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Contemporary Figurative Prints

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Period: 1980s
Blue Face from the Brushstroke Figures Series
Located in Miami, FL
Lithograph, waxtype woodcut and screenprint on 638-g/m cold-pressed Saunders Waterford Paper. From the "Brushstroke Figures" series, 1989. Hand signed rf Lichtenstein, dated ('89) a...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Screen, Woodcut

Alex Katz, 'Man with Pipe' (Schröder 181) 1984
Located in Miami, FL
ALEX KATZ (1927-Present) Alex Katz' 'Man with Pipe' is a color etching and aquatint, 1984, on Rives BFK paper, signed and numbered 163/185 in pencil, printed by Aldo Crommelynck, co...
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Etching

IL CASANOVA "Il Teatro de Dresda" Signed Lithograph, 1976 Italian Film, Theater
By Federico Fellini
Located in Union City, NJ
''Il Casanova - il teatro de Dresda'' (Casanova in the Theatre of Dresden) 'Il Casanova–il teatro di Dresda,' is a fine art limited edition color lithograp...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Garage Impo - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Garage Impo is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1982. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right marg...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

RED HORSE on HOT PINK THREE GEISHAS Signed Lithograph, Asian Women, Parrots
Located in Union City, NJ
RED HORSE on HOT PINK THREE GEISHAS is an original lithograph on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free by the renowned Chinese born artist Walasse Ting (DING XIONGQUAN, Chinese, 1929-2010). Ting's use of bold colors and expressive calligraphic brush drawn forms convey vivid life energy. He is well known for his colorful images of women, flowers, fish, parrots and horses and was associated with artists Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group called COBRA. Throughout his artistic life, Ting imbued his passion and spirit into his paintings, poetry and sculpture. RED HORSE on HOT PINK THREE GEISHAS is a freely expressed Chinese Ink Brush drawing of three colorfully robed women...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

SULTRY Signed Original Lithograph, Modern Female Portrait, Slicked Back Hair
Located in Union City, NJ
SULTRY by the woman artist Robin Morris, is an original limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Coventry Rag paper, 100% acid free. SULTRY is...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I Have A Dream, Black Portrait Head Civil Rights Activist
Located in Union City, NJ
BEN SHAHN - Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have A Dream is a limited run, plate signed, commemorative lithograph recreated after the wood engraving by Stefan Martin(1936 - 1994), an American wood engraver and illustrator. Printed using traditional lithography methods in 1981 on fine quality, archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free. Features a striking black and white portrait head portraying the fine wood engraved image of civil rights leader - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. along with text from his famed inspirational, I’ve been to the mountaintop’ speech. Printed signatures of Ben Shahn in dark reddish brown ink and Martin Luther King Jr. in gray ink. (see Photos) Artists copyright text printed...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Igor Gabor Artist 1989 Original Hand Signed silkscreen rural nature
Located in Miami, FL
Igor Gabor 'Arquitectura', 1989 silkscreen on paper 19.7 x 27.6 in. (50 x 70 cm.) Edition of 25 ID: GAB1057-001-025 Unframed Hand-signed by author
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Engraving, Screen, Paper

Été souverain
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM. Unframed. Edition of 150 ex. Paper: 300gr. Goya. Signed, dated and numbered. Free shipment worldwide. Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed aw...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

Stephen Frailey Ektacolor Print, "Explanation" 1989
Located in Larchmont, NY
Stephen Frailey Explanation, 1989 Ektacolor print on board 28 1/4 x 28 1/4 x 1 7/8 in. Edition 1/3 Provenance: Lieberman & Saul Stephen studied at the San Francisco Art Institute...
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Color

Stephen Frailey Diptych, Polaroid Prints, 1988
Located in Larchmont, NY
Stephen Frailey Untitled (diptych), 1988 Polaroid print Overall: 20 3/4 x 41 x 1 1/2 in. Image: 19 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (each) Edition 1/5 Provenance: Lieberman & Saul Stephen studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and received his BA from Bennington College. He has had solo exhibitions at 303...
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Color

Weightlifter - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Weightlifter is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1981. Mixed colored aquatint and etching. Original title: Gewichtheber Hand signed an dated by the ar...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Larry Rivers 1981 Signed Hirshhorn Exhibition Poster
Located in Larchmont, NY
Larry Rivers (American, 1923-2002) Larry Rivers Exhibition, Hirshhorn Exhibition Poster, 1981 Lithograph (?) Sight: 34 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. Framed: 36 x 24 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. Signed and num...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

LOVER'S EMBRACE
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size 26.25 x 26.5 inches. Frame size approx 40 x 40 inches. AP edition of 50. Artwork in excellent con...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen, Paper

Stephen Frailey Polaroid Print, 1988
Located in Larchmont, NY
Stephen Frailey Untitled, 1988 Polaroid print Sight: 19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. Framed: 24 1/4 x 24 x 1 3/4 in. Edition 2/3 Provenance: Lieberman & Saul, New York Stephen studied at the...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Polaroid

Blue Volcan - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Blue Volcan is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1984. Mixed colored aquatint and etching. Original title: Der Blaue Vulcan Hand signed and dated by th...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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FIVE GEISHA WITH FANS Signed Lithograph Asian Women Shoji Screen, Lime Yellow
Located in Union City, NJ
FIVE GEISHA WITH FANS is an original hand drawn lithograph printed on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free, by the renowned Chinese born artist Walasse Ting (DING XIONGQUAN, Chinese, 1929-2010). Ting's use of bold colors and expressive calligraphic brush drawn forms convey vivid life energy. He is well known for his colorful images of women, flowers, fish, parrots and horses and was associated with artists Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group called COBRA. Throughout his artistic life, Ting imbued his passion and spirit into his paintings, poetry and sculpture. FIVE GEISHA WITH FANS is a freely expressed Chinese Ink Brush drawing of five robed women standing behind a Shoji screen...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Visual Aid for Band Aid, print designed and hand signed by 104 renowned artists
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Joe Tilson, Howard Hodgkin, Peter Blake + 99 artists Visual Aid for Band Aid - designed, and hand signed and annotated by 104 renowned artists, with off...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Ink, Permanent Marker, Pencil, Screen

DaVinci Tee Threesome, Signed Lithograph, Group Portrait, Pizza, Orange, Rust
Located in Union City, NJ
DaVinci Tee Threesome is an original hand drawn lithograph by the NY figurative expressionist painter, Lester Johnson(1919-2010). DaVinci Tee Threesome was printed using hand lithogr...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

THE BUILDERS 1985 National Urban League, 1st Edition, Men Working Construction
Located in Union City, NJ
JACOB LAWRENCE THE BUILDERS 1985 Commemorative Poster - National Urban League 75th Anniversary 1910-1985, original 1985 printing Poster size - 35.25 x 23 inches, unframed, unsigned ...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Offset

Hollywood Boulevard, Serigraph by Melanie Taylor Kent
Located in Pasadena, CA
Melanie Taylor Kent, "Hollywood Boulevard" Screenprint serigraph signed and numbered 244/300 Dated 1982 Limited Artist Proof Edition Fine Art Serigraph Print on Paper Hand Signed b...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

Untitled lithograph, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio, signed/numbered 38/50
Located in New York, NY
William Steen Untitled, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio, 1988 Lithograph on paper with deckled edges Hand signed, numbered 38/50 and dated on lower front with printer's and publisher's blindstamp. 20 1/5 × 15 inches Unframed Hand signed, numbered and dated on lower front with printer's and publisher's blindstamp. This powerful limited edition lithograph by William Steen was published in 1988 as part of the Art Against Aids portfolio, numbered 38/50. Superb provenance as it is was acquired from the original Art Against AIDS Portfolio published in Houston, Texas. This will be the first time the work will be removed from the portfolio. The late 1980s was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and this was one of many efforts by the creative community to raise funds to assist in fighting this deadly scourge that disproportionately affected the artistic community. William Steen 1949-2008 William Steen, artist, collector, curator, and mystic, died of pancreatic cancer on December 20 in New York, where he has lived since 2001. Long time framer at the Menil Collection, the soft-spoken Steen is remembered in Houston where he had his first exhibition of paintings in 1978 at the Roberto Molina Gallery. In 1984 Steen made his first of several trips to India, photographing thousands of Tibetan Buddhist ritual paintings. A champion of outsider art, in 2000 he tangled with the Houston Police over the grafitti mural he comissioned for the walls of the reclaimed Sterling Cleaners...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Pencil, Lithograph

Rodeo Drive, Serigraph by Melanie Taylor Kent
Located in Pasadena, CA
Melanie Taylor Kent, "Rodeo Drive" in Bevelry Hills Screenprint serigraph signed and numbered 85/300 Circa 1982-1983 Limited Artist Proof Edition Fine Art Serigraph Print on Paper H...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

Hommage à Guttuso - Basket and Saw - Lithograph by Renato Guttuso - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Hommage à Guttuso - Basket and Saw  is a print by the Sicilian artist Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 - Rome, 1987). A high-quality chromolithograph on paper, edited by the French ma...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Blue Volcan - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Blue Volcan is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1984. Mixed colored aquatint and etching. Original title: Der Blaue Vulcan Hand signed and dated by th...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

1 auf 16 - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
1 auf 16 is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1984. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin....
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Garage Impo - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Garage Impo is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1982. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right marg...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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1 auf 16 - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
1 auf 16 is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1984. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin....
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games poster hand signed Edition 750 w/Olympic COA
By Carlos Almaraz
Located in New York, NY
Carlos Almaraz Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games (with COA from Olympic Committee), 1982 Offset Lithograph on Parson's Diploma paper, accompanied by COA from Olympic Committee. Signed i...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset, Pencil

Polo Lounge
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Leroy Neiman Title: Polo Lounge Medium: 2 Serigraphs side by side Signed: Each serigraph is Hand Signed by Leroy Neiman Edition: Each piece is numbered 264/700 Measurements: 25" x 75" total combined Condition: Very Good Note: This piece is sold UNFRAMED Description: Clockwise: Hedda Hopper, Lauren Bacall, LeRoy Neiman, Gregory Peck, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Collins, Johnny Carson, Walter Benny, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Cesar Romero, Maitre D' Nino, Frank and Barbara...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

Weightlifter - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Weightlifter is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1981. Mixed colored aquatint and etching. Original title: Gewichtheber Hand signed an dated by the ar...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Basilisk - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Basilisk is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1985. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin....
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Garage Impo - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Garage Impo is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1982. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right marg...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

Mechanical Parrots - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1997
Located in Roma, IT
Mechanical Parrots is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1997. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower rig...
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SPRING IN GETTYSBURG
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Sheet size: 22.75 x 28.5 inches. Image size: 17 x 23 inches. Edition of 250. Artwork is in excellent condition. Cert...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Paper, Screen

Confiance à l’oiseau.
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM. Unframed. Edition of 150 ex Paper: 300gr. Goya. Signed, dated and numbered. Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed away. He died in Paris on Su...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

The City - Screen Print by Giuseppe Aleandro - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The City is an artwork realized in the 1980s by Giuseppe Aleandro.  Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Mixed colored screen print. Edition of 17/150 prints.
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

Untitled, expressionistic woodcut print, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio
Located in New York, NY
James Bettison Untitled, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio, 1988 Woodcut on paper with deckled edges. Hand signed. Numbered 38/50. Dated. Printer's and Publisher's Blind Stamp. 20...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Woodcut, Pencil

Hi Mom I Made It by Bill Schenck
By Bill Schenck
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Hi Mom I Made It, 1988 Bill Schenck Serigraph Size: 26 x 30 inches The artist, Billy Schenck, has been known internationally for the past 43 years as one of the originators of the contemporary “Pop” western movement, and an American painter who incorporates techniques from Photo-Realism with a Pop Art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West. Like the heroes he idolized in B-Westerns, Schenck might well be called the “Good Badman” of Western American art. Early in his career he became known for appropriating cinematic imagery, which he reproduced in a flattened, reductivist style, where colors are laid side-by-side rather than blended or shadowed. Drawing upon narrative tensions that have attracted mass audiences to western fiction and movies, Schenck added hot colors, surreal juxtapositions, and stylized patterning to explore clashes between wilderness and civilization, the individual and community, nature and culture, freedom and restriction. His irreverence in associating western heroes with racism, the drug scene, consumerism and sexuality led to an evolving series of works. Among them one finds deserts populated with cowgirls sipping champagne on the bumpers of Rolls Royces, Native Americans contemplating the statistics of their land loss, and “cerealized” self-portraits of the artist in leather and sunglasses. Collier Gallery has been in continuous operation for over 40 years. Originally located just off Main Street in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, we have moved to Tempe to accommodate and showcase our large inventory including: • Original works by Maynard Dixon, Lon Megargee...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

Almost Born (early signed/n lithograph by world renowned feminist artist)
Located in New York, NY
Judy Chicago Almost Born, 1983 Lithograph on Rives tan BFK paper (accompanied by original documentation sheet - also hand signed by Judy Chicago) Signed, titled, dated and numbered 6...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Pencil

The City - Screen Print by Giuseppe Aleandro - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The City is an artwork realized in the 1980sy by Giuseppe Aleandro Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Mixed colored serigraph. Edition of 16/150 prints.
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

New York, New York, Pop Art Print by James Rosenquist
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: James Rosenquist Title: New York New York - Communications Center Year: 1983 Medium: Screenprint and Offset Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250 Paper Size...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

Motif. Abstract, African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in orange abstract. From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination. Viola Burley Leak, American (1944 - ) Viola Leak was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she received a B.A. in Art from Fisk University, a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an M.A. from Hunter College, NY and an M.F.A. in Media from Howard University, Washington, DC. Leak was an art consultant for both the New York State Board of Education and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print Department, in addition to working for the Experimental Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute. Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile designing, soft sculpture, appliqué tapestries, doll making, and multi-media. Viola has studied with many renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, and Charles White. Her works can be found in the collections of World Federation of United Nations, New York State Office Building, Manufacturers of Hanover Trust Company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company and many more organizations. Viola's exhibition experience is extensive - more than 100 showings over a decade, national and international. Her quilts exude a miraculous and magical presence. They have traveled in two international shows and three national quilt projects in the past three years. A proud moment for her was being featured in the December 20, 2000 of the Smithsonian magazine; the article praised her mural "Afro Dance Scan" as one of the outstanding artworks in the "When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen, Woodcut

Taxi: Steering Wheel - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Taxi: steering wheel is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1982. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower r...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Untitled, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio
Located in New York, NY
Gael Stack Untitled, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio, 1988 Woodcut on paper with deckled edges. Hand signed. Numbered. Printer's and Publisher's Blindstamp. Unframed. Hand signed and numbered on the lower recto (front) with printer's and publisher's blindstamp. Edition 38/50 20 × 15 inches Publisher Little Egypt Enterprises, Houston, TX Provenance Art Against AIDS Portfolio, numbered 38/50 This beautiful limited edition woodcut by Gael Stack was published in 1988 as part of the Art Against Aids portfolio, numbered 38/50. Superb provenance as it is was acquired from the original Art Against AIDS Portfolio published in Houston, Texas. This will be the first time the work will be removed from the portfolio. The late 1980s was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and this was one of many efforts by the creative community to raise funds to assist in fighting this deadly scourge that disproportionately affected the artistic community. Measurements: 20 x 15 inches (sheet) 8 1/4 x 12 inches(image) The complete Art Against AIDS Portfolio is comprised of 10 prints, in black and white and color, from 10 artists. About Gael Stack: Gael Stack is a Texas painter. She lives in Houston and has work in the permanent collections of several museums. Stack has worked as a professor at the University of Houston...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Pencil, Woodcut

Motif, Gold Abstract African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in orange, blue and gold abstract. From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination. Viola Burley Leak, American (1944 - ) Viola Leak was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she received a B.A. in Art from Fisk University, a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an M.A. from Hunter College, NY and an M.F.A. in Media from Howard University, Washington, DC. Leak was an art consultant for both the New York State Board of Education and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print Department, in addition to working for the Experimental Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute. Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile designing, soft sculpture, appliqué tapestries, doll making, and multi-media. Viola has studied with many renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, and Charles White. Her works can be found in the collections of World Federation of United Nations, New York State Office Building, Manufacturers of Hanover Trust Company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company and many more organizations. Viola's exhibition experience is extensive - more than 100 showings over a decade, national and international. Her quilts exude a miraculous and magical presence. They have traveled in two international shows and three national quilt projects in the past three years. A proud moment for her was being featured in the December 20, 2000 of the Smithsonian magazine; the article praised her mural "Afro Dance Scan" as one of the outstanding artworks in the "When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen, Woodcut

Motif (Purple), African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut or Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in lavender purple. From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination. ...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen, Woodcut

Garage Impo - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Garage Impo is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1982. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right marg...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

Motif, Orange Blue, African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in orange and blue abstract. From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination. Viola Burley Leak, American (1944 - ) Viola Leak was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she received a B.A. in Art from Fisk University, a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an M.A. from Hunter College, NY and an M.F.A. in Media from Howard University, Washington, DC. Leak was an art consultant for both the New York State Board of Education and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print Department, in addition to working for the Experimental Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute. Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile designing, soft sculpture, appliqué tapestries, doll making, and multi-media. Viola has studied with many renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, and Charles White. Her works can be found in the collections of World Federation of United Nations, New York State Office Building, Manufacturers of Hanover Trust Company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company and many more organizations. Viola's exhibition experience is extensive - more than 100 showings over a decade, national and international. Her quilts exude a miraculous and magical presence. They have traveled in two international shows and three national quilt projects in the past three years. A proud moment for her was being featured in the December 20, 2000 of the Smithsonian magazine; the article praised her mural "Afro Dance Scan" as one of the outstanding artworks in the "When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen, Woodcut

Atom Mit Lampen III - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Atom mit Lampen III is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1985. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower ri...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

QUILTING TIME Signed Lithograph, African American Culture, Interior Scene, Quilt
Located in Union City, NJ
QUILTING TIME is an original limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free. QUILTING TIME by the African American master artist Romare Bearden is from Bearden's Mecklenburg series of images depicting recollections from his childhood in rural Mecklenburg County, NC. A colorful, intimate interior scene showing a black woman and young man tending to a multicolor quilt. Bearden's well known visual motif - the quilt, refers back to a time when the African American quilting tradition was employed by enslaved black people who worked coded messages into their handmade quilts to pass on information about the Underground Railroad...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Weightlifter - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Weightlifter is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1981. Mixed colored aquatint and etching. Original title: Gewichtheber Hand signed an dated by the ar...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

Radio Caire - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Radio Caire is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1982. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right marg...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Basilisk - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Basilisk is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1985. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin....
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Rodeo Queen
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rodeo Queen 1981 Luis Jimenez Stone Lithograph 42 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. (107.95 x 72.39 cm.), Edition of 50 Luis Alfonso Jimenez Born, 1940, El Paso, Texas, died 2006, Hondo, New Mexico. Statement: Luis Jimenez, in his work, celebrates the vitality of life. . . . Jimenez es un hijo de la frontera; he knows its people and the landscape. It is the transformation of these people into art that is his most important contribution to the art of this vast region which stretches between Mexico and the United States. His subject matter utilizes the popular images of the cultura del norte, and a large part of it is depicted and transformed in the rough and tumble world of la frontera. He is also a son of el norte, and so he uses its materials and explores its emerging, popular myths. The tension and attraction of Jimnez’s work is that he always creates within the space of his two worlds, the Mexicano and the Americano. He constantly shows us the irony of the two forces which repel, while showing us glimpses of the synthesis he seeks. What a gift it has been to us for this talented artist to reflect on the soul of our region. He gives meaning to our existence and history. Rudolfo Anaya (passage chosen by the artist), A View from La Frontera, Man on Fire: Luis Jimenez, pp. 1, 3, 6Biography: Luis Jimenez was born in Texas to parents who had emigrated from Mexico to the United States; he would later dedicate his 1989 sculpture Border Crossing to his father, who had entered the country illegally. The elder Jimenez was a neon sign designer in El Paso, and Luis worked with him as a youth. His experience working in the neon shop and his fascination with U.S. car culture would both become major influences on his art career. Jimenez studied architecture at the University of Texas, Austin (UTA), and also took art courses in which he first created sculptures with wood, steel, and fiberglass, choosing the latter because of its association with U.S. popular culture. He subsequently became one of the artists who made fiberglass an acceptable medium in the 1960s. In 1964 Jimenez received his B.S. in art from UTA, and he continued his studies at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City. In 1966 he moved to New York City and worked as an assistant to sculptor Seymour Lipton. Jimenez began to exhibit his art while in New York and in 1972 moved to New Mexico to focus on creating public sculptures, even as he maintained his diverse output of drawings, prints, and lithographs. Drawing on his early experiences, Jimenez creates works that come from a border perspective, one that draws upon the hybridity bred by culture clashes. Often socially and politically informed, his works speak not only in regional terms, those germane to the southwestern United States, but to broader, more global issues as well. They exhibit a profoundly Chicano aesthetic and sensibility, one that is informed by Mexican and Mexican American traditions, North American popular culture, Chicano cultural icons, and images and themes unique to the Southwest. Death, sexuality, and the struggle of the common people are frequent themes. Inspired by authors who write in an autobiographical style, Jimenez creates works that function as personal narrative yet are also able to make statements about culture in more global terms. His use of bold colors and lines, a legacy from his fathers work as a neon sign maker, lends a dynamic sensuality to his work, one that is particularly evident in his monumental fiberglass and acrylic urethane sculptural works Many of Jimenez's works correspond to scholar Toms Ybarra-Fraustos definition of the Chicano aesthetic of rasquachismo, a lowbrow sensibility that appeals to the working class in that it applies to objects that subvert expressions of the mainstream or dominant culture. Creating art that speaks to the people, Jimenez is able to transform regional and culturally specific myths and symbols into globally recognized and relevant icons. Exhibitions: In addition to his personal work, Jimenez has been commissioned for numerous public art projects. In 1999 his sculpture Southwest Piet was designated a National Treasure by First Lady Hillary Clinton. The many exhibitions featuring his work have included Human Concern/Personal Torment (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1969). The First International Motorcycle Art Show (Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 1973). Three Texas Artists (Centre Cultural Americaine, USIS, Paris, 1977), Recent Trends in Collecting (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1982). Committed to Print (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989) Printmaking in Texas: The 1980s (Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX. Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, 1990. The Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1991) Man On Fire: Luis Jimnez (Albuquerque Museum of Art, NM, 1994-95). 47th Annual Purchase Exhibition (American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1995). Traveling solo exhibition, Working Class Heroes: Images from the Popular Culture (1997-2000). Jiménez Collier Gallery has been in continuous operation for over 40 years. Originally located just off Main Street in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, we have moved to Phoenix to accommodate and showcase our large inventory including: • Original works by Maynard Dixon, Lon Megargee, Ed Mell, Fritz Scholder, Bill Schenck, Bill Lesch, Luis Jimenez, Greg Singley, Dan Budnik, and other 20th century Western, WPA and Contemporary Southwestern artists. • The Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee • Vintage rodeo...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Blue Volcan - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Blue Volcan is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1981. Mixed colored aquatint and etching. Original title: Der Blaue Vulcan Hand signed by the artist o...
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1 auf 16 - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
1 auf 16 is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1984. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin....
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Parrots - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1997
Located in Roma, IT
Parrots is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1997. Mixed colored aquatint and etching.  Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. ...
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