Millard Sheets

Millard Sheets, Family Flats, 1935 (Los Angeles, CA, Depression-era tenements

1935

This lithograph shows the Obelisk (Cleopatra’s Needle), 1425 BCE, in Central Park, New York City, just behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Greywacke Knoll. (This makes it a double example of ‘art about art.’) Carved from a single piece of granite from Aswan, it was gifted to this country by the Khedive Ismail Pasha...

British-born Sid Gotcliffe has made a powerfully poignant image in the lithograph Tompkins Square Park. At the center sit three men dressed in black. Their clothes suggest they bel...

Irish Fair Lithograph, 1923 Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photo) Titled "Irish Fair" by the artist in pencil Edition: 84 Housed in an archival frame with acid free matting (see photo) Provenance: Estate of the artist, Bellows Family Trust H.V. Allison & Company (label) Private Collection, Columbus References And Exhibitions: Reference: Mason 153 Note: An illustration commissioned by The Century Company for Don Byrne's novel The Wind Bloweth Image: 18 7/8 x 21 3/8" Frame: 29 1/2 x 30 1/2" “Eleven on a hot July morning, and the little town...

THE LOOKOUT is an original hand drawn lithograph by the American woman artist Sally Caldwell-Fisher, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper 100% acid free. THE LOOKOUT depicts a quiet boating scene with a young woman dressed in a long, Victorian style navy blue skirt, white blouse and navy neck scarf solidly standing aboard her sailboat gazing out toward the viewer. Ms. Caldwell-Fisher presents a nostalgic look back at New England life portraying a Victorian era female sailor on her sailboat floating on still water, surrounded by peaceful blue skies. THE LOOKOUT evokes a wistful affection for the past with its classic coloration of blues, beige, brown, yellow ochre, black, touches red and white. THE LOOKOUT captures a moment of tranquility while boating during the earlier era of a New England summer season delightfully expressed by the talented American woman artist, Sally Caldwell Fisher. Print size - 16.5 x 9.5 inches, unframed, mint condition, pencil signed by Sally Caldwell-Fisher Sally Caldwell-Fisher was born in Philadelphia 1951, raised in Michigan. She graduated from the University of Michigan and started selling her artwork. Upon moving to New England in the early seventies, she immediately fell in love with its natural beauty - a beauty of contrasts; the granite and dark pines, the fields of snow, and the sparkling sea. It quickly became Caldwell-Fisher's passion to paint New England life in its variety and harmony with nature. Sally Caldwell Fisher portrays in her images a world brimming with charm and simplicity. Attracted to the whimsical, she illustrates everyday life in rural...