"Man with Horn, " Poster after Pablo Picasso

1971

"7Eme Bal de l'AAAA Skater" is an original color lithograph poster by Ludovic Rodo Pissarro. The artist signed the piece in plate lower right. It depicts a wo...

In this image, Howard Thomas presents the viewer with a domestic interior. The image is dominated by the figure of a black woman, resting her arm on an ironing board. To the right, the tool of her task dangles a chord above a checker tiled floor. Beyond, though a window, neighboring homes fill the landscape. The careful line-work of the linocut adds a sense of expressionism to the scene, but the image nonetheless falls into the Social Realism that captivated most American artists during the Great Depression. This print was published in 1936 as part of the Wisconsin Artists' Calendar for the year 1937, which included 52 original, hand-made prints – one for each week of the year. 6 x 5 inches, image 10 x 7.13 inches, sheet 12.37 x 12.43 inches, frame Entitled "Monday in Wick Haven" lower left (covered by matting) Inscribed "Linoleum Cut" lower center (covered by matting) Artist name "Howard Thomas" lower right (covered by matting) Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and museum glass, all housed in a silver gilded moulding. Quaker-born in Ohio, Thomas trained in the Midwest at Ohio State University and the Chicago Art Institute. He taught in the Art Department of the Milwaukee State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) where he became good friends with Carl Holty, Edward Boerner, Robert von Neumann...

Original Vintage Swiss Avantgarde Poster created in 1933 by Walter Herdeg (1908 – 1995) and printed in 1934 by the Art. Institut Orell Füssli in Zurich as an intaglio to promote the ...

Original French vintage travel poster: "FRANCE, Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français." Printed in France by the French National Railroads. Original linen-backed poster; read...