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Southwest View of Sherborne Abbey Church /// History of Dorset English Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John Hutchins (English, 1698-1773)
Title: "Southwest View of Sherborne Abbey Church" (Plate 15)
Portfolio: The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset
Year: 1861-1870...
Category
1860s Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
"Twilight in Arizona" original etching
By Thomas Moran
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: Klackner 27. This is a rich, dark impression on wove paper, printed in 1885 for the Sylvester R. Koehler portfolio of etchings and publ...
Category
1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, San Lazzaro et ses Amis, XXe siècle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, San Lazzaro et ses Amis, Hommage au fondateu...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$10,396 Sale Price
20% Off
Hand painted Limited Edition #1-First Moon-UK Awarded Artist-oil, gold on Giclée
Located in London, GB
This hand painted Limited Edition is 90% hand painted by artist Shizico yi with original gold paint, oil and gesso paint on a premium aluminium panel made with giclee. On offer here ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Metal
Komposition (Röthel 201), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 9.65 x 12.4 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Kandinsky, Wassily, and Hans Konrad...
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$7,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Eden Roc, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Arjomari paper. Paper Size: 11.75 x 9.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Du...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Sans titre, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXIe Année, ...
Category
1950s Constructivist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, L'Autruche, Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Tourelle, Rue de la Tixéranderie démolie en 1851
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on watermarked Hudelist laid paper, 9 5/8 x 5 inches (245 x 129mm) full margins. Second state (of five) after lettering. A superb condition with a pencil inscrip...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Soulages, Sans titre, Pierre Soulages, Peintres d'aujourd'hui (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 13.78 x 10.83 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Pierre Soulages, Peintres d'aujourd'...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Concetto Spaziale, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXIe Année, N°12 Mal-Ju...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$10,396 Sale Price
20% Off
Paradise
Located in Brooklyn, NY
John Baldessari's Paradise is a thought-provoking piece that plays with the concept of utopia and the viewer’s expectations of imagery. Known for his witty and conceptual approach, B...
Category
1990s Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
$250
Miró, Personnages (Cramer 103; Mourlot 382-383), Cartones (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 8.687 x 12.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, Sans titre, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Sans titre (Duthuit N° 17), Pierre à feu, Les Miroirs profonds, Henri Matisse
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin supérieur paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by Maeght, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, January 17, 1947. Note...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Werner Bronkhorst - Sail Away
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst
Sail Away, 2025
Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks
43 x 33 cm (16.9 x 13 in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink, Giclée
"End of Day" Original Limited Edition Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
"End of Day" Original Limited Edition Etching by John McGrath (Irish/American b.1884 d.1942).
This etching depicts a man with a tool slung over his shoulder walking along a path th...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint, Etching
$600 Sale Price
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A Bigger Splash
Located in Manchester, GB
David Hockney, A Bigger Splash, 2017
Giclée printed on 330 gsm Somerset Enhanced Radiant White 100% cotton rag paper with torn edges
17 7/10 × 13 4/5 in (45 × 35 cm)
A Bigger Splas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
La Petite Corrida (Bloch 839; Cramer 92; Mourlot 302), XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonne references: Picasso, Pablo, and Georges Bloc...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Constellations, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXIe Année, N° 13, Noël 19...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Danseuse (Cramer 68; Reuße 656; Mourlot 259), Le Ballet
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.48 x 8.82 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonne references: Picasso, Pablo, et al. Pablo Picasso Litho...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Daphnis et Chloé (Mourlot 227), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Mourlot, Fernand, and Marc Chagall. Chagall...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Le Taureau, Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Constellations d'une femme assise, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue V...
Category
1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L’écuyère au cheval rouge (Mourlot 191), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Mourlot, Fernand, and Marc Chagall...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Red and Blue Standing Figures (C. 36), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Henry Moore
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Moore, Henry, et al. Henry Moore...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mid Century View of Paris - Le Pont Alexandre III et le Tour Eiffel
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century hand coloured lithograph of the Alexander III bridge and the Eiffel Tower by Janicotte. Signed in the plate bottom right and titled. Presented in a fine carved wood,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Papier collé, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 6...
Category
1950s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Cocteau, Mesure hermétique, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau (after)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Coc...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Onde, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, Poètes, peintres, sculpteurs, N° 11...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Werner Bronkhorst - Tip Of The Iceberg
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst
Sail Away, 2025
Giclée print on 310gsm Smooth Cotton Rag using Epson archival inks
Shadow box framed in FSC certified timber with a smooth white finish and 3mm mu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Giclée
Braque, Oiseau sur fond de X (Vallier 122), XXe siècle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Vallier, Dora, et al. Braque, the Co...
Category
1970s Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, Le Chat, Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Roy Lichtenstein- Sky and Water Pop Art Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sky and Water by Roy Lichtenstein is a vintage blank greeting card, originally printed for the Guggenheim Museum in 1980. The card is framed in a white wood frame with a front profil...
Category
1980s Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Le Chandelier (Cramer 49; Mourlot 366), Marc Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.428 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and Fernand Mourlot. Chagal...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Werner Bronkhorst - Going Tandem - Cycling
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst
Going Tandem, 2024
Gicleé print on Hahnemuhle Daguerre Canvas, framed in Tasmanian Oak
42.5 × 32 cm (16 7/10 × 12 3/5 in)
Edition of 42
Hand-signed and numbered...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink, Giclée
Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 201, 1973. Published by Aimé Mae...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Werner Bronkhorst - Mockney
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst
Mockney, 2025
Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks
43 x 33 cm (16.9 x 13 in)
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink, Giclée
Werner Bronkhorst - Walk On Water
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst
Walk On Water, 2025
Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks
43 x 33 cm (16.9 x 13 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink, Giclée
Vision de Paris (Cramer 43; Mourlot 287), The Lithographs of Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.216 x 9.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and Fernand Mourlot. Chaga...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
LOBSTER and OCTOPUS (KAMPF - BATTLE)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NORBERTINE VON BRESSLERN-ROTH (1891 1978)
KAMPF (BATTLE - LOBSTER and OCTOPUS) c. 1928
Color linoleum cut Signed in pencil. Image 8 5/8 x 8 11/16”
In excellent condition and full ...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Animal Prints
Materials
Linocut
Paradis II (Mourlot 230-77; Cramer 42)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Mourlot, Fernand. C...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,276 Sale Price
20% Off
Sans titre (Cramer 49; Mourlot 365), Marc Chagall, Vitraux pour Jérusalem
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.428 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and Fernand Mourlot. Chagal...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Place de la Concorde (Cramer 23; Mourlot 83), Verve: Revue Artistique
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and F...
Category
1950s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, 8.10.64. VIII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, 8.10.64. XVII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, 8.10.64. I (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, 20.5.64. VIII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Night Shadows
Located in Storrs, CT
Night Shadows. 1921. Etching. Levin 82. 7 x 8 3/8 (sheet 10 x 13 7 1/16).s Series: Six American Etchings: The New Republic Portfolio, 1924. Edition approximately 500-600. Illustrate...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
$48,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, XII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, 8.10.64. X (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, 8.10.64. X (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso, 8.10.64. II (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 201, 1973. Published by Aimé Mae...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Cat Squirrel: An Original 19th Century Hand-colored Lithograph by Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Cat Squirrel, No. 4, Plate XVII", from John James Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America, published in Philade...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Figure, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Art...
Category
1930s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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"A Burro Train, New Mexico" original etching
By Peter Moran
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Catalogue reference: White 1. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1880 for The American Art Review. The plate measures 6 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches; the sh...
Category
1880s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Italian Boat at Sunrise
Located in Middletown, NY
A nostalgic image of a bucolic farmyard and thatched cottage, hearkening to a bygone era.
Etching with drypoint on laid watercolor paper, 9 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches, (251 x 229 mm), full...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Cinésias et Myrrhine (Bloch 267-272; Cramer 24), Lysistrata, Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Paper Size: 11.5 x 9 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Lysistrata, 1934. Published by The Limited E...
Category
1930s Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
$11,596 Sale Price
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'Taos Placita' — American Southwest Regionalist Masterwork
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Gustave Baumann, 'Taos Placita', color woodcut, 1947, edition 125. Baumann 132. Signed, titled, and numbered '20-125' in pencil; with the artist’s Hand-in-Heart chop. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on fibrous oatmeal wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2 to 3 1/8 inches); slight rippling at the left sheet edge, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 9 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches (244 x 286 mm); sheet size 13 1/4 x 17 inches (337 x 432 mm).
Collections: New Mexico Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Wichita Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) was a renowned printmaker and a leading figure of the American color woodcut revival whose exquisite craftsmanship and vibrant imagery captured the essence of the Southwest.
"A brilliant printmaker, Baumann brought to the medium a full mastery of the craft of woodworking that he acquired from his father, a German cabinetmaker. This craftsmanship was coupled with a strong artistic training that resulted in the handsome objects we see in the exhibition today. After discovering New Mexico in 1918, Baumann began to explore in his woodblock prints of this period the light. color, and architectural forms of that landscape. His prints of this period are among the most beautiful and poetic images of the American West."
—Lewis I. Sharp, Director, Denver Art Museum
Baumann, the son of a craftsman, immigrated to the United States from Germany with his family when he was ten, settling in Chicago. From 1897 to 1904, he studied in the evenings at the Art Institute of Chicago, working in a commercial printmaking shop during the day. In 1905, he returned to Germany to attend the Kunstwerbe Schule in Munich, where he decided on a career in printmaking. He returned to Chicago in 1906 and worked for a few years as a graphic designer of labels.
Baumann made his first prints in 1909 and exhibited them at the Art Institute of Chicago the following year. In 1910, he moved to the artists’ colony in Nashville, Indiana, where he explored the creative and commercial possibilities of a career as a printmaker. In 1915, he exhibited his color woodcuts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, winning the gold medal.
Among Baumann’s ongoing commercial activities was his work for the Packard Motor Car Company from 1914 to 1920 where he produced designs, illustrations, and color woodcuts until 1923.
In 1919, Baumann’s printmaking work dominated the important exhibition of American color woodcuts at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Twenty-six of his prints were included, far more than the works of any other artist. A set of his blocks, a preparatory drawing, and seven progressive proofs complemented the exhibition. That same year, Baumann worked in New York and, over the summer, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His airy images of Cape Cod employed soft, pastel colors and occasionally showed the influence of the white-line woodcut technique.
Many of his Chicago artist friends had traveled to the southwest, and Baumann became intrigued by their paintings, souvenirs, and stories of an exotic place named Taos, New Mexico. In the summer of 1918, he spent the summer in Taos sketching and painting before visiting Santa Fe. Paul Walter, the director of the Museum of New Mexico, offered him a studio in the museum's basement. Inspired by the rugged beauty of the Southwest—the vibrant colors and dramatic landscapes of the region became a central theme in his work, influencing his artistic style and subject matter for the remainder of his career. Later in the decade, he traveled to the West Coast and made prints of California landscape.
Baumann's prints became synonymous with the Southwest, capturing the spirit of its place in America's identity with a unique sense of authenticity and reverence. His iconic images of desert vistas, pueblo villages, and indigenous cultures served as visual tributes to the region's rich cultural heritage, earning him a dedicated following among collectors and curators alike.
A true craftsman and artist, Baumann completed every step of the printmaking process himself, cutting each block, mixing the inks, and printing every impression on the handmade paper he selected. His dedication to true craftsmanship and his commitment to preserving the integrity of his artistic vision earned him widespread acclaim and recognition within the art world. About the vibrant colors he produced, Baumann stated, “A knowledge of color needs to be acquired since they don’t all behave the same way when ground or mixed...careful chemistry goes into the making of colors, with meticulous testing for permanence. While complicated formulae evolve new colors, those derived from Earth and metal bases are still the most reliable.”
In the 1930s, Baumann became interested in puppet theater. He designed and carved his own marionettes and established a little traveling company. From 1943 to 1945, the artist carved an altarpiece for the Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe. In 1952, a retrospective exhibition of his prints was mounted at the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts. Throughout his prolific career, Baumann executed nearly four hundred color woodcuts.
Baumann’s woodcuts...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut