Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait

Brook Trout Fishing. : "An Anxious Moment."

1863.

Title continues: Built by Mr. Henry Steers, Greenpoint, L. I. Owned by Mr. James Gordon Bennett, Jr. Winner of the Great Ocean Yacht Race, With the ...

NIAGARA Contemporary artist Frederick Mershimer created the mezzotint engraving entitled “Niagara” in 2021. This impression is signed, titled, dated, and inscribed “5/45”- the 5th ...

“Hidden Cities I : The Ministry. Second State.” Contemporary artist Peter Milton created this etching and engraving in 2006. The printed image size is Image size 23.50 x 36.88 inches and the paper size is 31 x 42 inches. This impression is signed, dated, and titled in pencil and inscribed “11/75” – the 11th impression from the total printing of 75. “I do love to draw. I feel that I am being granted membership in the Brotherhood of Merlin, conjuring forth some apparition. As a drawing develops, I sense a vague presence coming more and more into focus, something in a white fog emerging and becoming increasingly palpable.” – P. Milton, “The primacy of touch. The Drawings of Peter Milton” “Working in layers, Milton begins with drawings based on people and places, with nods to Western art history and culture. He is a master of the appropriated image, a term that may conjure Andy Warhol and his Pop Art comrades. But Milton steps further back in history, avoiding the Pop sense of cool advertising and popular culture references. Instead, a broader cultural past is tapped through historical photographs of key players, architecture, and locales, which he reinvents by hand. He adds content drawn from his life as an avid reader – always with multiple possible interpretations – thus incorporating deeper meaning in his cinematic worlds. Elements of Greek mythology, classical music, art history, and history coalesce in his images, which embrace the messiness, sorrow, and elation that is life. One is hard-pressed to imagine a more erudite, skilled, passionate, and cheeky soul. In addition to a storied career in printmaking, since 2007 Milton has fearlessly produced artwork digitally. He now creates images using Adobe Photoshop in files consisting of more than two thousand layers, which are printed both as digital prints on paper and, for display on Led light boxes...

CROSSINGS Contemporary artist Frederick Mershimer created the mezzotint engraving entitled "Crossings" in 1998. This impression is signed, titled, and dated in pencil. The printed ...

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...

John Stobart "St. Louis, A View Through the Arches of the Eads Bridge" 1979 Color Lithograph 32.5 x 37.5 inches framed Signed in Pencil and Numbered 221/75...

John Stobart "St. Louis, Gateway to the West" Color Lithograph 30 x 42 inches framed Signed in Pencil and Numbered 434/750

John Stobart "The Statue of Liberty in a Panorama of New York City in 1886" Color Lithograph approx 32 x 43 inches framed Signed in Pencil and Numbered 914/950 A marine painter of ...