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Original Metz vintage lithographic vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage travel poster: METZ (France), artist: Alfred Pellon, signed A. Pellon. Size 34.75" x 36". Year: c 1906. Stone lithograph. ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 67; Bloch 748), La Guerre et la Paix (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 14.25 x 10.125 inches
Inscription: Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Catalogue Raisonné Reference: Cramer 67; B...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Tribe of Levi, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, . Notes: From the album, Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem. Published by Musée des Arts Déco...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wading Out
Located in London, GB
Wading Out, 2019
Archival print on heavy matt stock
44.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition 188 of 200
signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chemin De Fer Rhetique
Located in New York, NY
Chemin De Fer Rhetique, Grisons, Suisse. Chateau De Tarasp.
1913. Color lithograph
Cardinaux created an extensive work of different media, he illu...
Category
1910s Art Deco Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Red-breasted Flycatcher Birds: A 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a striking hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Erythrosterna Parva" (Red-breasted Flycatcher) by John Gould from his monograph "The Birds of Great Britain", publish...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rodin, Composition, La Varende, Rodin (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Varende, Rodin, 1944. Published by Éditions ...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Tribe of Simeon, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem. Published by Musée des Arts Décora...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Constance Fletcher (Sheehan 96-108), Mother of Us All, Robert Indiana
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 24 x 20 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 51/150, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Mother of Us All, 1977. Published by ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Donald Baechler Blue Spruce 2005 (Donald Baechler prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Donald Baechler, Blue Spruce, 2005
A fun, whimsical, and highly decorative signed limited edition Baechler piece that works well in any setting.
Medium: Aquatint and drypoint, on ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Big Bird, Modern Etching by Linda Plotkin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Linda Plotkin, American (1938 - ) - Big Bird, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Etching on Arches, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 6/70, Image Size: 7.75 x 5.75 inches, S...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Hawaii Now, Fly United Air Lines Jets vintage Hawaiian travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Hawaii Now, Fly United Air Lines Jets. Archival linen-backed in very fine condition, ready to frame. There is no restoration on this mint original United Airlines vintage...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
Hölle IV (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Hölle XXVI (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Chagall, Job praying (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25) (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Drawings from the Bible by Marc Chagall, ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fegefeuer XXXII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Campo II (blue line) [polyptych] (1/20)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rocca Luis César
Campo II (blue line) [polyptych], 2023
Serigraph
Each of the four pieces is 15.75 x 11.80 in
Edition of 20
This serigraph (silkscreen or screen print) is part of a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Chagall, Tribe of Benjamin, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem. Published by Musée des Arts Décora...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
TAFILAH AT THE WALL (JUDAICA ART)
By Amram Ebgi
Located in Aventura, FL
Embossed lithograph with foil stamping on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 450.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity inc...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Foil
Le Paradis VI (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Je t’aime (Belknap 354-380; Engberg/Banach 415-441), Three Poems
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From th...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paradies XXI (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Combloux (Golfing), " Original Lithograph Poster signed by Pierre Commarmond
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Combloux (Golfing)" is an original lithograph poster by Pierre Commarmond. Combloux is a resort in France where people can surround themselves with nature, leisure, and sport. The artist signed the lithograph stone...
Category
1920s Other Art Style Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Nantua son Lac vintage French travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original, smaller format size, NANTUA SON LAC. Archival linen-backed original lithograph, excellent condition, ready to ship or frame. Grade A.
This poster promotes mini-golf, v...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Contemporary color lithograph landscape trees outdoor forest path scene signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Afternoon Shadows" is an original color lithograph print by Harold Altman. It is number 23 out of an edition of 285, signed in the lower right hand corner. Two figures cruise throug...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - Lithograph by Bernard Buffet - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original modern artwork realized by Bernard Buffet in 1961.
Mixed colored lithograph.
Hand signed, numbered and dated.
Very good condition.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Man Ray, Composition, Man Ray (after)
By Man Ray
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, 1984. Published by Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Ni...
Category
1980s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Group of Four Mezzotint Hunting Plates.
Located in London, GB
4 mezzotint engravings by and after Ridinger (c.55 x 43 cm.) with margins on all sides.
[Published: Augsburg, 1750].
A fine group showing 2 male and 2 female hunters along with the ...
Category
1750s Naturalistic Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Mezzotint
Wrapped Paris Review
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Christo
Title: Wrapped Paris Review
Medium: Offset lithograph
Date: 1982
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 36" x 24"
Signature: Hand signed in brown crayon
Category
1980s American Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Poems, Willem de Kooning
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier Kitakata à la main, mounted on papier Cartiere Enrico Magnani à la main paper, as issued. Paper Size: 23.5 x 19 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paradies XXXI (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Le Paradis IX (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Sebastião Salgado - Anavilhanas National Park, Brazil, 2009, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Anavilhanas National Park, State of Amazonas, Brazil"
by Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado spent six years traveling through the Brazilian Amazon, photographing the unparalleled ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper, Silver Gelatin
L'Enfer II (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Diver in a Lost Paradise" Photography Edition of 5 32 x 24 in by Lukas Dvorak
By Lukas Dvorak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Diver in a Lost Paradise" Photography Edition of 5 32 x 24 in by Lukas Dvorak
32" x 24" inch
Pigment print on Epson Fine ART paper
2016
Ships rolled in a tube
ABOUT THE ARTIST...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
Antiombrelle à atomiseurs de liquides (M/L 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, silkscreen, drypoint, and collage on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Inscription: hand signed and numbered, I-70/250, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Imaginat...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fegefeuer XXVIII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Composition (Michler/Löpsinger 1601), Romeo e Giulietta
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, silkscreen in colors on vélin vergata paper. Paper size: 16.5 x 12.625 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue Raisonne Reference: M...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Swainson's Warbler: A Framed Original Hand-colored Audubon Folio Bird Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Swainson's Warbler, Male, Sylvicola Swainsonia, Tree: Vulgo, White Oak", No. 10, Plate 50, from A...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Kom Ombo - David Roberts - Orientalist
Located in London, GB
David Roberts
1796 - 1864
Kom Ombo
First Edition lithograph
Full plate: 210
Presented in an acid free mount
Category
1840s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Tribe of Issachar, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem. Published by Musée des Arts Décora...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Michler/Löpsinger 1601), Romeo e Giulietta
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, silkscreen in colors on vélin vergata paper. Paper size: 16.5 x 12.625 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue Raisonne Reference: M...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Composition (Michler/Löpsinger 1601), Romeo e Giulietta
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, silkscreen in colors on vélin vergata paper. Paper size: 16.5 x 12.625 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue Raisonne Reference: M...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Composition (Michler/Löpsinger 1601), Romeo e Giulietta
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, silkscreen in colors on vélin vergata paper. Paper size: 16.5 x 12.625 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue Raisonne Reference: M...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Venice, Calle della Madonna, 1983. Black white etching print by Federica Galli
Located in Milan, IT
Venezia, Calle della Madonna, 1983, rif. 516
Platemark mm mm 692 x 195
Original etching, signed and numbered limited edition of 90.
The etching was exhibited last year in the crit...
Category
20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Dufy, Bouquet, Vacances forcées (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper
Year: 1970
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sweet Land of Liberty, New York Art, Statue of Liberty Artwork, Iconic Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Sweet Land of Liberty is a limited edition screen print on archival museum board with hand-applied gold leaf by Jayson Lilley.
Jayson Lilley is available online and in our gallery at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Dufy, Autoportrait, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches Arjomari paper
Year: 1965
Paper Size: 11.81 x 9.45 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Lettr...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Blue Angel With Heart, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Blue Angel With Heart
Year: 2003
Edition: 500/500, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on archival paper
Size: 11.31 x 7.88 inches
Condition: Excellent
Ins...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dufy, Fleurs peintes en manière, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches Arjomari paper
Year: 1965
Paper Size: 11.81 x 9.45 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Lettr...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cavendish Church
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on bluish-grey, thin laid paper, 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (242 x 140 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and numbered "II." In very good condition with three pin-point sized dots of...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Dying Elm, Vermont (Artist Proof)
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Dying Elm, Vermont" Artist Proof , Landscape Lithograph signed on Paper, 17 x 14, Late 20th Century
Color: Black and White
Sheldon Fink was born in 1925 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, and won Tiffany Foundation grants in 1957 and 1963. Shelly's work has appeared at the Albany Art Institute, the Berkshire Art...
Category
1960s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Jungle, " Color Lithograph Landscape signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Jungle" is an important, rare color lithograph signed by Carol Summers from the early years of his production. The image offers a landscape of a dark jungle, printed mostly in black ink. In the center, a blue pool of water is shaded by two trees. Summers' technique in this print renders a painterly quality to the image: the grasses and leaves of the scene are all created with playful, energetic swiping motions much like watercolor paint. This technique and the use of fields of color predict the style Summers would adopt in the coming decades, making this an important early work.
30 x 22 inches, artwork
Numbered 14 of the edition of 27
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 nonwestern 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...
Category
1960s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Paradis XII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Inspired Village of Montmartre - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Maurice Utrillo
Inspired Village of Montmartre
Pochoir with printed signature
Edition of 490
Dimensions: 39 x 30 cm
Information : This print was created for the portfolio "Le Village inspiré, Chronique de la bohème de Montmartre (1920-1950) " published by Vertex in 1950
Condition : Excellent
Maurice Utrillo (1883 - 1955)
The French painter Maurice Utrillo was born as the illegitimate son of the painter Suzanne Valladon in Paris on December 26, 1883. He was adopted by the Catalan art critic Miguel Utrillo...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Stencil