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Medium: Handmade Paper
Fin de Journée
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Sagot, 1889.
Wood engraving on cream laid Japon paper with full deckle edges, 8 3/8 x 5 3/4 (212 x 145 mm). Signed, numbered 9/35, and inscribed "1er Etat" in pencil in the l...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Woodcut
Cambridge Midsummer Fair
Located in Middletown, NY
A peaceful image by Britian's first official war artist.
Drypoint printed in brownish black ink on fibrous, laid Japon paper, 3 3/8 x 6 5/16 inches (85 x 161 mm), full margins. Sign...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint
La Seine à Courbevoie
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on heavy cream wove paper, 11 5/8 x 18 1/4 inches (295 x 460mm); sheet 16 3/4 x 22 1/2 inches (425 x 570 mm), full margins. A superb proof printed in bistre brow...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
View of Fountain Court, Middle Temple, City of London
Located in Middletown, NY
An 18th century view of the first permanent water fountain in London.
London: J.Boydell, 1753.
Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on white laid paper, laid down to a modern...
Category
Mid-18th Century English School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Engraving
Chicago Skyline
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful turn-of-the-century lake view of Chicago by an American artist known for his Texas landscapes.
Etching with drypoint on watermarked Umbria laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (182 x 275 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/25 in pencil, lower margin. In good condition with adhesive residue at the sheet edges on the verso, does not show through to the recto. A lovely Lake Michigan landscape...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins by James Bretherton after Rembrandt
Located in Middletown, NY
Bretherton, James (After Rembrandt van Rijn).
Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins.
London: c 1775.
Etching on light cream laid paper, 4 3/4...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Cherry Street
Located in Middletown, NY
A view of lower Manhattan's Cherry Street as it appeared at the turn of the 20th century. One of only 5 proof impressions.
New York: 1904.
Drypoint with aquatint on watermarked, cr...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
The Grand Canal, Venice
By Elias S. Mandel Grossman
Located in Middletown, NY
1926. Etching in sepia ink on Japon paper, 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 inches (245 x 292 mm), full margins with the lower margin slightly notched. Signed, titled and dated in pencil in the lower ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
'Summer Horse Fair', After Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川廣重, Ukiyo-e Woodblock, Tokaido
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing the summer horse fair, which Chiryu was well known for. Every summer, horse traders would bring near 500 horses to m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Sumi Ink, Washi Paper
The Windmill by François Vivares, after Rembrandt
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream laid paper, 8 x 5 7/8 inches (202 x 149 mm), trimmed at the platemark. Adhered at each corner to a small sheet of archival laid paper. Horizontal edge loss at the ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Illustrations From The Book of Job - "The Fire of God is Fallen From Heaven"
Located in Soquel, CA
"Illustrations of the Book of Job" Engraving "The Fire of God is Fallen From Heaven...And the Lord said unto Satan Behold All that he hath is in thy Power"
Engraving, third printing...
Category
1870s Symbolist Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
Woolworth Building, New York
Located in Middletown, NY
A rich and tonal image of an icon of Manhattan architecture.
Etching with drypoint, 11 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (300 x 186 mm), full margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
The Enchanted Doorway; Venezia
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on antique cream laid paper, 12 3/8 x 6 9/16 inches (315 x 167 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "Edition 100" in pencil, lower margin. In very goo...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Plantes tropicales [Tropical Plants]
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Cadart & Luquet, 1865
Etching and engraving on Chine-collé mounted to watermarked Aqua-Fortistes cream laid paper 14 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches (367 x 268 mm), full margins. In very...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
![Plantes tropicales [Tropical Plants]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/jules-ferdinand-jacquemart-2-prints-works-on-paper-plantes-tropicales-tropical-plants-for-sale/a_19792/a_138073821705694714828/957_1_master.jpg?width=240 "Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart - Plantes tropicales [Tropical Plants]")
Tugs on the Hudson
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching with engraving printed in black ink on Japanese mulberry paper, 4 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (113 x 84 mm), full margins. In superb condition. A beautiful New York City river...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Market Square, Rothenburg, Germany
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (270 x 190 mm), full margins. Signed, inscribed and titled in pencil, lower margin. In good condition with minor mat t...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Mu-Tamagawa
Located in Middletown, NY
Woodcut in ink with embossing and hand-coloring in watercolor on laid Japon paper, 16 x 10 inches (406 x 253 mm), ōban tate-e, full margins. Scattered handling wear and toning, other...
Category
Late 19th Century Edo Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
Festival Procession Of A Daimyo - Original Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Procession Of A Daimyo - Original Woodblock Print
Original woodblock print depicting the procession of a Daimyo. Ten Japanese soldiers are seen as they aid in transporting the Daimy...
Category
Late 18th Century Edo Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Wood Panel, Rice Paper
'View of Mitsuke', After Utagawa Hiroshige, Ukiyo-E Woodblock, Tokaido, Edo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of Mitsuke in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, circa 1850. A figure on horseback...
Category
Mid-20th Century Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Sumi Ink, Washi Paper
Sumiyoshi: Dengaku dance performed during an Onda ceremony - Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Sumiyoshi: Dengaku dance performed during an Onda ceremony - Woodblock Print
Bright woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858). In this scene, two dancers with swords and fans are facing each other, in the center of a courtyard. There are spectators surrounding them, including nobles in black clothing on a balcony.
Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 16"H x 20"W
Paper size: 9.63"H x 14.5W"
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858, sometimes called Ando Hiroshige) was the second of the two great masters of the Japanese landscape woodblock print...
Category
1830s Edo Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
Ten of views of Manhattan (10).
Located in Middletown, NY
The Society of Iconophiles (New York, 1894–1936), 1898. Each a lithograph printed on grayish-green, or white wove paper each sheet 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (274 x 190 mm), each with ful...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
The Acropolis, Athens
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. In generally good conditon with several scattered very light spots of foxing throughout,...
Category
1920s Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Handmade Paper, Etching
"Casa Marquez" Original Woodblock Print, Signed and Numbered 93/100
Located in Soquel, CA
"Casa Marquez" Original Woodblock Print, Signed and Numbered 93/100
Boldly colored woodblock print by Carol Summers (American, 1925-2016). This piece is a closeup on a large stone building, with a landscape reflected in the windows. The building has carved ornamentation in a classical style. There is a bright red sunset in the background behind the building. The title refers to the author Gabriel García Márquez.
Signed "Carol Summers" in the lower right corner.
Numbered and titled "93/100 Casa Marquez" in the upper right corner.
Presented in a silver colored aluminum frame.
Frame size: 19.25"H x 23.25"W
Paper size: 16"H x 20"W
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
Sunlight on Stone; Caudebec-en-Caux
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique laid Japon paper, 14 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches ( 368 x 195 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Ed. 100 II" in pencil in the lower margin. One of 100 impressio...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Handmade Paper
Ponte dei Baratteri, Venice
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on chine collé laid down to cream wove paper, 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (318 x 217 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and numbered 68/100 in pencil, lower margin. Th...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Notre Dame de Paris
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb, dark impression of a well known scene by Arms.
Etching with aquatint on watermarked handmade F.J. Head & Co. laid paper, 12 3/8 x 13 15/16 inches (315 x 354 mm), full marg...
Category
1920s American Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
The Quebec and the Surveillante [an animated naval battle scene]
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving with extensive handcoloring, on laid paper with a Fleur de Lys watermark, with margins. Plate 11 13/16 x 15 3/4 (300 x 400 mm); Sheet: 12 1/2 x 16 3/8 inches (317 x 415 mm)...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Laid Paper
![The Quebec and the Surveillante [an animated naval battle scene]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/balthasar-friedrich-leizelt-prints-works-on-paper-the-quebec-and-the-surveillante-an-animated-naval-battle-scene-for-sale/a_19792/a_147281421719894824799/1567_1_master.jpg?width=240 "Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt - The Quebec and the Surveillante [an animated naval battle scene]")
Courtiers under a wisteria draped pine tree
Located in Middletown, NY
Tokyo: Yokoyama Ryohachi, 1892
Woodcut in ink with embossing and hand-coloring in watercolor on handmade mulberry paper, 14 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches (368 x 251 mm), ōban tate-e, the full ...
Category
Late 19th Century Edo Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
"Enshoku Sanju-roku Kasen" (Thirty-six Enchanting Flowers) Woodblock on paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Enshoku Sanju-roku Kasen" (Thirty-six Enchanting Flowers) Woodblock on paper
Elegant woodblock print by Toyohara Kunuchika (Japanese, 1835-1900). Three women are in talking with each other inside, while a man waits outside holding a bag of some kind. The colors in this piece are rich and saturated, primarily blues, greens, and purple.
Mat size: 16"H x 20"W
Paper size: 14.75"H x 9.88"W
Born in 1835, Toyohara Kunichika grew up in the Kyobashi district of Edo in the midst of merchants and artisans. In 1848, at age 13, he was accepted as an apprentice into the studio of Utagawa Kunisada I...
Category
1880s Edo Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
Don Quixote
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on a large sheet of light cream wove paper, Baron Dominique Vivant Denon (after Jean-Honoré Fragonard); Paris: c 1900; 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 inc...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
'A Winter's Evening' Wood Engraving, Smithsonian, Carnegie, Brooklyn Museum, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'G. Mortensen' for Gordon Mortensen (American, born 1938) and dated 1979. Titled lower left, 'A Winter Afternoon' with number and ...
Category
1970s Realist Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Mulberry Paper, Engraving
The South West Prospect of London – English School 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
A stunning 18th century optical view of London from the Thames.
London: 1760.
Copper plate engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid paper with a large circular wate...
Category
Mid-18th Century English School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
The Battle of Dan-no-ura in Yashima, Nagato Province in the First Year .....
Located in Middletown, NY
The Battle of Dan-no-ura in Yashima, Nagato Province in the First Year of the Bunji Era (1185)
Tokyo c. 1830
Woodblock print (nishiki-e) with ink and hand-coloring in watercolor on handmade mulberry paper, 14 7/16 x 9 15/16 inches (367 x 252 mm), ōban tate-e, the full sheet. In good condition with some handling creases. Colors are fresh and extremely vibrant. The right panel from the triptych by Yoshitora depicting one of Japan's most storied naval battles. An impression of this work may be found in the permanent collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art.
The great naval battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185 was the final climax in a long series of bitter wars between two powerful families in feudal Japan...
Category
Early 19th Century Edo Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
Toulouse Lautrec Original Lithograph Famous Political 1800s Collection Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lautrec Book: From Au Pied du Sinai written by Georges Clemenceau" lithographs created by the legendary Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This book, Au Pied...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Mulberry Paper
The Punt
By Rosamond Tudor
Located in Middletown, NY
A dynamic football image from the 1920s by a female artist known for her sports scenes.
Etching with drypoint on exceptionally fine laid Japon paper with a double watermark, 10 7/8 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
"First Horse Day, 1896" - Chiyoda Palace - Japanese Woodblock by Chikanobu Yoshu
Located in Soquel, CA
"First Horse Day, 1896" - Chiyoda Palace - Japanese Woodblock by Chikanobu Yoshu
Colorful and expressive court scne by Toyohara Chikanobu,"Yoshu" (Japanese, 1838-1912).
This is the r...
Category
1890s French School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
The Pavilion de Mademoiselle and Part of the Louvre
Located in Middletown, NY
A fine and early state impression from an almost unparralled 19th century Parisian collection curated by Loys Delteil.
Etching, drypoint, and roulette on buff laid Japon paper, 5 7/16 x 9 13/16 inches (137 × 249 mm) full margins. In very good condition with light and unobtrusive scattered foxing. Some pencil inscriptions in the margins, recto, as well as the Alfred Beurdeley collection stamp (Lugt 421) in black ink in the lower left margin on the recto. There are some light scattered inscriptions in pencil on the verso, as well as a numerical stamp in blue ink, which we believe is the lot number from part III of a well-known series of sales of Beurdeley's collection organized by Loys Delteil. This portion of the sale of Beurdeley's massive collection focused on Modern Prints, and took place on May 19 – 20, 1920, in Paris. In regard to the content of the sale, Fritz Lugt states "Meryon's work included all the beautiful pieces about Paris." A rich and tonal impression.
[Delteil & Wright 9; Schneiderman 12].
A note on the provenance:
Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919) was the son of one of the first antique dealers in Paris...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Place de la Concorde, Paris
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Gebbie & Co., 1895.
Photogravure and engraving on cream wove paper, 6 11/16 x 9 5/8 inches (169 x 244 mm), full margins. In good condition with minor toning and three scatter...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Photogravure
Shin-machi Bridge at Hodogaya - Japanese Woodcut Print on Rice Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Shin-machi Bridge at Hodogaya - Japanese Woodcut Print on Rice Paper
Woodblock print of travelers on a bridge by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-185...
Category
1850s Impressionist Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Frontispiece for Le Graveurs du XIX Siècle, by Henri Béraldi
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: J & A Lamercier, 1885.
Etching with aquaint on Arches laid paper with a partial watermark, 7 x 4 5/8 inches (176 x 118 mm), full margins. Seventh state (of 7), after the remo...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Kiyomi Barrier & Seiken Temple Near Okitsu- Japanese Woodcut Print on Rice Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Kiyomi Barrier & Seiken Temple Near Okitsu - Japanese Woodcut Print on Rice Paper
Woodblock print of boats in a harbor by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858). Originally publish...
Category
1850s Impressionist Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Toshogu Shrine
Located in Middletown, NY
In image of the Tokugawa family paying homage to Tosho-gu Shrine in Nikko.
Tokyo: Matsuki Heikichi, 1896
Woodcut in ink with embossing and hand-coloring in watercolor on handmade m...
Category
Late 19th Century Edo Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
Le Petit Braconnier
Located in Middletown, NY
A boy kneels on a grass slope, trying to tempt an unseen animal.
Paris: Cadart & Luquet, 1865
Etching and engraving on Chine-collé mounted to watermarked Aqua-Fortistes cream laid ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
'Winds at Yokkaichi', After Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川廣重, Ukiyo-e Woodblock, Tokaido
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of two figures fighting wind gusts along the Mei River. Signed in Kanji upper right, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utaga...
Category
Mid-20th Century Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Sumi Ink, Washi Paper
'Mountain Pass at Okabe', After Utagawa Hiroshige, Ukiyo-E Woodblock, Tokaido
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of travelers passing beside a tea-house between steep slopes in Okabe, Shi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Sumi Ink, Washi Paper
La Place de la Pucelle.
By Samuel Prout
Located in Middletown, NY
A market scene; the spot on which the execution of Joan of Arc took place.
London: R. Bower, 1825.
Aquatint with hand-coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 10 3/4 x 13 5/8 inc...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Aquatint
Under the Manhattan Bridge
Located in Middletown, NY
New York, circa 1940
Etching with aquatint in colors on cream laid paper with a partial watermark and a deckle edge, 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (297 x 208 mm), full margins. Minor mat to...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Tropical Palm Block Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful tropical Woodcut print of Palm Tree on island. Signed "Wessels" with a KW chop in a box above and 2012 lower edge. Presented in speckled pain...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
"Grave of Santa Anna's Leg" Original Woodblock Print, Signed Artist's Proof
Located in Soquel, CA
"Grave of Santa Anna's Leg" Original Woodblock Print, Signed Artist's Proof
Boldly colored woodblock print by Carol Summers (American, 1925-2016). This piece is a segment of a grave, with a headstone that has a skull and cross. There are two bright green plants flanking the headstone. Below the headstone and plants, there is a large arched blue shape, with a crescent moon and stars. A red leg, bent at the knee, cuts across the blue arch.
Signed "Carol Summers" along the right edge of the blue shape.
Numbered and titled "A/P Grave of Sant Anna's Leg" along the left edge of the blue shape.
Presented in a silver colored aluminum frame.
Frame size: 32.245"H x 27.25"W
Paper size: 29.75"H x 24.5"W
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
Troubadour, from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Located in Middletown, NY
Stipple point etching on tissue-thin handmade Japon paper, 7 5/8 x 5 inches (193 x 126 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated, inscribed and numbered 10/25 in pencil, lower margin....
Category
Early 20th Century Jugendstil Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
From the Ponte Vecchio, Florence
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and aquatint on hand made F.J. Head & Co watermarked cream laid paper, full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right margin. From the edition of 160 (from a total of ...
Category
1920s American Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
View of Arona
By Dominique Vivant
Located in Middletown, NY
Denon, Baron Dominique Vivant. View of Arona.
Paris: 1788.
Etching on light cream wove paper, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (140 x 215 mm), full margins. Some...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper
Mitate of a Daimyo's Procession Crossing Ryogoku Bridge - Woodblock Print
By Keisai Eisen
Located in Soquel, CA
Mitate of a Daimyo's Procession Crossing Ryogoku Bridge - Woodblock Print
Woodblock print of a procession by Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848). Terrific triptych of a procession of...
Category
Early 19th Century Edo Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
Cathedral of Saint Cyr and Saint Julitta, Nevers
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 12 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (328 x 140 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower margin. Laid down to non-archival board, general age tone and some ma...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Handmade Paper, Etching
Two Actors - Japanese Woodblock by Chikanobu Yoshu
Located in Soquel, CA
Two Actors - Japanese Woodblock by Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延, 1838–1912), better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu (楊洲周延).
Colorful and expressive court scene. Two actors...
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1890s Edo Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
Fiesole, an Ancient Tower
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches (201 x 130 mm), full margins. Edition of 150. Printed by Federick Reynolds. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. Arms wa...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Don Quixote Reading
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on a large sheet of light cream wove paper, Baron Dominique Vivant Denon (after Jean-Honoré Fragonard); Paris: c 1900; 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 inc...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
The plan of St. Martin's Church, St. Martin in the Fields
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Society of Antiqauries London, 1744. Engraving on buff wove paper with a large heraldic watermark with Strasbourg lily with a crown and shied and the letters LVG, 9 1/2 x 14 ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English School Handmade Paper Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
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