Medium Landscape Prints

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"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...

This is a 17th century hand-colored map entitled "Insula Gaditana Isla de Cadiz" from Johannes (Joan) Blaeu's Atlas Maior, published in Amsterdam in 1662. The map provides an excellent plan of Cadiz Island on the southwest coast of Spain, with its harbor, fortifications, agricultural fields and several surrounding salt processing areas. Numerous sailing ships of various sizes are included in and around the harbor and bay, including five large sailing ships, as well as twenty-four smaller ships. There is a small compass rose overlying the bay. The bridge to the mainland from the island is shown on the right. There is an extremely ornate and colorful title cartouche in the lower left, with its mythological figures reminiscent of Raphael’s Galatea fresco at the Villa Farnesina in Rome. The vibrant colors are vividly preserved. The master colorist tried to emulate a painting by using various tones to create a three-dimensional effect.
 Blaeu's name is present in the plate in the lower right. Blaeu stated in his description of Cadiz: “The main wealth of the islanders consists of salt, which they harvest, and
 the tuna fisheries.” 
 This 17th century hand-colored map is framed in an ornate, partially textured bronze-colored wood frame and glazed with UV protected conservation glass. There is a vertical center fold, as issued. There is a faint crease in the lower right and faint color offset on the left from the right side of the map, resulting from having been in an atlas for hundreds of years. Small foci of paint are present in the upper portion of the left margin and in the left corner margin. The map is otherwise in very good condition. Due in large part to their powerful trade empire, the Dutch became known for cartography in the seventeenth century. This period is considered the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. Their publishing houses produced the highest quality work in Europe, particularly those maps and charts of foreign lands, and Dutch map-making set the bar for cartographic accuracy and artistry into the early-eighteenth century. Some of the most well-known cartographers worked in Amsterdam during this period. Perhaps the most famous of these was the Blaeu family. Willem Janszoon Blaeu, set up shop in Amsterdam. His son, Johannes (Joan), succeeded him upon his death in 1638, continuing in his father’s position as Hydrographer to the Dutch East India Company and selling maps to the public. The Blaeu map presses, located near Amsterdam’s Dam Square...

’Bundanon Shore, 1 cockatoo’ By Arthur Boyd Medium - Lithograph Signed - Yes Edition - Artist Proof Size - 735mm x 540mm Date - 1994 Condition - 10 Colour of print may not be accurate when viewed on a monitor. Hand drawn metal plate lithograph printed with Senefelder press on rag paper. Being sold from the Andrew Purches collection. Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBE (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter...

Artist: Raymond Loewy, American (1893 - 1986) Title: Hydrofoil Year: 1978 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300 Image Size: 17 x 24 inches Size: 21 in. x 28 ...

"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...

Limited edition of 90 prints, numbered and hand signed.

Artist Name: Peter Max Space Rainbow Year: 1978 Medium Type: Silkscreen, on Arches Paper Size-Width Size-Height: 22” x 30” inches Signed Edition Size: signed in pencil and marked ...

Cascina (Farmhouse) Santo Stefano, rif. 490 Original etching, signed and numbered. Limited edition of 90. Federica Galli was one of Italy's leading contemporary etchers. She achi...

Artist: Warrington Colescott Title Fracas at Calamity's Place Year: 1969 Medium: Lithograph Dimensions: 22.5” x 29.5” inches Edition: Signed, titled, and numbered 32/40 About the A...

"State 16" Geometric Abstract Collagraph Print by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). This boldly geometric collagraph print by Patricia Pearce resembles a fragmenting landscap...

Berthoud Pass, located in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, has a rich history associated with winter sports, skiing, exploration, and snowmobiling since the 1930s. An avid outdoors person, the artist John Kato...

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 ...

Ravello Garden from the Amalfi Coast collection is a serigraph on paper with an image size 16 x 18 inches, signed 'McKnight' lower right and numbered lower left. Framed in a contempo...

Limited Edution 2/6, signed by artist. Anna Ładecka is a Paris-based polish illustrator and painter. Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Master ...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and numbered A.P., as issued. Notes: Published by London Arts Inc., Detroit; printed by Arts Litho...

Silkscreen, metallic ink in colors on vélin paper. Paper size: 26.5 x 26.5 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and numbered 67/100, as issued. Notes: Published by London Arts Inc., Detr...

Original The New Great Lakes in South Dakota vintage travel and sports poster. Promoting fishing, camping, boating, and swimming. Linen backed and ready to frame. Although hard...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Published by AMX Art Ltd., NY and printed by IZMO Productions, NY.. Artwork is in excellent condition. Edition of 175. All reasonable offer...

Sunrise over Jerusalem Amos Yaskil Israeli (1935) Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 375 Image Size: 18 x 24 inches Size: 22 x 29.5 in. (55.88 x 74.93 cm)

Linda Plotkin, American (1938 - ) - Route 180, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 11/180, Image Size: 18.5 x 22 inche...

Color lithograph, on Magnani-Pescia paper. Paper size 56cmx76cm, work size 47cmx66cm. Excellent condition, no defects. Artist, costume designer, after having created numerous scenog...

Frederic Menguy, French (1927 - 2007) - Regate II, Year: 1992, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 145/150, Size: 20.5 x 24.75 in. (52.07 x 62.87 cm)

Velasquez Le Reddition De Breda is one of six graphics from the series Changes in Great Masterpieces published by Sidney Lucas, 1974. Mas...

This is a beautiful four-color lithograph of the Louvre by the Seine by Philippe Benoist. It is double-matted in light blue with a gold tone wooden frame. Phillip Benoist was a p...

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...

This artwork titled "When the Land was His" 1985, is a color offset lithograph by renown western artist Arnold Friberg, 1913-2010. It is hand signed and...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1969 Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Raoul Dufy, IV, Col...

Seaside by Georges Lambert, French (1919–1998) Date: circa 1977 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 200 Size: 21 in. x 30 in. (53.34 cm x 76.2 cm)

Nocturne Venice landscape, Giudecca, plate mm 343 x 641 Original etching, signed and numbered, limited edition of 90. Maison Valentino set up the Giu...

Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 28 x 20 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 88/175, as issued. Notes: Published by London Arts, Inc., Detroit; printed by T...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1968 Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Roger de la Fresnaye, III, Col...

This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1966 Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Soutine, I, Collect...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1966 Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Soutine, I, Collect...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. Published by London Arts Inc., Detroit, MI and printed by Peter Baum,...

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...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1972 Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Fauves, VII, Collec...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1973 Paper Size: 26 x 20 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Les Réalistes Lyriq...

NEW YORK CITY: GRAND HYATT is an original hand drawn lithograph created in 1983 by the NY woman artist, Joan Melnick. NEW YORK CITY: GRAND HYATT was Inspired by the architectural des...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1973 Paper Size: 26 x 20 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Les Réalistes Lyriq...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin pur chiffon d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Faunes et Flore d'Antibe...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1973 Paper Size: 26 x 20 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Les Réalistes Lyriques, VIII, ...

Alex Colville (1920-2013) is one of the titans of Canadian art. Working across mediums, Colville is a revered painter, draughtsman, engraver, and muralist. He is one of the few Canad...

Original vintage poster: Buy Extra Bonds!, the 1944 U.S. World War II (WWII) War Bonds poster ("Back 'Em Up!") encouraging people to purchase more than the recommended amount of war...

Skadi Engeln, a Berlin- and France-based artist, studied sculpture at FH Ottersberg with Robert van de Laar and painting with Michael Kohr and Hermanus Westendorp. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in cities like Berlin, Düsseldorf, Paris, New York, and more, and is part of international collections. Engeln explores landscape as a dynamic, ever-changing entity dissolving into light, water, and weather, only to reassemble itself. Like painting, landscapes blur the line between the visible and the hidden, revealing deeper truths in their transitions. The horizon plays a central role in her work, both separating and connecting what lies above and below, the seen and the concealed. Rather than decoding these layers, she preserves their mystery and beauty. Since 2001, she has focused on abstract landscape painting. Her recent works depict landscapes veiled by lines, stripes, and distortions, creating a sense of distance, like reflections in a train window...

Ischia Gardens is an artwork realized in 1977 by the artist Eduard Bargheer.  Hand-signed, dated on the lower right margin. Numbered by the artist in pencil on the lower left margi...

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...

These are three 11 x 8.5 inch (45 x 60 cm) original hand-printed original cyanotype photographs sold together. Cyanotypes are an antique photographic process dating back to the nine...

Artist: Kevin Red Star, American (1942 - ) Title: First Snow Year: Circa 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150, AP Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55....

Champ de Tournesols is an original hand drawn lithograph by the French artist Georges Lambert printed in Paris France during the 1970's using traditional hand lithography techniques ...

Aquatint in colours. Signed in pencil within plate lines. Presented in a simple gilt frame with card mount. On paper.

"Pomme d' Amour" Mid-Century Modern Aquatint embossed Floral "Sept Tomate Original by Anne Walker Mid-Century Modern Aquatint of the Pomme d’amour or ‘Love Apple’ by Anne Walker (Be...

Original linen-backed ‘FLYING TIGERS - A legend in air cargo;, aviation vintage poster for sale. This poster is part of The Smithsonian National Air...

Overgrown Quarry-Poster. New York Graphic Society Ltd. Printed in Switzerland. Measures 25.5 x 30 inches and is Unframed. Good/Fair Condition-creasing/discoloration primarily in the ...

This Winslow Homer woodcut engraving entitled "Skating on the Ladies' Skating-Pond in Central Park, New York", was published in Harper's Weekly in the January 28, 1860 edition. It depicts a large number of men, women and children skating on a recently opened pond in Central Park. At the time of publication of this engraving, Central Park was in the early stages of construction. This engraving documents the very early appearance of Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux's masterpiece of landscape design. According to Olmsted, the park was "of great importance as the first real Park made in this century – a democratic development of the highest significance". The people of New York were very proud of the plans for their park. It was stated at the time: "Our Park, which is progressing very satisfactorily under the management of the Commissioners, will undoubtedly be, one of these days, one of the finest place of the kind in the world...Those who saw the Park before the engineers went to work on it are amazed at the beautiful sites which have been contrived with such unpromising materials; all fair persons believe that the enterprise is managed with honesty and good taste." Skating was rapidly rising in national popularity in part due to the opening of Central Park’s lake to skaters on a Sunday in December 1858 with 300 participants. The following Sunday it attracted ten thousand skaters. By Christmas Day, a reported 50,000 people came to the park, most of them to skate. There were rules governing who could use the skating pond. “The Ladies’ Pond...

The limited edition lithograph BOSTON PUBLIC GARDEN is a stylized Boston park landscape scene that combines the real and the surreal. Created in 1990 by the Iowa born artist Jim Buckels(b.1948) known for his dream-like images, rendered in a meticulous, modern airbrush technique. BOSTON PUBLIC GARDEN was printed using hand lithography techniques(not a photo reproduction or digital print) on archival Arches printmaking paper displaying very fine details and superb craftsmanship. BOSTON PUBLIC GARDEN is an intriguing, imaginative composition with delightful city park imagery including the famous swan boats...

Artist: Marc Chagall (after) Medium: Original lithograph Title: The Yellow Background Year: 1964 Edition: 3,000 Sheet Size: 30 1/2" x 22 1/2" Reference: Chagall's Posters, pg. 56 Sig...