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Art Subject: Animal
Bartram's Sandpiper - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Bartram's Sandpiper is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .
Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons,...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Royal Tiger - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
Royal Tiger is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publish...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Donald Sultan 'Fish' (From Fruit and Flowers), Limited Edition, Signed Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Donald Sultan (American, b. 1951)
"Fish (From Fruit and Flowers Portfolio)" 1990
Screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Pencil initialed, titled, and dated left of image
Edition 61...
Category
1990s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Stairway To Heaven, Josh Keyes Tiger Contemporary Street Art Print
By Josh Keyes
Located in Draper, UT
Josh Keyes, "Stairway To Heaven." Edition of 175 with dimensions of 26 x 18 inches / 66 x 45.72 cm.
Fine art print on 290gsm paper hand signed and numbered...
Category
2010s Animal Prints
Materials
Giclée
Cynocéphale Chacma - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
Cynocéphale Chacma is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was ...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Kanguroo Dorsal - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
Kanguroo Dorsal is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was pub...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
April The Happy World BY HARRY BUNCE, Contemporary Art, Animal Art
By Harry Bunce
Located in Deddington, GB
Harry Bunce
April, The Happy Year
Limited Edition Print
Edition of 365 (one for each day of the year)
Size: H 31.5cm x W 28cm
Artist signed/titled and numbered archival print on 300g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Snigger
Located in New York, NY
John Baldessari pays tribute to the old master Albrecht Dürer by repurposing his famous woodcut "Rhinoceros". When the rhino's magnificent head is tilted up, the expression becomes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
$13,500
La Daine - Etching by Buvée l'Américain - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
La Daine is an artwork realized by Buvée l'Américain in 1771.
Etching B./W. print on ivory paper.
The artwork belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulièr...
Category
1770s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Two Tigers on Green, Op Art Screenprint by Victor Vasarely
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Victor Vasarely, Hungarian (1908 - 1997)
Title: Two Tigers on Green
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, CL
I...
Category
1980s Op Art Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Animal Photograph Landscape White Bird Wings Blue Sky Nature Wildlife India
Located in Norfolk, GB
Aditya Dicky Singh, Untitled, photograph on fine-art Hahnemuhle archival paper
39" x 26" unframed (100cm x 66cm) 2022
Edition 1/10
*Should you ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
The Wolves - Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Wolves is a lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published in 1854....
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Macaque - Etching by Jacques Baron - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Macaque is an etching realized by Jacques Baron in 1771.
It belongs to the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon".
The Artist's signature is engraved lower right.
Good conditions.
Category
1770s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$190 Sale Price
20% Off
Owl On Branch Print Edition 92/120
By Kaiko Moti
Located in Houston, TX
Aquatint print of an owl perched on a branch with bright yellow eyes. The work is signed by the artist. It is framed in a wooden frame with a burlap matte.
Artist Biography: Kaiko M...
Category
1970s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Blu on Red
Located in New York, NY
Brenda Zlamany
Blu on Red, 2013
Limited Edition special giclee print.
Hand signed and dated by the artist on the front
19 1/2 × 19 1/2 inches
Unframed
Gorgeous giclee print based up...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Giclée
Zibeth - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
Zibeth is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published in...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
White Owl - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
White Owl is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .
Woodcut print, hand colored, published by Londo...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
La Chevre Dangora - Etching by Buvée l'Américain - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
La Chevre Dangora is an artwork realized by Buvée l'Américain in 1771.
Etching B./W. print on ivory paper.
The artwork belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et pa...
Category
1770s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
A Pair of Hand Colored Engravings of an African Lioness and her Cubs and a Rhino
Located in Alamo, CA
A pair of 18th century hand colored copperplate engravings entitled "Felis Leo Linn Femina" and "Rhinoceros Unicornis Linn" from Dr. Johann Schreber's Die Sa...
Category
1770s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
"Rough" and "Puck, " Dandies
Located in Columbia, MO
"Rough" and "Puck, " Dandies
1887
Etching
3 x 5
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Dalmatian Regulus - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Dalmatian Regulus is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .
Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 18...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Crittodibranchi... - Etching by Jean Francois Turpin-1831
Located in Roma, IT
This is one of the illustrations of "Dizionario di scienze naturali" (Natural sciences dictionary) edited by Battelli nel 1831. The work was made of 29 volumes, containing hundreds ...
Category
1830s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
The Hooded Merganser from Gould's Birds of Great Britain framed
By John Gould
Located in Paonia, CO
The Hooded Merganser by the famous ornithological artist John Gould ( 1804 – 1881 ) is plate no.36
of volume 5 from his Birds of Great Britain....
Category
1870s Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$650 Sale Price
43% Off
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome - Original Etching by Various Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Animal Figures from Ancient Rome, from the serie of "the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed", is an original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
I...
Category
1750s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Lapin Domestique - Etching by Jacques De sève - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Lapin Domestique is an artwork realized by Jacques de Seve in 1771.
Etching B./W. print on ivory paper. Signed on plate on the lower left margin.
The work is glued on cardb...
Category
1770s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Roller - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Roller is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917).
Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-colored, published by London, Bell...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Helen Fay, What’s That?, Penguin Art, Affordable Art, Limited Edition Print
Located in Deddington, GB
What’s That? by Helen Fay [2012]
Limited Edition
Etching , hand printed on Hanemulle etching paper
Edition number edition size 75
Image size: H:21 cm x W:18 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:45 cm x W:30 cm x D:.15cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Original Print, hand made and hand printed by the artist. A gentoo penguin, standing wings out, her attention just grabbed by something. The light is just catching her soft chest feathers. The etching captures the tactile softness of the feathers.
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 Spilliaert...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
White Wagtail - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
White Wagtail is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .
Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870....
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Cat-astrophie
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Cat-astrophie" is a lithograph on paper, 9 x 9 inches image size. From the edition of 395 and framed in a contemporary, silver-tone frame. Initialed by the artist lower right and nu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Lemur - Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Lemur is an artwork realized in 1972 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original etching on cardboard.
Good conditions.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). S...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Contemporary Monotype Collage Butterfly Moth Nature Print Framed Pink Blue
Located in Buffalo, NY
This digital print on handmade paper comes in a natural wood archival framing presentation
I have called the body of work that I have done over the past decade “Imaging Biodiversity...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Digital Pigment, Etching
Wild Goose - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Wild Goose 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...
Category
1840s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Dal Torchio Dell'Autore - Original Etching on Paper by Leo Guida - 1973
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Dal Torchio Dell'Autore is an original black and white etching realized in 1973 by Leo Guida.
Titled, dated and Hand-signed by the artist on the lower margin. Editions I/V.
The st...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Owl - Etching on Paper by Mario Avati - 1960s
By Mario Avati
Located in Roma, IT
Owl is an etching on paper, realized by the French artist and print-maker master Mario Avati (1921-2009).
Hand-signed on the lower right and numbered on the lower left in pencil. Ed...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Mezzotint
Geese, by Stephen McMillan
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: etching and aquatint
Edition of 250
Year: 2014
Image Size: 9 x 12 inches
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist.
Inspired by a scene of seven Canadian Geese in Lake Padde...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Pelican - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Pelican 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...
Category
1840s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Red-Necked Phalarope - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Red-Necked Phalarope is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917).
Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-colored, published ...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Tethered Nomad" 77/90, Signed Sepia Toned Lithograph of Wooden Carousel Horse
By Ancel Nunn
Located in Austin, TX
Lithograph on Paper
Page Size: 12.5 x 18 in.
Frame Size: 19 x 24.75
Signed, bottom right, in pencil "Ancel Nunn"
Numbered, bottom center, in pencil "77/90"
Titled, bottom left, in pe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Zebra - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Zebra is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771.
It belongs to the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon".
The Artist's signature is en...
Category
1770s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$190 Sale Price
20% Off
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 ...
Category
1840s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
1770s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Cock Tease
Located in Greenwich, CT
Cock Tease is a lithograph on paper, initialed lower right 'BD', 9 x 9" image size. From the edition of 395, numbered XXIX/C (there were also 275 Arabic and 20 AP), framed in a conte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Purple Martin - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Purple Martin is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917).
Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper.
Han...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Eagle - Etching by Johann Friedrich Naumann - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Eagle is an etching hand colored realized by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert - Johann Friedrich Naumann, Illustration from Natural history of b...
Category
1840s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Robert Greenhalf, Curlews and Woodpigeons, Limited Edition Print, Bird Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Robert Greenhalf
Curlews and Woodpigeons
Limited Edition Print
Woodcut on Paper
Edition of 100
Paper Size: H 26cm x W49 cm
Image Size: H 16cm x W 38.5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
The Mouse - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854
By Paul Gervais
Located in Roma, IT
The Mouse is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was published...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Dogue de Forte Race - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Dogue de Forte Race is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du C...
Category
1770s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Donkey - Etching After Charles Coleman - 1992
Located in Roma, IT
The Donkey is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992.
Signed on the plate. The rare edition...
Category
1990s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Phasianus colchicus
By Joseph Wolf
Located in Columbia, MO
Joseph Wolf
Lithograph
c.1940
Category
Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bewick's Swan - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Bewick's Swan is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .
Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870....
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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...
Category
1840s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Platalea Leucorodia (Spoonbill) /// Ornithology John Gould Animal Art Shorebird
By John Gould
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John Gould (English, 1804-1881)
Title: "Platalea Leucorodia (Spoonbill)" (Vol. 4, Plate 32)
Portfolio: The Birds of Great Britain
Year: 1862-1873
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on wove paper
Limited edition: approx. 750
Printer: Walter or Walter & Cohn, London, UK
Publisher: Taylor and Francis, John Gould, London, UK
Reference: Sauer No. 23; Ayer/Zimmer page 261; Wood page 365; Nissen No. IVB 372; Sitwell page 78
Framing: Recently beautifully framed in a gold Neo-Classical moulding with gold filet and 100% cotton rag matting from Holland. All archival
Framed size: 23.5" x 30"
Sheet size: 14.75" x 21.5"
Image size: 12.5" x 19.5"
Condition: One small tear at upper right edge which has been skillfully repaired from verso. Light mat stain in margins and one small area of discoloration upper left center. It is otherwise in very good condition with strong colors
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Williamsburg, VA. Lithography and hand-coloring by John Gould and English artist Henry Constantine Richter (1821-1902). Comes from Gould's five volume "The Birds of Great Britain", (1862-1873) (First edition), which consists of 367 hand-colored lithographs. Other contributing lithographers were German artist Joseph Wolf...
Category
1860s Victorian Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Sheep Portfolio of 7 Conceptual Etchings and Screenprints by Menashe Kadishman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (1932 - 2015)
Title: Sheep Portfolio
Year: 1981
Medium: Portfolio of 7 Screenprints with Etching, each signed in pencil
Edition: 65, AP 5
Size of Each: 33.5 x 31 in. (85.09 x 78.74 cm)
Printed by Jerusalem Print...
Category
1980s Conceptual Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Screen
Wild Pig and Hippopotamus - Original Lithograph - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Wild Pig and Hippopotamus is a color lithograph realized in the late 19th century by an anonymous illustrator representing a wild pig and a hippopotamus.
The animals are designated ...
Category
Late 19th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cheetah - From Chats et Autres Bêtes - Lithograph 1933
Located in Roma, IT
Cheetah - From Chats et Autres Bêtes is an original black and white lithograph realized in 1933 by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen.
Signed on plate.
The lithograph, on Arches vellum,...
Category
1930s Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mid Century Wood Cut -- Wild Penguins 13/33
By Hannah Yakin
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century modern wood cut of wild Penguins by Israeli artist Hannah Yakin Hiyze (Dutch/Israeli, b. 1933), 1967. 13/33. Signed, number, dated and titled lower left edge. Condition: some waviness to paper. Presented under glass with vintage painted wood frame. Image size: 14"H x 37"W.
Born Hannah van Hulst in Amsterdam, during World War II, Hannah developed her artistic talents, experiencing "happy times in which necessity bore creativity." After the war she went to high school and studied art at Academia Artibus, Utrecht, the Netherlands and in Paris with famous poster designer and graphic artist Paul Colin. In 1956 she emigrated to Israel where she met and married the artist Abraham Yakin...
Category
1960s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Lioness i- Etching by Evert Louis van Muyden - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Lioness is a modern artwork realized by Evert Louis van Muyden (Albano, Lazio 1853 - 1922 Orsay) in 1900 .
Black and white etching.
Signature and date on plate.
Includes passe-pa...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Marcassin - Le Cochon de lait - Etching by Jacques De sève - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Marcassin - Le Cochon de lait is an artwork realized by Jacques de Seve in 1771.
Etching B./W. print on ivory paper. Signed on plate on the lower left margin.
The work is g...
Category
1770s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Animal (10)
By Elliot Ross
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and titled, verso
18 x 12 inches, image
(Edition of 10)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Feeding the Ravens
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Feeding the Ravens" 1997 is a color offset lithograph on paper by noted American artist Rie Mounier Munoz, 1921-2015. It is hand signed and numbered 29/950 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 9.65 x 8.35 inches, sheet size is 13.85 x 12.25 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the artist:
Alaska painter Rie Mounier Munoz was the child of Dutch parents who immigrated to California, where she was born and raised. She is known for her colorful scenes of everyday life in Alaska.
Rie (from Marie) Munoz (moo nyos), studied art at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. In 1950, she traveled up the Inside Passage by steamship, fell in love with Juneau, and gave herself until the boat left the next day to find a job and a place to live. Since then Juneau has been home to Munoz. She began painting small vignettes of Alaska soon after arriving in Juneau, and also studied art at the University of Alaska-Juneau.
Munoz painted in oils in what she describes as a "painstakingly realistic" style, which she found stiff and "somewhat boring." Her breakthrough came a few years later when an artist friend introduced her to a versatile, water-soluble paint called casein. The immediacy of this inexpensive medium prompted an entirely new style. Rie's paintings became colorful and carefree, mirroring her own optimistic attitude toward life. With her newfound technique she set about recording everyday scenes of Alaskans at work and at play.
Of the many jobs she has held journalist, teacher, museum curator, artist, mother, Munoz recalls one of her most memorable was as a teacher on King Island in 1951, where she taught 25 Eskimo children. The island was a 13-hour umiak (a walrus skin boat) voyage from Nome, an experience she remembers vividly. After teaching in the Inupiat Eskimo village on the island with her husband during one school year, she felt a special affinity for Alaska's Native peoples and deliberately set about recording their traditional lifestyles that she knew to be changing very fast.
For the next twenty years, Rie practiced her art as a "Sunday painter," in and around prospecting with her husband, raising a son, and working as a freelance commercial artist, illustrator, cartoonist, and curator of exhibits for the Alaska State Museum. During her years in Alaska, Munoz has lived in a variety of small Alaskan communities, including prospecting and mining camps.
Her paintings reflect an interest in the day-to-day activities of village life such as fishing, berry picking, children at play, as well as her love of folklore and legends. Munoz says that what has appealed to her most were "images you might not think an artist would want to paint," such as people butchering crab, skinning a seal, or doing their laundry in a hand-cranked washing machine.
In 1972, with her hand-cut stencil and serigraph prints selling well in four locations in Alaska, she felt confident enough to leave her job at the Alaska State Museum and devote herself full time to her art. Freed from the constraints of an office job, she began to produce close to a hundred paintings a year, in addition to stone lithograph and serigraph prints.
From her earliest days as an artist, Rie had firm beliefs about selling her work. First, she insisted the edition size should be kept modest. When she decided in 1973 to reproduce Eskimo Story Teller as an offset lithography print and found the minimum print run to be 500, she destroyed 200 of the prints. She did the same with King Island, her second reproduction. Reluctantly, to meet market demand, she increased the edition size of the reproductions to 500 and then 750. The editions stayed at that level for almost ten years before climbing to 950 and 1250.
Her work has been exhibited many solo watercolor exhibits in Alaska, Oregon and Washington State, including the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Alaska State Museum in Juneau, Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Tongass Historical Museum in Ketchikan, and Yukon Regional Library in Whitehorse; Yukon Territory, and included in exhibits at the Smithsonian Institute and Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
Munozs paintings have graced the covers of countless publications, from cookbooks to mail order catalogs, and been published in magazines, newspapers, posters, calendars, and two previous collections of her work: Rie Munoz...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph