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Period: Mid-20th Century
Delaunay, Planche No. 25, Compositions, couleurs, idées: Sonia Delaunay (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Colour stencil with dense gouache inks on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered with printed title-heading designed by Delaunay, upper left, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Stencil
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Leamington Spa original vintage British travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage travel poster: Leamington Spa. Art Deco British travel poster created by the artist Freda Lingstrom. This poster is archival line...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Le Purgatoire XII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Braque, Composition, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, The Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque, Verve: Revue Arti...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
40% Off
Sin título I (Hase/Schmundt 19), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Hase-Schmundt, Ulrike von, and Giuseppe Cap...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Derain, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
By André Derain
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 111, 1958. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Dufy, Composition, Les Côtes Normandes (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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 Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
Scène V, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on Vélin de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire, 1958. Published by Tériade,...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
$3,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Derriere le Miroir #173 (Plate 2)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder
Medium: Lithograph
Title: Derriere le Miroir #173 (Plate 2)
Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #173
Year: 1968
Edition: Unnumbered
Framed Size: 22" x 29 1/4"
Shee...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Derain, Enlevement de Dionysos, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
By André Derain
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Insel, 1933
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lyonel Feininger (after)
Insel, 1933
Collotype, watercolor
Size: 11.5x17in on 17.5x22in
Esther Gentle, Reproduction, 1952
Signed, titled and dated in the stone
Stamped and numbered b...
Category
Bauhaus Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Color
$680 Sale Price
38% Off
Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches backing sheet, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Corres...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
44% Off
Rome - Oil Painting on Panel by Michele Cascella - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Rome is original artwork realized by Michele Cascella in the mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored oil painting on panel.
Hand-signed on the lower right....
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Oil, Panel
Manet, Composition, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Foreign Affairs paper mounted on Foreign Affairs museum board, as issued . Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles, 1944. Published by Pantheon Books, New York; rendered and printed by Raymond and...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Dufy, Coteaux en Septembre, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$716 Sale Price
44% Off
Le Paradis XXXI (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Julian Trevelyan, Westminster, Etching and Aquatint
Located in London, GB
To see our other views of London and our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller".
Julian Trevelyan (1910-19...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Shipboard Girl
Located in Miami, FL
Offset Lithograph from an edition of unknown size. Signed (rf Lichtenstein) in pencil lower right.. Publisher Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Printed by Graphic Industries Inc., New...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Aztec
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Aztec" 1983 is a color serigraph on Wove paper by noted American artist Roy Ahlgren, 1927-2011 It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 71/150 in pencil by ...
Category
Op Art Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
"Please, Mister, Don't Be Careless" Vintage Poster featuring Disney Characters
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Printed in 1943, by the U.S. Government Printing Office for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The poster features the beloved Disney characters, Bambi (deer), Thumper (rabbit), and Flower (skunk) in wide-eyed shock leaning towards fear. With the slogan "Please, Mister, don't be careless" the poster is designed to tug at the heartstrings of the viewer and make them consider what actions they could take in their own lives to prevent forest fires.
Poster: 20" x 14 1/4"
Frame: 30" x 22 1/2"
Framed to conservation standards with a 100% cotton fiber matboard border and UV clear glass that filters 99% of UV Rays. UV Rays can be especially damaging and cause fading to the inks used in poster making. All of these features are housed in a contemporary natural wood frame.
Smokey Bear...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Old Castle in the South of France - Original handsigned lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Francois DESNOYER
Old Castle in South of France, 1965
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
On Van Gelder vellum
45 x 64 cm (c. 18 x 26")
Excel...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alhambra XII
Located in New York, NY
Antonio Frasconi created the color woodcut entitled “Alhambra XII” in 1963. This piece is signed titled, and dated in pencil. The edition is 12, and paper size is 18 x 24 inches. “...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Leo Meissner, Let's Dance, Shall We?
By Leo Meissner
Located in New York, NY
Detroit-born Leo Meissner lived in New York and was respected as a painter, draftsman, and illustrator, but is most known for his wood engravings. His ski...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Jacob Pins "Lonely Walker" 1960 Woodcut
By Jacob Pins
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jacob Pins: 1917-2005. Was a German born Israeli woodcut artist and art collector. He has had auction results over $3000 for a print. This powerful scarce example...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Union Street, San Francisco
By Edith (Mark) Milsk
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Union Street, San Francisco" is an original etching on creme wove paper by American artist Edith (Mark) Milsk, 1899-1982. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (Image) size is 5.5 x 3.65 inches, framed size is 16.5 x 13.40 inches. Custom framed in a red Oak frame, with beige matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Edith Milsk...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Early Modern Railroad Travel Advertising Serigraph of a Church in Taxco, Mexico
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage early modern railroad advertising travel poster based on an original oil painting by Californian artist Samuel Hyde Harris and printed by Velvetone Poster Co. The work featur...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Picasso, Composition, Les Bleus de Barcelone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil with gouache and pastel inks on vélin de Rives paper, archivally hinged on vélin de Rives backing sheet, as issued. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumb...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$7,596 Sale Price
20% Off
Delaunay, Planche No. 27, Compositions, couleurs, idées: Sonia Delaunay (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Colour stencil with dense gouache inks on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered with printed title-heading designed by Delaunay, upper left, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Stencil
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Dufy, Composition, Les Côtes Normandes (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Côtes Normandes 1961. Published by Pierre de Tartas, ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Mark Tobey
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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 N° 5 (double) Juin 1955, Cahiers d'Art publiés sous la direction de Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, 1955. Published by Société Internationale d'Art XXe siècle, Paris, under the direction of Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, 1955. Additional notes: Excerpted from the academic article, “Promoting Original Prints, The Role of Gualtieri di San Lazzaro and XXe Siècle” by Valerie Holman, published in Print Quarterly, XXXIII, 2016, 2, Until recently very little has been written on the Italian author and art publisher Gualtieri di San Lazzaro (1904-75), yet for 50 years he chronicled the life and work of contemporary artists, produced monographs of exceptional quality, and disseminated original prints by modern painters and sculptors through his best-known periodical, XXe Siècle. Although still a relatively unfamiliar figure in the United Kingdom, San Lazzaro is one of the half-dozen great art publishers of the mid-twentieth century who, together with his exemplar, Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), and those of his own generation, Christian Zervos (1889-1970), Tériade (1889-1983) and Albert Skira (1904-73), chose to base himself in Paris, seeing it throughout his life as the centre of the art world….XXe Siècle, an illustrated periodical, was launched in 1938 and printed in editions of approximately 2,000, each issue containing both photographs and four-colour separation reproductions across a wide spectrum of visual imagery ranging from masterpieces of Western painting to popular prints from the Far East. Its large format, lively design, and close integration of text and image, were immediately striking, but its most innovative feature, introduced at the suggestion of Hans Arp (1886-1966), was the inclusion of original prints by contemporary artists in every issue. With obvious appeal for collectors, XXe Siècle was also designed to introduce a wider, international public to contemporary painting and sculpture through good quality colour reproductions and the immediacy of original prints. Comparable in price to Cahiers d'Art, early issues of XXe Siècle sold out rapidly. While San Lazzaro's own aesthetic preferences tended towards lyric abstraction, he made clear that XXe Siècle was non-partisan [publication ceased during World War II]….in 1951, San Lazzaro relaunched XXe Siècle with thematic issues that were materials based, or centred on a topic of current interest in the visual arts, particularly in Europe: concepts of space, matter, monochrome, mark-making and the sign.' A defining feature of the new series was Italy's artistic dialogue with France for, while San Laz-zaro had originally concentrated on Paris-based painters and sculptors, his aim was to create an international network, to make known the work of French artists in Italy and Italian artists in France, and subsequently extend this bilateral axis to the English-speak-ing world. The artists represented in No. I by an original print were all best known as sculptors: Arp, Laurens, Henry Moore (1898-186) and Marino Marini, San Lazzaro not only sought to show readers the full range of an artist's work, but to encourage the production of prints, a stimulus much appreciated, for example, by Magnelli…. Suffering from failing health, in 1968 San Lazzaro lost overall control of XXe Siècle to Léon Amiel, a printer-publisher who had provided financial backing and helped with distribution in America." Thematic issues now ceased and were replaced by a 'panorama' of the year, but San Lazzaro was still active as a publisher of books and albums of prints….Shortly after his death, San Lazzaro himself was the subject of two exhibitions: 'Omaggio a XXe Siècle' in Milan in December 1974 centred on graphic work by those artists closest to him late in life, while 'San Laz-zaro et ses Amis' at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1975 featured work by all those whose work he had promoted for more than 50 years: Arp, Calder (1898-1976), Capogrossi, Chagall, Sonia Delau-nay, Dubuffet, Estève, Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Gili-oli (1911-77), Magnelli, Marini, Miró, Moore and Poliakoff. This exhibition was seen by one of his closest colleagues as an indirect portrait of San Lazzaro, a complex man whose modesty and reserve masked his unremitting drive to extend international appreciation of contemporary art, and to bring the reading public closer to its making through the medium of print.
MARK TOBEY (1890-1976) was an American painter. His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ philosophically from most Abstract Expressionist painters. His work was widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe and came in the wake of Picasso and Braque. Along with Guy Anderson...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Marins et Femmes de Pecheurs Bretons sur les Quais
By Manuel Robbe
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Manuel Robbe (French, 1872-1936)
Title: Marins et Femmes de Pecheurs Bretons sur les Quais
Year: c.1930
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Paper: B.F.K Rives
Image (plate mark...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
42% Off
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Jean Bazaine
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, stencil 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 N° 1...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century 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 Auburn Hills, MI
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 Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
52% Off
Dufy, Composition, Les Côtes Normandes (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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 Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$876 Sale Price
20% Off
"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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Matisse, Madame Mary Hutchinson, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype, héliogravure, recto and verso, on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper, as issued
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.05 x 6.69 inches
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Matisse, Mademoiselle A.Nelck I, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype, héliogravure, recto and verso, on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper, as issued
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.05 x 7.08 inches
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Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
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MEMENTO VIVARE, NOTRE DAME, EVREUX
Located in Portland, ME
Arms, John Taylor (American, 1887-1953). MEMENTO VIVARE, NOTRE DAME, EVREUX. Fletcher 407. Etching, 1947. Number 47 of the French Church Series. This is Proof No. ii of four Trial Pr...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
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Etching
Delaunay, Planche No. 34, Compositions, couleurs, idées: Sonia Delaunay (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Colour stencil with dense gouache inks on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered with printed title-heading designed by Delaunay, upper left, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
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Stencil
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Sara et Abimelech (Mourlot 230-77; Cramer 42)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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...
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'Oh to be in England' signed horse racing print by Snaffles
Located in London, GB
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Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne (1884 - 1967)
"Oh! To Be In England Now That April's There"
Lithograph
51 x 67 cm
Signed in pencil lower left.
Snaffles was one of the foremost sporting artists of his era, publishing many popular prints such as these: hunting pictures...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
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Lithograph
Harps Once Played (Surrealist Landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Benton Murdoch Spruance (1904-1967).
Harps Once Played, 1935. Edition of 30.
Lithograph on wove paper, plate measures 10.75 x 14 inches. Sheet measures 13 x 18 inches.
Signed in p...
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'The Port of Algiers' Lithograph
Located in London, GB
'The Port of Algiers", original lithograph, by Albert Marquet (circa 1940s). Marquet spent five years in Algiers, between 1940-45. Due to his travelling, harbour scenes were an impor...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
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'View of Hara', After Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川廣重, Ukiyo-e Woodblock, Tokaido
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of Mt. Fuji warmly illuminated by the morning sky. Signed in Kanji center right, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (...
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Sumi Ink, Washi Paper
Composition (Cramer 77; Mourlot 557), The Lithographs of Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.216 x 9.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc, et al. The Lithographs of...
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BENKEI BRIDGE
By Tsuchiya Koitsu
Located in Portland, ME
Koitsu, Tsuchiya (Japanese, 1870-1949). BENKEI BRIDGE. Color Woodblock, 1933. Printed signature and other information in the margins left and right. Vertical Oban. 14 1/4 x 9 1/2 inc...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
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Woodcut
Whirlpool at Awa - Lithograph After Utagawa Hiroshige - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Whirlpool at Awa is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige in the 19th c...
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Lithograph
Composition, Les Peintres mes amis, Jules Cavaillès
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Peintres mes amis, 1965. Published by Éditions d'art Les Heures Cla...
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Rainy Day, Queens
By Martin Lewis
Located in New York, NY
Martin Lewis (1881-1962), Rainy Day, Queens, drypoint, 1931, signed in pencil lower right [also signed in the plate lower right]. Reference: McCarron 94, only state, from the edition...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
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Drypoint
Scenic Spots in Kyoto-Lithograph After Utagawa Hiroshige-Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Scenic Spots in Kyoto is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige in the 1...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
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Lithograph
Gauguin, Women at the River (Auti te pape), Gauguin (after)
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin Utopian paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Gauguin, A portfolio of 12 color woodblocks, Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-19...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
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Panoramic View of Saruhashi After Utagawa Hiroshige-Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Panoramic View of Saruhashi is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige in...
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