Skip to main content

Art by Medium: Woodcut

to
201
2,407
346
152
101
197
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
6
551
2,175
473
17
32
188
225
90
120
223
100
89
65
5
2,538
640
621
215
202
113
55
46
42
24
5
3
1
2,204
901
84
1,410
732
565
491
399
360
343
279
261
235
219
208
185
158
142
125
112
102
73
70
5,414
49,826
39,649
26,833
25,650
131
100
50
30
29
147
1,655
1,386
856
Style: Modern
Style: Contemporary
Style: Art Deco
Medium: Woodcut
David Shrigley - Sorry I Snapped At You - Edition of 30
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley Sorry I Snapped At You, 2025 Woodcut 53 x 40 cm Edition of 30 hand-signed and numbered by the artist published by Shäfer Editions and comes with COA from the publisher...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Shunga - Woodcut attr. Keisai Eisen - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut shunga print attributed to Keisai Eisen and realized in the early 19th century. Good condition except for some signs of time.
Category

Mid-19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Actors - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Sadafusa - 1820s
By Utagawa Sadafusa
Located in Roma, IT
Actors is an original modern artwork realized in 1820-1830 by Utagawa Sadafusa. Woodcut Print Oban Dyptich Format. Arashi Kanjuro as Benkei, Ichikawa Komazo as Minamoto Yoshitsune ...
Category

19th Century Modern 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...
Category

1850s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

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...
Category

1930s American Modern 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...
Category

1870s Modern 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...
Category

1930s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Roller Coaster /// Contemporary Pop Art Relief Print Figurative Funny Colorful
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-) Title: "Roller Coaster" *Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left Year: 1982 Medium: Original Relief Print on u...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

The Purgatory, Canto 20 - Avarice and Prodigality
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Purgatory, Canto 20 - Avarice and Prodigality Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publi...
Category

1960s 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...
Category

1930s American Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Collection of Various Black and White and Colour Woodcuts
Located in Roma, IT
Original editorial soft cover with dowel on front plate. Nice collection of original fine woodcuts of the Utagawa school, partially coloured, including illustrations of Japanese thea...
Category

Early 19th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

QUEENSBRIDGE
Located in Portland, ME
Bernhardt, John (American 1921-1963. QUEENSBRIDGE. Color Woodcut, 1965. Ttiled, signed, dated and annotated "To Smitty" in pencil. 17 3/4 x 28 inches. In very good condition. Framed ...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Color, Woodcut

QUEENSBRIDGE
QUEENSBRIDGE
$700 Sale Price
36% Off
Ducks - Woodcut by Giselle Halff - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ducks is an original woodcut print realized by Giselle Halff. Good condition, no signature. Included a white cardboard passpartout (39x29 cm).
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Ex Libris Aira Konu - Original Woodcut Print - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Aira Konu is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Original woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. On the upper side in inscripted in capital ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

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...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

The Purgatory, Canto 22 - Prodigality
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Purgatory, Canto 22 - Prodigality Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publisher: Les He...
Category

1960s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

The Purgatory, Canto 27 - The Last Words of Virgil
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Purgatory, Canto 27 - The Last Words of Virgil Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publ...
Category

1960s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

City Scene II — Mid-Century Modernism, Precisionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Brussel-Smith, 'City Scene II', wood engraving, 1949, artist's proof, edition 100. Signed, titled, and annotated 'A.P.' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on whit...
Category

1940s American Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Bad Romance : The Duel - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & numbered /160
Located in Paris, IDF
Maximilien VOX (1894-1974) Bad Romance : The Duel, 1925 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...
Category

1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Paris : Rainy Day - Original wooodcut, Handsigned and numbered / 160
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean LOMBARD (1895-1983) Paris : Rainy Day, 1925 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /160 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the b...
Category

1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Naval Combat : the Sailboats - Original wooodcut, Handsigned and numbered / 160
Located in Paris, IDF
Daniel GIRARD Naval Combat : the Sailboats, 1925 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 editor 'Im...
Category

1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Street from the old Paris - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Camille BELTRAND (1877-1951) Street from the old Paris, 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 th...
Category

1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Seascape : Castel and Sailboats - Original Wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Herbert LESPINASSE (1884-1972) Seascape : Castel and Sailboats, 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 'I...
Category

1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Old Trades : Laundress - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & numbered /160
Located in Paris, IDF
André DESLIGNIERES (1880-1968) Old Trades : Laundress, 1926 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...
Category

1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Ripple
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

Mulberry Paper, Woodcut

Composition, Così fan tutte, Balthus
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin paper. Paper Size: 19 x 18 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Così fan tutte. Dramma giocoso in due atti. Musi...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Composition (Arntz 148-175; Hagenbach A 25; Bolliger 54), Dreams and Projects
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects, 19...
Category

1950s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Squall
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...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Milwaukee Handicraft Project WPA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Milwaukee Handicraft Project, Applied Design Blockprinted Textiles Volume VI Supplement, c. 1935 - 1942, twelve block printed designs on linen, images are various sizes, each is mounted in its original folder which measures 24 x 19 inches, all bear the Milwaukee Handicraft Project label, various designers, including Barbara Warren (1915 - 2005) ("Checkered Flower" and perhaps others), includes original portfolio binder The Milwaukee Handicraft Project (MHP) was the most prolific and successful of the decorative arts projects of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It served as a model for many other similar projects across the United States and attracted the attention of thought leaders as diverse as Frank Lloyd Wright and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Designed with the dual goals of providing work for underprivileged women and the creation of well-designed household objects, the MHP began in 1935 under the direction of Elsa Ulbricht...
Category

1930s American Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Textile, Linen, Linocut, Woodcut

Woodland Skyscape Variation 147, Forest Sky Woodcut in Dark Navy, Pale Blue
Located in Kent, CT
This square woodcut print on paper evokes the peacefulness of looking upwards through a forest canopy in a symmetrical pattern composed of the silhouettes of trees in dark navy blue ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Monoprint, Woodcut

Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXIe Année, N° 13, Noël 19...
Category

1950s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Mythological Hunting - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Camille BELTRAND (1877-1951) Mythological Hunting, 1920 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /105 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of the edi...
Category

1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Der erotische Waldschmidt (Printmaking, Monochrome Art)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Arno Waldschmidt Der erotische Waldschmidt Woodcut on handmade paper 1996 Size: 27.55 x 19.68 inches (70 x 50 cm) Edition: 25 Signed, numbered and dated in pencil COA provided *Cond...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Music in Morning, Contemporary Woodcut Print with Ink Drawing by Lu Fang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lu Fang, Chinese (1932 - ) - Music in Morning, Year: 1983, Medium: Woodcut and water-soluble ink and Chine colle, signed, titled and dated in pencil, Image Size: 15 x 21 inches, S...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Ink, Woodcut

The Purgatory, Canto 18 - The Fourth Terrace; Accidia
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Purgatory, Canto 18 - The Fourth Terrace; Accidia Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm P...
Category

1960s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Répit, 1968 (Poèmes, #9)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Répit (Respite) is a woodcut on paper from Marc Chagall's Poèmes portfolio, published in 1968. The image size is 13 x 10 inches and the art is framed in an ornate, gold-tone frame. U...
Category

20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

The Purgatory, Canto 1 - The Fallen Angel
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Purgatory, Canto 1 - The Fallen Angel Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publisher: Le...
Category

1960s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Paris, Old Street in Latin Quarter - Original Wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean LEBEDEFF (1884-1972) Paris, Old Street in Latin Quarter, 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 'Ima...
Category

1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Shimada - Woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige - 1833
Located in Roma, IT
Asagiri is a woodcut print realized by Utagawa Hiroshige in 1832.  It is part of the suite "The Fifty-three Stations of Tokaido". Very good condition.
Category

1830s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Mythology : Danae Sleeping - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Louis JOU (1881-1968) Mythology : Danae Sleeping, 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 edit...
Category

1920s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Touching and Tasting
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1/5 BARBARA KUEBEL is a Daphne, AL-based artist who uses oil and pencil for her works on paper and on canvas. She was born and raised in Austria and earned two art degrees f...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Freesia
Located in Fairfield, CT
7-color woodcut on Somerset white 500 gsm
Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Archival Paper, Woodcut

"Angelika's Pets, " Wood Engraving by Robert Franz Von Neumann
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Angelika's Pets" is an original wood engraving by Robert Franz Von Neumann. It features a young woman sitting at a desk, working on a wood engraving. Two large cats sit near her and look out a window nearby. Image: 6" x 5" Framed: 13.43" x 12.43" 1888 - 1976 Born in Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany, Robert von Neumann...
Category

1930s American Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

The Paradise, Canto 11 - Opposition
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Paradise, Canto 11 - Opposition Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publisher: Les Heur...
Category

1960s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Turning to one point/ colour olive green
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/5 BARBARA KUEBEL is a Daphne, AL-based artist who uses oil and pencil for her works on paper and on canvas. She was born and raised in Austria and earned two art degrees f...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Warrington Colescott, Your Day in Court mixed media graphic signed Artists Proof
Located in New York, NY
Warrington Colescott Your Day in Court, from the portfolio Wisconsin Graphics, 1971 Drypoint, etching, aquatint, woodcut, & soft-ground etching, w roulette, vibrograver, letterpress ...
Category

1970s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Woodcut

Bathing - Woodcut by Aristide Maillol - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bathing is a print realized by Aristide Maillol in the early 20th Century. Woodcut on paper. Good conditions. Aristide Maillol, (born December 8, 1861, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France—die...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

HAIL AND FAREWELL
Located in Portland, ME
Kent, Rockwell. HAIL AND FAREWELL. Burne-Jones 55. Wood engraving, 1930. Edition of 120. 8 x 5 1/2 inches, 203 x 140 mm. Signed in pencil. In excellent condition.
Category

1930s American Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

The Paradise, Canto 7 - Le nouveau doute de Dante
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Paradise, Canto 7 - Le nouveau doute de Dante Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publi...
Category

1960s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

3 Jewish Men Judaica Woodblock Woodcut Engraving Print Chicago 1930s WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Paper, 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...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

February -- Orchid. (Nigatsu - Ranjo no saku).
Located in Storrs, CT
February -- Orchid. (Nigatsu - Ranjo no saku). 1956. Woodcut with hand-applied color from the verso. Kodansha vol.9 No. 125. 17 x 13 (sheet 18 1/4 x 21 1/2). Series: Calender in the ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Watercolor, Woodcut

"Brahma vs. Leghorn, " Farm Scene Wood Engraving by Howard Thomas
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Brahma vs. Leghorn" is an original wood engraving by Howard Thomas. In front of an understated farm house, Brahma and Leghorn face off, ready to battle. An unidentified plant sits on the center. Unsigned. Image: 6" x 7.44" Framed: 13.75" x 15.18 Thomas Howard (1899-1971) born a Quaker in Ohio, trained in the Midwest at Ohio State University and the Chicago Art Institute. He taught in the Art Department of the Milwaukee State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) where he became good friends with Carl Holty, Edward Boerner, Robert von Neumann...
Category

1930s American Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Village of Montmarte, Paris
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is part of my private collection since the 1970's. It is an original color lithograph signed and numbered by the Japanese artist Shungo Sekiguchi. In 1935 Shungo Sekiguchi...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Lithograph, Woodcut

Peace
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Peace Woodcut printed in orange red ink on japanese paper Signed and titled in pencil lower right (see photo) Titled lower left (see photo) Created along with an illustrated book project Song of Peace, 1950-1959. Condition: Excellent Image: 10 1/2 x 4 7/8" Sheet: 16 1/8 x 7"; Anton Refregier (March 20, 1905 – October 10, 1979) was a painter and muralist active in Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project commissions, and in teaching art. He was a Russian immigrant to the United States. Among his best-known works is his mural series The History of San Francisco, located in the Rincon Center in downtown San Francisco, California. It depicts the city's history across twenty seven panels that he painted from 1940 to 1948. Life and early career Refregier was born in Moscow and emigrated to the United States in 1920. After working various odd jobs in New York City, he earned a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design in 1921. After finishing school, Refregier moved back to New York in 1925. To earn a living, Refregier worked for interior decorators, creating replicas of François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard paintings...
Category

1950s American Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

At the Circus - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Robert BONFILS At the Circus, 1927 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 editor 'Imagier de la Gr...
Category

1920s Art Deco Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

The Purgatory, Canto 8 - The Guardian Angels of the Valley
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Purgatory, Canto 8 - The Guardian Angels of the Valley Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2...
Category

1960s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Great Plover - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Great Plover 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. ...
Category

1870s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

The Inferno, Canto 9 - The Furies
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Inferno, Canto 9 - The Furies Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of sheet: 33 x 26.2 cm Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm Publisher: Les Heure...
Category

1960s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Le berger et le roi, Vingt fables de La fontaine, Jean Carzou
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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...
Category

1960s Modern Art by Medium: Woodcut

Materials

Woodcut

Woodcut art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Woodcut art available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add art created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, yellow, purple, blue and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Mino Maccari, Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III), Eric Gill, and Utagawa Hiroshige. Frequently made by artists working in the Modern, Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Woodcut art, so small editions measuring 0.04 inches across are also available

Recently Viewed

View All