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Period: 1970s
Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Max Ernst
By Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Ballade du Soldat, 34 Lithographies Originales de Max Ernst, 1972. P...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,796 Sale Price
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Bear with Predella, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, Don Nice
By Don Nice
Located in Southampton, NY
Printer’s ink from rubber stamp on vélin d’Arches Satine paper. Paper Size: 8 x 8 inches. Inscription: Unsigned, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, 1977. Publi...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Printer's Ink
$956 Sale Price
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Braque, Paysage a L'estaque, Fauves, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1972
Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Fauves, VII, Collec...
Category
Fauvist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
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Great American Perspective, Op Art Screenprint by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011)
Title: Great American Perspective
Year: 1973
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition Size: 60
Size: 20.5 x 20.5 in. (52....
Category
Op Art 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
FOG, GOG, AND MAGOG
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROBERTO MATTA (1911-2002)
FOG, GOG, AND MAGOG 1971
Color lithograph. Plate 1 from “Fog Gog, and Magog” 1971. Signed in pencil and numbered. This work is number 92 from the edition o...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$880 Sale Price
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Shiny Nude, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, Tom Wesselmann
Located in Southampton, NY
Printer’s ink from rubber stamp on vélin Kromekote paper. Paper Size: 8 x 8 inches. Inscription: Unsigned, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, 1977. Published b...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Printer's Ink
$1,996 Sale Price
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Flower Lined Home, Modern Lithograph by Guy Charon
By Guy Charon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Guy Charon, French (1927 - 2021) - Flower Lined Home, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed, and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, EA, Image Size: 22.75 x 18.25 ...
Category
Modern 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Le Bœuf (The Bull) (Orozco p.82), Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Paper Size: 12.99 x 9.84 inches. Catalogue raisonné reference: Orozco, Miguel. T...
Category
Cubist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Téléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Téléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Cybernetic lobster phone, Imaginatio...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen
$22,800 Sale Price
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Picasso, Composition (Orozco 193-204), Au Baiser D'Avignon (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Picasso au baiser d'Avignon, douze dessins, lavis, aquarelle...
Category
Cubist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,596 Sale Price
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Beautiful Beasts 1978 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph Mati (Abdul) Klarwein
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Mati (Abdul) Klarwein
Title: Beautiful Beasts
Year: 1978
Print - Lithograph
Paper Size 23" x 23½" inches
Edition: signed in pencil and marked 18/300
Hand embellished by the a...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Cramer 111; Mourlot 992), Derrière le Miroir (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 246. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Pay Dirt, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Pay Dirt, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 20 x 24.5 inches, Size: 22...
Category
American Realist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flashback V, Flashback Series, John Chamberlain
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: John Chamberlain (1927-2011)
Title: Flashback V
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Edition: 172/175, plus proofs
Size: 28 x 20 inches
Inscription: Signed a...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,600 Sale Price
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Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 650), Derrière le Miroir (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 198. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Éditions...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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"2 Lovely Strangers" - Pop Art Multi-layer Screenprint
Located in Soquel, CA
"2 Lovely Strangers" - Pop Art Multi-layer Screenprint
Highly saturated multi-layer screenprint by Steve J. Pon (20th Century). Two figures stand in the middle of a coastal landscap...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Screen
View of Trinità dé Monti (Rome, Italy) - Original Etching by G. Malandrino
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 199 prints, numbered and hand signed.
Very good conditions.
Category
1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Four Hearts, 1971, after Jim Dine
By Jim Dine
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Jim Dine (1935)
Title: Four Hearts, exhibition poster
Year: 1971
Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper
Size: 30.75 x 22 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed by ...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
$2,800 Sale Price
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Bopping at the Birdland (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Title: Bopping at the Birdland (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77)
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Edition: 110/175, plus proofs
Size: ...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Louisiana Serenade (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Title: Louisiana Serenade (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77)
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Edition: 39/175, plus proofs
Size: Paper ...
Category
Expressionist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$6,000 Sale Price
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Tricolor (Belknap, App. 24), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Terenzio, Stephanie, and Dorothy...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eschatos #23, Surrealist Landscape Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
The sublime, or the amalgamation of the terrifying and the awe-inspiring, is encapsulated by the crashing wave that dominates this surrealist landscape.
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Ca...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Magnelli, Sans titre, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXXIIIe Anné...
Category
Modern 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Picasso, 25.4.64. (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 9.84 x 12.8 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Ballpark, Folk Art Screenprint by Ralph Fasanella
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ralph Fasanella, American (1914 - 1997)
Title: Ball Park
Year: 1974
Medium: Screenprint on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
Image: 25 x 37 inches
Size...
Category
Folk Art 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$1,200 Sale Price
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Hommage a Picasso (Cannes) (Cote d'Azur) /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Surrealist
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Title: "Hommage a Picasso (Cannes) (Cote d'Azur)"
*Signed by Dali in pencil lower right
Year: 1973
Medium: Original Drypoint Etching on Rives BFK paper
Limited edition: L/CC (50/200)
Printer: Atelier Rigal, Paris, France
Publisher: Felicia, New York, NY and EGI, Beverly Hills, CA
Reference: "The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali" - Field No. 73-5, page 84; "Dali: Catalogue Raisonné of Etchings and Mixed-Media Prints, 1924-1980" - Michler/Löpsinger No. 719, page 252
Sheet size: 26" x 19.63"
Image size: 19.88" x 14.5"
Condition: In excellent condition
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Clearwater, FL. Numbered by Dali in pencil lower left. BFK Rives watermark lower right. Some dealer reference numbers pencil inscribed on verso. Dali executed this etching in Cannes, France when he learned of Picasso's death.
We are specialists in Salvador Dali's printmaking oeuvre, having personally worked with his cataloger Albert Field in the 1980's, we unconditionally guarantee all of our examples to be authentic.
Biography:
Salvador Dalí (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Intaglio
Picasso, 29.9.64. I (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Calder, The Blue Balloon, Spanish Refugee Aid (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Published and printed by Bank Street Atelier, New York, 1973. I...
Category
Modern 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
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Original California Wine Country vintage wine and travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original California Wine Country vintage poster by Earl Thollander. Archival linen backed in very fine condition, ready to frame.
Earl Thollander was an American artist, illustr...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Moon Landscape - Original lithograph, Handsigned and Numbered /100
Located in Paris, IDF
Tiger TATEISHI (1941 - 1998)
Moon Landscape, 1973
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /100
On vellum 82.5 x 58.5 cm (c. 33 x 23 in)
Exce...
Category
Modern 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition V (Cramer 160; Mourlot 861), Joan Miró Lithographs
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.625 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joan Miró. Joan Miró,...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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New York State Council on the Arts vintage offset lithograph poster abstract
Located in New York, NY
Kenneth Snelson
New York State Council on the Arts vintage poster, 1971
Offset lithograph on wove paper
Unsigned, Unnumbered
35 × 25 inches
Unframed
Scarce original 1970s offset lit...
Category
Abstract 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Original American Airlines San Francisco vintage travel poster Golden Gate
By Dong Kingman
Located in Spokane, WA
Original American Airlines San Francisco vintage travel poster. Artist: Dong Kingman, 1970s linen-backed authentic travel poster, ready to frame. Grade A- condition. Size 20...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, 8.10.64. IX (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Nadia, Comaneci Montreal Olympics Poster, 1976
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Leroy Neiman (1921-2012)
Title: Nadia, Comaneci Montreal Olympics poster
Year: 1976
Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper
Size: 22 x 30.5 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: ...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$636 Sale Price
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High Country Chill, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - High Country Chill, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 17 x 26 inches, S...
Category
American Realist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
1970 Tokio Mayashita-Rainy Street Woodblock
By Tokio Mayashita
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition woodblock print in colors seated in a black metal frame behind glass with a front profile of 1/4 inch and a side profile of 1 1/4 inch. Hand signed and numbered out o...
Category
Modern 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$1,200 Sale Price
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Composition I (Cramer 160; Mourlot 857), Joan Miró Lithographs
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.625 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joan Miró. Joan Miró,...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Bernard Buffet -- Le Grand Canal de Venice ( The Grand Canal, Venice )
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Bernard Buffet -- Le Grand Canal de Venice ( The Grand Canal, Venice ), 1979
Screen print on Tapestry
Signed on the back, dated 1979
Edition 137/200
Signed, titled, dated and number...
Category
1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$4,480 Sale Price
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Composition (Mourlot 668-677), La Féerie et Le Royaume, Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Féerie et Le Royaume, Lithographies Originales de Marc Chagall, 1972...
Category
Modern 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$4,796 Sale Price
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Lithographie n°28 (Encrevé/Miessner 28), XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Soulages, Pierre, et al. Soulages : L’oeuvr...
Category
Modern 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Composition (Mourlot 668-677), La Féerie et Le Royaume, Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Féerie et Le Royaume, Lithographies Originales de Marc Chagall, 1972...
Category
Modern 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$4,796 Sale Price
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Composition, Variations sur l'imaginaire, Leonor Fini
By Leonor Fini
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: hand signed and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Variations sur l'imaginaire, 1972. Published by Philipp...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
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Winter's Morning, Psychedelic Screenprint by Max Epstein
By Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Winter's Morning, Year: 1978, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 42/50, Size: 17.75 x 25.75 in. (45.09 x 65.4...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Picasso, 8.10.64. XIV (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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'Falaise de l'Étretat', French Post-Impressionist, Academie Chaumiere, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Georges Lambert' (French, 1919-1998) and inscribed lower left with number and limitation, '238/270'.
Georges Lambert first studied in Paris at the Academie de l...
Category
1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
House In the Clouds 1971 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
By Peter Max
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Name: Peter Max
House in the Clouds
Year: 1971
Medium Type: Silkscreen, on Arches Paper
Size-Width Size-Height: 22” x 30”
Signed Edition Size: signed in pencil and numbered...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Original Evel Knievel - US 1-sheet vintage movie poster motorcycle
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Evel Knievel, 1971 vintage movie poster. Excellent condition, folded as initially shipped to the movie theater. U. S. original 1-sheet movie poster
A Timeless Tribute t...
Category
American Modern 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Picasso, 8.10.64. VI (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
Cubist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Le Marriage de la Vierge by Salvador Dali Changes in Great Masterpieces series
Located in Paonia, CO
Le Marriage de la Vierge by Salvador Dali and interpreted from the original Raphael painting is one of six graphics from the series Changes in Great Masterpieces...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Little Wolf's Last Camp, " Colored Woodblock A/P signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Little Wolf's Last Camp" is a colored woodblock A/P signed by Carol Summers. In the image, a mountain looms over a circle of teat the edge of a lake, a scene likely inspired by the life events of the Northern Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf (c. 1820-1904) and his leadership during the Northern Cheyenne Exodus. The drama of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form.
Frame: 37 x 37 in
This is an artist's proof from the edition of 100
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.
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Contemporary 1970s Landscape Prints
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Original Zurich, Switzerland vintage travel poster linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Zurich, Switzerland vintage travel poster, conservation linen backed and ready to frame. Printer: Schwegler Karl AG Zürich
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85 New Wave 1970s Landscape Prints
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Offset
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Located in NEW YORK, NY
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25.5 x 19.8 inches (64.8 x 50.5 cm).
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Pop Art 1970s Landscape Prints
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Original New Year's Eve Central Park 1974-1975 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original New Year's Eve Central Park 1974-1975 vintage pop-art poster. Excellent condition, ready to frame. The poster is not linen-backed. Images are of the exact poster you ...
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Pop Art 1970s Landscape Prints
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Offset
Ernst, Sans titre (Spies/Leppien 222), Histoire Naturelle (after)
By Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
Collotype from frottage on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle, 1972. Published and printed by Verla...
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Surrealist 1970s Landscape Prints
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Original "Student Winter in Poland with Amatur" vintage travel and ski poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Student Winter in Poland with Almatur” horizontal Polish poster. Travel and tourism office of the Socialist Union of Polish Students”. Th...
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Post-Modern 1970s Landscape Prints
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Offset
Vintage Etching of Northern California Mendocino Coastal Town
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Northern California Coast Etching of Mendocino.
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American Impressionist 1970s Landscape Prints
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Sun Goddess Flower original lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Sun Goddess Flower original signed limited edition lithograph by the great surrealist Salvador Dali. A dynamic and colorful image in greens reds...
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Abstract 1970s Landscape Prints
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Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching
Edition of 90
Year: 1974
ImageSize: 16 x 12.5 inches
Signed, titled and numbered etching from the edition of 90. An humorous look at Adam surrounded by the animals h...
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Contemporary 1970s Landscape Prints
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Etching
Picasso, 9.10.64. II (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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Cubist 1970s Landscape Prints
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