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Style: American Modern
"Balcony" 1938 WPA Print Mid 20th Century American Broadway Theatre Modernism
Located in New York, NY
"Balcony" 1938 WPA Print Mid 20th Century American Broadway Theatre Modernism. Silk screen on paper, 15” x 20". Numbered 15/20 lower left. Pencil si...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper, Screen

Peter Grimes, American Modern Lithograph by Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Will Barnet (American, 1911-2012) Title: Peter Grimes Year: 1983 Medium: Color Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: of 250 Image Size: 21 x 21 inches Size: 30 ...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Alfred Stieglitz, Portrait, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1947 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite halftone print after Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), titled Portrait, Georgia O'Keeffe, originates from the 1947 folio Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio, 1864–1946. Published...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

Medieval Pageantry
Located in Middletown, NY
A complicated collaboration between two perfectionists. by John Taylor Arms & Kerr Eby Etching on cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 12 5/8 x 8 11/16 (322 x 222 mm); sheet 18 x 11...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching

The Bridge of Sighs, Venice, by Walter Henry Sweet & John Shapland
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with engraving on cream laid paper with a partial watermark, 12 x 8 1/4 (305 x 210 mm); sheet 16 3/4 x 11 inches (425 x 280 mm), full margins. Signed by both Sweet and Shapla...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Engraving

Original New York Rangers vintage 1971 Hockey poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Vintage 1971 New York Rangers Linen-Backed Hockey Poster – Original NHL Collectible. Excellent condition. Score big for your collection—order now and r...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

HAIL AND FAREWELL
Located in Portland, ME
Kent, Rockwell. HAIL AND FAREWELL. Burne-Jones 55. Wood engraving, 1930. Edition of 120. 8 x 5 1/2 inches, 203 x 140 mm. Signed in pencil. In excellent condition.
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Fonte Nuova, Siena
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on lightweight Japon paper, 9 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches ( 247 x 250 mm); sheet 14 x 12 3/4 inches (355 x 324 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil in the lower margin. I...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Flowers - Original Screen Print - Handsigned and /100 (Schellman II.101)
Located in Paris, IDF
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Flowers (black and white), 1986 Original silkscreen (Printer Alexander Heinrichi, New York) Signed in pencil with the monogram lower right Countersigned in p...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

Grim Orvieto
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on watermarked FJ Head cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 11 1/8 x 8 3/4 inches (283 x 223 mm); sheet 14 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (374 x 292 mm), full margins. Signed and dated ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper

Cockle Burrs at Tinker's
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cockle Burrs at Tinker's" 1966, is an original etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Richard Claude Ziemann, b.1932. It is hand signed, titled, dated an...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Wilby Church Northamptonshire
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid antique J Whatman paper with a watermark, 4 1/2 x 2 3/8 inches (109 x 61 mm); sheet 8 1/2 x 6 1/8 inches (216 x 153 mm), full margins. A proof impression from t...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

Original 1930s Bieres D'Aubel, Rien de Tel! vintage beer poster, linen-backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Bieres D' Aubel. Artist Odette Servais. Size: 21" x 28.5". Original vintage French beer poster. Archival linen-backed and ready to frame. Excellent condition. It was...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original Rhum Mangoustan's vintage French antique liquor poster linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original RHUM MANGOUSTAN'S antique French vintage liquor poster created by the artist Robert Falcucci. Professional archival linen backed in e...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Ceignac (Aveyron)
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a deckle edge and an unidentified round watermark with an arm holding a torch, 3 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (89 x 144 mm); sheet 5 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

"Play, " Figurative Etching Nude with Children signed by Kenneth Hayes Miller
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Play" is an original etching by Kenneth Hayes Miller. The artist signed the piece in pencil and in the plate. This piece features a nude figure with two smaller doll-like figures. ...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Umbrian Street; An Assisi Street
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid watermarked FJ Head paper with a deckle edge, 10 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches (262 x 137 mm); sheet 18 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches (457 x 260 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, d...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper

Adolf Dehn, Gay Head Cliffs, 1935, mid-century lithograph, Martha's Vineyard, MA
Located in New York, NY
Gay Head Cliffs, a 1935 lithograph by Adolf Dehn (1895-1968), depicts a National Landmark in Aquinnah, Martha's Vineyard, MA. Somehow Dehn has managed to capture the very texture of ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Arnold Ronnebeck Lithograph "Silver Mine, Russell Gulch" Colorado Scene
Located in Denver, CO
"Silver Mine, Russell Gulch (12/25)" is a striking black-and-white lithograph by German-born American Modernist Arnold Ronnebeck (1885–1947). This rare print depicts a historic minin...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Elwood W. Bartlett, Water's Edge (Wisconsin), about 1945, mid-century wood eng.
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...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Elwood W. Bartlett, Turtle Creek (Wisconsin), about 1945, mid-century wood eng.
Located in New York, NY
Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana. Turtle Creek (named of course for its many turtles,) is in the southeastern part of the Wisconsin. It is now ...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Mediterranean, Signed Cubist Lithograph by Remo Farruggio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mediterranean Remo Farruggio, Italian/American (1904–1981) Date: Circa 1979 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 300, AP 35 Image Size: 21 x 29 inches Size: 28 in. x ...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

American Pop Art George Segal Color Expressionist Lithograph Woman in Red Kimono
Located in Surfside, FL
George Segal (American, 1924-2000) "Woman in Red Kimono," 1985 Lithograph in colors on wove paper Edition: 104/120 Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil in the lower margin: G. Sega...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Portait of a Romanesque Capital
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on light cream wove paper, 2 5/8 x 2 11/16 inches (68 x 69 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and inscribed "IV" in pencil, lower margin. Likely a proof impression of the t...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching

John Winkler, View from Colby Meadows
Located in New York, NY
Winker is pulling out all the stops to make as stunning a Western Landscape as possible. The sky in this impression is open. There are also impressions with clouds in the sky. Sign...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Landscape with Trees
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Trees" c.1980 is an original lithograph on wove paper by noted American artist Robert Kipniss, b.1931. It is hand si...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

'Eyes for the Night' — Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Eyes for the Night', lithograph, 1947, edition 35, Fine and Looney 260. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. A fine impression, on heavy, cream ...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Owl that calls upon the Night speaks the Unbeliever's ...
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Owl that calls upon the Night speaks the Unbeliever's" 1968 is an original woodcut on Makuroko paper by noted American artist Leonard Baskin, 1922-2000. It i...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Stag
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Stag" 1957 is an original woodcut on laid paper by noted American artist Leonard Baskin, 1922-2000. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P. (Artist Proof) pencil by...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Fair
Located in Storrs, CT
The Fair. 1895-96. Lithograph. Way 92, Levy 144, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 135 state ii. Image 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 (sheet 13 x 9 5/8). A fine impression printed on antique cream-laid paper. Way lists 15-lifetime impressions (Goulding printed...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Original Hell's Angels '69 vintage motorcycle movie poster half-sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Hell's Angels '69 vintage half-sheet movie poster. Original horizontal half sheet movie poster from 1969: Hell's Angeles '69. The film stars the original Oakland Hell's Angeles with Tom Stern, Jeremy Slate, Conny Van Dyke; Steve Sandor, Sonny Barger, Terry the Tramp. Am American International Release original. 'For a wild, wicked weekend and the deadliest gamble ever dared!. The left-hand side features the famous landmark hotel signs from Flamingo Sahara, Caesars Palace...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

Fulton Market No. 1 - A lower Manhattan landscape as it existed in 1922
Located in Middletown, NY
A lower Manhattan landscape as it existed in 1922, with Trinity Church and City Hall visible in the background. New York: c 1922 Etching with aquatint on heavy-weight cream wove pap...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Archival Paper, Etching

Summer Field
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Summer Field" 1965, is an original etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Richard Claude Ziemann, b.1932. It is hand signed, titled, dated and inscribed ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

William P. Hicks, Circus
Located in New York, NY
William P. Hicks has drawn everything about the circus that will fit in the plate. The main figure is an aerial act with a woman balancing on rope held by a figure on the floor. Ther...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Kazakh Steppes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Kazakh Steppes" 1965, is an original etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Richard Claude Ziemann, b.1932. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Original Coca Cola "Our America #3 Motion Pictures vintage 1943 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. “OUR AMERICA, #3 USING MOTION PICTURES FOR SOCIAL VALUE.” vintage poster. Presented by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company. This poster displays the benefits of American Motion Picture making on society as a whole and is number three in the series of Our America, Motion Pictures. From leisure, as in entertainment, to the practical, like legal documentation and recording important events, are displayed in this poster. These benefits are shown in eight small windows along either side of a large ninth window, which is all brought into harmony by the use of green tones, and that the windows are set upon a mint green background. Presenting Facts of History. Our America Motion Pictures # 3. Using Motion Pictures for Social Values. 1. Using cartoons for amusement. 2. Reporting an important event. 3. Making biography dramatic. 4. Reporting athletic events. 5. Dramatizing a famous book. 6. Showing places of natural beauty. Y. Using motion pictures in legal cases. 8. Making pictures true to facts. We Can All Do Our Part! In 1943, during World War II, Coca-Cola created the “Our America” series of vintage motion picture posters...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

LIDO " Gala Revue" Pourquoi pas! original French cabaret poster, linen-backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Lido “Gala Revue” Pourquoi pas!, linen-backed French cabaret poster by famed artist Rene Gruau. Very fine, grade A condition. The image of an elegant woman in her cabaret...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

Cathedral of Saint Cyr and Saint Julieta, Nevers
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 12 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (328 x 140 mm); sheet 14 7/8 X 8 3/8 inches (389 x 217 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil in the lower right margin. Fro...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching

'A Wind Is Rising and the Rivers Flow' — Mid-Century American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'A Wind is Rising and the Rivers Flow', color lithograph, 1945, edition 40, Fine and Looney 242. Signed, dated, and titled, and annotated 'Ed 40' in pencil. A fine ...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Rodez (The Tower of Notre Dame)
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on extremely delicate antique Japon laid paper, 12 x 5 (305 x 127 mm); sheet 15 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches (400 x 178 mm), full margins. In very good condition. A magnificently detai...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper

September Morn - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. Three women strolling on a beach. This impression is one of the rare impressions p...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Cherry Street
Located in Middletown, NY
A view of lower Manhattan's Cherry Street as it appeared at the turn of the 20th century. One of only 5 proof impressions. New York: 1904. Drypoint with aquatint on watermarked, cr...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Reflections
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Reflections', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1979, edition 160 in 1983. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A superb impression, on cream ...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Chaplin and Red Tailed Hawk
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on white wove paper with a deckle edge, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (598 x 317 mm); sheet 30 x 22 1/2 inches (762 x 571 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 23/50 ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Head of a Man, Fish and Morning Glory
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint in colors on white wove paper with a deckle edge, 18 x 15 inches (457 x 381 mm); sheet 30 x 22 1/2 inches (762 x 571 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 123/...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Flora
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on white wove paper with a deckle edge, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (598 x 317 mm); sheet 30 x 22 1/2 inches (762 x 571 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 38/50 ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Église de Brou
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on delicate, fibrous Japon paper with a deckle edge, 8 7/8 x 4 1/8 (227 x 105 mm); sheet 12 x 7 7/8 inches (304 x 100 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil in the low...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching

Original Emprunt SNCF 1957 Souscrivez vintage French railroad poster linenbacked
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1957 “Emprunt SNCF Souscrivez” vintage French poster by Paul Schmitt, linen-backed and ready to frame. The poster had been folded for shipment, and the fold lines were res...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Adolf Dehn, The Big-Hearted Girls (The Last Veil), 1932, burlesque lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Dehn's, lithograph about burlesque, The Big Hearted Girls #2 (also known as The Last Veil), is filled with dancing girls and fabulous costumes. That central figure is a marvel!...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Plumed Serpent, Chichén Itzá
Located in Middletown, NY
A masterful rendering of Kukulkan at the base of the west face of the northern stairway of El Castillo, Chichen Itza. Etching on antique watermarked fine Barcelona cream laid paper,...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

Stanwick Churchyard
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 2 3/8 x 3/14 inches (61 x 83), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "IV" in the artist's hand. In superb condition with the numerals "365" written i...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching

Chartres in Miniature
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on fine, laid antique Head & Co. paper with a partial watermark. 1/2 x 13/16 (13 x 21 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "II" in pencil, lower margin. A trial pr...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Laid Paper, Etching

Tête-à-Tête in the Garden
Located in Storrs, CT
Tête-à-Tête in the Garden. 1894. Lithograph. Way 54, Levy 85, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 90. 8 x 6 1/2(sheet 10 7/8 x 8 1/2). Edition of 25-lifetime impressions plus a few proofs re...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original USSR USA Superman superpowers original vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1968 Cold War Superman Style Poster by Roman Cieslewicz USSR / CCCP USA. Created as the cover of the French left-wing art magazine ‘Opus Internatio...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

Original Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach original 2012 event poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Official Event Poster. Printed on heavy stock paper and in excellent condition, ready to frame. The event posters were produced in limited qu...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

The Grolier Club Library (Sketch)
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (99 x 150 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "Sketch Grolier Club Library Demonstration Print," and numbered "I" in pen...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

'Mending Nets' — Cape Ann Regionalism, Rockport
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Christian Dull, 'Mending Nets', aquatint, c. 1930, edition 50. Signed and numbered '50/-' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream laid paper, the full sheet with margins (1/2 to 1 1/2...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

Original Vetements Forchic French fashion vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original lithograph, linen backed. Vetements Forchic. Pour Lui; Elle a Choise. Archival linen-backed vintage French fashion poster in fine...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Ruff's Farm
Located in Middletown, NY
A nostalgic image of a bucolic farmyard and thatched cottage, hearkening to a bygone era. c 1920. Etching with drypoint on laid watercolor paper with deckle edges, and an indiscerni...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Left Bank Cafe, Paris
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Left Bank Cafe, Paris" 1987 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered H.C 166/175 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 26 x 38 inches, sheet size is 32.25 x 44 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, two small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back. About the artist: Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival. Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes. Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions. When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union. In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care. Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out." His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995. LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather. He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess. As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid." After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war. On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s. When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint. While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine. In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician. Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation. In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter. Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world. "Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962. Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him. A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters. Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS. Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints

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American Modern figurative prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic American Modern figurative prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, blue, yellow, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including John Taylor Arms, Shepard Fairey, Ernest Tino Trova, and Will Barnet. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Etching and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large American Modern figurative prints, so small editions measuring 1.57 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $100 and tops out at $80,000, while the average work sells for $888.

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