Jacques Hnizdovsky

Andy from the Bronx Zoo

1965

Meshberg was a master of metaphysical landscape/city scape painting. He deeply admired metaphysical still life paintings by Giorgio Morandi and ha...

This rare to come across woodcut from 1965 is from an edition of 250, individual number 202. In original frame. It was formerly in the collection of The Greenwich Library, Greenwich,...

Mykola Zhuravel came to New York in 2005 and worked in a studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for 6 months. This painting was created during this time. The artist had an idea to depict Jes...

This is a very representative work for an authentic style of Yuriy Khymych - winter scene in an old Ukrainian town with an Orthodox Church in the background. Bright yellow and earthl...

Volodymyr Makarenko has created numerous compositions on the subject of Annunciation. This particular work is inspired by Ukrainian icon yet has all com...

Masterfully executed still life with brush strokes inspired by old masters. Yet Belik is trying to achieve a metaphysical feeling for his compositions by quietly placing objects in a...

Eli Jacobi: 1898-1984. Very important artist who was born in Kharkov Ukraine. His art studies began at the Bezalel Art Institute in Palestine. He was impris...

Dan Burne Jones is widely know as the author of the Rockwell Kent print catalogue raisonne. It's so interesting to see that he is a gifted wood engraver as well. Jones's own prints a...

Heres a rooster with attitude! He's checkin you out! Be carefull. Printed on off white rice paper. Make My Day - Animal Painting - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman Limited Edition 0...

"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. 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...

"White Horse" is an original wood engraving by Howard Thomas, signed in the lower right hand corner. A white horse trots past the foreground of the image, spirals in it's eyes and sp...

In 'The Rabbit,' Wisconsin artist Clarice George Logan presents the viewer with a multi-figural scene: under a wood-frame structure, four children crouch on the ground, gathered around a young woman who presents a rabbit. Under normal circumstances, such an image of children with a bunny would recall childhood storybooks. In this case, however, the image is more ambiguous and suggests the unfortunate economic circumstances many children suffered during the interwar years. Nonetheless, the group could also be interpreted as a nativity play, with the rabbit taking the place of the Christ child, shining light on the children like in a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Correggio. The careful line-work of the woodblock engraving adds a sense of expressionism to the scene, leaving the figures looking distraught and dirty, though the image nonetheless falls into the Social Realist category that dominated American artists during the Great Depression. This print was published in 1936 as part of the Wisconsin Artists' Calendar for the year 1937, which included 52 original, hand-made prints - one for each week of the year. Clarice George Logan was born in Mayville, New York in 1909 but moved to Wisconsin in 1921. She attended the Milwaukee State Teachers College from 1927 to 1931 where she studied with Robert von...