Academic Animal Prints
ACADEMIC STYLE
During the Renaissance, the first European fine art academies were established in Italy and would guide the style and standards of visual culture in the following centuries. Academic art became dominant across the continent in the 17th century, with artists coming together to offer instruction in this style of painting and sculpture.
The academic art period represented a significant change from the previous era when painters, sculptors and other artists were part of guilds and seen more as artisans than purveyors of culture. While patronage from the elite and the church remained pivotal, young artists were able to support themselves for the first time through academic exhibitions and an independent marketplace. The leading academies included the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in Paris in 1648 (which became the Académie des Beaux-Arts after the French Revolution) and the London Royal Academy of Arts formed in 1768 under the inaugural leadership of painter Joshua Reynolds.
Academy students sketched drawings based on prints, sculptures and, finally, live models. Movements including neoclassicism and romanticism were particularly popular in these art schools and institutions where the influence of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin was prominent. Beaux Arts architecture and furniture design drew on these movements, too, and, as they also originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the disciplines share common ground with academic painting and sculpture.
Although academic art was a major shift for artistic status when it began, by the middle of the 19th century it was viewed as stodgy and resistant to new ideas, with the subject matter of artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme generally limited to allegorical or mythological themes. Impressionism, realism and the other movements that engaged with contemporary issues that followed were direct reactions to the academic tradition, although it continued to inform the avant-garde as artists like Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso started their practices as academic realists.
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Style: Academic
Swans Woodblock by Hans Neumann, 1913
By Hans Neumann
Located in New York, NY
Hans Neumann (German, 1873 - 1957)
Schwäne (Swans), 1913
Woodblock
Sight: 17 x 11 in.
Framed: 25 3/4 x 19 in.
Signed & inscribed bottom, artist monogram lower left
This outstanding ...
Category
1910s Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Three Gould Hand-colored Lithographs from Birds of Australia and New Zealand
By John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
Three hand-colored lithographs from John Gould's seven volume book "The Birds of Australia", which included New Zealand, depicting: pairs of "Eudyptes Chrysocome" (New Zealand Rock-hopper Crested Penguins), "Diomedea O Thalassarche Cauta" (Australian Shy Albatross) and "Sula Fusca" (Brown Gannets).
These beautiful sea bird prints are presented in identical very attractive brown wood frames, embellished with gold highlights in the corners and gold inner trim, along with light cream-colored French mats, each with a medium cream-colored band and a gold highlight line. There is scattered spotting. There is a small tear in the lower right corner of the penguin lithograph...
Category
1840s Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original 1925 Zeppelin "Bayerische Zeppelin Eckene-Spende" vintage air travel
Located in Spokane, WA
Original German poster: Bayerische Zeppelin-Eckener Spende. 1925. (Bavarian Zeppelin-Eckener donation). Printer: M. Grunst, München. Condition: Grade A. Archival linen-back...
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1920s Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
“Yellow Crested Parrot”
Located in Southampton, NY
Hand colored copper plate engraving from “The History of Birds. Plate 117 published in 1776.. “Yellow Created Parrot” Dedicated to Daniele Farsetti, a well known art collector Veni...
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Late 18th Century Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
$850 Sale Price
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Bird and Beetle - Etching and watercolor (Natural History of Birds, 1741)
Located in Paris, IDF
George EDWARDS
Bird and beetle ('The Gowry Bird')
Original engraving, enhanced with watercolor
Printed signature in the plate
Dated, 1741
28.8 x 23.3 cm
Created for Volume I of the...
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1740s Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Birds Composition - "Svenska Faglar" - unique ornithology prints - set of 10
By Magnus von Wright
Located in Winterswijk, NL
*THE ARTWORKS WILL BE SOLD: UNFRAMED, WITH PASSE-PARTOUT*
Beautiful serie of artworks: Swedish Birds by Magnus von Wright
Very detailed ornithological prints.
Topic: Animals
Image ...
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19th Century Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Paper
Traveling animals - Original etching enhanced with watercolor
Located in Paris, IDF
George EDWARDS
Traveling animals
Original engraving enhanced with watercolor
Signed in the plate and dated, 1746
28.6 x 23.5 cm
From Volume II of the Natural History of Birds, plat...
Category
1740s Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Dodo, Abstract Signed Screenprint with Gold Leaf by Lebadang (aka Hoi)
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015)
Title: Untitled - Dodo
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Size: 31 x 31 in. (78.74 x 78.74 cm)
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1970s Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
19th century color lithograph hares animal nature print wildlife
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Townsend's Rocky Mountain Hare" is an original color lithograph by John James Audubon. This artwork features two gray hares in a muted, cool-colored landscape.
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Mid-19th Century Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Two Horses and Flowers Gold Screenprint by Lebadang
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015)
Title: Untitled - Two Horses and Flowers
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Size: 31 x 47 in. (78.74 x 119.38 cm)
Category
1970s Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
19th century color lithograph beetles nature forest tree leaves animal signed
By Louis Prang
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Stag Beetle & Longicorn Beetle" is an original color lithograph by Louis Prang. It depicts two forest-dwelling beetles. The artist signed the piece in the stone lower left. It was published by Selmar Hess in New York.
8" x 5" art
19 3/8" x 16" framed
Louis Prang (March 12, 1824 – September 14, 1909) was an American printer, lithographer, publisher, and Georgist. He is sometimes known as the "father of the American Christmas card".
Prang's early activities in the US publishing architectural books and making leather goods were not very successful, and he began to make wood engravings for illustrations in books. In 1851 he worked for Frank Leslie, art director for Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, and later with John Andrew. In 1851, he married Rosa Gerber, a Swiss woman he had met in Paris in 1846.
In 1856, Prang and a partner created a firm, Prang and Mayer, to produce lithographs. The company specialized in prints of buildings...
Category
1880s Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Duke of Wellington
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Duke of Wellington by Vladislav Khristenko
Size of the image - 25 x 15 cm
Size of the list - 34 x 22.5 cm
Size in frame - 42 x 32 cm
Etching and aquatint on paper
#15 from edition ...
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2010s Academic Animal Prints
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Paper, Etching, Aquatint
19th century color lithograph scientific bird animal print hawk tree leaves egg
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sparrow Hawk" is an original color lithograph by an unknown American artist. It depicts a bird perching on the limb of a tree, its young poking out of th...
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1890s Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Academic animal prints for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Academic animal prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including John James Audubon, George Edwards, Hoi Lebadang, and George Cruikshank. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Engraving and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Academic animal prints, so small editions measuring 4.93 inches across are also available. Prices for animal prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $50 and tops out at $4,200, while the average work sells for $60.
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