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Period: 1960s
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
Cubist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Maui, Abstract Etching by Gabor Peterdi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gabor Peterdi, Hungarian (1915 - 2001)
Title: Maui
Year: 1969
Medium: Color Etching on BFK Rives paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 146/200
Image Size: 10 x 7 inch...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Train Autos-Couchettes vintage French poster 1964 linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1964 Bernard Villemot Poster — SNCF “I Entrust My Car and My Sleep to …” — Linen Backed Vintage Travel Advertising Art. Fine condition, Grade A. Excellent colors and rea...
Category
American Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Tribe of Reuben, Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 8 x 6 inches, image; 15 x 11 inches, overall. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Marc Chagall, The Jerusal...
Category
Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Dufy, Composition, Les Côtes Normandes (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Les Côtes Normandes 1961. Publ...
Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
Chagall, Tribe of Gad, Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 8 x 6 inches, image; 15 x 11 inches, overall. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Marc Chagall, The Jerusal...
Category
Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Ernst, Composition (Monod 2619; Spies/Leppien A19/C), Dent Prompte (after)
By Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Dent Prompte, Dix poèmes inédits illustrés par Max Ernst, ...
Category
Surrealist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
52% Off
Miró, Yellow and Green (Mourlot 298, 300), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 128, 1961. Published by Aim...
Category
Surrealist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
West Hill, Modern Screenprint by Peter Kalen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Peter Kalen - West Hill, Year: 1968, Medium: Screenprint on thin wove paper, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 2/15, Image Size: 15 x 11 inches, Size: 16.75 x 12 in. (...
Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
The Reef, Abstract Etching by Gabor F. Peterdi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gabor Peterdi, Hungarian (1915 - 2001)
Title: The Reef
Year: 1969
Medium: Color Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: HC 10
Image Size: 17.5 x 24 inches
Size: 23.5 ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape - Lithograph by Arnoldo Ciarrocchi - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by Arnoldo Ciarrocchi in 1966.
China ink Drawing on paper.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Includes frame
Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Animated Autumn Landscape
Located in London, GB
KARL SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF 1884-1976
Rottluff, Germany 1884 - 1976 Berlin (German)
Title: Animated Autumn Landscape Bewegte Herbstlandschaft, 1967
Technique: Signed and Dated Brush, I...
Category
Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Plate 1, from Derriere Le Miroir #156
Located in Washington, DC
Alexander Calder Derriere le Miroir #156 (Plate 1)
Artist: Alexander Calder
Title: (Plate 1) Derriere le Miroir #156
Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #156
Medium: Original lithograph
Ye...
Category
1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Switzerland horses by Hugo Wetli original vintage poster Swiss Jura Alps
By Hugo Wetli
Located in London, GB
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Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
Cubist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Mauna Loa II, Abstract Etching by Gabor Peterdi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gabor Peterdi, Hungarian (1915 - 2001)
Title: Mauna Loa II
Year: 1969
Medium: Color Etching on BFK Rives paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
LFO Train Game
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This interactive poster by acclaimed illustrator James McMullan invites viewers to engage by visually matching images in the margin with corresponding train cars. McMullan’s detailed...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
McMullan-Life in a Spring Salt Marsh-Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Life in a Spring Salt Marsh by James McMullan is an informational poster that reveals the rich ecosystem within a salt marsh. Initially appearing as a barren grassland, the artwork u...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Colossal, Brian Rice
By Brian Rice
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Brian Rice (1936)
Title: Colossal
Year: 1967
Edition: 25/75, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper
Size: 25.25 x 22.75 inches
Condition: Good
Inscription: Signed and...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Jacklin Sheep Meadow III Central Park New York Vintage
By Bill Jacklin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original exhibition poster was produced for Bill Jacklin’s 1990 exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, titled Urban Portraits, New York. Featuring the atmospheric and dynamic image ...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
At the Seaside - Lithograph by Luigi Bartolini - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Figure al mare (At the Seaside) is a modern artwork realized by the Italian artist Luigi Bartolini in 1962.
Original lithograph on ivory-colored cardboard.
Passepartout included.
...
Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Dufy, Hommage à Renoir, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
By 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
Fauvist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Miró, L'Oiseau solaire, L'Oiseau lunaire, Étincelles (C. 117; D. 447-48) (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joa...
Category
Surrealist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Approaching Storm
Located in New York, NY
Richard Florsheim created this color lithograph entitled “Approaching Storm” in 1967 in an edition of 125 pieces. Published by Associated American Artists and printed by Mourlot Press, Paris, this impression is signed and inscribed “Artist Proof.” It is in good condition with full original color. The printed image size is 28.25 x 19 3/4 inches and the paper size is 31.12 x 22 inches.
RICHARD ABERLE...
Category
American Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Cole/Myers 79), X + X, Ten Works by Ten Painters, Stuart Davis
By Stuart Davis
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, X + X, Ten Works by Ten Painters, 1964. Publishe...
Category
American Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Marc Chagall - Bateau Mouche au bouquet - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
Title: Bateau Mouche au bouquet
1963
Dimensions: 39 x 30 cm
Edition: 180
Unsigned as issued.
From Regards sur Paris
Published by André Sauret
Condit...
Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Julian Trevelyan, Westminster, Etching and Aquatint
Located in London, GB
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Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Sans titre, 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
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Paradis I (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
Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Chagall, Tribe of Simeon, Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 8 x 6 inches, image; 15 x 11 inches, overall. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Marc Chagall, The Jerusal...
Category
Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Bouquet de rêves pour Leïla, Poèmes d'Yvan Goll, XXe siècle
By Joan Miró
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, XXVIe Année N°24, Décem...
Category
Surrealist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 124, 1961. Publ...
Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Chagall, Sans titre (Cramer 61; Mourlot 434), Le plafond de l'Opéra (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 26 x 19 inches; image size: 18.3 x 18.3 inches, with quadfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue...
Category
Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Chagall, Sans titre, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
By Marc Chagall
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
Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Emilio Grau Sala - Original Handsigned Lithograph - Ecole de Paris
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Emilio Grau Sala
Original Handsigned Lithograph
Dimensions: 76 x 54 cm
Edition: HC XXI/XXX
HandSigned and Numbered
Ecole de Paris au seuil de la mutation des Arts
Sentiers Editions ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lanskoy, Rupture poétique, André Lanskoy, Peintres d'aujourd'hui (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 10.83 x 13.78 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, André Lanskoy, Peintres d'aujourd'hu...
Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Guy Bardone - Original Handsigned Lithograph - Ecole de Paris
By Guy Bardone
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Guy Bardone
Original Handsigned Lithograph
Dimensions: 76 x 54 cm
Edition: HC XXI/XXX
HandSigned and Numbered
Ecole de Paris au seuil de la mutation des Arts
Sentiers Editions
Guy Bardone was one of the great painters of the “Ecole de Paris” and of the second mid twenty century.
Guy Bardone French, (1927 - )
Guy Bardone
Guy Bardone was born in 1927 in Saint-Claude, on of the most beautiful old towns in France. His vocation as a painter was confirmed after admission to the Ecole National Supérieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Here he trained under Brianchon, Cavailles and Desnoyer. He was awarded the prestigious Prix Félix Fénéon in 1952 which set wider horizons and allowed him entry into the Paris arena.
Guy Bardone est né en 1927 à Saint-Claude (Jura). Après des études à l'école des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, il entre à l'école supérieure des arts décoratifs où il reçoit les enseignements de Brianchon, Cavaillès et Desnoyers. En 1950, il rencontre le critique George Besson qui l'encourage et le conseille.
En 1952, il obtient le Prix Félix Fénéon et commence à exposer dans divers salons et expositions de groupe. il est sélectionné en 1953 à la très importante expositions de groupe "célébrités et révélations de la peinture contemporaine...
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Post-Impressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cowboys and Indians, Warrington Colescott
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Warrington Colescott (1921-2018)
Title: Cowboys and Indians
Year: 1969
Edition: 24/75, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Inscription: Signed & numbered in pencil
Size: ...
Category
American Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Spain Romanische Kunst Spanien original vintage travel poster by José Ortega
By José Ortega
Located in London, GB
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Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Edge Of The Woods" - 1968 Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Edge Of The Woods" - 1968 Etching on Paper
1968 etching titled "Edge Of The Woods" by Richard Claude Ziemann (American, b. 1932). The etching depicts a landscape of three trees tog...
Category
American Impressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
$1,137 Sale Price
35% Off
Dufy, Sans titre, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Arjomari paper. Paper Size: 11.75 x 18.75 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, L...
Category
Fauvist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Les Bijoux indiscrets (Kaplan/Baum 3), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 9.65 x 12.4 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Kaplan, Gilbert E., and Timothy ...
Category
Surrealist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
FOREST IN THE SPRING
Located in Portland, ME
Hnizdovsky, Jacques. FOREST IN THE SPRING. T.31 Woodcut, 1960. Edition of 100. Signed, Titled, dated, numbered 10/100 and inscribed "Woodcut," all in pencil. 39 x 9 inches (sheet). I...
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1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
de Segonzac, Composition, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches Arjomari paper
Year: 1965
Paper Size: 11.81 x 9.45 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Lettr...
Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$876 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
Cubist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 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: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXXIe Année, N°32, Juin...
Category
Orphist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Spruce. 1967, paper, etching, 18x9 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Spruce. 1967, paper, etching, 18x9 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947,...
Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Tobey, Composition (Mme T.), Mark Tobey, Peintres d'aujourd'hui (after)
By Mark Tobey
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 10.83 x 13.78 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Mark Tobey, Peintres d'aujourd'hui, ...
Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Marc Chagall - La Place de la Concorde - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
Title: La Place de la Concorde
1963
Dimensions: 39 x 30 cm
Edition: 180
Unsigned as issued.
From Regards sur Paris
Reference: Catalogue Raisonné, Mou...
Category
Surrealist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Estève, La Tapisserie, Maurice Estève, Peintres d'aujourd'hui (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 10.83 x 13.78 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Maurice Estève, Peintres d'aujourd'h...
Category
Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Le Jeu des Acrobates (Cramer 56; Mourlot 401), 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
Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SAN GIMINIANO
Located in Portland, ME
Nicholson, Ben. San Gimignano. Lafranca 38. Etching, 1966. Edition of 50, signed in pencil and dated "66," and numbered "1/50." With the chop of the printer Lafranca embiossed lowe...
Category
1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Hawaii, Abstract Etching by Gabor Peterdi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gabor Peterdi, Hungarian (1915 - 2001)
Title: Hawaii
Year: 1969
Medium: Color Etching on BFK Rives paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 146/200
Image Size: 10 x 7 in...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
"Jungle, " Color Lithograph Landscape signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Jungle" is an important, rare color lithograph signed by Carol Summers from the early years of his production. The image offers a landscape of a dark jungle, printed mostly in black ink. In the center, a blue pool of water is shaded by two trees. Summers' technique in this print renders a painterly quality to the image: the grasses and leaves of the scene are all created with playful, energetic swiping motions much like watercolor paint. This technique and the use of fields of color predict the style Summers would adopt in the coming decades, making this an important early work.
30 x 22 inches, artwork
Numbered 14 of the edition of 27
Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented.
In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother.
From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum.
In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade.
After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957.
Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape.
In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge.
Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal.
By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MOMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia.
Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape.
In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country.
In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image.
The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist.
At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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Composition rouge et bleue (Poliakoff/Schneider 68), XXe siècle
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Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Poliakoff, Alexis, and Gérard Schneider. Se...
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Les Facheux (Mourlot 106), Regards sur Paris, Georges Braque
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Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Regards sur Paris, 1963. Published by André Sauret, Paris;...
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By Marc Chagall
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Expressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
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Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 11.81 x 10.63 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonne references: Picasso, Pablo, and Georges Bl...
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Cubist 1960s Landscape Prints
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Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 158-159, 1966. Published by...
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Post-Impressionist 1960s Landscape Prints
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Mammoth Mountain California Vintage Ski Resort Poster (1967)
Located in London, GB
Mammoth, California Vintage Ski Poster, USA
1967
67 x 53 cm
Printed by LooArt Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Vintage travel poster for Mammoth, California ski resort...
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Modern 1960s Landscape Prints
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