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HUNTER HAULING A SEAL - IMPORTANT INUIT PRINT -
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PARR (1893-1969) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET)
HUNTER HAULING A SEAL, 1966 #2,
Stonecut, signed, titled numbered 28/50 Dorset 1966. Image 14 x 22 ¼. Full sheet ...
Category
Other Art Style 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Stone
$2,800 Sale Price
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Dressed Lobster by Patrick Caulfield red British pop art still life
Located in New York, NY
Patrick Caulfield's cheeky, Pop Art take on a seaside favorite, dressed lobster, abstracted in graphic black strokes atop a field of red decorated with tiny sprigs. Signed by the art...
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Pop Art 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
"Schnitzel Please!, " Dresden Germany 1999 (dog photograph)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
"Schnitzel Please!"
This timeless, charming photo of a town favorite Dresden Dog, was captured by New York based photographer Fernando Natalici in Germany...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Inkjet
$340 Sale Price
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Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder
"Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist
Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's)
these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph.
James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor”
Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro.
These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great.
Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War.
Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work.
In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending.
Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles.
Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968).
In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale.
One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas."
Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Roll your own, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Roll your own, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 20 x 22 inches, Size: ...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leda and the Swan
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a monumental original etching by French artist Albert Decaris. Decaris won many honors in France during his extensive career.
"Leda and the Swan", depicts the mythologi...
Category
20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Heading out to Pasture, woodblock print by Penelope Ellis
Located in London, GB
Penelope Ellis (1935-2016)
Heading out to Pasture
Woodblock print
11 x 16 cm
Provenance: From the artist's estate sale.
Penelope Mary Ellis (1935–2016) was a British artist celeb...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Three Deer, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Three Deer
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 30
Image Size: 24 x 32 inches
Size: 26 in. ...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Devil Cat
By Karel Appel
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Karel Appel
Title: Devil Cat
Portfolio: 1978 Cats
Medium: Lithograph in colors on Japon paper
Date: 1978
Edition: XV/LXV
Sheet Size: 24 3/4" x 32 1/4"
Signature: Hand signed ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
20th century color lithograph poster cartoon Snoopy animal print dog bird text
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Snoopy Come Home" is an original lithograph poster by Charles Schulz. It features the popular characters from Peanuts, Snoopy and Woodstock, on top of ...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Vitraux : Pink Elephant - Original Lithograph Handsigned (Field #76-2F)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI
The Vitraux : Elephant-stork, 1973
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered edition of 250 copies
On Arches vellum, 65 x 48 cm (c. 25.6 x 18.9 inch)
Refer...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bee (Edition 87/100)
Located in New York, NY
Unknown/ Unidentified Artist, "Bee" Edition 87/100, Abstract Animal Lithograph numbered and signed in Pencil, 14 x 10.25, Late 20th Century
Colors: Green, Orange, Purple, Blue
Category
Abstract 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Butterflies, English antique natural history Lepidoptera chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
We Shall Not Talk of War, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - We Shall Not Talk of War, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 19 x 25 inc...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Elephant and Rhinoceros - Original handsigned lithograph - 1966
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexander CALDER
Elephant and Rhinoceros, 1966
Lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
On Arches Vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in)
Excellent condition, light text report on the lithograph
...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Complicite 1980 Signed Lithograph with Screen Printing
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Guillaume Corneille
Complicite 1980
Print, Signed Lithograph on wove paper
25½ x 19½ " inches
Signed in pencil and dated
Cat added by artist
As a co-founder of the famed experimen...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Horse head Leon Danchin original limited edition etching signed
By Leon Danchin
Located in Paonia, CO
Horse Head by Leon Danchin... 1887-1938... is a handsome portrait of a thoroughbred turning his head to look behind him. Born in Lille, France Danchin began his career as an artist a...
Category
20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Judy Chicago poster (Hand signed and inscribed) feminist art
By Judy Chicago
Located in New York, NY
Accidents, Injuries and other Calamities poster
Judy Chicago (Hand signed and inscribed), 1988
Offset lithograph on thin board (signed and inscribed by Judy Chicago)
26 × 20 1/4 inch...
Category
Feminist 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Pencil
"Carousel" Blue Abstract Horse Serigraph
By Barbara Maples
Located in Houston, TX
Blue toned serigraph of a carousel with horses. The work is signed and numbered by the artist. It is not framed but comes with a white matte.
Artist Biography:
Barbara Maples...
Category
Modern 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso - Jeu de la Cape - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph by Picasso
Atelier Mourlot.
Paper: Vélin.
Dimensions : 9 5/8 x 12 7/16 inches
Reference: Bloch 1015
Picasso is not just a man and his work. Picasso is always a legend, ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Metropole Messageries Maritimes Union Francaise vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original antique French lithograph travel poster: Metropole Messageries Maritimes Union Francaise. Artist: Poulain. This unicorn-s...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Hawaii, United Air Lines vintage travel poster Hawaiiana
Located in Spokane, WA
Original United Air Lines Hawaii vintage travel poster. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. The images shown are of the ...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
Keith Haring Luna Luna 1986
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Luna Luna Karussell. A Poetic Extravaganza!, 1986 (Keith haring Luna Luna):
Luna Luna "was organized by Andre Heller for “A Fair with Mod...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset, Paper
PARROTS AND FLOWERS Signed Lithograph, Flowers Blue Vase Tropical Parrots, Plums
By Walasse Ting
Located in Union City, NJ
PARROTS AND FLOWERS is an original hand drawn lithograph by the renowned Chinese born artist Walasse Ting (DING XIONGQUAN, Chinese, 1929-2010) printed on archival Somerset printmakin...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original 1942 Plaza de Toledo vintage bullfighting poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original linen-backed “Plaza de Toros de Toledo" bullfighting poster for 20 August 1942. Grandiosa Corrida de Toros. Six bulls from the famou...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Blue Dog "Dancing with the Crawfish"
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a Blue Dog sitting to the left of a saxophone-playing chef. The chef is wearing a white apron, chef hat, and a brown shirt and trousers. The chef is ...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Seated Monkey - Print by Leo Guida - 1975
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Seated Monkey is an original etching print realized by Leo Guida in 1975.
Artist's proof.
Good condition.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movements...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
$201 Sale Price
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Blue Dog "City Slicker White" Print Signed Numbered Artwork
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of 1 dog with a white background. Up close you can see a major city displayed in the body of the dog. The dog has soulful yellow eyes. This pop art origi...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
"White Calf, " Farm Genre Scene Original Lithograph by Thomas Hart Benton
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"White Calf" is an original lithograph print by Thomas Hart benton. It features the image of a man milking a cow while her calf lays down in front. Benton's breathtaking way of rende...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Salon du Cheval Place de la Bastille French Horse Racing affiche
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1972 Salon du Cheval French Poster – Vintage Equestrian Art. Archival linen backed in Grade A condition, ready to frame
Step into the golden age of French equestrian culture...
Category
85 New Wave 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
WITH MY BIRD Signed Lithograph, Figurative Abstract, Dutch Expressionist artist
By Karel Appel
Located in Union City, NJ
WITH MY BIRD is a rarely seen original limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel printed using hand lithography techniques on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid f...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,080 Sale Price
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Lobster (Edition 20/100)
Located in New York, NY
Unknown/ Unidentified Artist, "Lobster" Edition 20/100, Abstract Animal Lithograph numbered and signed in Pencil, 16 x 22, Late 20th Century
Colors: Red, Orange, Green, Yellow
Category
Abstract 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fox hunting print by Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
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Category
20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Monkey - Lithograph by Alberto Mastroianni - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Monkey is an original artwork realized by Alberto Mastroianni in 1970 ca.
Lithograph.
Hand Signed.
Edition of 150 pieces.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Bust of a Woman Wearing a Striped Hat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a reproduction of Bust of a Woman Wearing a Striped Hat was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1939. This work is from his Surrealist period, during which he explored distorted form...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
Cat - Original Lithograph by Giselle Halff - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is an Original Lithograph realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971).
Good conditions.
Hand-Signed.
Numbered. Edition, 2/15.
Giselle Halff (1899-1971) born in Hanoi, student of R....
Category
Modern 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Keith Haring Stedelijk Museum 1986 (Keith Haring Stedelijk Museum poster 1986)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Stedelijk Museum 1986:
Rare original, silkscreened Keith Haring Stedelijk Museum exhibition poster, 1986. Designed & illustr...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Screen, Paper
Original 1918 "Join the Army Air Service, Be An American Eagle!" vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original U. S military World War 1 poster: Join the ARMY AIR SERVICE Be an American Eagle! Consult your local draft board. Read the illustrated booklet at any recruiting office, or write to the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, Washington D. D.
Linen backed in very good condition; ready to frame. Professionally restore fold marks that are inconspicuous.
Artist: Charles Livingston Bull
Extremely rare original World War 1 poster. When you research all the major museums that have a copy of this poster, it is usually in bad shape with missing paper. This original c. 1917 has no missing paper and is bright and vibrant. It should be in the finest condition original available.
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The United States Army Air Service was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1918 and 1926 1. It was established as an independent but temporary branch of the U.S. War Department during World War I by two executive orders of President Woodrow Wilson: on May 24, 1918, replacing the Aviation Section, Signal Corps as the nation’s Air Force, and March 19, 1919, establishing a military Director of Air Service to control all aviation activities. Its life was extended for another year in July 1919, during which time Congress passed the legislation necessary to make it a permanent establishment. The National Defense Act of 1920 assigned the Air Service the status of “combatant arm of the line” of the United States Army with a major general in command.
Charles Livingston Bull (1874-1932) was an American illustrator known for his illustrations of wildlife. Bull studied taxidermy in Rochester, New York, and his first job at the age of 16 was preparing animals for mounting at the Ward’s Museum in Rochester, New York. During World War I, he designed recruiting posters, including the famous Join the Army Air Service poster...
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American Modern 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Blue Dog "I Wanna Be a Texas Ranger" Signed Numbered Print
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a blue dog in the middle of a red, white, and blue background. The dog is wearing a yellow neckerchief and a large black western hat with gold trim on ...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Romare Bearden, Dreams of Exile (Green Snake), 1971, by African-American, signed
Located in New York, NY
A North Carolina native, the African-American Romare Bearden spent most of his career in New York City. For several decades he was a social worker in Harlem. But of course he traveled widely, read and studied with great care, and created a phenomenal body of work.
This 1971 lithograph is a good example of his oeuvre -- far reaching though it may be. It speaks to his skill and knowledge of contemporary printmaking while featuring a complex subject representative of his interests.
A lush jungles is packed with flora and fauna. 'Green Snake' is part of the title and there is a particularly winsome reptile showing up so well on the sand-colored border between the dense forest and the aquamarine water. There are of course many other land and sea animals showing themselves -- even a curious ginger cat...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
ONCE I WAS THE SUN Signed Lithograph, Abstract Face, Hot Pink Blue Yellow Red
By Karel Appel
Located in Union City, NJ
ONCE I WAS THE SUN is a limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel printed using hand lithography techniques on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free. ONCE I WAS...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Three Cocker Spaniels original signed etching by Leon Danchin
By Leon Danchin
Located in Paonia, CO
Three Cocker Spaniels is an original color etching by well known French sports artist Leon Danchin. The three Spaniels are in waiting mode with two lying down and one sitting ...
Category
Realist 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Large Classical Bird Color Print after John James Audubon - Mallard Duck
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Classical Bird print,
after John James Audubon,
printed by Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York
unframed, 17 x 14 inches color print on paper
condition: very good
provenance: from...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Color
$129 Sale Price
30% Off
Haystack
Located in London, GB
A fine impression of this very popular image with full margins (smaller on top and bottom) published by Associated American Artists.
Category
American Modern 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Equestrian Scene No. 5.
Located in New York, NY
Original pochoir process print. Paris, Galerie Lutetia, circa 1920.
Category
20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper
Three Birds Flying - Original Lithograph (Mourlot #82)
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges BRAQUE (1882-1963)
Composition with Birds, 1965
Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop)
Signed in the plate
On vellum 30 x 24 cm (c. 11.8 x 9.4 in)
REFERENCES :
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Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ettore Tito (1859-1941) - On a Souvent Besoin.... Art Deco Pochoir Print
By Ettore Tito
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Art Deco original pochoir print.
Please find the dimensions of the artwork:
20 x 15 cm - Dimensions of the image
26 x 20 cm - Dimensions of the paper
28 x 22,5 cm - Framed dimensi...
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Art Deco 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Paper
"Magic Circus" framed lithograph by Michel Delacroix hand signed and numbered
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Magic Circus" lithograph by Michel Delacroix. Hand-signed MIchel Delacroix. Hand-numbered XX/C. Depicts a circus, complete with elephant and horses, traveling through a French city...
Category
Other Art Style 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Frogs and Toad, Signed lithograph (AP), from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness
By Jack Beal
Located in New York, NY
Jack Beal
Frogs and Toad, 1971
Hand signed in pencil by Jack Beal, annotated AP
One-color lithograph proofed by hand and pulled by machine from a zinc plate on Arches buff paper with deckled edges at the Shorewood Bank Street Atelier
Stamped, hand numbered AP, aside from the regular edition of 150 Stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY JACK BEAL, bears blind stamp
18 × 24 inches
Unframed
18 x 24 inches
Stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY JACK BEAL, bears distinctive blind stamp of publisher (shown) Publisher: David Godine, Center for Constitutional Rights, Washington, D.C.
Jack Beal's "Frogs and Toads" is a classic example of protest art from the early 1970s - the most influential era until today. This historic graphic was created for the legendary portfolio "CONSPIRACY: the Artist as Witness", to raise money for the legal defense of the Chicago 8 - a group of anti-Vietnam War activists indicted by President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell for conspiring to riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (1968 was also the year Bobby Kennedy was killed and American casualties in Vietnam exceeded 30,000.) The eight demonstrators included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. (The eighth activist, Bobby Seale, was severed from the case and sentenced to four years for contempt after being handcuffed, shackled to a chair and gagged.) Although Abbie Hoffman would later joke that these radicals couldn't even agree on lunch, the jury convicted them of conspiracy, with one juror proclaiming the demonstrators "should have been shot down by the police." All of the convictions were ultimately overturned by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
This lithograph has fine provenance: it comes directly from the original Portfolio: "Conspiracy The Artist as Witness" which also featured works by Alexander Calder, Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Romare Bearden Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Poons, Peter Saul, Raphael Soyer and Frank Stella - as well as this one by Jack Beal. It was originally housed in an elegant cloth case, accompanied by a colophon page. This is the first time since 1971 that this important work has been removed from the original portfolio case for sale. It is becoming increasingly scarce because so many from this edition are in the permanent collections of major museums and institutions worldwide.
Jack Beal wrote a special message about this work on the Portfolio's colophon page. It says, "In 1956, shortly after Sondra and I moved to New York, two friends were arrested and jailed for protesting air-raid drills. From them and their friends came our education. This work is dedicated to them and their families. "In Memory of Patricia McClure Daw and AL Uhrie" - This print was made for their children.
Jack Beal Biography:
Early in his career Walter Henry “Jack” Beal Jr. painted abstract expressionist canvases, because he believed it was “the only valid way to paint.” By the early 1960s he totally altered his approach and fully repudiated abstraction. Turning to representation, he painted narrative and figurative subjects, often enhanced by bright colors and dramatic perspectives.
Beal was born in Richmond, Virginia, and from 1950 to 1953 he attended the Norfolk Division of William and Mary College Polytechnic Institute, (now Old Dominion University) where he studied biology and anatomy. Shifting gears, he sought art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he focused on drawing, and met his wife, artist Sondra Freckelton. His art history instructor encouraged her students to paint in the manner of established artists, and to that end he frequented the Institute’s galleries. For Beal this was significant: “Until I saw pictures of real quality I had tended to think of painting as just so much self-indulgent smearing around, but when I saw masterpieces by Cézanne and Matisse, and other painters of similar stature, I was bowled over; suddenly I realized the force of art.”
After spending three years (1953–1956) at the Art Institute, Beal concluded his studies there without getting a terminal degree, thinking it was only useful if he wanted to teach, which, at the time, he did not. He also took courses at the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. During this period he married Freckelton, a fellow student and sculptor who began her career working in wood and plastic. Together they moved to New York’s SoHo District before its transformation from a wasteland of sweatshops and small factories into an arts district. They were active with the Artist Tenants Association which was instrumental in getting zoning laws changed so that artists could live and work in the well-lit lofts.
Embracing what came to be called “New Realism,” Beal initially painted an occasional landscape as well as earthy-toned still lifes which consisted of jumbled collections filled with personal objects. His signature style started with a series of female nudes—all modeled by Freckelton—based on Greek mythology. These were large canvases with flat paint surfaces, dramatic foreshortening, and unusual perspectives. He further enlivened them with vivid colors, stark lighting, and dynamic patterns derived from textiles and overstuffed furniture. He stopped painting nudes after two episodes. The first came as he was loading a canvas of his naked wife onto a truck in lower Manhattan; several laborers walked by and started to fondle and kiss the painting. On the one hand he felt his wife had been violated, while on the other he was pleased that his realism was so convincing. The second occurred after a solo exhibition in Chicago at which the reception had been sponsored by Playboy magazine. A few days later he was approached by a publicist and asked if Playboy bunnies could be photographed in front of his paintings. He refused.
Some portrait commissions came Beal’s way, but he preferred only portraying friends. More significant were four large murals on the History of Labor in America, the 20th Century: Technology (1975), which he undertook for the headquarters of the United States Department of Labor in Washington. Following a historical timeline, the themes were: colonization, settlement, nineteenth century industry, and twentieth century technology. The unveiling ceremony was attended by government officials and Joan Mondale, an arts advocate and wife of the vice-president. The reviewer for the Washington Post wrote enthusiastically: “They’re heartfelt and they’re big (each is 12 feet square). Their many costumed actors (the Indian, the trapper, the scientist, the hardhat, the capitalist in striped pants, the union maid, etc.) strike dramatic poses in dramatic settings (a seaside wood at dawn, an outdoor blacksmith’s forge, a 19th-century mill, a 20th-century lab). The lighting is theatrical. Beal’s compositions, with their swooping curves and bunched diagonals, are as complicated as his interwoven plots.” To accomplish the murals Beal assembled a team of assistants and models, much in the manner of Renaissance masters, which included artist friends and Freckelton. who by then was painting brightly colorful still lifes.
A second mural commission ensued from New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority for two twenty-foot long installations for the Times Square Interborough Rapid Transit Company subway station. Beal’s designs for The Return of Spring (installed in 2001, three days after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, DC and Philadelphia) and The Onset of Winter (installed in 2005), Beal captured the appearance of his models in an oil painting made to the scale of the intended mosaic. A collaboration with Miotto Mosaics, the canvases were shipped to the Travisanutto Workshop, in Spilimbergo, Italy, where craftsmen fabricated the design to glass mosaics. The Return of Spring depicted construction workers and other New Yorkers in front of a subway kiosk and an outdoor produce market and in The Onset of Winter, a crowd watches a film crew recording a woman entering the subway as snow falls against the city’s skyline. Harkening back to some of his early nudes based on Greek myth, Persephone, goddess of fertility and wife of Hades, appears in both. The symbolism is pertinent, since she spent six months each year below ground.
Although he disparaged teaching early on, Beal and Freckelton offered four summertime workshops on their farm in Oneonta, New York. He was an instructor at the New York Academy of Art, a graduate art school he helped to establish in 1982. Returning to Virginia, he taught at Hollins College...
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Realist 20th Century Animal Prints
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Lithograph
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Contemporary 20th Century Animal Prints
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Art: 17" x 23 1/4"
Frame: 27 5/8" x 33 7/8"
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Signed lower right.
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20th Century Animal Prints
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Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
Titled and sig...
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Contemporary 20th Century Animal Prints
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Canvas, Oil
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Robert Rahway Zakanitch (American b. 1935),
Les Delices de Fragonard
1988
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Post-Minimalist 20th Century Animal Prints
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By Walasse Ting
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
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Pop Art 20th Century Animal Prints
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Realist 20th Century Animal Prints
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Lithograph
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Ashcan School 20th Century Animal Prints
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Located in Zurich, CH
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Post-Modern 20th Century Animal Prints
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Paper
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Located in Melbourne, Victoria
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Art Nouveau 20th Century Animal Prints
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“Parrot III”-Galerie Michael, Century City/Los Angeles
Located in Clinton Township, MI
BRIAN DAVIS (American, b.1946)
Galerie Michael, Century City/Los Angeles, December 1, 1981- January 1, 1982: “Parrot III”, 1980
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33.125 x 22 in...
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20th Century Animal Prints
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Walasse Ting Grasshoppers 1981 Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper
By Walasse Ting
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Walasse Ting
Grasshoppers - 1981
Print - Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper 22'' x 30''
Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 170/200
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Pop Art 20th Century Animal Prints
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Lithograph