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Period: 1920s
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
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Romantic 1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Laurencin, Huit filles dans un pré, Dix filles dans un pré (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Dix filles dans un pré. Ballet imaginaire. Avec ...
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Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

Laurencin, La Ronde, Dix filles dans un pré (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Dix filles dans un pré. Ballet imaginaire. Avec ...
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Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

Laurencin, Trois jeunes filles jouant à l'arc, Dix filles dans un pré (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Dix filles dans un pré. Ballet imaginaire. Avec ...
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Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

Laurencin, Jeune fille au nœud noir, Dix filles dans un pré (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Dix filles dans un pré. Ballet imaginaire. Avec ...
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Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

Tom Tower, Christ Church College, Oxford etching by Mabel Oliver Rae
Located in London, GB
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Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

Beethovens Residence at Mödling Colored Etching by Henry Goering
Located in Soquel, CA
Beethovens Residence at Mödling - Vintage Colored Etching by Henry Goering WWII Hand colored etching of the Christof House (the Yard of Christ) by Henry...
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American Impressionist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Paper, Ink, Etching

Water lLily
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRIETTA SHORE (1880 -1963) WATER LILY c. 1928 Lithograph, signed and titled in pencil and with the pencil cypher of printer Lynton Kistler (K). Image 7 x 6 1/8, full margins, shee...
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Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Original "HEARST'S INTERNATIONAL MARCH 1922" antique cover
Located in Spokane, WA
Original March 1922 HEARST'S INTERNATIONAL, March 1922 cover created by the notable artist, Alphonse Mucha. Professional acid-free archival linen backed, presented in a 16" x 20" p...
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Art Nouveau 1920s Landscape Prints

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Offset

MON DOUX OU-ETES-VOUS? / MY SWEET COUNTRY, WERE ARE YOU?
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) MON DOUX OU-ETES-VOUS? / MY SWEET COUNTRY, WERE ARE YOU? 1927 ( Chapon/Rouault 97; Wofsy 151) Miserere XLIV Aquatint, 1927, on laid Arches. watermark...
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Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Aquatint

Nashville in Winter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nashville in Winter Etching, c. 1928 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Very small edition A rare image of early Nashville, Indiana Excellent impression with plate tone in the sky First state before the aquatint depicting a winter nocturne...
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American Realist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

"Sherman Rose" Adobe, Monterey California - Signed 1923 Original Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful early 20th Century etching on vellum of the Monterey Bonifacio Adobe known as The Old Sherman Rose House, with climbing roses, by Ferdinand Burgdorff (American, (1881 - 197...
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American Realist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Paper, Etching

"Oliviers" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor). Published in Paris in 1924 by Albert Morance for "L'Art d'Aujourd'hui", and now very scarce. The publisher's provenance inscription is printed...
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1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Leon Dolice, (Washington Square, New York City)
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice managed to capture New York City moments and places dear to all New Yorkers. This view of the arch in Washington Square Park is a perfect example. It's shown from Fifth A...
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Ashcan School 1920s Landscape Prints

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Intaglio

India Rare Edition 25/75 Engraving In the Bazaar Bijapur 1929 W Bagdatopolus
Located in Norfolk, GB
Artist: William Bagdatopoulos In the Bazaar, Bijapur, c 1929 Medium: Engraving Edition 25/75 Image Size: 21 x 30 cm Paper Size: 29 x40 cm A fabulous and very rare image. There is one in the Smithsonian Collections William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (1888 - 1965) Bagdatopoulos was a painter and commercial artist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is known for his Orientalist renditions of people and monuments in the East. In 1924, Bagdatopoulos was commissioned by the Times of India in Bombay to tour the country on their behalf. From 1924-26 he travelled to every part of India, painting images of Indian sights, such as the Golden Temple, the gopuram at Madurai, the Taj Mahal, and the bazaars of Darjeeling.Some of his art was reproduced in the Times of India annuals. He also illustrated advertisements for the magazine and travel posters for the Indian Railways...
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Other Art Style 1920s Landscape Prints

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Engraving

Original "Ring It Again, Third Liberty Loan vintage WW1 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Ring it Again Third Liberty Loan. Buy U. S. Gov't Bonds. World War 1 lithograph poster over 100 years old. It is mounted on acid-free archival linen. It looks l...
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American Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

"The Greek Theater After A Rally" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Greek Theater After A Rally" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph "The Greek Theater After A Rally" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
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American Impressionist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Ink, Paper

Paris, Luxembourg Garden - Original wooodcut, Handsigned and numbered /105
Located in Paris, FR
Emile BOIZOT Paris, Luxembourg Garden - 1920 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /165 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind...
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Art Deco 1920s Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

"The Greater University" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Greater University" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph "The Greater University" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
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American Impressionist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Ink, Paper

Lower East Side Tenements Yiddish Barber Shop 1920's Aquatint Etching Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, numbered and titled. It depicts the old lower east side of New York city with its tenements and different language signes, barber shop poles...
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American Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

"The Football Statue Through The Trees" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Football Statue Through The Trees" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Lithograph "The Football Statue Through The Trees" 1921 University of California B...
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American Impressionist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Ink, Paper

"Senior Womens Hall In The Moonlight" 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Senior Womens Hall In The Moonlight" 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph "Senior Womens Hall In The Moonlight" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
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American Impressionist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Paper, Ink

"Strawberry Creek At The Class Of 1910 Bridge" - 1921 UC Berkeley Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Strawberry Creek At The Class Of 1910 Bridge" - 1921 UC Berkeley Lithograph "Strawberry Creek At The Class Of 1910 Bridge" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
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American Impressionist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Ink, Lithograph, Paper

British Empire Exhibition 1924 Wembley map by Stanley Kennedy North
Located in London, GB
To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Stanley Kennedy North (1887 - 1942) British Empire Exhibition Map (1924) Lithog...
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1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

"The Library From The Botanical Gardens" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Library From The Botanical Gardens" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Lithograph "The Library From The Botanical Gardens" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
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American Impressionist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Paper, Ink

"The Mining Building From The Road" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Mining Building From The Road" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph "The Mining Building From The Road" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
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American Impressionist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Paper, Ink

La Traite des Vaches - Woodcut by Paul Emile Colin - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
La Traite des Vaches is an artwok realized in 1905, by the French Artist Paul Emile Colin . Colored woodcut on paper. Hand Signed on the right corner. Limited edition of 50, ex. n. ...
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Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Le Cerisier  - Woodcut by Paul Emile Colin - 1902
Located in Roma, IT
Le Cerisier is an artwok realized in  1902  by the French Artist  Paul Emile Colin . Black and white woodcut on paper. Hand Signed on the left corner. The artwork is attached on pa...
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Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

"And There Was Light" from the Genesis portfolio old testament bible landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"And There Was Light" is a reproduction giclée print on watercolor paper. It is based after the original lithograph made by Abel Pann. From Abel Pann's portfolio, "The Bible - Genes...
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Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Giclée

Bluebell Wood, John Hall Thorpe colour woodcut, c1920
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour woodcut. C1922.Signed in pencil below the image. Hall Thorpe's colourful and decorative woodcuts were very popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He was ...
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Art Nouveau 1920s Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Original Impermeaili Moretti Italian art deco vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Italian poster: Impermeabili Moretti by Leopoldo Meticovitz. Archival linen-backed original Italian vintage poster IMPERMEABILI MORETTI. This pre-art deco poster is in v...
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Art Deco 1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

'Brooklyn Bridge' — 1920s view of an iconic New York City landmark
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Luigi Kasimir, 'Brooklyn Bridge', color etching with aquatint, 1927, edition 100. Signed in pencil. A superb impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, cream wove paper; with margins...
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American Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Wheeler Hall 1921 University of California at Berkeley Color Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Wheeler Hall 1921 University of California at Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos (American, 1882-1952). Lithograph from a 1921 UC Berkely yearbook de...
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American Impressionist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

'Coenties Slip' — 1920s Lower Manhattan, Financial District
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Luigi Kasimir, 'Coenties Slip', color etching with aquatint, 1927, edition 100. Signed in pencil. Dated in the plate, lower right. Annotated 'NEW YORK HANOVER SQUARE (COENTIES SLIP)'...
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American Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

'Westminster Abbey' — 1920s Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Westminster Abbey', etching, edition not stated, 1927. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-i...
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American Realist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

The Helmsman
Located in Storrs, CT
The Helmsman. 1925. Etching. Hurst 130. 7 x 10 7/8 (sheet 11 x 5). Trial proof, apart from the edition of 75 An extremely rich impression printed cream wove paper. An exceptionally r...
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Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

New Viaduct
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From: The Cleveland Set (23 plates), No. 1 Edition: Small Signed in pencil Image: 7 3/4 x 11 1/2"
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1920s Landscape Prints

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Drypoint

London Underground Summertime original vintage poster by Edward McKnight Kauffer
Located in London, GB
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1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

'Soaring Steel' — 1920s Realism, Chicago Cityscape
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Samuel Chamberlain, 'Soaring Steel', drypoint, 1929, edition 100, Chamberlain and Kingsland 79. Signed, titled, and numbered '64/100' in pencil. Annotated '48.00' in pencil, in the artist's hand, bottom right margin. A superb, finely-detailed impression, with selectively wiped plate tone, on heavy Rives cream wove paper; full margins (1 3/8 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. The subject of the print is the construction of the Daily News Building in Chicago, Illinois. Image size 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (311 x 241 mm); sheet size 15 1/2 x 12 3/8 inches (394 x 314 mm). Impressions of this work are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Public Library, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Western Australia Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST 'There is something about the atmospheric vibrancy of an etching which imparts a peculiar and irresistible life to architectural drawing...A copper plate offers receptive ground to the meticulously detailed drawing which so often appeals to the architect'. —Samuel Chamberlain, from the Catalogue Raisonné of his prints. Samuel V. Chamberlain (1896 - 1975), printmaker, photographer, author, and teacher, was born in Iowa. His family moved to Aberdeen, Washington in 1901, and in 1913, Chamberlain enrolled in the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied architecture under Carl Gould. By 1915, he was enrolled in the School of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. With the United States' involvement in the First World War, Chamberlain sailed to France, where he volunteered in the American Field Service. In 1918, he was transferred to the United States Army to complete his tour of duty. After the war, he returned to Boston and resumed his architectural studies, which he eventually discontinued, working for a few years as a commercial artist. Chamberlain received the American Field Service Scholarship in 1923, which he used to travel to Spain, North Africa, and Italy. In 1924 he was living in Paris, where he studied lithography with Gaston Dorfinant and etching and drypoint with Edouard Léon, publishing his first etching the following year. In 1927, he studied drypoint with Malcolm...
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American Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Drypoint

'Heart of San Francisco' — Vintage 1920s Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Heart of San Francisco', etching, c. 1927, edition not stated. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2...
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American Realist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

'Manhattan Old and New' —1920s Realism, Cityscape
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Samuel Chamberlain, 'Manhattan Old and New', drypoint, 1929, edition 100, Chamberlain and Kingsland 81. Signed, titled, and numbered '81/100' in pencil. Titled and annotated '30.00' in pencil, in the artist's hand, bottom margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed. A superb, finely-detailed impression, with selectively wiped plate tone, on heavy Rives cream wove paper; full margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. The subject of the print is the lower Manhattan cityscape just before the Depression. Image size 8 3/4 x 6 13/16 inches (222 x 173 mm); sheet size 12 3/4 x 10 inches (324 x 254 mm). Impressions of this work are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Zimmerli Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST 'There is something about the atmospheric vibrancy of an etching which imparts a peculiar and irresistible life to architectural drawing...A copper plate offers receptive ground to the meticulously detailed drawing which so often appeals to the architect'. —Samuel Chamberlain, from the Catalogue Raisonné of his prints. Samuel V. Chamberlain (1896 - 1975), printmaker, photographer, author, and teacher, was born in Iowa. His family moved to Aberdeen, Washington in 1901, and in 1913, Chamberlain enrolled in the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied architecture under Carl Gould. By 1915, he was enrolled in the School of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. With the United States' involvement in the First World War, Chamberlain sailed to France, where he volunteered in the American Field Service. In 1918, he was transferred to the United States Army to complete his tour of duty. After the war, he returned to Boston and resumed his architectural studies, which he eventually discontinued, working for a few years as a commercial artist. Chamberlain received the American Field Service Scholarship in 1923, which he used to travel to Spain, North Africa, and Italy. In 1924 he was living in Paris, where he studied lithography with Gaston Dorfinant and etching and drypoint with Edouard Léon, publishing his first etching the following year. In 1927, he studied drypoint with Malcolm Osborne...
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American Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Drypoint

Smoky Valley Homestead
Located in Missouri, MO
This is a wonderful hand-signed linoleum cut from 1929 by the great Swedish artist to who immigrated to the US and lived and worked in Kansas and Colorado. "Smokey Valley Homestead" 1929 Linoleum Cut Hand-Signed in Pencil Lower Right by the Artist Titled in Pencil Lower Left Image Size: 9 x 12 inches Sheet Size: approx. 13 x 15 inches Framed Size: approx 13.75 x 15.75 inches Very Good Condition. Born Blidsberg, Sweden, Feb. 5, 1871; died Lindsborg, June 19, 1954. Painter, specialized in landscapes. Etcher. Engraver. Lithographer. Teacher. Attended the College and Academy of Skara as a pupil of Olof Erlandsson. After graduation from Skara College, Sandzén spent a semester at Lund University attending art history lectures and continuing the study of French. Following Lund University he went to the technical high school at Stockholm, where he studied perspective and form drawing. Sandzén joined a group of young artists and they rented a studio at Anders Zorn's suggestion. They received instruction from Zorn as well as Richard Bergh, a well-known portrait painter and Per Hasselberg...
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Impressionist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Linocut

'Cleveland Public Square' — 1920s Urban Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Cleveland Public Square', etching, edition not stated, 1927. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. Annotated 'Cleveland Public Square S489', in another hand, in the bottom right margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, in brown/black ink, with skillfully-controlled plate tone, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 3 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches; sheet size 17 1/4 x 12 1/8 inches. ABOUT THIS IMAGE 'Public Square' is the two-block (formerly four-block) central plaza of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Based on an 18th-century New England model, it was part of the original 1796 town plan overseen by Moses Cleveland and remains today as an integral part of the city's center. The 10-acre (4.0 ha) square is centered on the former intersection of Superior Avenue and Ontario Street.[2] Cleveland's three tallest buildings, Key Tower, 200 Public Square, and the Terminal Tower, face the square. Public Square was part of the Connecticut Land Company's original plan for the city, overseen by Moses Cleveland in the 1790s. The square is signature of the layout for early New England towns, which Cleveland was modeled after. While it initially served as a common pasture for settlers' animals, less than a century later in 1879 Public Square became the first street in the world to be lit with electric street lights—arc lamps designed by Cleveland native Charles F. Brush. The square was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1975. Public Square is often the site of political rallies and civic functions, including a free annual Independence Day concert by the Cleveland Orchestra...
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American Realist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

Hamburg Harbor Etching by Hans Kaumann, c. 1920
Located in Larchmont, NY
Hans Kaumann (German, 20th Century) Hamburg Harbor, c. 1920 Etching 12 x 16 in. This historic print depicting Hamburg Harbor offers a look into the past, presenting a c. 1920s view ...
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1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

Fred Nagler, Harlem River (New York City)
Located in New York, NY
Massachusetts-born Fred Nagler studied at the Art Students League from 1914 to 1917, with George Bridgeman and Robert Henri, and eventually became a member of the Board of Control. ...
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Ashcan School 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

Fred Nagler, (Sheep under a Tree)
Located in New York, NY
The etching (Sheep under a Tree) is signed in pencil and annotated (in lower margin) '3rd State, 4 proofs, JN imp.' in pencil. It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Na...
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Ashcan School 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

SAN JACINTO
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869-1958) (Mt.) SAN JACINTO c. 1926 Color block print. Signed in pencil. Unknown edition but uncommon. Image 6 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches. On Gearhart's typical fibr...
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American Impressionist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Fred Nagler, (Road to Calvary)
Located in New York, NY
The etching (Road to Calvary) is signed in pencil. It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Nagler did use occasionally. Here it emphasizes the meagerness of the scene. T...
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Ashcan School 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

Street in Porto Maurizio
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a partial watermark, 9 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches (246 x 109 mm); full margins. Signed and dated "1928" in pencil, lower margin. Inscribed "Street in Porto Maurizio...
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American Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

The Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt hunting print by Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
To see our other hunting pictures, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" and then search. Lionel Ed...
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1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Fred Nagler, (Crucifixion)
Located in New York, NY
The etching (Crucifixion) is signed and titled in pencil. Signed 'Fred' and possibly dated '27' in the image at lower left. It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Nagl...
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Ashcan School 1920s Landscape Prints

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Etching

Brooklyn Waterfront
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Brooklyn Waterfront Lithograph, 1931 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist Edition: Undetermined (very small), plus artist's proofs Printed by Meister Schulz, Berlin Provenance: Estate of the artist Virginia Dehn, the artist's widow Dehn Quests Bibliography: Lumsdaine and O'Sullivan 152 Illustrated: Adams, The Sensuous Life of Adolf Dehn, Fig. 9.14, page 213 (This impression) Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968 Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art. In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art. If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques. Early Years, 1895-1922 For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs. In many ways Dehn’s later artistic achievement was clearly a reaction against the grinding rural poverty of his childhood. After graduating from high school in 1914 at the age of 19—an age not unusual in farming communities at the time, where school attendance was often irregular—Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art from 1914 to 1917, whose character followed strongly reflected that of its director, Munich-trained Robert Kohler, an artistic conservative but a social radical. There Dehn joined a group of students who went on to nationally significant careers, including Wanda Gag (later author of best-selling children’s books); John Flanagan (a sculptor notable for his use of direct carving) Harry Gottlieb (a notable social realist and member of the Woodstock Art Colony), Elizabeth Olds (a printmaker and administrator for the WPA), Arnold Blanch (landscape, still-life and figure painter, and member of the Woodstock group), Lucille Lunquist, later Lucille Blanch (also a gifted painter and founder of the Woodstock art colony), and Johan Egilrud (who stayed in Minneapolis and became a journalist and poet). Adolf became particularly close to Wanda Gag (1893-1946), with whom he established an intense but platonic relationship. Two years older than he, Gag was the daughter of a Bohemian artist and decorator, Anton Gag, who had died in 1908. After her husband died, Wanda’s mother, Lizzi Gag, became a helpless invalid, so Wanda was entrusted with the task of raising and financially supporting her six younger siblings. This endowed her with toughness and an independent streak, but nonetheless, when she met Dehn, Wanda was Victorian and conventional in her artistic taste and social values. Dehn was more socially radical, and introduced her to radical ideas about politics and free love, as well as to socialist publications such as The Masses and The Appeal to Reason. Never very interested in oil painting, in Minneapolis Dehn focused on caricature and illustration--often of a humorous or politically radical character. In 1917 both Dehn and Wanda won scholarships to attend the Art Students League, and consequently, in the fall of that year both moved to New York. Dehn’s art education, however, ended in the summer of 1918, shortly after the United States entered World War I, when he was drafted to serve in the U. S. Army. Unwilling to fight, he applied for status as a conscientious objector, but was first imprisoned, then segregated in semi-imprisonment with other Pacifists, until the war ended. The abuse he suffered at this time may well explain his later withdrawal from taking political stands or making art of an overtly political nature. After his release from the army, Dehn returned to New York where he fell under the spell of the radical cartoonist Boardman Robinson and produced his first lithographs. He also finally consummated his sexual relationship with Wanda Gag. The Years in Europe: 1922-1929 In September of 1921, however, he abruptly departed for Europe, arriving in Paris and then moving on to Vienna. There in the winter of 1922 he fell in love with a Russian dancer, Mura Zipperovitch, ending his seven-year relationship with Wanda Gag. He and Mura were married in 1926. It was also in Vienna that he produced his first notable artistic work. Influenced by European artists such as Jules Pascin and Georg Grosz, Dehn began producing drawings of people in cafes, streets, and parks, which while mostly executed in his studio, were based on spontaneous life studies and have an expressive, sometimes almost childishly wandering quality of line. The mixture of sophistication and naiveté in these drawings was new to American audiences, as was the raciness of their subject matter, which often featured pleasure-seekers, prostitutes or scenes of sexual dalliance, presented with a strong element of caricature. Some of these drawings contain an element of social criticism, reminiscent of that found in the work of George Grosz, although Dehn’s work tended to focus on humorous commentary rather than savagely attacking his subjects or making a partisan political statement. Many Americans, including some who had originally been supporters of Dehn such as Boardman Robinson, were shocked by these European drawings, although George Grocz (who became a friend of the artist in this period) admired them, and recognized that Dehn could also bring a new vision to America subject matter. As he told Dehn: “You will do things in America which haven’t been done, which need to be done, which only you can do—as far at least as I know America.” A key factor in Dehn’s artistic evolution at this time was his association with Scofield Thayer, the publisher of the most notable modernist art and poetry magazine...
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American Modern 1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

The South Notts Hunt hunting print by Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
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1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

The Belvoir Hunt hunting print by Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
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1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Kevin B. O'Callahan, (Exotic Temple)
Located in New York, NY
This (Exotic Temple) is monogrammed in the plate at the lower right. A Rochester, New York native, Kevin O'Callahan studied at the Carnegie Institute and worked on the WPA. He is k...
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Aesthetic Movement 1920s Landscape Prints

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Intaglio

The Hertfordshire Hunt fox hunting print by Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
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1920s Landscape Prints

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The Berkeley Hunt hunting print by Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
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1920s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Ramshackle Barn (de-accessioned from the Denver Art Museum)
Located in New York, NY
Asa Cheffetz Ramshackle Barn (de-accessioned from the Denver Art Museum), ca. 1929 Wood-engraving Pencil signed, numbered 27/100 and titled by the artist on the front 13 × 10 1/4 inches Unframed - affixed to matting De-accessioned from the collection of the Denver Art Museum Asa Chaffetz, "the engraver's engraver" This is the original numbered wood engraving from 1929; not a later re-print This print was honorable mention in the International Exhibition of prints, Art Institute of Chicago, 1929 Exhibited: New England engraved: The prints of Asa Cheffetz: An Exhibition of his wood engraving & an exploration of his life as an artist. Springfield, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1984 (A different example) Asa Cheffetz Biography: Born in Buffalo, New York, Cheffetz studied at the School Of The Museum Of Fine Arts in Boston under Philip Leslie Hale...
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Realist 1920s Landscape Prints

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Engraving

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