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Medium: Woodcut
Genji in the Twelve Months - Woodcut by Utagawa Toyokuni III - 1858
Located in Roma, IT
Genji in the Twelve Months / The Tenth Month (Moto) is a tryptich woodcut print realized by Utagawa Toyokuni III in 1858.
Very good condition except for some minor signs of wear.
Category
1850s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Libro de Miguel Angel Dieguez - Woodcut by Joaquín Diéguez y Díaz - 1903
Located in Roma, IT
Libro de Miguel Angel Dieguez is a Modern Artwork realized in 1903, by the Spanish Artist Joaquín Diéguez y Díaz.
Coloured woodcut on paper. Hand signed on the back
The work is g...
Category
Early 1900s Symbolist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Polo Players - Woodcut - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Polo Players is a print realized by an anonymous in the mid-20th century.
Woodcut print on paper.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Almanac E
Located in San Francisco, CA
This Japanese woodblock print is by the noted sosaku hanga artist Hiroyuki Tajima (1911-1984). It measures 24 x 18 inches, (25 x 19.5 inches the sheet, 33.25 x 26.25 inches framed). ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Damien Hirst's Dog, Pictures of Famous Artist's Pets, Damien Hirst Spots Style
Located in Deddington, GB
Damien Hirst’s Dog by Mychael Barratt
Limited edition art print
Handmade Woodcut on paper
Edition of 100
Signed and Titled
Complete size of sheet: 63 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Sundial - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
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....
Category
1930s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Tengmalm's Owl - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Tengmalm's Owl 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 Lond...
Category
1870s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Portrait of Jules Lenard - Woodcut by Paul Emile Colin - 1930 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Paul Emile Colin in the 1930s.
Edition of 30/35.
Hand signed and numbered.
Very good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
ABS, Woodcut
Utagawa Kuniyoshi -- The Diving Woman Recovers the Stolen Jewel from the Dragon
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
The Diving Woman Recovers the Stolen Jewel from the Dragon King's Palace
Circa 1844-45
Woodblock print
Oban
Signed Chooro Kuniyoshi ga, censor's seal Tanaka
Publi...
Category
1840s Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Courtesan - Woodcut by Keisai Eisen - 1830
By Keisai Eisen
Located in Roma, IT
Courtesan is an original modern artwork realized by Keisai Eisen in the first half of the 19th Century.
Signed and inscribed on plate.
Total dimension...
Category
1830s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Quartet No. 1
By Eugene Larkin
Located in Kansas City, MO
Eugene Larkin
Quartet No. 1
Woodcut in two colors
Signed and titled by hand
Size: 20 x 29.5 inches
COA provided
Eugene Larkin (1921-2010)
The late Eugene Larkin was an artist who worked in the Twin Cities area for many years and needs little introduction. His works have been shown, collected and appreciated by numerous galleries, museums and collectors throughout the United States.
Larkin was influential both as an artist and as a teacher. He taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design between 1954 and 1969, where he was head of printmaking and Chairman of the Division of Fine Arts. From 1969-1991 he was a professor in the Design Department at the University of Minnesota.
Eugene Larkin, a lithographer, teacher and artist who left behind scores of works, some of them in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art. He was considered an early promoter of lithography education, Larkin introduced it into arts programs while teaching at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota. He held a prominent place in the art world through decades of working and teaching in Minneapolis. His work depicted a wide range of subjects, from musicians to nature, including a series of woodcuts based on William Blake's ""Songs of Innocence and Experience."
Larkin also wrote a textbook, ""Design: The Search for Unity."" It was his work with lithography, an 18th-century printmaking process, for which he was best known.
His last local exhibit was a retrospective at The University of Minnesota Weisman Museum in 2005. ""Sometimes I start the artistic process from a literary source - Adam and Eve, the Egyptian nature gods, or classical Greek themes but sometimes I start from nature. Trees have always been a favorite subject. I see trees as people, as vertical objects...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
The Heretics - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Heretics - Hell plate 10 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited e...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$231 Sale Price
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Vent du Nord, Coree
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Vent du Nord, Coree" 1953 is an original color woodcut by French artist Paul Jacoulet, 1896-1960. It is hand signed in pencil by the artis...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
The Virgin - Woodcut after Albrecht Durer - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Virgin and the Child is an original Woodcut on cream-colored paper. realized after Albrecht Durer, a reproduction of the early 20th Century from the...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
19th Century Japanese Woodblock - Lady and Dairy Cow
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate Japanese woodblock print depicting a lady leading her dairy cow. Signed and inscribed in characters. Presented in a contemporary black frame. On p...
Category
19th Century Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Taira no Munekiyo Captures -Woodcut Print by Utagawa Hirosada - 1856
Located in Roma, IT
Taira no Munekiyo Captures Tokiwa no Mae is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hirosada (Japanese, active 1825–75) in 1856.
Woodcut print oban format. Signature Ichiyosa...
Category
19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Kabuki Actor - Woodblock Print attr. to Utagawa Kunisada - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Kabuki Actor is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19 century and attributed to Utagawa Kunisada.
Beautiful colored woodblock print, included a cardboard passpartout.
Includ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Ex-Libris - Amici del Libro - woodcut - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex-Libris - Amici del Libro is an Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century.
Woodcut on paper. Hand signed in pencil.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents a minimalistic, clean desi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$115 Sale Price
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Cosmos
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cosmos
Color woodcut with gauffage (embossing), January 1940
Unsigned (as usual)
Publisher: Takemura Hideo
(active Yokohama 1926-1940)
Condition: excellent
Image size: 14 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches
Provenance: Robert O. Muller Estate
Biography
Hodo Nishimura...
Category
1940s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Horizontal 'Spots' II, Minimalist Woodcut Print, 2018
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
The minimalist's dream, the large-scale iconic contemporary pop art Horizontal 'Spots' with multi-color dots by Damien Hirst is one of fifty-five limited edition woodcut prints on So...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$60,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Midnight Wolf: A Limited Edition Clarence Mills Signed Haida Inuit Print
Located in Alamo, CA
"Midnight Wolf" is a framed signed limited edition abstract inuit native people's work by Northwest Coast Haida artist Clarence Mills. The print depicts a st...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Letchkov
By Martin Noel
Located in Kansas City, MO
Martin Noel
"Letchkov"
Year: 1994
Color woodcut on handmade paper
Size: 27.75 x 22.5 inches (70 x 60 cm)
Signed by hand, lower center
Publisher: Edition by Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, ...
Category
1990s Abstract Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$798 Sale Price
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Arp, Composition, Arp: On My Way (after)
By Jean Arp
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, The Documents of Modern Art. Arp: On My Way, Poetry And Essays 1912 - 1...
Category
1940s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$716 Sale Price
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Kabukie - Woodcut by Utagawa Kuniyoshi - 1850
Located in Roma, IT
Kabukie is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798 – 1861) in the half of the 19th Century.
Original woodcut from the series...
Category
1850s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
San Francisco Sicilian and Italian Fishermen: A 19th C. Hand-colored Woodcut
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed hand-colored woodcut engraving entitled "Sicilian and Italian Fisherman's Dock - San Francisco", created by Henry François Farny ...
Category
Late 19th Century Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Divinity (from Parthenon) - Woodcut Print - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Divinity is an artwork realized from 1856 to 1862 .
Black and white woodcut.
Category
19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
The Actor Nakamura Shikan - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - Mid 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
The actor Nakamura Shikan, color woodcut, probably from the series "9 Dances", Mid-19th Century, realized by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865).
Dimensions. 38x26.5cm, unframed, mounted...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Max Weber, Figure
By Max Weber
Located in New York, NY
One of America's great modernist innovators, Max Weber carved Figure, 1919-20, on the end piece of a wooden cigar box. This Cubist image is composed o...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Edo Landscape Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Houston, TX
Edo Meisho woodblock print of a famous Japanese coastal dock. This woodblock is most likely apart of the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo." The woodblock print is printed on r...
Category
1850s Edo Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Leonardo Gotleyb, ¨Ave fenix¨, 2004, Woodcut, 27.6x39 in
Located in Miami, FL
Leonardo Gotleyb (Argentina, 1958)
'Ave fenix', 2004
woodcut on paper Rives BFK 300 g.
27.6 x 39 in. (70 x 99 cm.)
Edition of 15
ID: GOT-313
Hand-signed by author
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Paper, Screen, Woodcut
Bold Folk Art Goat Woodcut
Located in Houston, TX
Blocky black and white depiction of a goat, by artist Leonhardt Wüllfarth, c.1950. Displayed in a white mat with a gold border and fits a standard-size frame. Archival plastic sleeve...
Category
1950s Folk Art Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Meeting in Akashi - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada II - 1864
Located in Roma, IT
Meeting in Akashi is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada II and Hiroshige II in 1864.
Woodcut Print Oban Format.
From the series "Omo...
Category
19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Yakushae - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada - 1840s
Located in Roma, IT
Yakushae is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada in 1840s
Woodcut print Chuban format.
From the series "Mitate Yakusha gojusan tsui no uchi" (Actors in front of ...
Category
19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Yakushae Aizurie - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi - 1840s
Located in Roma, IT
Yakushae Aizurie is an original artwork realized in 1840-1843 by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (January 1, 1798– April 14, 1861).
Woodcut Print.
Actor in the r...
Category
1850s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
VILLAGE SCENE / TOWN FESTIVAL
By Herbert Gurschner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HERBERT GURSCHNER (Austrian / English (1901-1975)
VILLAGE SCENE / TOWN FESTIVAL ca.1924
Color woodcut 4 ¾ x 5 3/8” Signed in pencil. Good strong colors. On thin paper. Faint darkeni...
Category
1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut, Linocut
Signpost - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
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....
Category
1930s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Buoy - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
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....
Category
1930s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Portrait
Located in Brecon, Powys
Gerald Coles - Original 1958 Woodcut. Signed and dated in pencil lower left corner. On Japan paper. Numbered 3/60. In fine condition.
Gerald Anthony Co...
Category
1950s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$248 Sale Price
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Plates from Les Diaboliques - Original Woodcut by G. Pastre - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Plates from Les Diaboliques is an original modern artwork realized in the 1930s by Gaston Pastre.
A black and white couple of woodcut prints from the ...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Room with a red arch - XXI Century, Contemporary Linocut Woodcut Print, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
Maria Stelmaszczyk is a Polish artist born in 1983.
PROVENANCE
Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery.
The Gallery is a primary representative for this artist.
The Gallery o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Paper, Woodcut, Linocut
Early 20th Century Japanese Woodblock - Geisha
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful Japanese woodblock depicting a Geisha draped in decorative textiles. Inscribed to the top right and lower right. Signature stamped in characters. Presented in a contempo...
Category
20th Century Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
$268 Sale Price
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Courtesan Kumekichi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Courtesan Kumekichi
Color woodblock, 1858
Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III in the role of courtesan Kumekichi, who is standing in snow hold a red sake cup
Publisher: Ohkuniya Kinjiro...
Category
1850s Other Art Style Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Squash scarce Abstract Expressionist woodcut print, Signed/N, top female artist
By Judy Pfaff
Located in New York, NY
Judy Pfaff
Squash, 1985
Woodcut on wove paper
Signed, numbered 78/85, dated and titled on the front with artist's and publisher's blind stamps.
21 3/4 × 29 3/4 inches
Publisher
Cente...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Self-Portrait - Original Woodcut by Carlo Zuccarini - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-Portrait is an original woodcut print by Carlo Zuccarini in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes in a well-balanced composition
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Yamabayashi Fusahachi - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
Yamabayashi Fusahachi is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada in 1861.
Woodcut print Oban from a multi-heet, 1861
Actor in the role of Yamabayashi Fusahachi sta...
Category
19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Artist Birds Golden Sun
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
Isabel Rock , 'Staring at the Sun' 99.7 x 70.2cm, collaged woodblock print and acrylic ink on 410gsm Somerset Satin paper, 2011
In Isabels own words;
'Staring at the Sun'
The man stood on the mountain and stared at the golden sun. The sun stared back at him, its heat blazed and burnt his eyes, the birds sang a maddening tune like they were pecking at his eardrums.
The man pointed his finger and shouted, ' you lied to me' at the sun.
The sun laughed and said 'you wanted to believe me. I told you what you had already decided in your head to be the most convenient thing for you.'
The man raged and hopped in what looked to the birds like a beautiful dance.
'Trickery, skulduggery!' he shouted. 'villain, thief, abomination!'
The sun blinked and smiled calmly. It had seen a lot from humans, there was nothing that could surprise it now.
*Please note we are happy to ship this work rolled in an art tube. Whilst the work is on heavy duty art paper and mixed media, the artist is happy that the painting will be fine rolled in a tube. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping.
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
About Isabel Rock and her work:
Taking inspiration from Japanese woodblock prints and Indian miniature painting Rock has developed a unique collage technique that combines bold structures with large-scale woodblock prints and intricate detailing. The subject is a grand mixture of humour, drama, hidden morals, fanciful characters, modern culture, mythical beings and fantastical situations.
Rock creates a world that pulls you in and demands your attention. Quality of line is paramount, the drawings are created using a dipping pen and acrylic ink. An essential tool is a squirrel’s hair brush that gives incredible fine lines and was purchased on her travels in India.
Born in Hammersmith, London in 1981, Rock knew her destiny was to be an artist. Studying Fine Art Printmaking at The University of Brighton and graduating with First Class Honours in 2004 she went on to do a Masters Degree at The Royal College of Art in London, continuing her studies in printmaking and drawing, graduating in 2008.
Her first solo show at Bearspace Gallery in Deptford, London in April 2009 sold out and was the beginning of a career that continues to rise. Rock participated in the first ever India Art Fair represented by Art 1821...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut
Asagiri
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Asagiri" c.1990, is a color woodblock print on paper by noted Canadian/Japanese artist Suezan Aikins, b.1952. It is signed and numbered 150/200 in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 11.25 x 23.25 inches, framed size is 18.65 x 30 inches. Custom framed in a silver metal frame, with double off white matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame have some small minor rubs, barely visible.
About the artwork:
This artwork required 7 different carved wood blocks and 21 layers of colors to complete.
About the artist:
Born in Montreal in 1952, Suezan was influenced early in her life by the works of modern Japanese woodblock printmakers which hung throughout her parents’ home. She attended the Fine Arts programme at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick (1969 - 1971), The Ontario College of Art (1971-73), L’ ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts (1974), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design -BFA (1975) as well as a very intensive year of study with Toshi Yoshida in Tokyo (1984-85).
She has exhibited extensively in both public and private galleries throughout North America and Japan. Recent exhibitions include solo shows in Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, and Boston with group exhibitions at the Wenniger Gallery, Boston, Royal Canadian Academy in Toronto and the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.
Her paintings and woodblock prints are found in many collections such as The Canada Council Art Bank, The Nickle Art Museum, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Royal Bank of Canada, Prince Takamanonamiya Norihito, the Embassy of Canada in Tokyo, The Thomas Moore Institute as well as private collections.
Suezan Aikins was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant in 1983, Nova Scotia Department of Culture - Development Grants in 1980, 1987 and 1988. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1990 and received the Canadian Progress Club- Women of Excellence Award for Culture in 1993. Her work has been featured in a number of television documentaries as well as many Canadian magazines.
STUDIES:
Yoshida Woodblock Print Studio Tokyo, 84-85
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, 74-75 BFA
Ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal, 74
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 71-73
Mt. Allison University, 69-72
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS:
25 Year Retrospective of Woodblock Prints traveled to three Public Galleries in Germany: Dornum Castle; Tollhousverein, Leer; Rastede Palace, Oldenberg 2000-2001 color catalog and reviews.
Private Exhibitions, Falmouth, Mass., July 1996; Montreal, November 1996; Gibson Island, Md., April 1999.
Gold Paintings and Woodblock Retrospective, travelling: Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo; Genkan Gallery, Tokyo American Club; Blue Nile Gallery, Osaka; Kanda's Gallery BOQ, Okinawa; May 1994 (color catalogue)
Edo Gallery, Boston, November 1992, Private Exhibitions, Chatham, Mass, July 1992, Toronto, Oct. 1991
New Paintings and Woodblocks Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo, May 1991, and also in 1987.
Japanese Garden and Pavilion Foundation, Montreal, September 1990, Ownens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University 1988
Zwickers Gallery, Halifax, NS, 1979; Gallery 78; Fredericton, November, 1983; Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, November, 1982
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
"A New Leaf" 30 foot instalation of mixed media/ goldleaf reliefs, Artsplace, Annapolis Royal, N.S., 2000 color catalog
"Far and Wide" Juried Bienials, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; 1996 to '99, travelling, catalogs
"Moku Hanga Travelling Exhibition: Contemporary Japanese Woodcuts...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
"Ravanna's Palace Burning, " Woodcut Landscape signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ravanna's Palace Burning" is a woodcut signed by Carol Summers. The image combines landscape and architecture, which is typical of the works Summers produced during the 1980s and '90s. In the image, a dark building stands burning, bright red flames licking from the windows and rooftop. It stands beside an orange field framed in pink, probably representing a plaza. Beyond the plaza are multicolored trees, their branches reaching upward like the flames on the building. 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: 24.5 x 37.25 in
Frame: 30 x 42.75 in
Numbered 53 of the edition of 125
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 nonwestern 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...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Portrait - Original Woodcut by Sergio Sergi - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an Original Woodcut Print on paper realized by Sergio Sergi in the Early 20th Century
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes in well-balanced c...
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Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Old Samurai - Woodcut Print after Utagawa Kunisada - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old Samurai is a Woodcut print realized in late 19 century after Utagawa Kunisada.
Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print, included a cardboard passpartout (46x32 cm...
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Late 19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Dim Sum Woodcut by Printmaker Tim Engelland
Located in New York, NY
Tim Engelland (American, 1950-2012)
Dim Sum!, 1991
Woodcut
8 1/2 x 11 in.
Signed dated lower right: T. Engelland, '91
Titled lower middle: Dim Sum!
Numbered lower left: 73/150
A lifelong artist, Engelland specialized in oil portraits and landscapes, and also worked extensively in woodcuts and linocuts. He was born on Jan. 5, 1950, in Ames, Iowa, the son of Charles Wilbur “Will” Engelland and Patricia Fairman Engelland.. Tim grew up in Terre Haute, IN, attending Fairbanks Elementary School and Indiana State University’s Laboratory School. He knew he wanted to be an artist from an early age, and was mentored by Lab School’s John Laska, graduating in 1968.
He received a BFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art; was a Norfolk Fellow at Yale University; and received his MFA from Cornell University, teaching there for two years after graduation.
He spent the majority of his career, from 1976-2004, at Deerfield Academy, a prestigious preparatory school in Deerfield, Mass. There he taught art and photography, coached basketball and lacrosse, and served as faculty resident. When the school began accepting female students, Tim designed The Deerfield Girl, a bronze statue to accompany The Deerfield Boy statue standing in the school’s Memorial Building.
Along with John O’Brien and Peter Fallon, Tim founded the Deerfield Press, publisher of limited-edition illustrated poems and stories; James Dickey, John McPhee, and Seamus Heaney are among the authors whom the Press published.
For several decades, Tim served on the faculty at the Advanced Placement Summer Institute in St. Johnsbury, Vt., and as a consultant to the College Board. He spent sabbaticals in New York City and Boston, and he has exhibited in galleries in those cities and many other venues.
His work can be found in the National Library of Ireland, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and in private collections worldwide. In 2004, Tim returned to Indiana. He was married to Susan Karen Carpenter...
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1980s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Wakana (Gengjie) - Original Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Wakana (Gengjie) is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada in 1850s.
Woodcut print Oban yokoe format
From the series "Sono sugata yukari no utsushie" (Faithful im...
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19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Chinese Theatrical Mask - Woodcut - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage chinese woodcut print depicting a theatrical mask.
Realized in the mid-20th Century.
Framed under glass.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Late 19th Century Japanese Woodblock - Martial Stance
Located in Corsham, GB
Japanese woodblock print by Toyokuni, depicting a man crouching low to the ground with two samurai swords. Signed and inscribed with characters. On paper.
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Late 19th Century Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Cosmic Explosion
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cosmic Explosion" c.2000, is an original colors woodcut on thin rice paper paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, titled and ins...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Le Serpent, Impressionist Woodblock by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) - Le Serpent, Year: circa 1911, Medium: Woodblock, Image Size: 8 x 7.5 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Descr...
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1910s Impressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Woodcut
Native Civilians of America -- "De L'Amerique" Published Frankfurt / 1683
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
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1680s Realist Art by Medium: Woodcut
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Paper, Ink, Woodcut
The Rabbit - Original Woodcut by Giselle Hallf - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Rabbit is an original woodcut print by Giselle Hallf in the first half of the 20th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes in a well-balanced c...
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Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Norcamphor from “40 Woodcut Spots"
By Damien Hirst
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Damien Hirst
Title: Norcamphor from “40 Woodcut Spots"
Year: 2011
Medium: Woodcut on 410gsm Somerset White Paper
Edition: 43/55; signed (recto) and numbered (verso) in penci...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
Bernard, Composition, Éloge de Émile Bernard (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Éloge de Émile Bernard, 1962. Published by Editions d'Art Ma...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Art by Medium: Woodcut
Materials
Woodcut
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