Romare Bearden

IN THE GARDEN Signed Lithograph, Black Female Portrait, African American Culture

1979

OPERATION MOSES is an original hand drawn lithograph by the American artist/sculptor Chaim Gross, hand proofed and printed from lithographic plates on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. OPERATION MOSES is a contemporary style figurative watercolor drawing created to commemorate the evacuation of African Jews to Israel here represented by visual elements including colorful doves, a yellow menorah, an out stretched hand, city of Jerusalem, the US White House, stone tablets, and a group of seated Ethiopian people studying Torah. Printed in watercolor shades of light blues, reds, yellow, green, salmon pink, purple, browns and graphite black for the pencil drawing using the age-old hand printing methods first used in fine art lithography printmaking. OPERATION MOSES is a very unique, extremely limited edition lithograph created in commemoration of the historic airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1984. Operation Moses refers to the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews (known as the "Beta Israel" community or "Falashas") from Sudan during a civil war that caused a famine in 1984. Print size - 16 x 20 inches Image size - 10.5 x 15 1/8 inches Edition size - 10 Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co. NY Chaim Gross,(1904 - 1991) was a sculptor, artist, and teacher, known for his wood carvings, sculptures of moving human figures, religious imagery, acrobats, mothers and children. Chaim was born on March 17, 1904 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia. During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art academy and studied with painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before emigrating to New York City in 1921. In the U.S., Gross's studies continued at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied sculpture with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League, with sculptor Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Gross exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club (the precursor to the Whitney Museum of American Art). In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005), and they had two children, Yehuda and Mimi (Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist, and was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976). In 1933, Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures for schools and public colleges, and created works for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the 1937 Exposition universelle in Paris. Chaim Gross, Sculptor by Josef Vincent Lombardo, the first major book on Gross, came out in 1949 and included a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1963, Gross and his family moved from their longtime residence at 30 W. 105th Street to Greenwich Village, following the purchase of a four-story historic townhouse at 526 LaGuardia Place, which is now the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation. In 1974, the Smithsonian American Art Museum held the exhibition, Chaim Gross: Sculpture and Drawings, and in 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African...

C F S I is an original hand drawn lithograph by the New York woman artist Marie Roberts printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper 100% acid free. C F S I portrays a Coney Island Sideshow Performance with several onlookers standing by the stage watching the show. C F S I is a skillfully expressed, painted figurative line drawing printed in black ink shaded with colored crayon line textures in shades of red, yellow and blue. A very fine impression exemplifying the magic and artistic mastery of hand crafted lithography with its nuanced tusche brush strokes and pencil crayon line textures and shading. Print size - 29.5 x 21.25 , Image size - 26.25 x 18.25 Marie Roberts, a Coney Island native is best known for her banners for the Coney Island Circus Sideshow...

STREET SCENE, NYC Crowd, is an original, hand drawn lithograph by Raphael Soyer, the renowned Russian-born American realist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Printed using traditio...

STREET SCENE, NYC Crowd, is an original, hand drawn lithograph by Raphael Soyer, the renowned Russian-born American realist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Printed using traditio...

PROPHESY by the Israeli artist Moshe Castel (1909-1991) is a limited edition lithograph printed in 13 colors using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset paper 100% acid free. Castel creates a very aesthetically appealing and captivating contemporary arrangement of ancient Hebrew...

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Nelson Mandela, Impressions of Africa (black and white), Signed Limited Edition Lithograph Many people are unaware that Nelson Mandela turned his hand to art in his 80's as a way of ...

Pop art scene of abstracted Greek pillars and green leaves. Drawings in black and white, pale blue, red and grey compose this colorful print. Layers of p...

Listen measures 20 x 60 framed and is excellent condition. The elegant lithograph includes blue horse hair and tea stained paper, the unique use of mixed media is quintessential Dill...

"The Guggenheim, 10 Independents" 1972 lithograph hand-signed Red Grooms AP inside figure of woman on bottom right corner of work. The work promotes the January 14 through February 2...

"Slushing" lithograph by Red Grooms from 1971 "No Gas" portfolio. Signed AP at bottom of blue umbrella in center of image and Red Grooms on shoe in lower right corner. Depicts people...