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MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Le Zorille - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Zorille is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". The Artist's signature is engraved lower right. Good cond...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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La Marmose - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
La Marmose is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliè...
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La Marmose - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
La Marmose is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". The Artist's signature is engraved lower right. Good cond...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Lions ( Turner 194)
Located in New York, NY
Julian Trevelyan Lions ( Turner 194), 1966-1967 Color etching and aquatint on T.H. Saunders paper Pencil signed and numbered 28 from the limited edition of 125 Frame Included: held i...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Original "Fly to South America" Pan American - Panagra vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Fly to South America Pan American – Panagra vintage travel poster. Linen backed in excellent condition. Artists were both Jean Carlu and Fred Dubois. 1952 full lithogr...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Nebraska Evening
Located in London, GB
A fine impression with good margins published by Associated American Artists.
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1940s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Jean Cocteau - The Elegant Toreador - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: The Elegant Toreador 1961 Dimensions: 28 x 38 cm Lithograph made for the portfolio "Gitans et Corridas" published by Société de D...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Corralled Horse (Artists Proof), 1940s Framed American Modernist Horse Etching
Located in Denver, CO
"Corralled Horse", is an etching on paper by western artist Ethel Magafan (1916-1993) of a single dark horse standing outside in a wooden fenced corral. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 19 x 23 inches. Image size is 10 x 14 inches. This is marked as an Artist Proof Piece is in very good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Provenance: Estate of Artist, Ethel Magafan Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Ethel Magafan Born 1916 Died 1993 The daughter of a Greek immigrant father and a Polish immigrant mother who met and married in Chicago, Ethel Magafan, her identical twin sister Jenne and their elder sister Sophie grew up in Colorado to which their father relocated the family in 1919. They initially lived in Colorado Springs where he worked as a waiter at the Antlers Hotel before moving to Denver in 1930 to be head waiter at the Albany Hotel. Two years later during the Great Depression Ethel and Jenne experienced at sixteen the tragic loss of their father who had encouraged their artistic aspirations. He was proud when Ethel, a student at Morey Junior High School, won top prizes in student poster contests sponsored by the Denver Chamber of Commerce and the Denver Post. At East High School in Denver she and Jenne contributed their art talents to the school’s and by their senior year were co-art editors of the Angelus, the 1933 yearbook. At East they studied art with Helen Perry, herself a student of André Lhote in Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago. Her decision to abandon an arts career to teach high school students served as an important example to Ethel and Jenne, who early on had decided to become artists. In a city-wide Denver competition for high school art students Ethel won an eighteenweek art course in 1932-33 to study at the Kirkland School of Art which artist Vance Kirkland had recently established in the Mile High City. Perry encouraged the Magafan twins’ talent, exposing them to the work of Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne and introducing them to local artists and architects like Frank Mechau and Jacques Benedict whom she invited to speak in her high school art classes. She paid the modest tuition for Ethel and Jenne to study composition, color, mural designing and painting at Mechau’s School of Art in downtown Denver in 1933-34. In the summer of 1934 and for a time in 1936 they apprenticed with him at his studio in Redstone, Colorado. When they returned to Denver in 1934 with no family breadwinner to support them, their mother insisted that they have real jobs so they worked as fashion artists in a Denver department store. When Jenne won the Carter Memorial Art Scholarship ($90.00) two years later, she shared it with Ethel so that both of them could enroll in the Broadmoor Art Academy (now the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) where they studied with Mechau. When the scholarship money ran out after two months, he hired them as his assistants. Along with Edward (Eduardo) Chavez and Polly Duncan, they helped him with his federal government mural commissions. At the Fine Arts Center Ethel also studied with Boardman Robinson and Peppino Mangravite, who hired her and Jenne in 1939 to assist him in his New York studio with two murals commissioned for the post office in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Like their Denver high school art teacher, Robinson also stressed the need to draw from nature in order to "feel" the mountains, which later become the dominant subject matter of Ethel’s mature work after World War II. Mechau trained her and her sister in the complex process of mural painting while they studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, teaching them the compositional techniques of the European Renaissance masters. This also involved library research for historical accuracy, small scale drawing, and Page 2 of 4 the hand-making of paints and other supplies. Ethel recalled that their teacher "was a lovely man but he was a hard worker. He drove us. There was no fooling around." Her apprenticeship with Mechau prepared her to win four national government competitions, beginning at age twenty-two, for large murals in U.S. post offices: Threshing – Auburn, Nebraska (1938), Cotton Pickers – Wynne, Arkansas (1940), Prairie Fire – Madill, Oklahoma (1940), and The Horse Corral – South Denver, Colorado (1942). In preparation for their commissions Ethel and her sister made trips around the country to pending mural locations, driving their beat-up station wagon, dressed in jeans and cowboy boots with art supplies and dogs in tow. She and Jenne combined their talents in the mural, Mountains in Snow, for the Department of Health and Human Services Building in Washington, DC (1942). A year later Ethel executed her own mural, Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814, for the Recorder of Deeds Building, also in Washington, DC. Her first mural commission, Indian Dance, done in 1937 under the Treasury Department Art Project for the Senate Chamber in the United States Capitol, has since disappeared. Ethel and her sister lived and worked in Colorado Springs until 1941 when their residence became determined by the wartime military postings of Jenne’s husband, Edward Chavez. They moved briefly to Los Angeles (1941-42) and then to Cheyenne, Wyoming, while he was stationed at Fort Warren, and then back to Los Angeles for two years in 1943. While in California, Ethel and Jenne executed a floral mural for the Sun Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel and also painted scenes of the ocean which they exhibited at the Raymond and Raymond Galleries in Beverly Hills. While in Los Angeles they met novelist Irving Stone, author of Lust for Life, who told them about Woodstock, as did artists Arnold Blanch and Doris Lee (both of whom previously taught at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center school. In summer of 1945 Ethel, her sister and brother-in-law drove their station wagon across the country to Woodstock which became their permanent home. A year later Ethel married artist and musician, Bruce Currie, whom she met in Woodstock. In 1948 with the help of the GI Bill they purchased an old barn there that also housed their individual studios located at opposite ends of the house. The spatial arrangement mirrors the advice she gave her daughter, Jenne, also an artist: "Make sure you end up with a man who respects your work…The worst thing for an artist is to be in competition with her husband." In 1951 Ethel won a Fulbright Scholarship to Greece where she and her husband spent 1951-52. In addition to extensively traveling, sketching and painting the local landscape, she reconnected with her late father’s family in the area of Messinia on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece. At the same time, her sister Jenne accompanied Chavez on his Fulbright Scholarship to Italy where they spent a productive year painting and visiting museums. Shortly after returning home, Jenne’s career was cut tragically short when she died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age thirty-six. It deeply affected Ethel whose own work took on a somber quality for several years conveyed by a darkish palette, as seen in her tempera painting, Aftermath (circa 1952). In the 1940s Ethel and her sister successfully made the important transition from government patronage to careers as independent artists. Ethel became distinguished for her modernist landscapes. Even though Ethel became a permanent Woodstock resident after World War II, from her childhood in Colorado she retained her love of the Rocky Mountains, her "earliest source of my lifelong passion for mountain landscape." She and her husband began returning to Colorado for annual summer camping trips on which they later were joined by their daughter, Jenne. Ethel did many sketches and drawings of places she found which had special meaning for her. They enabled her to recall their vital qualities which she later painted in her Woodstock studio, conveying her feeling about places remembered. She also produced a number of watercolors and prints of the Colorado landscape that constituted a departure from the American Scene style of her earlier paintings. Her postwar creative output collectively belongs to the category of landscape abstractionists as described by author Sheldon Cheney, although to a greater or lesser degree her work references Colorado’s mountainous terrain. She introduced a palette of stronger pastels in her paintings such as two temperas, Evening Mountains from the 1950s and Springtime in the Mountains from the early 1960s. In 1968 she was elected an Academician by the National Academy of Design in New York. Two years later, based on results of her many summer trips to Colorado, the U.S. Department of the Interior invited her to make on-the-spot sketches of the western United States, helping to document the water resources development and conservation efforts by the Department of the Interior. Her sketches were exhibited at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, and then sent on a national tour by the Smithsonian Institution. Similarly, her previous work as a muralist earned her a final commission at age sixty-three for a 12 by 20 foot Civil War image, Grant in the Wilderness, installed in 1979 in the Chancellorsville Visitors Center at the Fredericksburg National Military Park in Virginia. In the 1970s, too, she taught as Artist-in-Residence at Syracuse University and at the University of Georgia in Athens. Her many awards include, among others, the Stacey Scholarship (1947); Tiffany Fellowship (1949); Fulbright Grant (1951-52, in Greece with her husband); Tiffany Fellowship (1949); Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, National Academy of Design (1955); Medal of Honor, Audubon, Artists (1962); Henry Ward Granger Fund Purchase Award, National Academy of Design (1964); Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1970); Silver Medal, Audubon Artists (1983); Champion International Corporation Award, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut (1984); John Taylor Award, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1985); Harrison Cady...
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1940s Modern Animal Prints

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Emilio Vedova - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Emilio Vedova - Original Lithograph Abstraction 1961 From the art revue XXe Siecle Dimensions: 32 x 24 Edition: G. di San Lazzaro. Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Le Jaguar - Etching by Juste Chevillet - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Jaguar is an etching realized in 1771 by Juste Chevillet (1729–1802) Signed in plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la desc...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Original "London Jet BOAC - vintage travel poster. British Overseas Airways Co
Located in Spokane, WA
Original London Jet B.O.A.C. British Overseas Airline Corporation vintage poster. Mid-century design from c. 1953. Archival linen backed in ex...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Offset

Chien Turc Metis ( A dog breed) - Etching by Jean Gullaume Moitte - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Chien Turc Metis ( Dog breed) is an etching realized by Pierre Francois Tardieu in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description d...
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1770s Modern Animal Prints

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Le bouc D'Angora ( A goat ) - Etching by Jean Gullaume Moitte - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le bouc D'Angora (A goat) is an etching realized by Jean Gullaume Moitte in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabine...
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Chasing your tail By Katie Edwards sausage dog
Located in Deddington, GB
limited_edition Screen Print Edition number 20 Image size: H:19.5 cm x W:28 cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look A f...
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2010s Modern Animal Prints

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Screen

Black and White Lithograph of a Resting Cat by Georganne C. White
Located in Pasadena, CA
The delicacy of this lithography showcases a masterful interplay between the use of positive and negative spaces. The artist's deft hand has outlined the cat in black ink, strategically filling certain selected areas with profound blackness. The subject is probably her beloved cat named Tuffy, and the number 1 behind the work's title suggests that other studies of her cat have followed. Resting on his side, the feline's likely tabby coat gives serenity to the scene depicted. A scene approached with love, Infinite poetry, and subtle restraint. Reminiscent of the renowned art of stenciling, popularized by the acclaimed artist Banksy, this lithograph achieves a sense of balance through its minimalist use of black against a lighter background. The artist's signature is carefully penned in pencil, as for the number of the edition. We have no personal information...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Original New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival original 1983 vintage poster. Archival linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. ...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

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Offset

Original "Next Monday" vintage 1929 Mather Work Incentive poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Next Monday” Vintage 1929 Work Incentive Poster The original “Next Monday” (also known as the "Futurist Monday") vintage 1929 Work Incentive poster is a reminder of a bygone era. This aesthetically magnificent lithograph by artist Willard Frederick Elmes created is a scarce print from the 1920s. It is striking for its intricacy and its size; the poster is linen backed and has a huge image, measuring approximately 28” x 20”. The poster displays...
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1920s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Python Sebae (African Rock Python Skull)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Python is a hand-pulled mezzotint in an edition of 25. This is #7/25. Jacob Crook was born in St. Louis, MO in 1985. Crook works primarily in the intagli...
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2010s Modern Animal Prints

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Mezzotint

Original Chicago Fly TWA vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage travel poster: Chicago - Fly TWA. UP UP and Away Trans World Airline. Artist: David Klein. Size 25" x 40" Dated 1960's. ...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Offset

Original Jeva de la tête aux pieds from head to toe vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Jeva de la tête aux pieds vintage French fashion poster. Jeva would dress you from your head to your feet, and this cat implies in this poster de...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

X-ing ( Alone fish swims across the ocean)
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "X-ing"", Anne Dykmans captures an image of solace with a swimming fish . This image is an artist's proof in an edition of 50 Anne Dykmans employs her superb command of engravin...
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1990s Modern Animal Prints

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Mezzotint

Rooster, Lithograph by Bernard Buffet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bernard Buffet, French (1928 - 1999) Title: Rooster Year: 1953 Medium: Lithograph mounted on Board, signed in the plate Image Size: 15 x 10 in. (50.8 x 36.83 cm) Frame: 22 x ...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

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.
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1930s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Bluebirds 24 --- Silkscreen Print
Located in Lafayette, LA
This is a framed silkscreen print entitled BLUEBIRDS 24. The image is designed by Francis Pavy and is part of the Pavy Art and Design series. It is printed on 100% rag paper 250 GSM....
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2010s Modern Animal Prints

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Acrylic

Animal Kingdom (Magnificent Jungle Cats)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Animal Kingdom (Magnificent Jungle Cats) Etching, 1953-1955 Signed and titled in pencil by the artist (see photos) Annotated: "First Proof" (see photo) Estate stamp verso (see photo)...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Bluebirds
Located in Lafayette, LA
This is a framed silkscreen print entitled Bluebirds. The image is designed by Francis Pavy and is part of the Pavy Art and Design series. It is printed on 100% rag paper 250 GSM. Th...
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2010s Modern Animal Prints

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Acrylic

Vintage David Hockney poster Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
Located in New York, NY
This charming vintage poster commemorated the publication of David Hockney's Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm. The poster advertises a miniature ...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Hummingbirds - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Hummingbirds is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by St...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Flamingo - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Flamingo is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stuttg...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Goldfintch - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Goldfintch is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stut...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Crow - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Crow is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stuttgart ...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Little Blue Birds - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Little Blue Birds is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published ...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Smith Brothers Restaurant
Located in Milwaukee, WI
An original color silkscreen print by Ruth Grotenrath. A lovely assortment of different foods both vegetable and animal alike. The photos do not do this piece justice. The dark color...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Ink, Printer's Ink, Screen

Pigeons - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Pigeons is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stuttga...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Crow - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Crow is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stuttgart ...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Original "Wonderful Copenhagen" vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: WONDERFUL COPENHAGEN created by the artist Viggo Vagnby. This antique poster is archival linen backed, in excellent co...
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1950s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Vintage Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Serigraph "Child Reading"
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage hand signed serigraph. Framed. Image size, 10.5L x 19.75H.
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Oil, Canvas

Alpine Crow - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Alpine Crow is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stu...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Original Philips Infra-Rouge vintage poster linen-backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Philips Infra-Rouge vintage poster. Size: 23" x 31". Archival linen-backed French antique poster. It is archival linen backed and ready to frame. This fun kitchen poster...
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1940s Modern Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Parrots - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Parrots is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stuttga...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Black Bird - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Black Bird is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stut...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Birds Pompeian Fresco - Etching by Secondo De Angelis - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Birds Pompeian Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Secondo De Angelis in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions. The etchin...
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18th Century Modern Animal Prints

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'Lida & the Swan', New York Armory Show, Ashcan School, ASL, NYMOMA, AIC, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Arthur B. Davies' for Arthur Bowen Davies (American, 1862-1928) and created circa 1915. An early twentieth-century sugar-lift aquatint showing Zeus in the guise of a swan, reclining and cradling Lida in his wings while King Tyndareus ponders the mutability of human circumstance. Born in Utica, New York, Arthur Davies attended the Chicago Academy of Design from 1879 to 1882. He furthered his studies at the Chicago Art Institute, before moving to New York City in 1885 where he studied at the Art Students League and Gotham Art Students League. In 1893, he made the first of many trips to Europe, visiting Holland, Paris, and London. He became an arch-exponent of Modernism and the central organizing figure of 1913's watershed Armory Show. Davies developed a style that combined visionary Symbolism with elements of Tonalism and Cubism. Who Was Who in American Art describes him as an “…important but enigmatic Modernist whose work was poetic, mysterious, and visionary”. Davies was the recipient of many gold medals and prizes and juried awards and his work is held in the permanent collections of museums nationwide, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Photo of Arthur B Davies circa 1907 in New York City by Gertrude Käsebier courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. Reference: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 1, p. 835; Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, p. 280; Thieme-Becker Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zu Gengenwart, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 7/8, p. 470; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 4, p. 293; Davenport’s Art Reference and Price Guide 2009/10 Edition, LTB Gordonsart, Inc. 2008, p. 672; et al. Additional biographical information follows, written by Catherine Southwick and Robert Torchia from the National Gallery of Art Online Editions: Arthur B. Davies’s mystical, mysterious paintings hearken back to 19th-century romanticism, even while Davies aligned himself with American artists advancing the most radical ideals of their day. Davies was born on September 26, 1862, in Utica, New York, the son of English and Welsh parents who had immigrated to the United States in 1856. He first took art lessons as a teenager from a local landscape painter, Dwight Williams...
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Early 1900s Modern Animal Prints

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Aquatint, Paper

"The Winner" - Etching on Paper (10/25)
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Winner" - Etching on Paper Clean and modern drypoint etching of a horse skeleton by Maria Bennett (American, 20th Century). This etching has layer...
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1970s Modern Animal Prints

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Paper, Ink, Drypoint

Falcons - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Falcons is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stuttga...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Owls - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Owls is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stuttgart ...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Green Finch - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Green Finch is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stu...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Sparrow - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Sparrow is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stuttga...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Original Coppertone suntan lotion vintage poster - Italian
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Coppertone” Colore di Rame vintage Italian poster. Colore de Rame translates into the color of copper. Abbronzatevi! (suntan) Non bruciatevi! (don’t burn) Archival linen-backed in fine condition, ready to frame. This original Coppertone poster is in A condition. The background in the poster is a brighter yellow; after all, it is a sunny day, and you need suntan lotion! Coppertone is an American suntan cream. Interestingly, the American poster of this famous little girl and dog...
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1960s Modern Animal Prints

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Offset

Swallows - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Swallows is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stuttg...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Albatross - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Albatross is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stutt...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Buzzard - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Buzzard is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stuttga...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Wood Pigeon - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Wood Pigeon is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stu...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Blackbird - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Blackbird is an Etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of birds in pictures, published by Stutt...
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1840s Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Modern animal prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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. If you’re looking to add animal prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, yellow, blue, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Jean Jeacques Grandville, Louis Legrand, TURPIN, P[ierre Jean Francois], and Pablo Picasso. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Etching and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern animal prints, so small editions measuring 1.5 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 $36 and tops out at $35,000, while the average work sells for $176.

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