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Style: American Modern
"Untitled" Paul Resika, Modernist, Black and White, Abstracted Composition
Located in New York, NY
Paul Resika Untitled Signed lower right Etching on wove paper 10 1/2 x 6 inches Paul Resika (born 1928, New York, New York) is primarily recognized for his artwork featuring the di...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper, Etching

"Elephant Family" Large original serigraph.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Elephant Family" 1983 is an original large color serigraph on paper by noted American artist Leroy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 63/300 in pe...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

Swing (The swing of the bat from #27 a right handed hitter. Play Baseball!
Located in New Orleans, LA
Play Ball! No. 27 unleashes a mighty swing at the ball. Both umpire and catcher are in their huddled crouch. "Swing" is an exclusive publication of Stone and Press Gallery by Art We...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint

Aurora (Red), Framed and Signed Modern Screenprint by Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Aurora (Red) Will Barnet, American (1911–2012) Date: 1979 Color Screenprint on Lenox, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of AP Image Size: 16.5 x 40 inches Size: 20 x 43.5 in. (50...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

Original 1973 Vail Village Colorado vintage travel and skiing poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1973 Vail Village, Colorado vintage travel and skiing poster. Preservation linen-mounted in A- condition, ready to frame. Discover Vintage Vail Magic! Take a trip back i...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

Tribute to Nelligan : The Leafs - Original lithograph, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Paul RIOPELLE Tribute to Nelligan : The Leafs Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil On Arches vellum 56 x 76 cm (c. 22 x 30 in) REFERENCE : Catalog raisonne Y. Riopelle #19...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Wrexham Tower, Yale University
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on watermarked cream laid J Perrigot Arches paper, 15 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches (400 x 248 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and dedicated to the the artist Ruth Knobl...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint

"Nipples and Peas" The Perfect Meal "Soup Etching on Paper by Tina Heck
Located in Soquel, CA
The artwork "Nipples & Peas" by Tina Heck, created in 1983, is a print that combines elements of realism and abstraction. The technique appears to be a combination of printmaking, ...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Laid Paper, Intaglio, Woodcut

"Angelika's Pets, " Wood Engraving by Robert Franz Von Neumann
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Angelika's Pets" is an original wood engraving by Robert Franz Von Neumann. It features a young woman sitting at a desk, working on a wood engraving. Two large cats sit near her and look out a window nearby. Image: 6" x 5" Framed: 13.43" x 12.43" 1888 - 1976 Born in Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany, Robert von Neumann...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

'Tenant Farmers' — Depression Era, WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lou Barlow (Louis Breslow), 'Tenant Farmers', color wood engraving, 1936, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '15/25' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh c...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Original Norwich Castle England lithographic vintage British travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original linen-backed NORWICH CASTLE vintage travel poster, printed in England in 1935 by artist C. W. Hobbis and published by Page Brothers (Norwich) Ltd. It features a city center ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Paris Bourse, Pop Art Screenprint by LeRoy Neiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921-2012) Title: Paris Bourse Year: 1981 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: PP Image Size: 29.5 x 37 inches Frame Size: 41 ...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

Victoria Incres Line, Scandinavian Luxury Cruises original vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Linen-backed original vintage poster: Ms. Victoria Incres Line, All Italian Crew, Mediterranean; West Indies Luxury Cruises original poster. Colorful cruise line poster with a gold...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

"Noel, " Religious Linocut on Blue Paper stamped signature by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Noel" is an original linocut on blue paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower center. This artwork features the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus. Both figu...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Linocut

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

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

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Screen

'Little Girl' — American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Milton Avery, 'Little Girl', drypoint, 1936, edition 60, Lunn 11. Signed, dated, and numbered '22/60' in pencil. A superb impression, in warm black ink with delicate overall plate tone, on off-white wove paper, with wide margins (2 5/8 to 4 1/8 inches); hinge stains on the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 8 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (222 x 121 mm); sheet size 14 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches (378 x 333 mm). Collections: Cantor Arts Center, National Gallery of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST "I never have any rules to follow; I follow myself." "I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight." —Milton Avery 'His is the poetry of sheer loveliness.' —Mark Rothko in his 1965 eulogy to Avery. Milton Avery (1885-1965) is recognized as one of America's foremost modernist artists, renowned for his uniquely expressive style, evocative use of color, and captivating compositions. Growing up in a working-class family in Altmar, New York, Avery's early life was marked by the struggles and realities of rural New York. Despite lacking formal artistic training, he displayed an innate talent for drawing from an early age. In 1905, his family relocated to Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked various odd jobs while developing his artistic skills through self-study and experimentation. In 1915, he enrolled at the Connecticut League of Art Students, where he received formal instruction and began to refine his distinctive style. In 1918, Avery transferred to the School of the Art Society of Hartford and worked in the evenings so that he could paint during the day. He became a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts in 1924. That summer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he met the artist Sally Michael...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Drypoint

Original Anno Santo 1983 Viterbo Italy vintage travel poster and map on linen
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Anno Santo 1983 Italian travel poster map. Linen-backed in Grade A condition, ready to frame. A large yellow sun invites you into this image as it shines down on the entire ...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

Original Air India, Over 50 Years of International Operations travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Aiir India, Over 50 Years of International Operation travel poster, Archival linen backed for preservation. Excellent condition, ready to frame. Grade A condition. This rare collector’s item showcases the cheerful Air India Maharaja...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

'Pope' from 'In Praise of Folly' — Mid-Century Graphic Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Pope' from the series 'Moriae Encomium (In Praise of Folly),' mezzotint, 1943, no edition, proofs only. Signed in pencil. Annotated 'POPE - CARDINAL - BISHOP' - 1943 in ink, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 to 1 7/8 inches) in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce. Created by the artist for 'Erasmus's Moriae Encomium,' or 'In Praise of Folly,' published by the Limited Editions Club, 1943. A rare, signed, proof impression apart from the Limited Editions Club publication. Image size 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (197 x 121 mm); sheet size 10 11/16 x 8 1/16 inches (271 x 204 mm). ABOUT THE ARTIST Lynd Ward is acknowledged as one of America’s foremost wood engravers and book illustrators of the first half of the twentieth century. His innovative use of narrative printmaking as a stand-alone storytelling vehicle was uniquely successful in reaching a broad audience. The powerful psychological intensity of his work, celebrated for its dynamic design, technical precision, and compelling dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers, Ward was concerned with the themes of man’s inner struggles and the role of the subconscious in determining his destiny. An artist of social conscience during the Great Depression and World War II, he infused his graphic images with his unique brand of social realism, deftly portraying the problems that challenged the ideals of American society. The son of a Methodist preacher, Lynd Ward, moved from Chicago to Massachusetts at an early age. He graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University, New York, in 1926, where he studied illustration and graphic arts. He married May Yonge McNeer in 1936 and left for Europe for their honeymoon in Eastern Europe. After four months, they settled in Leipzig, where Ward studied at the National Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookmaking. Inspired by Belgian expressionist artist Frans Masereel's graphic novel ‘The Sun,’ and another graphic novel by the German artist Otto Nückel, ‘Destiny,’ he determined to create his own "wordless" novel. Upon his return to America, Ward completed his first book, ‘God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts,’ published in 1929. ‘Gods’ Man’ was a great success for its author and publisher and was reprinted four times in 1930, including a British edition. This book and several which followed it, ‘Madman’s Drum,’ 1930, ‘Wild Pilgrimage,’ 1932, ‘Prelude to a Million Years,’ 1933, ‘Song Without Words,' 1936, ‘Vertigo,’ 1937; and ‘Last Unfinished Wordless Novel’ (created in the 1960s and published in 2001) were comprised solely of Ward's wood engravings. Ward designed each graphic image to occupy an entire page, the sequence of which conveys the story's narrative. In 1937, Ward was named Director of the Graphic Arts Division of the Federal Art Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In the following years, Ward went on to illustrate more than one hundred books (some of which he wrote), including classics for the Limited Editions Club Goethe’s ‘Faust,’ Faulkner’s ‘A Green Bough,’ and Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ and several children’s books. He also produced single-subject wood engravings, paintings, and drawings. His print ‘Sanctuary,’ 1939, was shown at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, and ‘Clouded Over,’ 1948, received the 1948 Library of Congress Award and was included in ‘American Prize Prints of the 20th Century’ by Albert Reese. He received the National Academy of Design Print Award (1949), the New York Times Best Illustrated Award (1973), and the Regina Award (Catholic Library Association, 1975). ‘The Biggest Bear,’ a children’s book with illustrations by Ward, was the recipient of the esteemed 1952 Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Ward was a member and board member of the National Academy of Design and the Artists’ League of America. He served several terms as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists and was a member of the American Artists Congress and the Society of Illustrators. Ward exhibited at the American Artists Congress; the National Academy of Design; the John Herron Art Institute; and the Library of Congress. He had a one-person show at Associated American Artists, NY, on the publication of his monograph 'Storyteller Without Words,' 1974; AAA mounted a memorial exhibition in 1986. The May 1976 issue of 'Bibliognost,' a book collector’s publication, was dedicated to Ward. ‘Lynd Ward, His Bookplate Designs,’ an article by Dan Burne Jones, was published in the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers Yearbook, 1981/82. In 2001, sixteen years after his death, Rutgers University Libraries published ’Lynd Ward’s Last Unfinished Wordless Novel.’ The blocks were intended to be part of a novel in woodcuts, the first since Vertigo, but Ward did not live to complete the project. Master printer and book designer Barbara Henry collated and printed the twenty-six finished blocks out of the forty-four initially planned for the still unnamed narrative. In 2010 the Library of America honored Ward’s achievements with the meticulous production of a collection of Ward’s woodcut novels—the first time the Library had gone wordless. The publication replicated his original editions with a single full-size image printed on the right page of each double-page spread. In his introduction to the books, renowned cartoonist/illustrator Art...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint

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

From the Sea (From the Sea—Pieta)
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A superb, richly inked impression, on off-white wove paper; the full sheet, with deckel all around (margins 1 to 2 inches) in excellent condition. Signed, dated, titled and annotated...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Gordon Grant Sail Boat Lithograph "Salt Bark - Gloucester"
Located in New York, NY
Gordon Grant (American, 1875-1962) The Salt Bark - Gloucester, c. 1947 Lithograph Sight: 10 x 12 1/2 in. Framed: 15 x 19 x 3/4 in. Signed lower right in pencil Published in edition ...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Selected Tales of Guy de Maupassant, the complete portfolio
Located in Middletown, NY
Twenty hand-signed, numbered, and titled images based on the selected work of Maupsassant. Portfolio containing 20 lithographs based on selected tales by de Maupassant, printed on h...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Lithograph

Original Talco Paglieri - al Boro Timo, Italian vintage mid-century modern poste
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Talco Paglieriri Italian poster, Linen backed by Gino Boccasile. Size: 13.25" x 19". Year: c. 1949-1950. Very good condition. Grade A., ready to frame. The bab...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

"Capricho" Original Impressionist Monotype
Located in Soquel, CA
"Capricho" Original Impressionist Monotype In this eye-catching monotype, a performer stands on a stage, lit by a beam of light with one hand raised above her. The lifted hand and p...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Monotype

Union Pacific West vintage fun map railroad travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “The Union Pacific West fun map, archivally linen backed in very good condition. Ready to frame. This was initially folded, and the fold marks were ...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

Original Quand le Rire Etait Roi Original Vintage French Poster, linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: QUAND LE RIRE ETAIT ROI. ( When Laughter Was King.) Artist: Boris Grinsson. French smaller format vintage movie comedy printed in 1960. Archival linen backed ...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Good Times I -- Couple Nude Figurative
By Weyman Lew
Located in Soquel, CA
Weyman Michael Lew is a painter and printmaker, born in San Francisco, California in 1935. Without over-mat, silver tone aluminum frame and plexi-glass. Imaqe, 22"H x 27"L. He studied at the University of California, and the San Francisco Art Institute from 1965 to 1966 with Artist Mary Joan Jay DeFeo. His works are in the collection of De Young Memorial Museum; the Institution of Arte Contemporary in Lima, Peru; the Western American Artists...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Acrylic, Etching

Large George Grosz 1923 Lithograph Die Rauber German Expressionism WPA Realism
Located in Surfside, FL
From The robbers. lithographs by George Grosz for the drama of the same name. photolithography on laid paper. 19 X 25.5 inches (sheet size). This is not hand signed or numbered in ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Kent Hagerman, (United States Air Force, Fairchild XC-120 Packplane)
Located in New York, NY
Kent Hagerman was an amazing draftsman who managed to get fantastic detail into his work while showing the environment and atmosphere. This print captures the moment a 'pod' is bein...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

City Scene II — Mid-Century Modernism, Precisionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Brussel-Smith, 'City Scene II', wood engraving, 1949, artist's proof, edition 100. Signed, titled, and annotated 'A.P.' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on whit...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Whore of Babylon
Located in Middletown, NY
A scarce impression by Dehn, the spirit of sedultive culture personified. Lithograph on white wove paper with deckle edges, 13 1/2 x 17 1/8 inches (343 x 435 mm), full margins. Sign...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Lithograph

Rama Rama 1971 Signed Limited Edition Screenprint
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Peter Max Title: Rama Rama Year: 1971 Medium: Screenprint Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 72/100 Very good unframed condition. Beginning in the 1960s Peter Max has bee...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

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...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Laid Paper, Handmade Paper, Etching

Original 'Bundesbahn durch das Gastliches Deutschland' vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Linen-backed original German / Germany culinary map in excellent condition. MIT DER DEUTSCHEN BUNDESBAHN DURCH DAS GASTLICHE DEUTSCHLAND. Mit der Deutschen Bundesbahn durch das Gastliche Deutschland (With Deutsche Bundesbahn through Hospitable Germany). A map of Germany showing all the food and wine features in various regions and cities. If you go to Germany and want to find the origins of foods, this will lead you to the correct city. From wine, bread, fish, cookies, spat, prezels, pork, bier, french...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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.
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original Vintage Poster: "Come to Puerto Rico, U.S.A. Caribbean Playground
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Vintage Poster: "Come to Puerto Rico, U.S.A. - All-Year Playground of the Caribbean." This serigraph is archivally linen-backed and ready for framing. It is in B+ condition,...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

Kent Hagerman, (US Air Force Fairchild C-119, the 'Flying Boxcar')
Located in New York, NY
While this is probably a military airport, Kent Hagerman still shows it at its futuristic best. Hagerman was an amazing draftsman who managed to get fantastic detail into his work. This is really a portrait of a plane -- the Fairchild C-119. The words 'United States Air Force' on the side of the plane date it to 1947 or later, after the Air Force split from the Army. The design featured the 'twin boom' clearly showing in this etching. Thanks to this feature it was called the Flying Boxcar. About 1100 were built and used until 1955. It was also used by the Chinese Air...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Original Patzcuaro National Railways of Mexico Overnight from Mexico City poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Mexico City. Archival linen backed in Grade A condition, ready to frame. The images shown are of the exact poster you will receive. The poster promotes the picturesque town of ...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

Original Karting (Go-kart) vintage French racing poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original French poster. Linen-backed KARTING HAFA motor oil KARTING poster estimated to be in the late 1950s—early 60s. It is in excellent condition and ready to frame. COUPE d´ E...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Berry Pickers
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching on cream laid paper with an oak leaf watermark, c 1935. 7 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches (183 x 241 mm), full margins. Signed, titled and inscribed in pencil, lower margin. A b...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Laid Paper, Etching

A Hong Kong Canal Boat
Located in Middletown, NY
Aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor on watermarked, laid Arches paper, 8 1/16 x 5 9/16 inches (206 x 142 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 22/40 in pencil,...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Watercolor, Aquatint

Woman and White Cat, Framed and Signed Modern Screenprint by Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Woman and White Cat Will Barnet, American (1911–2012) Date: 1971 Screenprint, signed, titled and numbered in pencil Edition of 45/200 Image Size: 23.25 x 20 inches Size: 26 x 22 in. ...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

San Marino (Sketch)
Located in Middletown, NY
Ecthing in black ink on cream laid paper with a partial watermark, full margins. In excellent condition. A very scarce work from an edition of less than 20 impressions. Signed, date...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Laid Paper, Etching

Nero
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
2-color lithograph, edition 35, 1944, Fine and Looney 233. Signed, dated, titled and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. Initialed 'BS' in the image, lower right. A superb, richly inked im...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Picturesque New York; Twelve Photogravures from Monotypes
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: The Society of Iconophiles, 1908. The complete portfolio containing 12 photogravures after monotypes printed on O.W. handmade paper. Each image measuring approximately 8 1/4 x 6 inches (208 x 151 mm), with full margins. Each with the Society of Iconophiles blind stamp in the lower left margin. In very good condition with no visible defects. Printed by John Andrew & Son, Boston. Presented in the original greenish-gray paper wrapper with the contents page. Edition of 100. Subjects are: 1. Van Cortland Manor House 2. Oyster Market on West Street 3. St. John's Chapel, Varick Street 4. Fraunces Tavern 5. Houses at Battery Park...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Photogravure

Maurice Robert Dey, Rainbow on the Hudson
Located in New York, NY
Biographical information on Maurice Robert Dey is hard to find. He was born on 1899 (or maybe 1900), in Switzerland. As an adult he lived and worked in Woodstock, the NY artists' c...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Linocut

Original 'Map of the United States as Californians See It' vintage map poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: "Map of the United States as Californians See It". 1947, artist: Oren Arnold. Size: 16.5" x 20.5", R. H. MOEBUS COMPANY This poster is not linen-backed. This poster is in very good fine condition, ready to frame. A humorous satirical pictorial map from 1947 with the golden sun on the upper left, gives a detailed depiction of California, its relative size to the rest of the United States, showing Florida as "Death Valley", the rest of the United States as "Unexplored" 'Unimportant anyway, not in California". The image has your Mexican singer; bikini-clad bathers and others set in the image. Shows rivers, lakes, harbors, landmarks, parks, recreational activities, and local people. This map shows Los Angeles’ city...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Offset

Chris Ware New Yorker Cartoonist Limited Edition Thanksgiving Print NYC
Located in Surfside, FL
This is one print – printed in full color on 15" x 20" heavy cream-colored paper. It is from a limited edition series of 175, the portfolio is hand numbered and hand signed by Chris Ware. the individual prints are not. The page with the hand signature is included here as a photo for reference only it is not included in this sale. Franklin Christenson "Chris" Ware (born December 28, 1967), is an American cartoonist known for his Acme Novelty Library series (begun 1994) and the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000) and Building Stories (2012). His works explore themes of social isolation, emotional torment and depression. He tends to use a vivid color palette and realistic, meticulous detail. His lettering and images are often elaborate and sometimes evoke the ragtime era or another early 20th-century American design style. Ware often refers to himself in the publicity for his work in self-effacing, even withering tones. He is considered by some critics and fellow notable illustrators and writers, such as Dave Eggers, to be among the best currently working in the medium; Canadian graphic-novelist Seth has said, "Chris really changed the playing field. After him, a lot of [cartoonists] really started to scramble and go, 'Holy [expletive], I think I have to try harder.'" While still a sophomore at UT, Ware came to the attention of Art Spiegelman, who invited Ware to contribute to Raw, the influential anthology magazine Spiegelman was co-editing with Françoise Mouly. Ware has acknowledged that being included in Raw gave him confidence and inspired him to explore printing techniques and self-publishing. His Fantagraphics series Acme Novelty Library defied comics publishing conventions with every issue. Ware's art reflects early 20th-century American styles of cartooning and graphic design, shifting through formats from traditional comic panels to faux advertisements and cut-out toys. Stylistic influences include advertising graphics from that same era; newspaper strip cartoonists Winsor McCay (Little Nemo in Slumberland) and Frank King (Gasoline Alley); Charles Schulz's post-WWII strip Peanuts and the cover designs of ragtime-era sheet music. Ware has spoken about finding inspiration in the work of artist Joseph Cornell and cites Richard McGuire's strip Here as a major influence on his use of non-linear narratives. He is one of the great practitioners who have elevated the graphic novel style along with, Shepard Fairey, Ben Katchor and Robert Crumb. Quimby the Mouse was an early character for Ware and something of a breakthrough. Rendered in the style of an early animation character like Felix the Cat, Quimby the Mouse is perhaps Ware's most autobiographical character. Ware's Building Stories was serialized in a host of different venues. It first appeared as a monthly strip in Nest Magazine. Installments later appeared in a number of publications, including The New Yorker, Kramer's Ergot, and most notably, the Sunday New York Times Magazine. Building Stories appeared weekly in the New York Times Magazine from September 18, 2005 until April 16, 2006. A full chapter was published in Acme Novelty Library, number 18. Another installment was published under the title "Touch Sensitive" as a digital app released through McSweeneys. The entire narrative was published as a boxed set of books by Pantheon in October 2012. Ware was commissioned by Chip Kidd to design the inner machinations of the bird on the cover of Haruki Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. In 2011, Ware created the poster for the U.S. release of the 2010 Palme d'Or winning film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Awards and honors Over the years his work garnered several awards, including the 1999 National Cartoonists Society's Award for Best Comic Book for Acme Novelty Library and Award for Graphic Novel for Building Stories. Ware has won numerous Eisner Awards and multiple Harvey Awards. In 2002, Ware became the first comics artist to be invited to exhibit at Whitney Museum of American Art biennial exhibition. With Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Robert Crumb and Gary Panter, Ware was among the artists honored in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York, from September 16, 2006 to January 28, 2007. His work was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 2006 and at the University of Nebraska's Sheldon Museum of Art, in 2007. Many famous artists have done covers for the New Yorker Magazine including, Saul Steinberg, Maira Kalman, Art Spiegelman, Francoise Mouly, Charles Addams, Peter Arno, Roz Chast, Ed Koren...
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Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Color

Interiors I: Family Reunion — A penetrating scene with a hidden homage to Eadwea
Located in Middletown, NY
Interiors I: Family Reunion 1984 Resist ground etching and engraving on BFK Rives wove paper, 20 x 36 inches (501 x 913 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 49/175 in pencil, lower margin. In excellent condition with minor mat tone. A luminous, rich, and well-inked impression of this haunting image, with astonishing detail and depth. Framed handsomely under museum grade glass with archival materials in a solid wood frame with silver finish. [Milton 107] Intended to be a stand alone image in its inception, Family Reunion ended up spawning seven additional images, and became a sort of Primo Pensiero in the sprawling, masterpiece suite now known as Interiors. The suite took eight years to complete, and consists of works of varying format, psychological intensity, and subject matter. The thematic darkness in the eight images waxes and wanes, and Milton intentionally included several interlude works to lighten the tension he felt while composing several of the darker images. The first two in the series, Family Reunion, and Hotel Paradise Café, were meant to be companion pieces. The equilibrium of each composition is anchored on a central brooding figure; a man (perhaps based on a Thomas Eakins portrait of the American anthropologist Frank Hamilton...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching, Engraving

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

Rouen; The Cathedral of Notre Dame from the South
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on F.J. Head & Co. watermarked cream laid paper, 8 1/8 x 7 5/8 (205 x 184 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Illustrated in Dorothy Noyes Arms, Chur...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Laid Paper, Etching

Dennis Corrigan, Nathaniel Hawthorne Posing with a Formally Dressed Gopher, 1978
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Corrigan gives us a fresh, admittedly whimsical, interpretation of the important nineteenth-century American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Known to most of us for the 'dark rom...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Survivor
Located in New Orleans, LA
Caroline Durieux's "Survivor" is a pencil-signed lithograph created in 1947 in an edition of 20. It is illustrated in Carl Zigrosser's book on the artist published in 1949. Durieux on Survivor "An extra-terrestrial spotlight falls on this battered subhuman figure; he does not look directly into the light but away from it, raising his hand to it like a beggar. The worn pads on his hands and knees shows that he has walked on them, like an animal, for a long time. There is nothing to suggest that he can stand. The beam of light looks cold, machine like, impersonal. Scornful satire marks the limit of comedy for '. . . there is nothing funny about scorn which comes round again almost to the attitude of divine comedy.' Caroline Durieux (American, 1896 – 1989) Printmaker, painter, satirist, innovator, social activist, Caroline Durieux was born in New Orleans and was already making sketches by the age of four. Her formal art training was at Newcomb College (1912-1917) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1918-1920). Carl Zigrosser of the Philadelphia Museum of Art encouraged Durieux to try lithography. While living in Mexico, she learned lithography from Emilio Amero...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Survivor
Survivor
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Sanctuary (St. Anthony's Garden at rear of St. Louis Cathedral on Royal Street)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This French Quarter garden is a serene haven with a lighted statue of Christ that exists not very far from the raucous revelry of New Orleans' Bourbon S...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint, Aquatint

Acropolis Americana - Lincoln Center, New York 1975
Located in Middletown, NY
Zinc lithograph on cream wove paper, 12 3/4 x 10 inches (272 x 253 mm), full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. One work from the series titled "Salute to New York,"...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Lithograph

Original 'We're both needed to serve the Guns!" vintage British poster, 1915
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: FILL UP THE RANKS PILE UP THE MUNITIONS! Artist: F. Gardner. Year: 1915. Horizontal original British WW1 poster. Very good cond...
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1910s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Third Liberty Loan, My Daddy Bought Me a Government Bond original World War 1
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster: MY DADDY BOUGHT ME A GOVERNMENT BOND OF THE THIRD LIBERTY LOAN. DID YOURS? Archival linen-backed and in very good condition. Print...
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1910s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Precious Stones; Église Notre Dame - Les Andelys
Located in Middletown, NY
A signed impression from the artist's own collection. Kansas City: Miniature Print Society, 1946. Etching on antique cream laid paper, 3 5/15 x 1 7/8 inches (84 x 49 mm), full margi...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

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