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Period: Early 2000s
"ENCHANTED ROCK" TEXAS LANDSCAPE FREDERICKSBURG TEXAS NATURE EDWARD REICHERT
"ENCHANTED ROCK" TEXAS LANDSCAPE FREDERICKSBURG TEXAS NATURE EDWARD REICHERT

"ENCHANTED ROCK" TEXAS LANDSCAPE FREDERICKSBURG TEXAS NATURE EDWARD REICHERT

By Edward Lee Reichert

Located in San Antonio, TX

Edward Lee Reichert (1919-2011) Texas Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Frame Size: 34.5 x 44.5 Medium: Oil Dated 2005 "Enchanted Rock" Biography Edward Lee Reichert (1919-2011) Edward Reichert, architect, designer and artist, is a native Texan who has combined regional, national and international study and practice of the visual art and architecture since 1936. He is a versatile artist and designer, skilled in creating quality landscapes, portraits, architectural, western, religious and varied work in all media. After 36 years of architectural practice based in Houston in which he was involved in the design of more than 400 regional and international projects, he now devotes full time to painting. Best known of his art works are his designs of stained and faceted art glass which include 100 panels designed for the First United Methodist Church of Houston. In 1983, he wrote and jointly published with the Church, Windows Sharing God’s Caring, an art book with photographs by his wife Elizabeth, illustrating and describing these panels and the historic sanctuary windows. While attending The University of Texas in Austin he served as art editor of the university publication Architecture, Engineering and Industry (1938-41). After receiving his Bachelor of Architecture Degree and the Alpha Rho Chi Architectural Medal in 1941, he was awarded scholarships for continued studies a M.I.T., Harvard, and Yale. As a Naval Reserve Officer during World II, he authored and illustrated Naval Intelligence publications. He became a Registered Architect in Texas in 1947, AIA member since 1951 and NCARB certified since 1974. He has worked and studied in England, Europe and Canada. Invitational study and travel with Master Painter, Lajos...

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American Impressionist Early 2000s Art

Materials

Oil

Ewan McGregor - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography

Ewan McGregor - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Ewan McGregor' (Stay) - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory No. 5007.01 Not mounted Stefanie Sc...

Category

Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Celadon Muse
Celadon Muse

Celadon Muse

By Brice Marden

Located in New York, NY

Brice Marden Celadon Muse 2003 Two color etching / one color lithograph 22 x 30 inches; 56 x 76 cm Edition of 45 Signed, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower recto) Frame available...

Category

Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Etching, Lithograph

Algiers Apartments, Las Vegas - Mid-Century American Architecture Photograph
Algiers Apartments, Las Vegas - Mid-Century American Architecture Photograph

Algiers Apartments, Las Vegas - Mid-Century American Architecture Photograph

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

Algiers Motel Apartments, photograph from Richard Heeps' Dream in Color series. This visually arresting artwork captures the essence of a sunbathed, mid-century modern apartment str...

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Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Lyric Abstract Watercolor
Lyric Abstract Watercolor

Lyric Abstract Watercolor

By June Felter

Located in San Francisco, CA

This abstract watercolor is by June Felter (1919-2019), noted San Francisco Bay Area artist. It measures 18.5 x 22 inches (28.5 x 31 inches framed). It is ...

Category

Abstract Early 2000s Art

Materials

Watercolor

"Oesterreich II" Contemporary Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor
"Oesterreich II" Contemporary Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor

"Oesterreich II" Contemporary Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor

By Michael Pauker

Located in Soquel, CA

Contemporary abstract painting and collage composition with stamps, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). With found object scraps of vintage ...

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Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Found Objects

Amour - Signed limited edition fine art print, Romantic Black white photo
Amour - Signed limited edition fine art print, Romantic Black white photo

Amour - Signed limited edition fine art print, Romantic Black white photo

By Ian Sanderson

Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona

Amour - Limited edition archival pigment print , Edition 1 of 15 Custom size possible Handwritten on a Parisian pavement, Paris, France. Landscape format. This print that is being...

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Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Ar...

Untitled - Traintracks (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color

Untitled - Traintracks (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Untitled - Traintracks (The Last Picture Show) - 2006 49x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory number: 2114...

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Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Birds (Haley and the Birds)

The Birds (Haley and the Birds)

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

The Birds (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 50x49cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #...

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Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Lovebirds (Haley and the Birds)

Lovebirds (Haley and the Birds)

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Lovebirds (Haley and the Birds) - 2013 50x49cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #...

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Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Inland Crossing 35
Inland Crossing 35

Inland Crossing 35

By Hyunmee Lee

Located in Salt Lake City, UT

The gestural paintings of Hyunmee Lee are sumptuously minimal. Rich forms advance from buttery canvases like an abstract garden. Gauzy veils of paint hover like soft air against the ebony weight of matter. Light peeks through translucent shapes like sunlight illuminating soft mist. Texture swirls and echoes across the canvas as if carved by waves or eroded by the wind. The viewer, invited into a realm of contemplation and meditation, is surprised to look away and see the physical world existing in only three dimensions. But perhaps that is precisely the experience the artist would like the viewer to have. In her current exhibition, Touch, on display at the Phillips Gallery...

Category

Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Envol

Envol

By Robert Laliberté

Located in New York, NY

Envol 2009 Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, verso Archival pigment print (Edition of 10) 24 x 16 inches $1,465

Category

Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lights in Motion Photograph Chromo Photo Kodak Professional Endura
Lights in Motion Photograph Chromo Photo Kodak Professional Endura

Lights in Motion Photograph Chromo Photo Kodak Professional Endura

Located in Surfside, FL

Artist Unknown. From Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp...

Category

Abstract Early 2000s Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Dreamscene on Salt Lake (29 Palms) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Dreamscene on Salt Lake (29 Palms) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'

Dreamscene on Salt Lake (29 Palms) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Dreamscene on Salt Lake (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024....

Category

Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Figure in Purple Abstract
Figure in Purple Abstract

Figure in Purple Abstract

By Daniel David Fuentes

Located in Soquel, CA

Abstract figure in purple by San Jose, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (AKA, Xavier Lundt) (American, 1978-2016). Bay area abstract expressionist and landscape artist dur...

Category

Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Signed limited edition Landscape, Contemporary, Paris France - Pont d' Arcole
Signed limited edition Landscape, Contemporary, Paris France - Pont d' Arcole

Signed limited edition Landscape, Contemporary, Paris France - Pont d' Arcole

By Ian Sanderson

Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona

An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Pont d' Arcole ‘, a bridge of Paris, Fr...

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Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Snake - Platinum print on vellum over silver, Limited edition, jewellery in Art
Snake - Platinum print on vellum over silver, Limited edition, jewellery in Art

Snake - Platinum print on vellum over silver, Limited edition, jewellery in Art

By Ian Sanderson

Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona

'Snake Necklace by Elsa Peretti' Platinum print on vellum paper over silver leaf Handmade photograph Edition of 5 , plus 2 AP ( Medium Size ) Signed + numbered with certificate of...

Category

Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Silver, Platinum

British Original Impressionist Watercolor Sunset over Mountain Lake Landscape
British Original Impressionist Watercolor Sunset over Mountain Lake Landscape

British Original Impressionist Watercolor Sunset over Mountain Lake Landscape

By Anthony Avery

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Sunse by Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) * see notes below original watercolor on artists paper, unframed paper dimensions: 11 x 15 inches double sided condition: very good and rea...

Category

Impressionist Early 2000s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Untitled Abstraction

Untitled Abstraction

By Peter Marks

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Unsigned as per usual Enamel paint and ink on tracing paper Provenance: Estate of the Artist Peter Marks (1935 -2010) Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935....

Category

Abstract Early 2000s Art

Materials

India Ink

Donald Sultan -- Wallflower 31
Donald Sultan -- Wallflower 31

Donald Sultan -- Wallflower 31

By Donald Sultan

Located in BRUCE, ACT

Donald Sultan Wallflower 31, 2008 Edition: 35/190 Sheet Size: 54.7 x 61.5 cm Image Size: 34.3 x 40.5 cm Signed right margin and numbered low left Printed and Published: Har-El, Print...

Category

Early 2000s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Buick in the Dust I, Hemsby, Norfolk - Color Photography of a Car
Buick in the Dust I, Hemsby, Norfolk - Color Photography of a Car

Buick in the Dust I, Hemsby, Norfolk - Color Photography of a Car

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

'Buick in the Dust', features an American Car, on a British Beach (Hemsby, Norfolk) driven by a German. Richard spent years honing his skills as a drag racing photographer, a sport h...

Category

Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Silver Poppies, Aug 17, 2022 (Ed: 22/50)
Silver Poppies, Aug 17, 2022 (Ed: 22/50)

Silver Poppies, Aug 17, 2022 (Ed: 22/50)

By Donald Sultan

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Donald Sultan is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He is particularly well-known for large-scale still life paintings, and one of the first to employ a wide range of ind...

Category

Abstract Early 2000s Art

Materials

Screen

Bacon, Portrait Isabel Rawsthorne, 2003 (after)

Bacon, Portrait Isabel Rawsthorne, 2003 (after)

By Francis Bacon

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Francis Bacon (1909-1992) Title: Portrait Isabel Rawsthorne Year: 2003 Medium: Offset Lithograph on premium paper Size: 39.25 x 27.5 inches Condition: Excellent Notes: Publis...

Category

Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Untitled (Boy with Ball)

Untitled (Boy with Ball)

By Evžen Sobek

Located in New York, NY

Archival pigment print Signed and numbered, verso 12 x 12 inches (Edition of 10) 25 x 25 inches (Edition of 10) This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Please note that prices increase as editions sell. Evžen Sobek...

Category

Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

UNTITLED (HOLLOW A 400), ED. 20/20
UNTITLED (HOLLOW A 400), ED. 20/20

UNTITLED (HOLLOW A 400), ED. 20/20

By Corban Walker

Located in Surfside, FL

Genre: Minimalism Subject: Abstract Medium: Etching Surface: Archival Paper Country: United States Dimensions: 22.25" x 22" Dimensions w/Frame: 23.25" x 23.25" CORBAN WALKER Dublin, ...

Category

Minimalist Early 2000s Art

Materials

Etching

Memorial - Abstract 9/11 Tribute
Memorial - Abstract 9/11 Tribute

Memorial - Abstract 9/11 Tribute

By Marc Foster Grant

Located in Soquel, CA

World Trade Center memorial artwork by Marc Foster Grant (American, b. 1947). This piece is composed of multiple layers of quotes relating to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Cent...

Category

Symbolist Early 2000s Art

Materials

Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Monsieur - Madame Paulhan Fly a Farman Airship 1910 Los Angeles Int. Air Show
Monsieur - Madame Paulhan Fly a Farman Airship 1910 Los Angeles Int. Air Show

Monsieur - Madame Paulhan Fly a Farman Airship 1910 Los Angeles Int. Air Show

By Roy Christian

Located in Soquel, CA

Reprint of a vintage photograph titled "Monsieur (Louis) and Madame Paulhan of France ready to fly a Farman model lll in Los Angeles - 1910 from an original photograph by an unknown ...

Category

Realist Early 2000s Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Meltdown, Blue Rope by T. Price, Contemporary Sculptural Chair
Meltdown, Blue Rope by T. Price, Contemporary Sculptural Chair

Meltdown, Blue Rope by T. Price, Contemporary Sculptural Chair

By Tom Price

Located in Paris, FR

'Meltdown, Blue Rope' is a sculptural chair by English artist Tom Price, from the Meltdown Series. Unlimited edition. Available on commission. This chair is made entirely from polyp...

Category

Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Polymer

Crash
Crash

Crash

By Ryan McGinley

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Ryan McGinley (b. 1977) is arguably the most renowned photographer of his generation. At 25 years old, he was the youngest artist to ever have a solo show at the Whitney (2003). Ove...

Category

Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

C Print

Untitled (Dance.04)

Untitled (Dance.04)

By Morten Nilsson

Located in New York, NY

Chromogenic print 24 x 20 inches (Edition of 10) 40 x 30 inches (Edition of 6) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Please note that prices increase a...

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Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

C Print

Meditation
Meditation

Valerie BellerMeditation, 2008

$6,080Sale Price|20% Off

Meditation

By Valerie Beller

Located in Three Oaks, MI

Valerie Beller’s abstract paintings encourage visual exploration. Organic forms are both revealed and concealed amidst layers of paint. The streaked and stained surfaces of the canva...

Category

Abstract Early 2000s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Baroque Cauliflower, Artichokes and Radishes
Still Life with Baroque Cauliflower, Artichokes and Radishes

Still Life with Baroque Cauliflower, Artichokes and Radishes

By Ian Hornak

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Still Life with Baroque Cauliflower, Artichokes and Radishes Year: 2002 Medium: Oil on Panel with artist painted frame Size: 42 x 31.5 inches Co...

Category

Photorealist Early 2000s Art

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Red White Blue Americana Wall Hanging Painting Sculpture American Flag Motif
Red White Blue Americana Wall Hanging Painting Sculpture American Flag Motif

Red White Blue Americana Wall Hanging Painting Sculpture American Flag Motif

Located in Surfside, FL

Painted wood wall hanging sculpture "Red, White and Blue," (and gold) 2008 Stamped signed with initials, date and edition 2/5 Oded Halahmy, Abstract Modernist artist, was born in Iraq in the old city of Baghdad in 1938, the artist came from a family of Orthodox Jews with deep roots in ancient Babylonian culture. His father, Salech Haskel Chebbazah, was a prosperous goldsmith in Baghdad and a Jewish member of the Communist Party when Jews comprised more than a quarter of the population of Baghdad. He refers to his home as the “land of wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates.”, Oded moved with his family to Israel in the 1950s, was educated at St. Martin's School of Art in London which was then a leading center for sculpture, led by Anthony Caro and Philip King and having links to Henry Moore. He taught sculpture are in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, as well as many other public and private collections worldwide. He currently lives in New York City and Old Jaffa, Israel. Like countless New Yorkers who arrived from distant lands, Oded Halahmy has a rich personal history of exile, migration and travels. Although New York has been his home for over 45 years, memories of Iraq left an indelible imprint on his life and work. Known for his dynamic yet often playful figurative pop art style sculptures in wood and bronze, he fills his work with images — albeit abstracted from reality — that evoke the landscape, architecture and rich colors of the Middle East. Palm trees, doves, pomegranates, temples and age-old symbols abound along with deep reds, amber, sky blue and the familiar greenish-blue hues of aged bronze. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Dates-Pomegranates-Olive Oil: Chanukah Lamps, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY District of Columbia Jewish Community Center Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, Washington, D.C. Homeward: Baghdad - Jerusalem - New York, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Homelands: Baghdad-Jerusalem-New York, A Retrospective, The Ann Loeb Gallery, Washington, Homelands: Baghdad-Jerusalem-New York, A Retrospective, Yeshiva University Museum, NY The Common Ground; The Sculpture Of Oded Halahmy, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Herr-Chambliss Fine Arts, Hot Springs, AR Artists Studio, Old Jaffa, Israel Byer Museum of Art, Evanston, IL The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, Cranford, NJ Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY New England Center for Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, CT Hebrew Union College, New York, NY Bicentennial Tribute, United States Federal Plaza, New York, NY Horace Richter Galleries, Jaffa, Israel, 1976 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY America-Israel Culture House, New York, NY Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY Gallery Moos, Toronto, Canada Old Jaffa Gallery, Jaffa, Israel Pollack Gallery, Toronto, Canada SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 Iraqi Art...

Category

Pop Art Early 2000s Art

Materials

Wood, Paint

A Post-Traumatic History Lesson

A Post-Traumatic History Lesson

By David Avery

Located in Palm Springs, CA

Signed and numbered from the edition of 30. Avery's prints often mix elements of satire, myth and legend with his own light touch of surrealism. David Avery continues to explore the expressive and technical possibilities inherent in black and white line etching...

Category

Early 2000s Art

Materials

Etching

"Ex Nihilo Fragment 3", Frederick Hart, Figurative Bronze Sculpture, 43x31x18 in
"Ex Nihilo Fragment 3", Frederick Hart, Figurative Bronze Sculpture, 43x31x18 in

"Ex Nihilo Fragment 3", Frederick Hart, Figurative Bronze Sculpture, 43x31x18 in

By Frederick Hart

Located in Dallas, TX

"Ex Nihilo Fragment 3" by Frederick Hart is a figurative bronze with the edition of 61/65. I saw Ex Nihilo (Out of Nothingness) as a single expression of creation, as the metamorphosis of divine spirit and energy. The figures emerge from the nothingness of chaos, caught in the moment of eternal transformation — the majesty and mystery of divine force in a state of becoming. -Frederick Hart Ex Nihilo, Fragment No.3. Detail from the full-scale plaster for the final stone sculpture of Ex Nihilo, commissioned as part of The Creation Sculptures at Washington National Cathedral...

Category

Realist Early 2000s Art

Materials

Bronze

British Impressionist Watercolor of a Idyllic Riverside Scene with Swans
British Impressionist Watercolor of a Idyllic Riverside Scene with Swans

British Impressionist Watercolor of a Idyllic Riverside Scene with Swans

By Anthony Avery

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of a Idyllic Riverside Scene with Swans By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Signed: Yes Dimens...

Category

Impressionist Early 2000s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Paddy Bedford, Polymer Paint on Linen, 2006
Paddy Bedford, Polymer Paint on Linen, 2006

Paddy Bedford, Polymer Paint on Linen, 2006

By Paddy Bedford

Located in Miami, FL

An important figure in the contemporary East Kimberley painting movement, artist Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford was born on Bedford Downs Station where he worked as a stockman. As an Elder o...

Category

Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Linen, Polymer, Canvas

Overlook Hill -- Autumnal Landscape
Overlook Hill -- Autumnal Landscape

Overlook Hill -- Autumnal Landscape

Located in Soquel, CA

Wonderful autumnal landscape of figure on overlook hill by Pascua (American, 20th Century), circa 2000. Signed lower right. Unframed. Image size: 22"H x 20"W.

Category

Modern Early 2000s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chris Ware New Yorker Cartoonist Limited Edition Thanksgiving Print NYC
Chris Ware New Yorker Cartoonist Limited Edition Thanksgiving Print NYC

Chris Ware New Yorker Cartoonist Limited Edition Thanksgiving Print NYC

By Chris Ware

Located in Surfside, FL

This is one print – printed in full color on 15" x 20" heavy cream-colored paper. It is from a limited edition series of 175, the portfolio is hand numbered and hand signed by Chris Ware. the individual prints are not. The page with the hand signature is included here as a photo for reference only it is not included in this sale. Franklin Christenson "Chris" Ware (born December 28, 1967), is an American cartoonist known for his Acme Novelty Library series (begun 1994) and the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000) and Building Stories (2012). His works explore themes of social isolation, emotional torment and depression. He tends to use a vivid color palette and realistic, meticulous detail. His lettering and images are often elaborate and sometimes evoke the ragtime era or another early 20th-century American design style. Ware often refers to himself in the publicity for his work in self-effacing, even withering tones. He is considered by some critics and fellow notable illustrators and writers, such as Dave Eggers, to be among the best currently working in the medium; Canadian graphic-novelist Seth has said, "Chris really changed the playing field. After him, a lot of [cartoonists] really started to scramble and go, 'Holy [expletive], I think I have to try harder.'" While still a sophomore at UT, Ware came to the attention of Art Spiegelman, who invited Ware to contribute to Raw, the influential anthology magazine Spiegelman was co-editing with Françoise Mouly. Ware has acknowledged that being included in Raw gave him confidence and inspired him to explore printing techniques and self-publishing. His Fantagraphics series Acme Novelty Library defied comics publishing conventions with every issue. Ware's art reflects early 20th-century American styles of cartooning and graphic design, shifting through formats from traditional comic panels to faux advertisements and cut-out toys. Stylistic influences include advertising graphics from that same era; newspaper strip cartoonists Winsor McCay (Little Nemo in Slumberland) and Frank King (Gasoline Alley); Charles Schulz's post-WWII strip Peanuts and the cover designs of ragtime-era sheet music. Ware has spoken about finding inspiration in the work of artist Joseph Cornell and cites Richard McGuire's strip Here as a major influence on his use of non-linear narratives. He is one of the great practitioners who have elevated the graphic novel style along with, Shepard Fairey, Ben Katchor and Robert Crumb. Quimby the Mouse was an early character for Ware and something of a breakthrough. Rendered in the style of an early animation character like Felix the Cat, Quimby the Mouse is perhaps Ware's most autobiographical character. Ware's Building Stories was serialized in a host of different venues. It first appeared as a monthly strip in Nest Magazine...

Category

American Modern Early 2000s Art

Materials

Color

2004 Olin Stephens 'Dorade: Accommodations Plan, 1936' Screen-print

2004 Olin Stephens 'Dorade: Accommodations Plan, 1936' Screen-print

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Serigraph, 2004. Hand signed and numbered in pencil from an edition of 300. Blind stamped with the Sparkman & Stephens logo. Printed on Coventry rag paper. This elegant and historic...

Category

Contemporary Early 2000s Art

Materials

Screen

Daniel Gelakoska “Peach” 1998 Contemporary Minimalist Still Life, Modern Acrylic
Daniel Gelakoska “Peach” 1998 Contemporary Minimalist Still Life, Modern Acrylic

Daniel Gelakoska “Peach” 1998 Contemporary Minimalist Still Life, Modern Acrylic

By Daniel Gelakoska Clarence

Located in Denver, CO

This striking 1998 still life by Daniel Gelakoska distills a classic subject into a bold, minimalist composition centered on a single peach. Executed in acrylic on paper, the work tr...

Category

American Modern Early 2000s Art

Materials

Acrylic, Paint