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Period: Mid-20th Century
Washington Monument
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Washington Monument
Medium: Screenprint on wallpaper
Date: 1974
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 44" x 29 1/2"
Framed Size: 50 5/8" x 36 1/8"
Signature: Uns...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
'Soaring New York' — 1930s American Modernism, New York City
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Soaring New York', aquatint, soft-ground etching, roulette, 1931-32, edition 25, Duffy 165. Signed, dated, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmosp...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Original 1966 poster Museo Picasso Palacio Aguilar Barcelona Spain
Located in Miami, FL
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
'Museo Picasso. Palacio Aguilar.', 1966
Four-color offset printing on paper
30 x 21.5 in. (76 x 54.5 cm.)
Unframed
Ref: PIC2001-P010
Conservatio...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Washington At Pohick Church - 1932 Etching On Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Washington At Pohick Church - 1932 Etching On Paper
1932 black and white etching depicting George Washington at Pohick Church by Ernest David Roth (German, 1879-1964). George Washin...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Picasso, The Basket, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings, 1946. Published by Pantheon Books, Inc., ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Hagoromo - Noh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Matsuno Sofu (1899-1963), 'Hagoromo - Noh', woodblock print, 1937. Signed 'Sofu' with the artist's seal, lower right. A fine impression, with fresh color...
Category
Showa Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Des Hommes Arrivent du fond de leur passe colored lithograph 1968 by Tobiasse
Located in Paonia, CO
Theo Tobiasse (1927 - 2012 )
Title Des Hommes Arrivent du Fond de leur Passe
Lithograph 1968
edition E. A. ( artist proof )
size 17.50 x 23.50
condition good
Des Hommes Arriv...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alvar Sunol Pencil Signed Lithograph C.1970s
By Sunol Alvar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alvar Sunol Pencil Signed Lithograph C.1970s
Three women around a table
Dimensions 21.5" wide x 12.5" high
The frame measures 32.75" wide x...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The sun, from The Hippies
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: The sun
Portfolio: The Hippies
Medium: Color etching on Arches
Date: 1969
Edition: 102/145
Frame Size: 31" x 26 1/2"
Sheet Size: 26" x 20"
Image Size: 15...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original art deco Monopole Radio mermaid vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1934 Lithograph poster for TSF radio Monopole "une vague de puissance et d'harmonie" (a wave of power and harmony) with the beautiful mermaid strumming her harp. Archival...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Melancholic Muses III
Located in London, GB
'Melancholic Muses III', one of a poignant set of six signed artist proof lithographs by the celebrated Spanish artist from Barcelona, Vicenç Caraltó (circa 1960s). This collection o...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude with Guitar
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Nude with Guitar
Series: Secret Poems of Appolinaire
Date: 1967
Medium: Drypoint etching
Unframed Dimensions: 15" x 11"
Framed Dimensions: 25.25"...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Picasso, Bacchanal (Orozco 214), Grabados al linóleo (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso: Grabados al linóleo. Published by Gustavo Gili, S.A., Barcelona, and...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Le Chien aboyant a la lune, Lithograph by Joan Miro 1952
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983)
Title: Le Chien aboyant a la lune from «Verve», Vol. VII, nn. 27/28
Year: 1952
Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate
Size: 14.5 x 21 in. (3...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Combat pour Andromède entre Persée et Phinée - From "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide"
Located in Roma, IT
Etching from the portfolio "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide"publised by Skira in Lausanne, in 1930.
On Arches paper.
Printed by Louis Fort, Paris.
Catalogue Bloch Vol. I n. 108.
Edition of...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dalí, Composition (Field 69-5, A-M), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on Papeterie de Mandeure vélin paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Magnelli, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°9, 1957. Published and printed under the direct...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Rieurs et les Poissons - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1952
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Chagall in 1929, and printed by Tériade in 1952.
It belongs to the Series "Les Fables de La Fontaine".
Edition of 200.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Pri...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Loterie Nationale Tranche de L'Histoire de France vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1940 Loterie Nationale Vintage Poster. Tranche de l”Historie de France. Linen-backed in very good condition – excellent, ready to frame. The team of Eddgard Derouet and C...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, La Petite Colombe (Mourlot 174; Cramer 55) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Executed in 1949 and issued as the frontispiece of the Picasso Lithograph...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Portrait - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Taureaux
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Trinckvel
1965
Jean Cocteau
W...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - John Kennedy - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - John Kennedy - Original Handsigned Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
1968
Signed in pencil
EA in Sanguine
Jean Schneider, Basel
References : ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 88), Dans l'Atelier de Picasso (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches à la forme savoir paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Dans l'Atelier de Picasso, 1957. Published by Fernan...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The bell tower by David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of ‘The boy who left home to learn fear’. Hockney chose this story for its ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Picasso, Composition, Les Bleus de Barcelone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil with gouache and pastel inks on vélin de Rives paper, archivally hinged on vélin de Rives backing sheet, as issued. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumb...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Les baigneuses
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph Les baigneuses ( The bathers) by Andre Marchand is part of my private collection since the 1970's. It is in very good condition, artist pencil signed in the lower lef...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Monaca - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
La Monaca is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949).
Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La Fo...
Category
Art Nouveau Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
On the Beach (Coney Island, New York) — 1930s Graphic Modernism, WPA
By Lou Barlow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lou Barlow (Louis Breslow), 'On the Beach' (Coney Island) wood engraving, c. 1937, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. Stamped 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT NYC WPA' in the bottom left margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, with all the fine lines printing clearly, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 3 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Image size 11 x 8 1/8 inches; sheet size 16 x 11 3/8 inches.
Created during the Great Depression for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, New York City.
Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Amon Carter Museum of Art, Illinois State Museum, and the New York Public Library.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
Due to Coney Island's proximity to Manhattan, Brooklyn, and other New York boroughs, it began attracting vacationers in the 1830s and 1840s. Most of the vacationers were wealthy and went by carriage roads and steamship services that reduced travel time from a formerly half-day journey to two hours. By the late 1870s, the development of Coney Island's amusement park attractions and hotels drew people from all social classes. When the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company electrified the steam railroads and connected Brooklyn to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge at the beginning of the 20th century, Coney Island turned rapidly from a resort to an accessible location for day-trippers seeking to escape the summer heat in New York City's tenements. In 1915, the Sea Beach Line was upgraded to a subway line, and the opening of the Stillwell Avenue station in 1919 ushered in Coney Island's busiest era. On the peak summer days, over a million people would travel to Coney Island. In 1937, New York City purchased a 400-foot-wide strip of land along the shoreline to allow the boardwalk to be moved 300 feet inland. At this point, Coney Island was so crowded on summer weekends that parks commissioner Robert Moses...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Leonor Fini, original lithograph from Satiricon, 1970
By Leonor Fini
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare lithograph by surrealist artist Leonor Fini. This signed print is in perfect condition and from a very searched series untitled Satyricon and dealing with Antique Rome and its f...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Instant Nutriment #4, 1969 - Modern Pop Art Psychedelic Print
By Peter Max
Located in Soquel, CA
Instant Nutriment #4, 1969 - Modern Pop Art Psychedelic Print
A vintage psychedelic print, Instant Nutriment #4, 1969 by Peter Max (German, b. 1937). Unframed. Shipped Rolled in tube. Some edge wear to paper. Image: 36"H x 24"W
One of the most famous of all living artist's, Peter Max is a pop culture icon. His bold colors, uplifting images and an uncommon artistic diversity have touched almost every phase of American culture and has inspired many generations. Peter Max has painted for six U.S. Presidents and his art is on display in Presidential Libraries and in U.S. Embassies. Max has painted our Lady Liberty annually since America's Bicentennial and in 2000 a collage of his Liberties adorned over 145 million Verizon phone books. Max has been named an official artist of the 2006 U.S. Olympic Team at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. He has also been Official Artist of 5 Super Bowls, World Cup USA, The World Series, The U.S. Open, The Indy 500, The NYC Marathon...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and s...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adam, Eve and the Forbidden Fruit - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph realized by Marc Chagall in 1960 to illustrate "The Bible".
Edition of 6500, published by Tériade in no. 33 and 34 of the Art Magazine Verve.
Printed by Mourlot a...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Composition, Couleur amour (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du Moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good conditi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Blue Period : Mother and Child - Lithograph - Printed Signature
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
Mother and child
Lithograph enhanced with stencil (Jacomet process) after a pastel by the artist
Printed signature in the plate
On paper 55.5 x 38 cm
Authe...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Delaunay, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°7, 1956. Published and printed under the direction of Gualti...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Mille et une Nuits, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 36-37-38, 1951. Published b...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Venus de Milo
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: offset lithograph (after the Rodin watercolor). Printed in 1945 on Vélin de Lana paper and published in Paris by the Musée Rodin in an edition of 2500. Image size: 7 1/4 x 5 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
La Guerre et la Paix
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Guerre et la Paix
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 53 x 35.5 cm.
Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris.
Each copy of this Lithograph was...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Aliyah, Return, O Virgin of Israel Salvador Dali original lithograph
Located in Paonia, CO
Salvador Dali ( 1904 - 1989 )
Aliyah, Return, O Virgin of Israel, Aliyah suite
edition 232/ 250
published Shorewood Press 1968 on Arches paper
paper size 25 x 19.63
image size 20....
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Purgatory 15 : The Envy - Color woodcut - 1963
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Purgatory 15 - The Envy
From the "Divine Comedy"
Wood engraving from "Divine Comedy"
with the signature printed in the plate
1960/63
Printed on paper Vél...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Le Purgatoire XXII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Polish French Figurative Abstract Art Brut Expressionist Lithograph Maryan
Located in Surfside, FL
Pinchas Burstein, known as Maryan
Lithograph (after the drawing).
1960
Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches (315 x 240mm).
There is printed text on the back, as issued.
Signed in the...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Composition (Vallier 137), Résurrection de l'oiseau, Georges Braque
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Résurrection de l'oiseau, Georges Braque, 1958. Publ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Switzerland mid-century modern vintage travel poster
By Kurt Wirth
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Switzerland” vintage travel poster. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, Grade A, ready to frame. The images shown...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Inferno: Canto 20 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Inferno: Canto 20
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size: 1...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Composition (Cramer 105), Femmes, Joan Miró
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Joan Miró, Femmes, 1965. Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris; printed ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Cargo Carriers' — New York Harbor
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'Cargo Carriers', etching and drypoint, c. 1932, edition 10, Kennedy 44. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression with rich burr and selectively wiped overall plate tone, in dark brown ink, on Arches cream laid paper; wide margins (2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Original Kennedy Galleries mat and label. Scarce.
"On my trips up and down N.Y. harbor on the Weehawken Ferry, the late evening sun playing on the side of the big liners has always intrigued me... The liner shown I believe to be the Vaterland of the North German Lloyd...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Chagall, Banished from Paradise (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25) (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Marc Chagall, Dessins Pour La Bible, Verv...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition - Original Color Lithograph by Antoni Clavé - 1943
By Antoni Clavé
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated. Signed on plate. Very good conditions
Passepartout included : 49 x 34 cm
Image Dimensions : 25 x16 cm
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legis...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Images de Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.24 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, I...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hail Thee Who Play (Michael McClure)
By R.B. Kitaj
Located in New York, NY
R.B. Kitaj
Hail thee who play (Michael McClure), 1969
Silkscreen, photo-silkscreen and collage on black textured paper
33 × 13 9/10 inches
Edition 35/70
Pencil signed and numbered on...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Screen
Return to Oz, psychedelic 1967 pop art vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: HEAD OUT TO OZ, artist: James McMullan. Size 24" x 37". Rolled, Not folded; very good to excellent lithograph condition. Year: ...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Cramer 33; Mourlot 204), Derrière le Miroir (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 99-100. Published by Aimé Maeght, Édit...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Vallier 137), Résurrection de l'oiseau, Georges Braque
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Résurrection de l'oiseau, Georges Braque, 1958. Publ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Paradis XX (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Paul Jouve - Chimpanzee - Original Engraving
By Paul Jouve
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve - Chimpanzee - Original Engraving
Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950.
Copy on velin creme de Rives
Artwork by Paul Jouve.
Original copper engraving ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Composition (Vallier 137), Résurrection de l'oiseau, Georges Braque
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Résurrection de l'oiseau, Georges Braque, 1958. Publ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sam's Art, from the New York International portfolio, signed/n lithograph 1966
Located in New York, NY
Saul Steinberg
Sam's Art, from The New York International Portfolio), 1966
Lithograph on wove paper with blind stamp
Pencil signed and numbered 12/225 on the front
Published by Tanglewood Press, Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc., New York
Printed by Irwin Hollander with blind stamp
Unframed
This Steinberg lithograph is titled Sam's Art, which of course refers to Uncle Sam, the nickname for the United States government. It features his version of the motto seen on our dollar bills, "Annuit Coeptis", which is one of the mottoes found on the Great Seal of the United States. It is directly underneath the "Eye of Providence" and is translated by the US Treasury and State Department as "God (or Providence) favors our undertakings". American President Abraham Lincoln, sitting in front of an easel, is also depicted as an artist in this telling 1960s work.
Commentary:
"In Saul Steinberg’s lithograph ‘Sam’s Art’, Abraham Lincoln, in stove-pipe hat, poses as the artist in front of his canvas. While his attention looks fixed on rendering the slightly wobbly pyramid with an eye, the Masonic motif from the back of the one dollar bill, the line from his brush has floated off the canvas to become a cubist-futurist cloud in the sky. The American Eagle looks on, perched on a civil war cannon...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
