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Landscape Prints For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Pop Art
French contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - InfÔ
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold with wooden frame in black color or others : 90 x 130 x 5 cm - 35,4 x 51,2 x 1,9 in, ed. 1/7 Olivier Attar - Attoli is a French photographer born in 1971 who lives & works in L...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Pigment

French Contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - Sirene
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold with wooden frame in black color or others : 90 x 130 x 5 cm - 35,4 x 51,2 x 1,9 in, ed. 3/7 Olivier Attar - Attoli is a French photographer born in 1971 who lives & works in L...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Pigment

French Contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - RockÔ
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold with wooden frame in black color or others : 90 x 130 x 5 cm - 35,4 x 51,2 x 1,9 in, ed. 1/7 Olivier Attar - Attoli is a French photographer born in 1971 who lives & works in L...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Pigment

French Contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - RockyRôse
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold with wooden frame in black color or others : 90 x 130 x 5 cm - 35,4 x 51,2 x 1,9 in, ed. 3/7 Olivier Attar - Attoli is a French photographer born in 1971 who lives & works in L...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Resin

French Contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - FantÔ
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold with wooden frame in black color or others : 90 x 130 x 5 cm - 35,4 x 51,2 x 1,9 in, ed. 3/7 Olivier Attar - Attoli is a French photographer born in 1971 who lives & works in L...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Pigment, Canvas

French Contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - Pontinifini
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold with wooden frame in black color or others : 90 x 130 x 5 cm - 35,4 x 51,2 x 1,9 in, ed. 2/7 Olivier Attar - Attoli is a French photographer born in 1971 who lives & works in L...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Pigment

French Contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - FurÔ
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold with wooden frame in black color or others : 90 x 130 x 5 cm - 35,4 x 51,2 x 1,9 in, ed. 1/7 Olivier Attar - Attoli is a French photographer born in 1971 who lives & works in L...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Pigment

French Contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - Pastel d'Ô
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold with wooden frame in black color or others : 90 x 130 x 5 cm - 35,4 x 51,2 x 1,9 in, ed. 2/7 Olivier Attar - Attoli is a French photographer born in 1971 who lives & works in L...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Epoxy Resin

I'll take my life monotonous from "Some Poems of Jules Laforgue" graphic pop art
Located in New York, NY
Printed in glossy purple, lavender, and bright yellow, I'll take my life monotonous by Patrick Caulfield depicts a lattice outlined in black, with three small dots of yellow. A garden lattice...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Landscape Prints

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Screen

Spectre (an otherworldly landscape with trees and mountains under a dappled sky)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lopez created her haunting landscape in an edition of 95 at Tamarind Institute. It is a four color-lithograph on white Revere silk paper. Collaborating Printer: Valpuri Remling. "O...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Sunset Clouds by John Hogan framed monotype Desert Sky blue, black, orange
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Sunset Clouds by John Hogan framed monotype Desert Sky blue, black, orange John Hogan A graduate of Northeast Louisiana State University with a bachelo...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Monoprint

Anna Harley, Samhain Mini, Limited Edition Print, Affordable Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Anna Harley Samhain Mini Limited Edition Silkscreen Print Edition of 80 Size: H 22cm x W 22cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Daymer Bay, Michael Sanders, Affordable Art, Contemporary Seascape Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Michael Sanders. A beautiful seascape print of Daymer Bay situated in North Cornwall, England. This print is in an edition of 250. It is signed by the artis...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Giclée

Jennifer Jokhoo, Hampstead NW3, Cityscape Art, Affordable Art, London Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Jennifer Jokhoo Hampstead NW3 Limited Edition Handmade Linocut Print Edition of 20 Sheet Size: H 20cm x W 20cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images are purely an i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Linocut, Paper

Jan Dingle Neaves Mill Limited Edition Etching Print Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Jan Dingle Neaves Mill Limited Edition Etching Print Edition of 100 Image Size: H 9cm x W 7cm Sheet Size: H 21cm x W 17cm Signed and Numbered Sold Unframed Please note that any insit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Etching

Tim Southall, A Hole in the Ice, Limited Edition Print, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Tim Southall A Hole in the Ice Limited Edition Print Size: H 10cm x W 15cm Sold Unframed (Please note that in situ images are purley an indication of how a piece may look). ‘A Hole ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Etching

Seasons Quartet IV Red Lithograph AP 6
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Seasons Quartet IV Red Lithograph AP 6 The French fine art paper is BFK Rives and is 33 X 22 inches. The image is 17 X 17. This signed Artist Proof lithograph depicts Sebastian Spr...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Anna Harley, Silver Birch Mini, Limited Edition Print, Nature Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Anna Harley Silver Birch Mini Limited Edition Silkscreen Print Edition of 80 Size: H 22cm x W 22cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Cathedral of Brandenburg - Original Lithograph by Ossi Czinner - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 54 x 35 cm. Hand signed. Artist's proof. Very good conditions.
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Rob Barnes, The Owl Post, Limited Edition Print, Landscape Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Rob Barnes The Owl Post Limited Edition Linocut Print Edition of 50 Image Size H 44cm x W 33cm Sheet Size H 49cm x W 61cm Sold Unframed mounted in Antique White mountboard Free Shipping Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look. The Owl Post by Rob Barnes is a limited edition linocut print using a Key Block and a Reduction Block resulting in several layers of printing. This landscape with an owl as its main feature was inspired by seeing barn owls locally. Rob has an owl box...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

UNTITLED (VENTANAS SERIES)
Located in Aventura, FL
From the ' Ventanas' series. Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Edition PA of 12. Sheet size: 31.5 x 24. Additional images available upon request. Ce...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

"Sunny Day", Color Nature Print, Yellow Flowers, Graphic Design
Located in New York, NY
"Sunny Day" Color Nature Photography by Shooting Star Designs Archival pigment print on museum fine art paper Edition of 7 Includes certificate of authenticity. Signed and numbered ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Color, Archival Pigment

Pond
Located in New York, NY
Sally Gall has spent her career exploring the intricacies of the natural world in delicate black-and-white photos of dew on spider webs, reflections on water, formal gardens, insects...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Photogravure

Contemporary British Print by Jane Ward - High Way to Bridge
Located in Paris, IDF
Digital print on canvas with dissolved ink and pigments, edition 1/5, 90 x 120 x 3 cm, 2018 Jane Ward is a British artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Lake District National Pa...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Ink, Pigment, Digital

Side By Side 6/8 - bright, colourful, political, flag, Canada, USA, giclée print
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Originally created in 1981, this edition was one of the finest in his flag series. This limited series glicée print on paper of Canadian and American flags dancing on a solid turquoi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Giclée

Clare Halifax, Itsy Icons, Limited Edition Print, London Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax Itsy Icons Limited Edition 4 Colour Silkscreen Print Edition of 30 Image Size: H 23 x W 23cm Sheet Size: H 27 x W 25cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that in situ ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Close Up - large format photograph of conceptual billboard sign in landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of billboard sign with conceptual message in iconic landscape of the American West. a series of images capturing the unique infi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Mychael Barratt, Anish Kapoor’s Dog, Limited Edition Print, Animal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Mychael Barratt Anish Kapoor’s Dog Limited Edition Etching Edition of 100 Sheet Size: H 40cm x W 38cm Signed and titled Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images are purely an in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Etching

Blue Photography, Blue Landscape Photography, Fine Art Photography-Glacial 819
Located in Delaware , OH
Blue Photography, Blue Landscape Photography, Fine Art Photography-Glacial 819 ABOUT THIS PIECE: "Glacial 819", Contemporary Landscape Photography, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Rag Paper, Color

Cloudy Day Prairie II, by John Hogan, New Mexico Landscape, Color Etching, blues
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Cloudy Day Prairie II, by John Hogan, New Mexico Landscape Color Etching, blues edition 13/50 matted and framed John Hogan A graduate of Northeast Louisiana State University with a...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

French Contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - AbadÔ
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold with wooden frame in black color or others : 91 x 141 x 5 cm - 35,8 x 51,5 x 1,9 in, ed. 1/7 Olivier Attar - Attoli is a French photographer born in 1971 who lives & works in L...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Pigment

Katie Edwards, Exploring The Alpines, Limited Edition Print, Cycling Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Katie Edwards Exploring The Alpines Limited Edition Silkscreen Print Edition of 50 Size: H 40.5cm x W 30.5cm Free Shipping Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

New York Stock Exchange (Symbolic icon of Wall St.'s vast power and wealth)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This color intaglio of the "New York Stock Exchange" was issued in a limited edition of 100. This impression is one of the Artist Proofs from the edition. The Stock Exchange is seen from Federal Hall...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Mezzotint, Aquatint

It Seemed To Me
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered etching from the edition of 90. An idyllic setting for Adam and Eve before "the expulsion". In individual prints, and his illustrated books, Washburn cleverly skewers human frailties with Renaissance-style engravings and tongue-in-cheek wit. This is one of Washburn's largest prints, showing all types of animals co-existing peacefully in a bucolic landscape. Stan Washburn...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

French Contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - Côl
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold with wooden frame in black color or others : 90 x 130 x 5 cm - 35,4 x 51,2 x 1,9 in, ed. 2/7 Olivier Attar - Attoli is a French photographer born in 1971 who lives & works in L...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Epoxy Resin, Canvas, Pigment

Venice II L'Ombre du Coleone
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Venice II L'Ombre du Coleone" is a Jean Michel Mathieux-Marie aquatint and etching of a Venetian scene. It is from an edition of 120. Mathieux-Marie was born in Paris in 1947. He...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

Contemporary British Print by Jane Ward - Overland 3
Located in Paris, IDF
Digital print on canvas with dissolved ink and pigments, edition 1/5, 90 x 120 x 3 cm, 2017 Jane Ward is a British artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Lake District National Pa...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Ink, Pigment, Digital

Jennifer Jokhoo Hampstead Heath NW3 Mint, London Art, Cityscape Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Jennifer Jokhoo Hampstead Heath NW3 Mint Limited Edition Handmade Reduction Linocut Print Edition of 5 Sheet Size: H 20cm x W 20cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that in situ im...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Battle of Britain, Pop Art Silkscreen by Malcolm Morley
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Malcolm Morley, British (1931 - 2018) Title: Battle of Britain Year: 2005 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: dedicat...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Landscape Prints

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Screen

Clemente Untitled A: surreal mythical landscape, voyage with ocean and animals
Located in New York, NY
A black and white, large-scale surreal mythical landscape of an ocean voyage, with a snake wrapped around a clock, female figure, greek urns, and an...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Mark A Pearce, Olive Grove with Deer, Landscape Art, Affordable Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Mark A Pearce Olive Grove with Deer Limited Edition Reduction Linocut Edition of 60 Size: H 44cm x W 71cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images are purely an indica...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Gray Area - unframed
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an original multi-layered silkscreen print by American artist Luke O'Sullivan. The paper measures 16.5”h x 11.25”w. The work is a 10 color silkscreen print and is part of an edition of 19. About the work // O’Sullivan’s recent screen prints introduce more color than his past collections, imbuing these works with a certain levity and illustrative quality. The playful nature of O’Sullivan’s work draws from Nintendo games...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Fiona Carver, Gorse at Borthwen, Seascape Art, Affordable Art, Seaside Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Fiona Carver Gorse at Borthwen Limited Edition Linocut Print Edition of 50 Image size: 13.5 x 13.5cm Mounted size: 27 x 27cm (approx) Sold Unframed, mounted in pale cream Free Shippi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

French Contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - RÔckinf
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold with wooden frame in black color or others : 90 x 130 x 5 cm - 35,4 x 51,2 x 1,9 in, ed. 1/7 Olivier Attar - Attoli is a French photographer born in 1971 who lives & works in L...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Pigment

French Contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - Pondor
Located in Paris, IDF
Sold with wooden frame in black color or others : 90 x 130 x 5 cm - 35,4 x 51,2 x 1,9 in, ed. 1/7 Olivier Attar - Attoli is a French photographer born in 1971 who lives & works in L...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Pigment

Fencelines
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Hillside landscape with fence and wildflowers. A scene from the hills west of San Joaquin Valley, California.. Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 120.. Born in Berkeley...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Overflow
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Bartkiw brilliantly disrupts the landscape by juxtaposing expected elements with dream-like imagery. This C-print is sealed between dibond and plexiglass. This 30 x 30 inch image i...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Plexiglass, Acrylic Polymer, Photographic Paper, C Print, Archival Pigment

Jennifer Jokhoo, Forest Hill SE23, London Art, Affordable Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Jennifer Jokhoo Forest Hill SE23 Limited Edition Handmade Reduction Linocut Print Edition of 13 Sheet Size: H 20cm x W 20cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Central Park, New York, detailed cityscape limited edition print
Located in Deddington, GB
Central Park NY by Laura Jordan is a Limited Edition Print printed on archival paper with a hand finished overlay of pencil watercolour and collage. The print is an edition of 20. S...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Glitter, Archival Paper, Screen

Ana Sthesia
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from the edition of 20. Portrait of a young girl in autumn landscape. Yuji Hiratsuka was born 1954 in Osaka, Japan. In 1985 he moved to the United States to purs...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Intaglio

Fiona Carver, Fisherman’s Huts, Southwold, Affordable Art, Beach Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Fiona Carver Fisherman’s Huts, Southwold Limited Edition Linocut Print Edition of 50 Image size: H 13cm x W 21 cm Mounted size: H 26.5cm x W 34cm Sold Unframed, mounted in pale cream...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Linocut, Paper

Linocut Print on Paper -- Little League
Located in Troy, NY
This limited edition linocut print in black and white presents a little league game, probably with a larger and more diverse audience than in real life. ...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Standing Still IV. Contemporary Mono Print
Located in Brecon, Powys
Inspired by Stonehenge in England Relief monoprints on Arches 88 paper. 1 of 1 20cm x 20cm
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Monoprint

Solitary Oak
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25 Susan Hall lived and worked for many years in New York City before returning to her childhood home in Point Reyes Station, California. She depicts mom...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Araquém Alcãntara - Leopard, Tanzania, Africa
Located in New York City, NY
ARAQUÉM ALCÂNTARA Leopard, Tanzania, Africa, 2009 60 x 48 inches - Edition of 10 Archival Pigment Print - Black box frame matt - Regular Plexiglas ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

'Beaver Lake Flowers' signed giclée print on watercolor after 1996 original
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Beaver Lake Flowers' is an artist's proof giclée print after the 1996 original, signed by the artist in the lower right. Working in the organic and mutable hues of watercolor, Barnett's flowers emerge from out of the variegated undergrowth only to dissolve back into pure color just as quickly. Barnett's mastery over color and light reveals him as a student of the Impressionists, while his tendency towards abstraction highlights his appreciation of later Expressionists as well. Giclée print on watercolor paper after original 1996 watercolor painting...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Giclée

'Narcissus Braziliana' original woodcut & monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present artwork is a vibrant and colorful example of the woodcut prints of Carol Summers. The image is dominated by the form of a red tropical flower, closely cropped around the petals like in the photographs of Imogen Cunningham and the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. 9.63 x 11.63 inches, artwork 21 x 23 inches, frame Edition 16/50 in pencil, lower right Titled in pencil, lower right Signed in pencil, lower center Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting, Museum Glass to inhibit fading, and housed in a modern profile gold gilded wood moulding. Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MoMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and non-western as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Monotype, Woodcut

Standing Still V. Contemporary Mono Print
Located in Brecon, Powys
Inspired by Stonehenge in England Relief monoprints on Arches 88 paper. 1 of 1 20cm x 20cm
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Monoprint

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