kuzô III as Kômori Yasu and Sawamura Tanosuke III as Kirare Otomi....

Polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e) on paper. A refined Japanese woodblock print depicting a male figure—likely an actor or courtly character—seated in profile, shown in a moment...

Woodcut on paper, mid-20th Century. This striking graphic work depicts a tense interior scene rendered in bold, expressive black forms against the natural tone of the paper. In the ...

Woodblock print with hand-applied color and calligraphy on paper. A refined Japanese woodblock print depicting an actor in mid-motion, rendered with expressive economy and poetic se...

This artwork titled "Amoureux a Tarang, Yap, Ouest Carolines 1935 is an original color woodcut by French artist Paul Jacoulet, 1896-1960. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist, ...

Ex Libris is an Artwork realized in 1948. Woodcut print on paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensions: 21 x 15 cm. Good conditions. The artist wants to define a well...

Tracey Emin, Billy and Traci in a Pub, 1984 Woodcut in dark blue on Japon paper, signed and inscribed 'lots love Traci xx' in pencil on the backboard, printed by the artist Test prin...

This woodcut by Ali Kurt Baumgarten (1914–2009) depicts a study of three circus clowns in a playful, stylized manner. Bold, simplified shapes and flowing lines capture the figures’ g...

Kiyomizu Temple, Scenes of Famous Places along Tôkaidô Road - Woodblock on Paper Full Title: Kyoto: Kiyomizu Temple (Kyô Kiyomizudera), from the series Scenes of Famous Places along...

Landscape is an original modern artwork realized by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original woodcut on Ivory paper. Excellent conditions. Cat. Electa....