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Style: American Modern
Elwood W. Bartlett, Wisconsin Farm, about 1945, mid-century wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana.
Largely self taught as a printmaker, Bartlett worked in a style that once identified as his, immediately t...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Original Formidable! - Bal du Moulin Rouge Paris vintage cabaret poster
By René Gruau
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Moulin Rouge - Striking small-format vintage poster by Rene Gruau. Archival linen-backed and in excellent condition, ready to frame. Bright, vibrant colors. Grade A.
Celebrate the electric allure of Parisian nightlife with this authentic René Gruau poster made for the Moulin Rouge. In flowing ribbons of red and a bold splash of inky black, Gruau captures the can-can's motion in a memorable silhouette. Elegant, striking, and unmistakably Paris, this piece makes a perfect addition to any collection of fashion, advertising, or mid-century graphic art.
The legendary Moulin Rouge poster...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Pool Diver - Lithograph (Olympic Games Munich 1972)
Located in Paris, IDF
David HOCKNEY
Pool Diver, 1972
Original lithograph
Signature printed in the plate
On paper 101 x 64 cm (c. 40 x 26 inch)
Made for the Olympic Games in Munich, 1972
REFERENCES : Bri...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Grand Canal, Venice
By Elias S. Mandel Grossman
Located in Middletown, NY
1926. Etching in sepia ink on Japon paper, 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 inches (245 x 292 mm), full margins with the lower margin slightly notched. Signed, titled and dated in pencil in the lower ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Night Shadows
By Edward Hopper
Located in Storrs, CT
Night Shadows. 1921. Etching. Levin 82. 7 x 8 3/8 (sheet 10 x 13 7 1/16).s Series: Six American Etchings: The New Republic Portfolio, 1924. Edition approximately 500-600. Illustrate...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$48,000 Sale Price
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'Sisters' — Renowned Black American, Harlem Renaissance Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Lesesne Wells, 'Sisters', linocut, edition not stated but small, 1928. Signed, titled, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A fine impression on off-white wove Japan paper, with wide margins (1 7/8 to 3 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by the artist. Very scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 8 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches (208 x 171 mm); sheet size 13 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (343 x 273 mm).
Exhibition and Literature: 'Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection,' The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, extensive touring exhibition, 1998-2000.
Collections: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (Anacostia Community Museum).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“Wells is more than an artist with a deep concern for his fellow man. He carries many of his themes a step further into an apocalyptic world, a world of revelation and shifting lights. … He works on large blocks in a bold free style. … His work has a vigor, therefore, that is not often used in the medium today.”
—Jacob Kainen (painter, critic, and collector) from Richard J. Powell’s 1986 essay Phoenix Ascending: The Art of James Lesesne Wells.
James Lesesne Wells was an American painter, printmaker, educator, and pioneering figure of the Harlem Renaissance, whose work established a vital connection between African heritage, modernist form, and African American cultural identity. Known for his innovative use of linoleum and woodblock printing, Wells played a key role in shaping 20th-century African American art and inspired countless students throughout his lengthy career as a teacher at Howard University.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Wells' early exposure to the arts came through church and community, where African American cultural traditions were central. He pursued formal artistic training at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania (earning a B.A. in 1924), followed by studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Barnes Foundation, where he encountered European modernists as well as traditional African sculpture, which profoundly influenced his style.
Wells moved to New York in the late 1920s, swiftly immersing himself in the lively artistic and intellectual scene of Harlem. There, he became associated with artists, writers, and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, contributing to the growth of Black cultural identity. Considered a mentor to many famed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Wells served as director of a summer art workshop in Harlem where his assistants included Charles Alston, Jacob Lawrence, and Palmer Hayden...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
'The Gateway to the New World' — Vintage New York City
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'The Gateway to the New World', etching (artist's proof), edition 16, 1926, Kennedy 25. Signed in pencil and annotated 'Japan Silk Paper - Trial Proof - Ltd. Ed. Del. et...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Unemployed Marchers' — American Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Unemployed Marchers', 2-color lithograph, c. 1938, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '2/25' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression on off-white, wove paper, w...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Manhattan Mountains
Located in Storrs, CT
Manhattan Mountains. 1938. Etching and drypoint. 14 3/4 x 12 3/8 (sheet 17 1/4 x 14 3/4). Artist proof, previous to the edition of 40. An atmospheric impression printed on buff-colored laid paper. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Final state' and 'Jones Proof'in pencil. Housed in an archival sleeve.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'Wild Pilgrimage' (Contemplation) — 'Story Without Words' Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Wild Pilgrimage', No. 26, wood engraving, 1932, edition not stated but very small. Signed in pencil. A fine, black impression, with full margins (1 1/16 to 3 3/16 inches), on tissue-thin cream Japan paper, in very good condition. A scarce, artist-printed, hand-signed proof impression before the published edition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Created by Lynd Ward for his narrative book of illustrations without words, 'Wild Pilgrimage', published by Harrison Smith...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake
Located in Storrs, CT
Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake. 1889. Etching, aquatint and burnishing. Goodrich 104. 14 1/4 x 20 5/8; sheet 18 1/2 x 24 1/2. Edition unknown but quite possibl...
Category
Late 19th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$40,000 Sale Price
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'Brooklyn Bridge' — Iconic New York City Landmark
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Luigi Kasimir, 'Brooklyn Bridge', color etching with aquatint, 1927, edition 100. Signed in pencil.
A superb impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, cream wove paper; with margins...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Original MEXICO, Pais de Maravillas vintage travel poster, linen backed.
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "Mexico, País de Maravillas" Linen-Backed Vintage Poster, c. 1950s. Grade A- condition.
Immerse yourself in the vibrant charm of mid-c...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Jazz : Swing Guy (Yellow) - Screenprint Poster, Montreux, 1983
By Keith Haring
Located in Paris, IDF
Keith Haring
Swing Guy (Yellow), 1983
Screenprint
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 100 x 70 cm (c. 40 x 28 in)
Created by Haring for the Montreux Jazz Festival
Excelle...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Original Americans will Always Fight for Liberty vintage WWII (1943) poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Title: Original 1943 WWII Propaganda Poster - "Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty" - Authentic U.S. Government Issue. Archival linen-backed with the original US Government-issue...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Werner Drewes, Winter, 1933, modernist woodcut
Located in New York, NY
A modernist fantasy winter scene created by Werner Drewes, this print brings key aspects of the period together. His cubist-inspired woodcut technique is utilized here to bring the s...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Norman Rockwell "Bottom Of The Sixth" Seriolithograph
Located in New York, NY
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)
Bottom of The Sixth
Original painting produced 1948, authorized postumous estate print produced 2005
Seriolithograph
Sight: 20 1/4 x 19 in.
Fram...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original pre-release 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original movie poster, Linen-backed original Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom pre-release. "Coming May 23rd, 1984.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the 1984 Steven Spielberg treasure-hunting action-adventure fantasy sequel ("If adventure has a name... It must be Indiana Jones."; "Trust him."
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$476 Sale Price
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Tribute to the Victims (Viet Nam) - Lithograph, 1967
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Calder (1898 - 1976)
Tribute to the Victims, 1967
Lithograph on offset background (Arte atelier)
Printed signature in the plate
On paper 75 x 44.5 cm (c. 29.5 x 17.3 inch)
Original vintage poster
INFORMATION: Published by Maeght on the occasion of the artist's exhibition "Pour le Viet Nam...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"The Little One" - Rare Signed Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Little One" - Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Bold lithograph by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). A young child is kneeling, facing away ...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
$540 Sale Price
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Original 'Apollo Stumpen' vintage Swiss cigar poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Swiss poster: Apollo Stumpen Cigars. Johannes Handschin created this Swiss poster. Swiss size of 35" x 49". Professional acid-free archival linen backed, ready to frame. The colors are vibrant and intense. Great colors. Rare original Swiss (Switzerland) vintage poster.
This is the rarer large format, the rarest version of the poster. The small format is 20 x 27, about 1/2 the size.
There is a flaw in the lower section of the man’s covering, the lower left of his chin. Shown in images.
Switzerland was known for some of the better printing of their posters and the use of more expensive inks, thus richer colors in the posters that survive today.
This art deco-style cigar poster...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$760 Sale Price
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Original "Wonderful Copenhagen" vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: WONDERFUL COPENHAGEN created by the artist Viggo Vagnby. This antique poster is archival linen-backed, in excellent condition, and ready to frame. No da...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Equal Justice Under Law" Screenprint #99/125 on Wove Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Equal Justice Under Law" Screenprint #99/125 on Wove Paper
Iconic composition by Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008). A red envelope and a hand holding sprouted grass the pli...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Screen
Jack McClain, (Evening in the City) (NYC)
Located in New York, NY
A moody evening in New York City. The buildings capture the quiet that New York sometimes achieves.
Signed and dated in pencil.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chicago Skyline
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful turn-of-the-century lake view of Chicago by an American artist known for his Texas landscapes.
Etching with drypoint on watermarked Umbria laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (182 x 275 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/25 in pencil, lower margin. In good condition with adhesive residue at the sheet edges on the verso, does not show through to the recto. A lovely Lake Michigan landscape...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Profile of an African Woman — 1920s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Profile of an African Woman), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 15 in pencil. Number 15 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publish...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$760 Sale Price
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Cathedral de Saint Julien le Mans
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 9 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (232 x 248 mm); sheet 12 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches (307 x 323 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil in ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Welcoming Jeers - Lithograph, 1997
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Welcoming Jeers, 1997
Lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On Arches vellum 76 x 56 cm (c. 29.9 x 22 in)
Published by Galerie Enrico Navarra
...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original The French Riviera (Cote d'Azur) French Railways vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage travel advertising poster for the FRENCH RIVIERA FRENCH NATIONAL RAILROADS SNCF (French National Railways) - the French Riviera. (Cote D'Azur, known as the French Riviera) The image features people looking out towards a marina full of sailing boats. Colorful artwork by the French painter Jules Cavailles (1901-1977). Printed by Perceval, Paris in 1953. Mid-Century Modern. Grade A-
This is the English version of the poster compared to the design created for Cote d'Azur. The English version is much rarer (both are rare today). The poster gives the impression of a naive painting at this Mediterranean beach and seaport.
Step into a world of timeless elegance and sunlit dreams with this exquisite French Riviera Vintage...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The King - Lithograph, 1997
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
The King, 1997
Lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On paper 76 x 56 cm (c. 29.9 x 22 in)
Published by Galerie Enrico Navarra
Authenticated b...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harry Shokler, Island Harbor
Located in New York, NY
Harry Shokler used serigraphy to great advantage in this landscape. It's colorful and detailed.
It is signed in the image at the lower left. When printmakers began making serigraphs...
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1940s American Modern 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...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Ethel Katz, Fur Tailors, New Deal-era lithograph of sweatshop
Located in New York, NY
This is a classic New-Deal image: claustrophobic sweatshop with a row of hunched tailors. The windows and lamps offer light at least. But there is a major difference between this and...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'The Furnace' — American Expressionism
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'The Furnace', drypoint, edition 26, 1924, Kennedy 5. Signed and annotated 'Drypoint. Ltd Ed. Del. et imp.' in pencil. Titled in pencil, in the bottom center sheet edge....
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Original Americans All! Honor Roll - Victory Libery Loan vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1919 Vintage "Americans All!" Victory Liberty Loan Poster by Howard Chandler Christy. Archival linen backed in A- condition, ready to frame.
This iconic 1919 "American...
Category
1910s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Prodigal Son
Located in London, GB
A man raises his hand to his chin, his neck tilted and face turned to look at a dilapidated farmhouse, barely held together by planks of wood and exposed to the elements. Behind him ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of James McBey.
Located in Storrs, CT
James McBey. 1931. Drypoint. 8 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 9 ). An extremely rich impression with drypoint burr, printed by the artist on cream wove paper. Signed in the plate lower ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Original 'Cruise to South America Moore-McCormack Lines' vintage poster
By Dong Kingman
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Cruise to South America, Moore-McCormack (cruise) lines. Artist: Dong Kingman. Archival linen backed in fine condition, ready to frame. Grade A. Bring the allure of...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cathedral of Saint Cyr and Saint Julitta, Nevers
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 12 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (328 x 140 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower margin. Laid down to non-archival board, general age tone and some ma...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Handmade Paper, Etching
'Tropical Wash Day' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Tropical Wash Day', aquatint, edition 100, 1946. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy cream wove paper, with full...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
The Enchanted Doorway; Venezia
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on antique cream laid paper, 12 3/8 x 6 9/16 inches (315 x 167 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "Edition 100" in pencil, lower margin. In very goo...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Down the River
Located in London, GB
In this sentimental work from 1939, Benton expresses his admiration for the rural lifestyle of the Midwest. He highlights the connection between man and the land by depicting two fig...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original The Rocky Horror Picture Show US 1 sheet movie poster, on linen, 1975
Located in Spokane, WA
Original The Rocky Horror Picture Show vintage movie poster, professionally linen backed with original fold marks restored, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. A different set of jaws. ...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Notre Dame de Paris
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb, dark impression of a well known scene by Arms.
Etching with aquatint on watermarked handmade F.J. Head & Co. laid paper, 12 3/8 x 13 15/16 inches (315 x 354 mm), full marg...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Zen Minimalist Flowers Etching American Modernist Ed Baynard Pop Art Print
By Ed Baynard
Located in Surfside, FL
ED BAYNARD (American, 1940-2016)
Flowers, Flowers in a Vase, Etching.
1979/1980,
Hand signed, dated l.r.,
Hand numbered from small edition 12/24,
Dimensions: 23 by 19 in. Framed 25 by 21 in
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1940. Raised in Washington, D.C. and newly graduated from high school, he flew to Europe living off and on in Paris and London. During this time, he designed costumes for Jimi Hendrix, worked as a graphic designer for the Beatles as well as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Returning to New York, he dedicated his life to art after a surprise success with his first show in 1971 at the Willard Gallery in NYC. Ed's images are Zen-like in their simplicity and grace rendered in a flat, graphic style that recalls Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. His watercolors are luminous, like the rest of his representations regardless of the medium. The Japanese inspired ukiyo-e style woodblock prints and lithograph works he created at Tyler Graphics in 1980 contain a 20th century "floating world" sensibility. Ed's wish was to bring harmony, color, and a meditative stillness to this chaotic planet. He did so in a gentle and powerful way, always as an expression of his deep gratitude for the love and beauty, friendship, and concerns he held dearest. His first solo exhibition was in 1971 at New York's legendary Willard Gallery on the recommendation of Agnes Martin. Baynard went on to have exhibitions at galleries including Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (1973); Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (1977); John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (1980); and Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (1980/81).. Baynard manages to retain a simplicity of form inspired by a love of Japanese Woodblock prints. His new works reflect the same poetry of his earlier paintings, retaining his stylized compositions with their Zen like minimalism and Oriental calm, along with a new sense of rhythm and movement. Baynard uses familiar themes such as flowers, plants, pots, and vases, incorporating them into his delicate watercolor still lifes, thus creating stunning visual feasts. He was included in the 1972 Landscape exhibition at MoMA NY alone with other luminaries James Boynton...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Palm Springs and The Communities of The Coachella Valley vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Palm Springs, California, and the communities of the Coachella Valley vintage poster. A fun image map of the Palm Springs area and activities and hotspots to visit.
Linen ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Adolf Dehn, Lake Tarryall, 1941 mid-century lithograph of Colorado mountain lake
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Lake Tarryall, a 1941 lithograph by Adolf Dehn (1895-1968) was made while he was teaching in Colorado. A native of Waterville, Minnesota, Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art ...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chartres; Cathedral of Notre Dame from the River
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb impression on Japon paper, one of only three proofs.
Etching on handmade Japon paper with a deckle edge, 13 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches (333 x 252 mm); sheet 18 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
'Dancing' — 'les années folles' Paris Masterwork, 1928
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 'Dancing', lithograph, 1928, edition 30, Davis L-29. Signed, dated, and numbered '8/30' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, printed on cream chine appliqué on heavy off-white wove backing; the full sheet with wide margins (1 3/8 to 4 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by Desjobert, Paris. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Impressions of this work are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi Museum (Japan).
ABOUT THIS WORK
The French economy boomed from 1921 until the Great Depression reached Paris in 1931. This period called 'Les années folles' or the 'Crazy Years', saw Paris reestablished as a capital of art, music, literature, and cinema. Paris in the 1920s and 1930s was the home and meeting place of some of the world's most prominent painters, sculptors, composers, dancers, poets, and writers. For those in the arts, it was, as Ernest Hemingway described it, "A moveable feast". Paris was home to an exceptional number of galleries, art dealers, and a network of wealthy patrons who offered commissions and held salons.
Pablo Picasso, perhaps the most famous artist in Paris, shared renown with a remarkable group of others, including the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, the Belgian René Magritte, the Italian Amedeo Modigliani, the Russian émigré Marc Chagall, the Catalan and Spanish artists Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Juan Gris, and the German surrealist...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Somewhere in France
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a partial watermark (likely Arches), 12 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (308 x 156 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil in the lower right margin...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Handmade Paper, Etching
Low Country (South Carolina)
Located in Middletown, NY
An enchanting Southern landscape by the mother of the Charleston Renaissance.
A native of Charleston, South Carolina, and educated under the tutelage of Thomas Anshutz at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, O'Neill Verner was a teacher, a mother, an artist, an ardent preservationist, and a skilled autodidact. Having previously focused on painting, in the early 1920s she found herself deeply moved by printmaking as a media, and especially so by the simple, peaceful themes and tableaus she discovered in Japanese art. She embarked on a effort to teach herself Japanese printmaking techniques, and in the process, produced the charming images of every day life in Charleston and its environs that earned her recognition as a cultural icon in her day, and in more modern times, as the mother of the Charleston Renaissance, which flourished well into the 1930s. In 1923 she opened a studio in Charleston where she focused on documenting the local color and the architecture and landscape that distinguishes Charleston as one of the South's most beautiful cities, all the while applying the gentle and poetic thematic sensibilities of Japanese printmaking. O'Neill Verner soon found herself in high demand when municipalities and institutions throughout the country sought commissions from her to document the beauty of their grounds and historic buildings. She worked as far north as the campuses of Harvard and Princeton, and extensively across the South, including in Savannah, Georgia, where through sweeping commissions she was able to marry her love of southern preservation and art. O'Neill Verner was a lifelong learner, and continued a path of edification that led her to study etching at the Central School of Art in London, to travel extensively through Europe, and to visit Japan in 1937, where she studied sumi (brush and ink) painting. She was a founding member of the Charleston Etchers Club, and the Southern States Art League. Her works are represented in the permanent collections of leading museums across the American south, and in major national institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston's Museum of Fine Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. O'Neil Verner...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
'The Castle' — Mid-Century Modernist Children's Fantasy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'The Castle', color serigraph, 1953, edition 35, Ryan 33. Signed, titled, and numbered '11/35' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream Japan paper. Th...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Harold E. Keeler, Water Fall
Located in New York, NY
Harold E. Keeler worked in Hollywood as a set designer. That seems especially important here because the Water Fall looks a little as though it could be a w...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Frank Kleinholz, World Premier
Located in New York, NY
Frank Kleinholz was a lawyer-turned-modernist-artist. This work may have been printed in France in the late 1940s when he went there to learn lithography. He returned to the states i...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
DISCOVERY OF GOLD - Very Large Serigraph - WPA Artist - California Murals
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANTON REFREGIER (1905 – 1979)
DISCOVERY OF GOLD, 1949. Color serigraph. Signed and numbered in pencil, edition of 90. Image 23 ¼ x 21 ¾" Large sheet, 29 3/4 x 25 ¼”. Printed title...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Original Mardi Gras New Orleans 1978 festival serigraph poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Mardi Gras, New Orleans, 1978 linen-backed poster. Dressed up in what would be an American Indian costume with full headgear, he is holding a shield with a horse on it. Indian decoration on the footwear. Signed and numbered.
I believe this has to deal with Big Chief leading his Congo Nation Mardi Gras Indian group. Zulu Parade. Many of the original Mardi Gras jazz posters...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$636 Sale Price
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Original California Ferrari Louis Vuitton Parc de Bagatelle hand signed poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1989 Louis Vuitton Automobile Classiques Poster –Hand Signed, Archival Linen-Backed. This poster was created for the Concours d’Elegance ...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A view of the New York Public Library, looking uptown along 5th Avenue.
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: c 1920.
Etching with aquatint printed in brownish black ink on cream wove paper, 8 3/4 x 12 inches (220 x 304 mm), full margins. Signed and titled in pencil in the lower ma...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Adolf Dehn, Curtain (aka Flora Dora Girls), 1932, burlesque lithograph
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Dehn's, lithograph on chine collé, Curtain or The Flora Dora Girls, is an ode to burlesque with dancing girls and fabulous costumes. It comes on the heals of a 1930 pre-code mo...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Bal du Moulin Rouge "Festival" French cabaret poster, linen-backed
By René Gruau
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Bal du Moulin Rouge “Festival” Vintage Cabaret Poster. Linen-backed in excellent condition, ready to frame.
Turn your wall into a Paris night. René Gruau’s electric silh...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
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