Art by Medium: Woodcut

Nishiki-e (woodcut print), in vertical oban format (31x20.5) realized by Mizuno Toshikata in 1893 (Meiji 26). Belongs to the Series "Sanjûroku Kasen" (Thirty-Six Beauties in Compari...

Artist: Kiyoshi Saito – Japanese – (1907-1997) Title: Boy from Aizu Year: circa 1950s Medium: Woodblock Image size: 15 x 10 inches. Sheet size: 16.5x 11 inches. Signature: Signed, ...

7" x 4" Unframed Woodcut Hand Signed by Gerhard Marks

FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869 – 1958) GAILLARDIAS c. 1928 Color block print. Signed in pencil. Edition unknown but small. 7 ¼” x 5 ¾”. Gearhart did very few pure flower prints but wa...

Kabuki is an original artwork realized in 1862 by Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880). Boatman with elegant passenger in snowy landscape. Sign: Kochoro Kuni...

François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941) The Alley in the night, 1938 Original Woodcut Print Signed with the stamp of the artist On Japan paper 35 x 24 cm (c. 13.8 x 9.5 inch) Very good ...

Beauty Otami - Kabuki Note: Kabuki actor Nakamura Matsue is in the role of courtesan otami. She is standing in front of a small tea shop in a garden. Color woodblock, c. 1800-1810 Si...

Kabuki actor is a superb colored woodblock print realized around 1830 by one of the most famous Japanese Ukiyo-e artists Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (1786 - ...

John DePol, 'Magic Hour, Autumn', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1981, edition 160 in 1983. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A superb impression, on...

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...

Todros Geller (1889 – 1949) was a Jewish American artist and teacher best known as a master printmaker and a leading artist among Chicago’s art community.Geller was born in Vinnytsia, the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) in 1889.[2] He studied art in Odessa and continued his studies after moving to Montreal in 1906 where he immigrated to Canada. He married and moved to Chicago in 1918, where he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago until 1923. Geller produced paintings, woodcuts, woodcarvings, and etchings. His work focused on Jewish tradition, often including moralistic themes and social commentary, shtetl, ghetto life, and the intersection of Jewish tradition with modern-day Chicago. He regarded art as a tool for social reform and he spent a large part of his career teaching art. His work was commissioned for stained glass windows, bookplates, community centers and Yiddish and English books. He was regarded as a leader in the field of synagogue and religious art. He designed stained glass window for synagogues in Omaha, Fort Worth, Dayton, Stamford, and Chicago Heights. Over the course of his career he illustrated more than 40 books. In addition to conducting classes in his studio, Geller was head of art at the Jewish People’s Institute (JPI), supervisor of art for the Board of Jewish Education and director of art for the College of Jewish Studies (which became the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership) and taught at Hull House. Many prominent Chicago artists studied drawing and painting under Geller. Geller was a source of inspiration to Aaron Bohrod and Mitchell Siporin...

Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...

Alluring two-piece edo woodblock print of Japanese actors by Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835-1900). Titled, dated and signed on verso. Presented...

This print is from a highly regarded series by the Edo woodblock artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi: in the period, there were at times prohibitions in depicting a...

Sumo Fighter is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19 century by Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print, included a cardboard passpartout (45...

As always, Caviar20 is thrilled to present the esteemed work of Louise Nevelson - one of the most revered and unique artists of the 20th century. Although Nevelson is best known f...

Sergio Hernández (Mexico, 1957) 'Untitled', 2011 woodcut on paper 29.6 x 41.4 in. (75 x 105 cm.) Unframed

Japanese woodblock print of a woman kneeling by the river. She is holding a stick making it appear like she is fishing with it. The woodblock print is printed on rice paper. The print is not framed. Artist Biography: Utagawa Kuniyasu...

Color woodcut, Edition 30 The left panel of High Tide captures the reflections of the edge of a pond and surrounding trees and hills. The right panel depi...

Sumo Fighters is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19th century by Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print. This wonderful modern artwork re...

Kabuki is an original artwork realized in 1864 by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). Breast portrait of the actor Sawamura Toshi in front of a dark blue background, he's wearing a lion dance costume. In the inset portrait of Kataoka Nizaemon with a feather costume. Signed: Oshio Toyokuni ga (77 Toyokuni). Publisher: Ebiya Rinnosuke in Horie. Censorship: Aratame. Wood engraver: Matsushima Masakichi. Excellent impression with visible wood grain and baren print lines...

Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...

This large, horizontal diptych woodcut print on paper evokes the peacefulness of ocean waves depicted in shades of cobalt blue with purple undertones and the artist's addition of wat...

Woodcut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°3, July-August-September 1938. Published and printed und...

Kawase Hasui Spring Rain at Gokoku-ji Temple, 1932 Woodblock Print 1st Publication: 1932 Sheet size: 39 × 26 cm Date of this edition: 1932, 1st edition Publisher: Doi Teiichi Note...

Signed on the front, and signed, titled and numbered on the reverse, This is an artist proof, unique color variant, aside from the edition of 15. An abstraction of male nudes. In J...

"Rainbow-man," an abstracted Mexican figurative woodblock by Pedro Puerta (Mexican, 20th Century), 1974. Titled "Rainbow-Man" lower left and "from a Michoacan Pot" "Reproduced with a...

Woodcut on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, miró graveur II. 1961-1973, 1989. Published by Daniel Lelong, éditeur...

Sumo Tournament is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19TH century by Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print. This wonderful modern artwork represents Japanese Sumo...

Fine and precious surrealist woodblock prints by Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) of the acclaimed Dante's Divine Comedy and published by Foret/Les Heures Claires in 1960. The male illustration is inferno canto 5...

An original Mid Century woodblock print titled "Long Hot Summer" by American artist Toma Yovanovich. Hand signed in pencil and numbered 2 ...

Jose Bedia (Cuban, 1959) 'Animal Armado', 2019 Woodcut and serigraph Limited edition of 30 Image size: 92 x 181 cm. (36.2 x 71.3 in.) Overall size: 118 x 199 cm. (46.5 x 78.3 in.) Su...

Deutzia Flowers: The Wife of Kasamori - Original Woodblock Print Deutzia Flowers: The Wife of Kasamori, from the Series "Beauties of the Floating World Associated with Flowers" by S...

SEBASTIAN MUNSTER (1488-1552) FLORENCZ - -- FIGUR UND GELEGENHEIT DER EDLEN UND HOCH BERHÜMPTEN STATT FLORENTZ. . c 1550 (Fauser, #3925.) Woodcut f...

This piece titled "E. T. Doodle" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut monoprint mounted on panel. This piece measures 14.5"h...

Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with Star (Kirche mit Stern)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W265. Annotated 'W 265' (Feininger catalogue number) and inventory no. '2808' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce. Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 inches; sheet size 10 1/16 x 7 1/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. ABOUT THE ARTIST Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892. After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin. One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...

The Angel of the 7th Heaven -  "The Divine Comedy" - Song 22 -  Paradise is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dan...

Billy Childish, Swan and Fish, 2023 edition of 50, 26 x 21.5 cm hand-signed and numbered by the artist. Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and writer known for...

Lively Japanese woodblock print featuring street life. Ink on paper, circa 1860. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold ...

From Interior Series. Woodcut and screen print in colors on Museum Board. Hand signed, dated and numbered by Roy Lichtenstein. Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles.. Corlett 247...

Raoul DUFY The Love, c. 1910 Original woodcut Signed stamp of the artist's studio Numbered on /220 On vellum 50.5 x 65.4 cm (c. 19.6 x 25.5 inch) Excellent condition

Signed and numbered from the edition of 88. This tranquil scene of the moon at night by the waters' edge shows Schwaberow's technicque at its best. The grain of each piece of wood plays into the image perfectly. Micah Schwaberow was born in Eugene, Oregon and currently resides In Santa Rosa, California. The rolling hillsides, cloudscapes and coastline of Sonoma County are a major motif in his woodcuts. Seascape with light reflecting on the water just after sunset. Micah learned the art of Japanese woodblock art...

Frasconi, Antonio. ALHAMBRA XII. Color woodcut, 1963. Edition of 15. Signed, titled and inscribed "ed 15" in pencil. 10 1/2 X 14 1/8 nches (image). In excellent condition. Frasconi ...

This piece titled "Philly Street III" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut and found object stencil monoprint. This piece mea...

"Leaf Ocean" is a dramatic cyanotype and woodcut monoprint with contrasting layers and objects abstracted from nature. Black, silver, and white leaves float on top of a watery background. In her creative process, Katherine scans organic material which she then refines into digital files. The images are then then cut out of wood using a laser cutter. Katherine prints the inked wood shapes in combination with ink washes, in different arrangements making each print unique. For more works by Katherine Warriner and new listings, follow our storefront at Colibri Gallery...

Woodcut on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 174, 1968. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; print...

Charles Quest, 'Still Life', 1947, wood engraving, edition 8. Signed, dated, and numbered '3/8' in pencil. Titled and annotated 'wood engraving' in the bottom left margin. A fine impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THE ARTIST Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929 and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters. After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter, to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium, which he learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’ In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later, Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’, were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’, and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’ was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’ At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951. Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’. An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...

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...

Susan Kiefer Rex Woodcut on paper Year: 2000 Size: 27x22in COA provided Ref.: 924802-1663 Framed woodcut print. A nude male figure in an armchair with striped and patterned backgrou...

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...

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

Artist: Gaston Petit, Canadian (1933 - ) Title: Millepertuis Corail Year: 1971 Medium: Woodcut, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil Edition: 3/37 Ima...

Annual Events for Young Murasaki (July) - Tales of Genji - Japanese Woodblock Rightmost panel a triptych, depicting monthly events for Wakamurasaki (Young Murasaki). This is the month of July. There appears to be a lesson taking place, possibly for writing or poetry. Artist: Toyokuni III/Kunisada (1786 - 1864) Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shoshichist Presented in a new blue mat. Mat size: 19"H x 13"W Paper size: 14.5"H x 10"W Commentary on the triptych: In the Edo period, Tanabata was designated as one of the five seasonal festivals, and became an annual event for the imperial court, aristocrats, and samurai families, and gradually came to be celebrated by the general public. Its origins are said to be a combination of the Kikoden festival, which originated from the Chinese legend of Altair and the Weaver Girl, and Japan's ancient Tanabata women's faith. Ink is ground with dew that has accumulated on potato leaves, poems and wishes are written on five colored strips of paper, which are then hung on bamboo branches to celebrate the two stars that meet once a year. Although the illustration is a Genji painting...

Woodcut on hand made laid paper with the publisher's watermark designed by the artist, full margins. From the special suite of 53 woodcut illustrations which were laid in loose to t...

Woodcut Engraving on cream wove Montval paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Hélène Chez Archimède, 1955. Publis...

Wonderful tropical Woodcut print of Palm Tree on island. Signed "Wessels" with a KW chop in a box above and 2012 lower edge. Presented in speckled pain...

Kabuki Scene: a Revenge Story is a wonderful color xylograph on paper, realized by the Japanese master Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861) between 1846-1852. Japanese ideograms are print...

The Creation Of The Angels - The Divine Comedy is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed...