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20th century drypoint etching figurative animal print black and white signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Boy With Cows" is an original drypoint etching by John Edward Costigan. It depicts a young boy with three cows standing in a watering hole. The artist si...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'Boeuf Ecorche' original signed lithograph, Rembrandt with slaughtered ox 1970s
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Boeuf Ecorche' is an original color lithograph, signed by Claude Weisbuch – and it is a quintessential example of the contemporary artist's interest in the old masters. In the image...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Discours D'oiseaux #3, etching of birds by Marjan Seyedin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
One of 9 humorous portraits of birds engaged in conversation by Franco-Iranian artist Marjan Seyedin. In her works, birds and animals provide an allegorical representation for mankin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
River Walk
By Rob Barnes
Located in Deddington, GB
River Walk by Rob Barnes [2021]
limited_edition
Linocut
Edition number 50
Image size: H:33 cm x W:44 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:49 cm x W:61 cm x D:0.2cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
About half a mile from where I live is a river walk, punctuated by a windmill used...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Harry Bunce, Law and Order, Limited edition animal print, Political Art
By Harry Bunce
Located in Deddington, GB
Law And Order by Harry Bunce [2021]
limited_edition
Original Print mounted on mountboard
Edition number 24
Image size: H:59 cm x W:73 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:59 cm x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Screen, Paper
19th century color lithograph horses figures dynamic landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Race for the American Derby (Belmont Stakes)" is an original hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives. It depicts three racehorses and their jockeys running in the Belmont Stakes. The caption for this lithograph says, "Spartan. Bramble. Duke of Magenta. Jerome Park, June 8th 1878. Mr. Geo. Lorillard's Duke of Magenta.....Hughes, 1....Messrs.Dwyer Bro's Bramble......Fisher, 2....Mr. P. Lorillard's Spartan.....Barrett, 3..... TIME 2:43 1/2."
12 7/8" x 16 7/8" art
21 7/8" x 25 7/8" frame
Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders...
Category
1870s Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Warthog, Drypoint Etching by Leonard Baskin, 1969
Located in Long Island City, NY
This drypoint etching was created by American artist Leonard Baskin. Baskin is well known for his somewhat grotesque, intricate, surreal drawings and natural subject matter. This etc...
Category
1970s Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
One Cat D
Located in Bozeman, MT
Born in 1937 in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder knew what he must do at an early age. As a high school student at Pierre, South Dakota, his teacher was Oscar Howe...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Monotype
Large Post Soviet Non Conformist Russian Israeli Volcano Lithograph Silkscreen
Located in Surfside, FL
Silkscreen Serigraph print hand signed, numbered.
Michail Grobman (Russian: Михаил Гробман, Hebrew: מיכאיל גרובמן, born 1939) is an artist and a poet working in Israel and Russia....
Category
20th Century Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
"Dream State" - 50x90 Black and White Photography Wild Horses Mustangs Unsigned
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a black and white photograph of American Wild Mustangs by Shane Russeck.
Printed on Archival Paper Using Archival ink
Shane Russeck has built a reputation for capturing Am...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Leap - Etching by Henry Alke - 1846
By Henry Alken
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and aquatint realized by Henry Alken in 1846. Plate from "The Analysis of the Hunting Field".
Very good condition.
Henry Alken (1765-1851) was en english painter and engrav...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Palm Springs Desert Museum (Still Life with Longhorn Skull and Cactus) Poster
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997)
Title: "Palm Springs Desert Museum (Still Life with Longhorn Skull and Cactus)"
Year: 1982
Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Francois-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) The Geese (in french : les oies), 2004
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Francois-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) The Geese (in french : les oies), 2004
This extremely rare print by François Xavier Lalanne depicts three geese. It is an edition of only 10 copi...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper
Cat with a Habit /// Contemporary Animal Smoking Humor Screenprint Black
By Dan May
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-)
Title: "Cat with a Habit"
*Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left
Year: 1995
Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded white wove paper
Lim...
Category
1990s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
60x40 "From the Fog" Black & White Photograph Wild Horses Mustangs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of a Wild Horses.
60x40
Printed on archival paper using archival inks.
Edition of 10
Signed and numbers by Shane
Framing Options Available
Shane...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Wonder Horses" 40x50 - Black & White Photography, Wild Horses Mustangs Western
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of American Wild Mustangs.
40x50 Edition of 10. Signed by Shane.
Printed on archival paper and using archival inks
Framing available. Inquire for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Panthera Leo" - 40x60 Black and White Lion Photography, Africa, Photograph, Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of an African Lion.
Printed on archival paper using archival inks.
40x60 Edition of 10. Signed by Shane.
Printed on archival paper and using arch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Leading Out a Hunter
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
James Seymour (1702-1752)
Leading Out a Hunter
Mezzotint by Thomas Burford
Image size 10 x 14 in
Framed size 13 x 17 in
James Seymour was an English artist renowned for his equestri...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Animal Paintings
Materials
Mezzotint
Mardi Gras Dog
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a blue dog Sitting on a background of three large horizontal stripes of purple, yellow, and green. The dog is wearing a black decorative eye mask and Mardi Gras beads around its neck. The dog has soulful yellow eyes. This pop art animal original silkscreen print is hand-signed by the artist.
Artist: George Rodrigue
Title: Blue Dog “Mardi Gras...
Category
1990s Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
"Finest Hope" original lithograph signed pop art abstract hyperrealism collage
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Finest Hope" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and wrote the edition number, 182/300, in the lower left with graphite...
Category
1980s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Ink
Robert Greenhalf, Shoverlers, Limited Edition Print, Bird Print, Wildlife Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Robert Greenhalf
Shoverlers
Limited Edition Print
Woodcut on Paper
Edition of 100
Paper Size: H 38.5cm x W 41 cm
Image Size: H 27.5cm x W 27.5cm
Sold ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Ann Burnham, Swallows over the Ley, Seascape Art, Handmade Contemporary Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Swallows over the Ley by Ann Burnham [2021]
Signed by the artist
linocut
Edition of 10
Image size: H:16cm cm x W:30cm cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
The Cormorant, Tim Southall, Handmade print, contemporary print for sale
By Tim Southall
Located in Deddington, GB
The Cormorant by Tim Southall
Limited Edition Silkscreen Print and hand signed by the artist
Silkscreen Print on Paper
Image Size: 40 cm x 60 cm
Sheet Si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
After Georges Braque - Antiborée - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph after Georges Braque.
Signed in the plate
Edition of 150
Dimensions: 76 x 117 cm
Bibliography:
« Les Métamorphoses de Braque» of Heger de Loewenfeld and Raphaël de Cuttoli , Editions FAC, Paris, 1989.
In 1961 Georges Braque decided with his laidary friend Heger de Loewenfeld to pick up certain of his works to in order to create artworks, this beautiful litograph is one of them.
Héméra in the Mythology:
In Greek mythology Hemera was the personification of day and one of the Greek primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebus and Nyx (the goddess of night). Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero's De Natura Deorum, where it is logically determined that Dies (Hemera) must be a god, if Uranus is a god. The poet Bacchylides states that Nyx and Chronos are the parents, but Hyginus in his preface to the Fabulae mentions Chaos as the mother/father and Nyx as her sister.
She was the female counterpart of her brother and consort, Aether (Light), but neither of them figured actively in myth or cult. Hyginus lists their children as Uranus, Gaia, and Thalassa (the primordial sea goddess), while Hesiod only lists Thalassa as their child.
The father of Cubism
Three Cubist that distinguishes art historian periods were initiated and developed by Georges Braque: The Cubist Cézanne (1907-1909), Executive (1909-1912) and synthetic (1912-1922).
Post-Impressionist and fawn, Braque no longer adheres to the contingency of a decorative way or the other. Cézanne’s paintings exhibited at the Grand Palais during the retrospective of 1907 are a revelation: Cézanne sought and invented a pictorial language. In his footsteps, Braque went to the South with the reasons of the Master. He returned with Estaque landscapes and surprising Ciotat it keeps Cezanne geometric model and retains the “passages” continuity from one surface to another to create the sensation of “turning around” of the object represented. But he wants to go after the consequences of the vision of Cezanne. In his paintings Houses in L’Estaque (1908) it simplifies the volumes of houses, neglects detail by removing doors and windows: the plastic rhythm that builds the table. Large Nude , a masterpiece of the period, can be considered the first work of Cézanne cubism .
Systematizing and deepening Braque discoveries open the door analytical cubism. In 1909, his painting became more cerebral than sensual. The pattern is recreated in the two-dimensionality of the canvas, leaving aside any illusionistic perspective. In Still Life with Violin, objects are analyzed facets according to their characteristic elements, each facet referring to a particular view of the object. There are so many facets of points selected view: Table reflects the knowledge of the object and the ubiquity of the eye. Moreover, Braque is looking for the essence of the objects in the world rather than their contingency, which explains the absence of light source and use of muted colors (gray, ocher), contingent aspects of the object . But formal logic has stepped facets, erased any anecdote to the object and ultimately led to his painting a hermetic more marked on the edge of abstraction (see the series of Castle Roche-Guyon ).
Braque, anxious to keep the concrete and refusing at all costs that the logic of Cubism takes the paintings to abstract, reintroduced signs of reality in his paintings in 1912 marks the beginning of Synthetic Cubism. Historians speak of “signs of real” rather than reality because what interests Braque, this is not to put reality into a table, but to create a painting which, by its language, refers to the real. To do this, he invented two major techniques XX th century inclusions and contributions. The inclusions consist of painting objects that have no real depth, materials (wallpaper in Nature morte aux playing cards faux wood is a pictorial inclusion) or letters (calligraphic inclusion in Portuguese ), made first brush and a few months later stencil. Contributions are defined in contrast with the collage on canvas of foreign materials: glued or sand paper, sawdust, etc.. Regarding the collages, Braque used for the first time in September 1912 a piece of adhesive paper imitating faux wood Compote...
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1950s Cubist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Digging for the Fox' & 'Death of a Fox'
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
James Seymour (1702-1752)
Digging for the Fox
Death of the Fox
A pair of Mezzotints
Image size 10 x 14 in
Framed size 12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in
James Seymour was an English artist renowned...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Animal Paintings
Materials
Mezzotint
Bison Photography, Photograph, Color, Fine Art 40x60 , Unsigned
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of an American Bison.
Unsigned print
Printed on archival paper and using archival inks
Framing available. Inquire for rates.
Shane Russeck has b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rob Barnes, Tree Shadows, Limited Edition Print, Affordable Art, Landscape Art
By Rob Barnes
Located in Deddington, GB
Rob Barnes
Tree Shadows
Limited Edition Linocut Print
Edition of 50
Image Size H 44cm x W 33cm
Sheet Size H 49cm x W 61cm
Sold Unframed mounted in Antique White mountboard
Free Shipp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Two Britany Spaniel Heads Leon Danchin etching signed
By Leon Danchin
Located in Paonia, CO
Two Britany Spaniel Heads by Leon Danchin is a hand signed limited edition etching published in France and is in very good condition. The paper is slightly wavey which can be fl...
Category
20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
17th century etching animal print sketch ram sheep tree black and white signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ram Eating Bark" is an original etching by Karel DuJardin. DuJardin completed many delicate etchings of rams.
3 3/4" x 7 3/4" art
16 3/8" x 19 1/8" f...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Seaweeds, German antique underwater botanical chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Algen I'
(Seaweeds)
German chromolithograph, circa 1895. Central vertical fold as issued.
240mm by 305mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sea Wolf 20x40 - Contemporary Black and White Photography, Wolves
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of a Costal Wolf.
Printed on archival paper using only archival ink.
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered
Framing available. Inquire ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tim Southall, A Walk on the Beach, Limited Edition Print, Coastal Print
By Tim Southall
Located in Deddington, GB
A Walk on the Beach By Tim Southall [2021]
Limited Edition
Silkscreen print
Edition of 50
Image size: H:40 cm x W:60 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:50 cm x W:7- cm x D:0.1cm
So...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen, Paper
Downtown Lion, Framed Pop Art Etching by Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Larry Rivers, American (1923 - 2002)
Title: Downtown Lion
Year: 1967
Medium: Etching on Wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 3/24
Image Size: 11.5 x 17.5 inches...
Category
1960s Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Moon Panther (blue and pink) Diptych
Located in Deddington, GB
Moon Panther (blue and pink) by Kate Willows [2021]
limited_edition
Ink on Paper
Edition number 50
Image size: H:30 cm x W:40 cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
This print shows a moonlit panther, inspired by a woodcut by the 18th century English artist Thomas Bewick...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Panthera Leo - 40x50 Black and White Photography, Lion Photograph Print Africa
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a black and white photograph of an African Lion by Shane Russeck.
Printed on Archival Paper Using Archival ink
40x50
Edition of 12
Singed by Shane
Shane Russeck has buil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
40x60 AMERICAN HORSE POWER B&W Photography Wild Horses Mustangs FORD BRONCO
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1STDIBS EXCLUSIVE
American Horse Power by Shane Russeck
"Icon is a brand I’ve admired and respected for years. They are the pinnacle of the custom car world. Being a huge vintage ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Once Upon a Time in the West - 48x120 Photography Wild Horse Mustang Fine Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of an American Wild horse.
Printed on n archival photo rag
48x120 Edition of 5. Signed and numbered by by Shane
Framing available. Inquire for rat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
4 Animals, ed. of 12
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Robert Birmelin became a professor of fine arts at Queens College in New York, and is known for paintings that magnify through texture the realism of natu...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Helen Fay, Brodie Standing, Limited Edition Print, Dog Art, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Brodie Standing by Helen Fay [08]
Limited Edition
Etching , hand printed on Hanemulle etching paper
Edition number edition size 75
Image size: H:30.5 cm x W:51 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:45 cm x W:64 cm x D:.15cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
This is a handmade and hand printed etching. An old friend of mine, Brodie the Scottish Terrier. He was a regular at the shows and a wonderful character.
Animals have always been at the heart of my work. I find the form, movement and behaviour of the creatures I draw a source of limitless fascination. I love the idea of them watching me, watching them as I draw. I hope my appreciation of the sentience and character of the animals I draw comes across in my work. Over my career I have drawn everything from primates to penguins, dogs, ostriches and even an echidna. These days dogs are my main focus, mostly because I adore dogs but also because they are such an integral part of life. I am delighted by the theory that humans and dogs co evolved, we wouldn’t be what we are without them and vice versa. I try to pare my images down to a balanced simplicity that directs attention to the subject of the picture. I try to balance the subject and the space it occupies, giving each equal importance. Light is hugely important to my work, I imagine my subject in three dimensions as I draw and the light describes the musculature and texture that gives the drawing it’s presence and grounds it in the picture. I aim to capture a pause, a moment where whatever I draw looks like it could wander off or leap up any minute. My influences include Japanese prints, Chinese and Japanese brush drawing and the European artists who were influenced by Japan. I am really excited by composition, by artists like Bonnard and Leon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Jaguar's Habitat, Brazilian Rainforest
By Paulo Behar
Located in New York City, NY
Paulo Behar
Available sizes:
27 x 41 inches - Edition of 9
40 x 60 inches - Edition of 7
47 x 71 inches - Edition of 5
Archival Pigment Print - Unframed
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Clare Halifax, G is for Giraffe, Limited Edition Art, Stamp Art, Animal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax
G is for Girafeei
Limited Edition 3colour screen print
Edition of 100
Sheet Size: H 38cm x W 37cm x 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Hand printed by the artist onto somerset satin p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Pop Shop IV (4)
By Keith Haring
Located in Miami, FL
Hand numbered, signed and dated on the recto in the lower right margin. Reference Littman, K, & Haring K. Keith Haring, Editions on Paper 1982-1990: The Complete Printed Works, Cantz...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
D is for Dog, Clare Halifax, Alphabet Art, Limited Edition Print, Animal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax
D is for Dog
Limited Edition 3 Colour Silkscreen Print
Edition of 100
Image Size: H 35cm x W 35cm
Sheet Size: H 37cm x W 38cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
(Please note that ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pointillist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Love Among the Ruins
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: George Rodrigue
Title: Love Among the Ruins
Medium: Silkscreen
Year: 1994
Edition: 6/15
Sheet Size: 22" x 34"
Frame Size: 29 3/4" x 41 3/4"
Signed: Hand signed and numbered i...
Category
1990s Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled Signed lithograph on Arches paper by world famous dog artist, unique TP
Located in New York, NY
ROY DE FOREST
Untitled, 1981
Lithograph on Arches paper with four deckled edges.
22 1/2 × 30 inches
Hand signed and annotated Trial Proof, aside from the regular edition of 60
Unfra...
Category
1980s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil, Graphite, Lithograph
LION PORTRAIT Signed Lithograph, African Lion Heads, Modern Wildlife Art
Located in Union City, NJ
LION PORTRAIT by the British wildlife artist Sydney Taylor, is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed using hand lithogr...
Category
1980s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Pups in the Pit' — American Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Wind McKim, 'Pups in the Pit', lithograph, 1967, edition c. 50. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/8 to...
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
19th century color lithograph birds landscape nature grass sky water figure
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Shooting on the Prairie" is an original hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives. It depicts a hunter shooting at fowl in an open field.
8 1/2" x 12 1/2" art
20 1/4" x 23 3/4" frame
Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton.
A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America.
Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper.
In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business.
The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’
Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier.
Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published.
The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years.
In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death.
The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day.
Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives.
In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss.
Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife.
Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends.
Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production.
Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes.
Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier).
Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907.
Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey.
In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
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1870s Other Art Style Animal Prints
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Lithograph
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Limited edition of 185
Condition: Excellent condition
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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Materials
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints
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17th Century Old Masters Animal Prints
Materials
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Category
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Materials
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Category
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Materials
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Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints
Materials
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1980s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
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