1970s Landscape Prints

In Molvout, François Houtin merges organic vitality with the crumbling geometry of architecture. The composition presents a fantastical form that seems part tree, part tower, entwine...

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...

Vintage Northern California Coast Etching of Mendocino. Beautiful Northern California coastal town Mendocino is the scene of town near headlands with split wood rail fence in foregr...

Franz PRIKING Fantastic Horse (After the Storm), 1973 Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 120 On Arches vellum 76 x 54 cm (c. 31 x 21 in...

"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. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...

Artist: Ron Kleemann, American (1937 - ) Title: Gas Line from the CityScapes Portfolio Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph on Somerset Paper, signed and number...

Medium: Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper Year: 1970 Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio...

Muhammad Ali, American (1942 - 2016) - Guiding Light, Year: 1979, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 339/500, Image Size: 17 x 21.5 inches, Size: 22 in...

Flowers is an original etching realized by Eduard Bargheer in 1975. Not signed. Good conditions. Dimensions: 39 x 50 The artwork represents the scenery of the flowers of Ischia t...

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 Riv...

This exquisite lithograph after Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Tapis De Tarragona, illustrations, Joan Miro (Tarragona Tapestry, Illustrations), ...

Artist: Julian Stanczak (1928-2017) Title: Conferring Blue Year: 1979 Edition: 66/175, plus proofs Medium: Silkscreen on Somerset paper Size: 25 x 25 inches Condition: Good Inscripti...

Nikolaus von Georgi Untitled (Geometric Composition, Vasarely, Op-Art) Color Offset Lithograph Year: 1978 Size: 19.7×23.6 on 23.6×27.6in Edition: 180 Signed, numbered and dated by ...

Dali Inaguracion Teatro Museo Figueras Espana Septiember 1974 is a rare plate signed vintage poster celebrating the opening of the Salvad...

Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Misty, Year: 1977, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 70, Image Size: 17 x 18 inches, Size: 18.5 in. x 19 in. (46...

Lithograph on vélin de Lana paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, tête edition, Consacré à Valeri...

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...

Ernst Fuchs (1930 Vienna - 2015 ibid), The Lost Trace, 1972. Vernis mou and aquatint etching, 46.8 x 36.4 cm (plate), 66 x 50 cm (sheet), 69.5 x 53.5 cm (frame), WVZ Hartmann no. 185...

This exquisite lithograph by Alexander Calder (1898–1976), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1972 album Calder autobiographie. Published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, and...

Yves Brayer (1907-1990) Before the Trotting Race Original lithograph, c.1973 Handsigned in pencil by the artist Numbered /250 copies Size 50 x 65 cm, on Arches Vellum Information: ...

Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988) Title: Tenor Sermon (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77) Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper Edition: 138/175, plus proofs Size: Paper Size:...

Peter Paul "Architecture Parlante" From Portfolio "Portrait #14 - Peter Paul" with Karin Szekessy Year: 1973 Medium: Color Lithograph on Arches Edition: 80 Size: 25.59 x 19.88 in. Pu...

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...

This exquisite silkscreen by Jasper Johns (born 1930), titled Untitled, from the album Jasper Johns, Screenprints, 1977, originates from the 1977 edition published by Brooke Alexande...

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - S. Bennington Building, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 23/30, Image Size: 22 x 30.5 inches, ...

This lithograph comes from an edition of 120 and it is signed and numbered. Guiramand’s works all have one element in common: the artist’s extraordinary sensitivity and ability to a...

Architectures is a contemporary artwork realized by Franco Gentilini in 1970s. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of 39/200.

This exquisite silkscreen after Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Nous croyons en lEurope, Etudes pour un projet de timbre (We Believe in Europe,...

Alexander Calder Lithograph c. 1973 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 22 inches. Very good overall vintage condition; contains center fold-line as originally issue...

Boats is a modern artwork realized by Michele Ricciuti in 1971. Black and white etching Hand signed, numberec and dated on the lower margin. Edition of 3/20 Includes frame

This exquisite lithograph after Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Tapis De Tarragona (Tarragona Tapestry), illustrations, Joan Miro, 1972, originate...

This exquisite lithograph after Andre Derain (1880–1954), titled Port de Collioure (Port of Collioure), from the folio Fauves, VII, Collection Pierre Levy, 1972, originates from the ...

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...

New York Graphic Society, Ltd. Printed by U.S.A. Measures 15 x 20 inches and is unframed. The piece is in Good Condition.

Flights of Fancy is an original signed limited edition (060/250 ) lithograph by Michel Pellus showing a man in a top hat floating in the sky in a hot a...

Artist: Dennis Oppenheim, American (1938 - 2011) Title: Ghost Trip Year: 1978 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 39 in. x 27 in. (99.06 cm x 68.58 cm)

This exquisite lithograph after Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Tapis De Tarragona (Tarragona Tapestry), illustrations, Joan Miro, 1972, originate...

Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Old MacDonald's Farm, Year: 1977, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 53, Image Size: 17 x 18 inches, Size: 19 in....

Artist: Millard Owen Sheets, American (1907 - 1989) Title: Summer Gold Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250, 5 HC Image S...

This exquisite lithograph by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992), titled Rue d'Atelier (Studio Street), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXXIXe Annee, No. 48, originat...

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...

Landscape is a vintage offset print, reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi. Signature and date by the artist is perfectly reproduced on plate. Image Dimensions: 17....

Red toned abstract woodcut monoprint by Japanese printmaker Joishi Hoshi. This work is a fantastic example of Hoshi's iconic interlocking web of bare trees. Signed and dated by artis...

Landscape is an original lithograph realized by Alfonso Avanessian in 1970's Hand-signed on the lower right: Avanessian Artist's proof (as reported on the lower left margin) Good ...

Artist: Raymond Loewy, American (1893 - 1986) Title: Hydrofoil Year: 1978 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300 Image Size: 17 x 24 inches Size: 21 in. x 28 ...

Artist: Arman (1929-2005) Title: Yves Kline Violins Year: 1978 Edition: 102/150, plus proofs Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Size: 30 x 22.25 inches Cond...

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...

Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Spring Thaw, Year: 1977, Medium: Lithograph, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil, Edition: 50, Size: 23.25 x 31 in. (59.06 x 78.74...

Sunrise on the Lake is an original lithograph realized by Mario Sportelli in the 1970s Hand-signed on the lower right Artist's proof The artwork represents a beautiful landscape w...

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...

Marion McClanahan, American (1921 - 1993) - Purple Cloud, 21 Aps, Year: 1979, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 50, Image Size: 22.5 x 30 inches, Si...

This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1974 album miro sculpture (Miro Sculpture). Publi...

This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Miro a l'encre II (Miro in Ink II), originates from the 1972 album Indelible Miro. Published by Societe Internationale d'Ar...

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - Spring Balloons, Year: 1978, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 30, Image Size: 22 x 30 inches, Size: ...

Medium: Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper Year: 1970 Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio...

FAIRCHILD is a hand drawn original lithograph by the American artist Joyce Arons, printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free. FA...

This exquisite lithograph after Fernand Leger (1881–1955), titled Femmes americaines, Los Angeles (American Women, Los Angeles), originates from the 1970 folio Fernand Leger mes voya...

Claude Tabet, French (1924 - 1979) - City Square II. Year: circa 1975, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, EA, Image Size: 23 x 19 inches, Size: 30 x 22 ...

Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper Year: 1972 Paper Size: 26 x 20 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Fauves, VII, Collec...

This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1974 album miro sculpture (Miro Sculpture). Publi...