Martha Tuttle

The Colors of a Cholla Cactus After Rain in the Late Summer or Early Fall

2022

Layering fabrics, dyes, pigments, crystals, and various other natural materials, Martha Tuttle is a master of juxtaposing textures to explore the relationship between humans and the physical world. Her unique artworks draw upon a variety of mediums to create harmonious compositions vibrating with her artistic energy. Tuttle’s new triptych of prints — "The Colors of a Cholla Cactus...

Edition of 20

Edition of 20

Edition of 20

Edition of 20

The 2007 woodcut dips into the artist’s past by reworking a 1983 piece of the same name. The original piece only depicted the colorful checkerboard composition. Here Heilmann adds a second image, a bird’s eye view photograph...

Keiji Shinohara was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. After 10 years as an apprentice to the renowned Keiichiro Uesugi in Kyoto, he became a Master Printmaker and moved to the United ...

Bird on a Tree is an original signed limited edition ( 24/60 ) woodblock print by the Italian artist Alessandro Nastasio. It is in very good condition. Paper size 16.25 x 13.75 image 7 x 6.75 Nastasio was born in Milan in 1934. In 1952 he followed the “free school of the nude” led by Aldo Salvatori. In 1960 he attended the Atelier of Giorgio Upilio where Giacometti, Lam, Fontana, De Chirico worked and where he had the opportunity to study the themes of the inspiring myths. He worked at the MAF foundry with the master Tullio Figini who shared the secrets of the lost wax Renaissance fusion and where he met the masters Crocetti, Manfrini, Manzu , Minguzzi, Fabbri,. He then moved on to Quinto de Stampi at the De Andreis foundry where Marino Marini, Pomodoro, Rudy Wach, Strebelle, Negri and Rosental operated. A regular reader of the great sapienzal texts of antiquity, he trained in particular on the Bible which he illustrated with woodcuts, aquatints, etchings and linocuts, especially the Song of Songs, the book of Ecclesiastes and several pages of the Gospels He also drew his inspiration from the philosophical-religious tradition of the Eastern world through the reading of Rig-Veda, Upanisad and the Matnavi of Rumi. In 1966-67 he obtained the chair at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and for thirty years he devoted himself to the teaching of Art Education in various schools. Nastasio created works both pictorial and plastic in collaboration with famous architects such as: Figini and Pollini, De Carli, Gardella, Faranda, Selleri, Ponti. His great talent soon came to the attention of various art dealers: first Max G...

This is a unique woodcut print of a forest and stream in dark eggplant purple offset by a light blue and pale grayish lilac background. The monotype brings to mind the tradition of J...

This is a unique woodcut print of a forest and stream in dark eggplant purple offset by a minty light teal greenish blue and pale yellow background. The monotype brings to mind the t...

This is a unique woodcut print of a forest and stream in dark eggplant purple offset by a minty light teal greenish blue and pale yellow background. The monotype brings to mind the t...

Woodcut print of fall trees done in heavy blacks with a deep blue background titled "Autumn" edition 10/100. Signed and titled by artist. Artist Biography: Eugene Larkin was born into a farming family of seven children in rural Minnesota in 1921. The landscape and rhythms of agricultural life were a strong early influence, as was the artistic example of his painter mother, Martha. Larkin attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with an M.A. in 1947. As a student of the art historian Lawrence Schmeckebier, an authority on the art of the Mexican muralists, he was soon introduced to the expressionism and political engagement of German and Mexican artists of the 1920s and 30s. An early cycle of prints and drawings on the life of labor activist Joe Hill...