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Contemporary Landscape Prints

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Gorge
Located in New York, NY
The collagraph technique was used to make the matrix for this intaglio print. This piece was created during the 1970's when the artist and his family visited the Southwest over many...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Intaglio

Untitled (Nr. 0007) Landscape Photography 36" x 44" Edition of 12 by Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
Untitled (Nr. 0007) Landscape Photography 36" x 44" Edition of 12 by Rowan Daly Unframed - ships rolled in a tube Ben Cope + Rowan Daly Off the Grid Off the Grid is the culminat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Seascape XVI - large format photograph of monochrome water surface and Clouds
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mesmerizing large scale photograph from artist's Seascape series, a body of works capturing the tactile surfaces and monochromatic nature of oceanic water and cloudscapes Seascape ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

LOVE
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Most people notice the LOVE sign first. I know I did when I came upon this scene. I had just finished photographing a wedding and was walking back to my car. I lov...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Metal

March - Landscape print canvas Colors Green Blue Grey White Yellow Pink
Located in Sofia, BG
"March" is a landscape printed on canvas after the German painter Maestro Otto Altenkirch About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting Edition : Limi...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, C Print

Royal Academy Exhibition Poster By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Royal Academy Exhibition Poster By David Hockney David Hockney is a British painter, draftsman, and photographer celebrated for his vibrant depictions of California swimming pools ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Lithograph, Offset

'Surrounded Islands 1982', Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida
By Javacheff Christo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83 Using 6.5 million square feet of floating pink fabric, Christo and Jeanne-Claude encircled eleven islands in Miami...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Offset

Pink - Sydell Lewis - Digital Pigment Prints
Located in Carmel, CA
** Larger prints are available for purchase. Please feel free to contact us if you're interested. Enchanted by the intricate symphony of nature's rhythms, the alluring dance of urba...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Panel, Pigment

SPELLBOUND Signed Lithograph, Reclining Nude Woman, Golden Sunset, Erotic Art
Located in Union City, NJ
SPELLBOUND is an original hand drawn lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid f...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Grand Performances - California Plaza, by Frank Romero
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Serigraph Image Size: 38 x 26 inches Year: 2012 Edition: 140 Signed and numbered by the artist from the edition of 140. This print was featured in “Dreamland”, the first so...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Blowing Wind - Etching by Jeannette Deseglise - 1940
By Jeannette Deseglise
Located in Roma, IT
Blowing Wind is an etching on paper realized by Jeannette Deseglise in the 1950s. Hand-signed and numbered, edition of 60 prints. Very Good conditions. The artwork is realized poe...
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1840s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

TAFILAH AT THE WALL (JUDAICA ART)
Located in Aventura, FL
Embossed lithograph with foil stamping on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 450. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity inc...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Foil

'The Lamoille Project #63' original monoprint signed by Mickey Myers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Mickey Myers is perhaps best known for her Pop art designs from the 1970s and '80s, where she would make vibrant compositions of Crayola crayons. In her l...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Pastel, Monoprint

Orange and Green, June 17, 2021
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Donald Sultan Title: Orange and Green, June 17, 2021 Year: 2021 Medium: Silkscreen with overprinted flocking on Rising 4-ply Museum Board Sheet: 36 x 72 inches (91 x 183 cm)...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

The Expulsion, by Stan Washburn
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching Edition of 120 Year: 1977 ImageSize: 2.5 x 4.5 inches Signed, titled and numbered etching from the edition of 90. A bemused ram stands by in the center, while God is...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

GREEK PORT
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on paper.. Hand signed Bennett / Benedetto (Tony Bennett's family name) and numbered. Image size 23.75 x 33.5 inches. Sheet size approx. 29 x 38 inches. Frame ...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

GREEK PORT
GREEK PORT
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FLORENCE
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, dated and numbered lithograph on paper. From the edition of 300. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be ...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

FLORENCE
$125 Sale Price
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Catching the Light, Limited edition print, Seascape, Beach, Sea Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Catching the Light is a limited edition seascape print by Ian Phillips. The light colours palette and bold style of this work makes it a delight to look at. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Zodiaco-Toro - Lithograph by Ossi Czinner - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Burin engraving on Magnani-Pescia paper. Paper size 39cmx29,5cm, work size 22cmx17,5cm. Excellent condition, no defects. OSSI CZINNER - Central European artist, graphic designer an...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Agra
Located in Greenwich, CT
Agra is a serigraph on paper measuring 27 x 30 inches, signed 'McKnight' lower right and annotated lower left. Framed in a contemporary, black frame. Numbered 176/200 from the editio...
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20th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Belgian Contemporary Art by Hugo Pondz - La Pensée du Soir
Located in Paris, IDF
C-Print on argentic paper Edition of 8 Others sizes are available upon simple request Shipping of the artwork will be done in a tube or flat in a crate with or without American box...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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C Print, Paper

Belgian Contemporary Art by Hugo Pondz - Le Désaccord
Located in Paris, IDF
C-Print on argentic paper Edition of 8 Others sizes are available upon simple request Shipping of the artwork will be done in a tube or flat in a crate with or without American box...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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C Print, Paper

"When the Moon and the Sky Talk About Flowers"
Located in Lyons, CO
The artist describes this project: “I paint and draw flowers, not only out of mesmerized wonder for their presence on earth, but also as a rebellion against the labels of “decorative”, “inconsequential” and “superficial” that have been equated historically to the art of women...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Dusky Island -- Etching, Aquatint, Print, Art by Tom Hammick
Located in London, GB
Dusky Island, 2019 Tom Hammick Etching with aquatint in colours, on wove Signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'E.V.' (edition variable) From the edition of 30 Plate: 25 × 3...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Remember the Sabbath Day (The Fourth Commandment)
Located in New York, NY
April Gornik Remember the Sabbath Day (The Fourth Commandment), 1987 2 Color Lithograph on Dieu Donne handmade paper with deckled edges 24 × 18 inches Signed and numbered AP 12/15, a...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Pencil, Graphite, Lithograph

New Year's Eve
Located in New York, NY
Catalogue raisonné 00594 edition 16/43 Published by Simmelink-Sukimoto Editions Although best known for his portraits, Katz has depicted landscapes both inside the studio and out o...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Aquatint

Coastal View
Located in Greenwich, CT
Coastal View is a serigraph on paper, image size 32 x 32 inches, signed ‘Kerry Hallam’ lower right and numbered lower left. From the edition of 500, numbered CXIV/CL (there were also...
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20th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Dog Three - Contemporary photography on awagami washi bamboo paper
Located in London, GB
Awagami Washi bamboo paper in giclée print. Edition of 50 89x59cm (image size) = £650 150x100cm (image size) = £1,200 Contact for more sizes available. Sandy now focuses on distill...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Bamboo Paper

"Drift 10" Landscape Photography 30" x 40" Edition 1/5 by Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
"Drift 10" Landscape Photography 30" x 40" Edition 1/5 by Rowan Daly Digital print on Ultra Smooth Fine Art Paper Unframed - ships rolled in a tube DRIFT Behind the scenes of t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Digital, Archival Pigment

Tswana at Dawn
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print Signed and numbered, verso 26.7 x 40 inches (Edition of 10) 40 x 60 inches (Edition of 5) 48 x 72 inches (Edition of 3) This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Please note that prices increase as editions sell. Zack Seckler's series, “Botswana,” is comprised of a series of exquisite aerial photographs taken in the Kalahari basin in south central Africa between 2009 and 2010. The body of work offers a quite different and almost magical view of the much-photographed and iconic landscape. In order to be able to capture these breathtaking images, Seckler enlisted the services of an expert pilot who flew a small, ultra-lightweight aircraft at low altitudes under...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Orilla con Luz Dorada
Located in Miami, FL
Tomas Sanchez Orilla con luz dorada, 1991 Serigraph Ed 6 of 100 37 x 47 in Signed, dated, named, and numbered by the artist. Frame included
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

BAR MITZVAH AT THE WESTERN WALL (JUDAICA ART)
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph with foil stamping and embossing on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 200. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticit...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Foil

The Gates (e), Project for Central Park
Located in New York, NY
This offset lithograph in colors on wove paper from the Project for Central Park, New York City, was created by the artist in 2005. One of 300 hand-signed (in pencil) prints from an ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Portofino Evening
Located in Greenwich, CT
Portofino Evening is a serigraph on paper, image size 27 x 36 inches, signed ‘Kerry Hallam’ lower right and numbered lower left. From the edition of 500, numbered 171/ 175 (there wer...
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20th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

As the Moon Rises
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with pochoir, Edition25 Susan Hall lived and worked for many years in New York City before returning to her childhood home in Point Reyes Station, California. She depicts moments suspended in the mysterious light of this place of marshland, wave-broken coast line and tawny, rolling hills. In Susan's latest prints Solitary Oak and As the Moon Rises...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Hunting the Fields, Limited edition art print, Landscape, Nature
Located in Deddington, GB
We have an owl box in the garden and have had owlets in some years. The Barn Owl will often hunt the field in the afternoon. Barn owls are silent hunters and provide drama and grace ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

LA Pink Cityscape [Hand Embellished]
Located in New Orleans, LA
Giclee print on archival cold press cotton rag. Every print is uniquely hand embellished by the artist with gold acrylic paint. Edition 4 of 5. In this new series of paintings, Moor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Rag Paper, Giclée

Arthur Boyd. Bundanon Shore. (1 Cockatoo)
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
’Bundanon Shore, 1 cockatoo’ By Arthur Boyd Medium - Lithograph Signed - Yes Edition - Artist Proof Size - 735mm x 540mm Date - 1994 Condition - 10 Colour of print may not be accurate when viewed on a monitor. Hand drawn metal plate lithograph printed with Senefelder press on rag paper. Being sold from the Andrew Purches collection. Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBE (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Kingsdown Beach
Located in London, GB
Damien Hirst H13-2 Kingsdown Beach, 2023 Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite panel. Hand-signed on the label and numbered. This artwork can be hung any way up. 120 × 90 cm ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Giclée

Plage du Prophete Evening (framed) - large scale photo of Mediterranean beach
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Cote d'Azur beach by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper,...

Cecily Brown, Modern Art at Oxford poster (Hand signed & inscribed by artist)
Located in New York, NY
Cecily Brown Paintings at Modern Art Oxford (hand signed and inscribed), 2005 Offset lithograph poster (signed and inscribed to Nadine) Hand signed and inscribed to Nadine by Cecily ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Everything's Going to be Alright (Work No. 3531), Signed/N print in archival box
By Martin Creed
Located in New York, NY
Martin Creed Everything's Going to be Alright (Work No. 3531), 2022 Color giclee print; unframed and housed in a bespoke archival box from Hauser & Wirth 11 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches Pencil signed, titled and numbered 141/200 Makes a perfect gift! Accompanied by original receipt from the Fife Arms (Beaemar) and gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee A wonderful print with an affirmation worth seeing in any room in the house! Note: this work is pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of 200, and it comes inside of a bespoke box, as it was first issued by Hauser & Wirth. The number shown in the image here may not be the number you receive. In 2020, as part of the post-lockdown re-opening celebrations for Scotland's Fife Arms, Hauser & Wirth's owners unveiled a specially commissioned temporary neon installation, ‘Work No. 3435: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT’ by one of their favorite artists, Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed. This colorful installation was situated on the grounds of nearby Braemar Castle. The message resonates well beyond the pandemic. It makes a terrific gift. (Martin Creed, who grew up in Glasgow, is particularly known in Scotland for the much-loved Scotsman Steps in Edinburgh, a public staircase joining two streets made with more than a hundred different types of marble. A work in blue neon, ‘Work No. 975: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT’, has been on view since 2012 on the facade of the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. The phrase ‘Everything is going to be alright’ has been used by the artist in a series of large-scale neon works since 1999 and draws on the comforting words Creed was offered by a friend. He explains, “If you are upset and someone speaks to you to try to help you, even if the words are empty because no one knows what is going to happen in the future, it can still feel like a comfort. No-one can really tell you everything is going to be alright, but despite that, many times in my life I have been very comforted by people saying something like that to me.”) And all this brings us back to the present work, a limited edition 2022 color giclee print, pencil signed and numbered by Martin Creed, which depicts Creed's pandemic-era temporary light installation with the neon words Everything is Going to Be Alright, against the backdrop of Braemar Castle at nightfall. This edition was originally sold by Hauser & Wirth via the Fife Arms to raise funds to restore Braemar Castle - and it quickly sold out. It's a poignant message that continues to resonate, perhaps now more than ever - and it would look beautiful in any home or office. But the question remains: Should we really believe Martin Creed's message? The answer is a resounding Yes. Coming from some of the most successful and lucky people on earth (Martin Creed and Manuela and Iwan Wirth) and carrying the magical energy and history of Braemar Castle, the odds are looking pretty good that everything is indeed going to be alright with all that positivity! By the way, just for fun (because why not?) keep scrolling (right arrow to the right of the main image) to view a 2019 photograph of King Charles and Queen Camilla (then officially known as the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay when in Scotland) attending the opening of The Fife Arms, with Manuela and Iwan Wirth standing next to them on the left - all in Highland dress. More about Martin Creed: British sculptor and installation artist. He was born in Wakefield, grew up in Scotland, and studied at the *Slade School of Art. His works are generally sparse in their material form and are identified only by numbers so as not to impose associations. (For this reason his numbering system avoids the portentous No. 1.) He is best known for the work for which he was awarded the *Turner Prize in 2002, Work no. 227 (2000, MoMA, New York). An entire room is alternately lit and darkened by electric light. It is a way of making a work of art which has no material existence: the light and the darkness are not themselves the art, only the change between them. This is a work which has entered the mythology of ‘modern art’ stories: the river boat guide tells the tourists (quite incorrectly) as they pass *Tate Modern: about the empty room...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Mixed Media, Giclée

Pink Rose II
Located in Nashville, TN
Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science, Dudenbostel was always trying...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Night Pueblo, black & white, landscape, lithograph Dan Namingha Hopi
Located in Santa Fe, NM
hand pulled lithograph edition 100 signed and numbered by the artist unframed
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

"The Fence, Private Keep Out, " Original Linocut on Yellow Paper
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Fence, Private Keep Out" is an original linocut print on yellow paper by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece lower right, wrote the title lower center, and wrote the edit...
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1960s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Linocut

Jalapão, Tocantins, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
ARAQUÉM ALCÂNTARA Jalapão, Tocantins, Brazil, 2013 71 x 48 inches - Edition of 10 Archival Pigment Print - Black box frame matt - Regular Plexiglas Also available in 60 x 40 inches...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Tall Trees
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
Tall trees’ By Jamie Boyd Medium - Lithograph Edition - AP Signed - Yes Size - 635mm x 870mm Date - c1975 Condition - Good. 9 out of 10. Colour of print m...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Tall Trees
Tall Trees
$445 Sale Price
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Mimosa Sept 29, 2021
Located in Fairfield, CT
Silkscreen with enamel inks and flocking on Rising 4-ply museum board Edition 40 of 40
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Ink, Board

Seascape II
By (after) Gerhard Richter
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Reproduction of Seascape by Gerhard Richter, published by Achenbach Art Editions in 1991. Framed in a white metal frame with a front profile of 1/4 inch and a side profile of 1 1/2 i...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Offset

Landscape - Original Lithograph by Michel Estèbe - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an Original Lithograph realized by Michel Estèbe. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Good conditions. Michel Estèbe is a french artist born in Talence. He studied ...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Rob Barnes, Ploughing the Furrows, Limited Edition Linocut Print, Landscape Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Rob Barnes Ploughing the Furrows Limited Edition Linocut Print Edition of 50 Image Size H 44cm x W 33cm Sheet Size H 49cm x W 61cm Sold Unframed mounted in Antique White mountboard ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Untitled (Nr. 0189) Landscape Photography 36" x 44" Edition of 12 by Ben Cope
Located in Culver City, CA
Untitled (Nr. 0189) Landscape Photography 36" x 44" Edition of 12 by Ben Cope Unframed - ships rolled in a tube Ben Cope + Rowan Daly Off the Grid Off the Grid is the culminatio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

"Ravanna's Palace Burning, " Woodcut Landscape signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ravanna's Palace Burning" is a woodcut signed by Carol Summers. The image combines landscape and architecture, which is typical of the works Summers produced during the 1980s and '90s. In the image, a dark building stands burning, bright red flames licking from the windows and rooftop. It stands beside an orange field framed in pink, probably representing a plaza. Beyond the plaza are multicolored trees, their branches reaching upward like the flames on the building. The playfulness 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. Art: 24.5 x 37.25 in Frame: 30 x 42.75 in Numbered 53 of the edition of 125 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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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

LANDLINES Signed Lithograph, Sacred Garden Series, Expressionist Landscape, Blue
Located in Union City, NJ
LANDLINES is an original limited edition lithograph from the Sacred Garden Series of works by the British artist David Leverett, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Fishing - Animal Print - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Black ink on buff Japanese rice paper. This image came from watching the sea birds on Kauai, Hawaii soaring along the bluffs on the north shore and diving for fish in the sea. Fishi...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Labyrinth No. 1, by Francois Houtin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist, edition of 30. This Imaginary topiary and garden scene is the smallest that Houtin completed. . François Houtin was born in Craon en Maye...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

New York Skyline, Pop Art Screenprint Diptych by Mori Shizume
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mori Shizume Title: New York Skyline 1 & 2 Year: 1979 Medium: Two Screenprints, each signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 210, AP 25 Paper Size: 30 x 18 inches (each) Fra...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Dandelion Clocks, Landscape Print, Rural Countryside Art, Tractor Art, Harvest
Located in Deddington, GB
There is a time of year when dandelions abound in the local fields. I often see a red tractor ploughing late crops and this view is inspired by a fine day for dandelions. Ploughings give a sense of direction in cantrast with the dandelion clocks. Rob Barnes, artist, is available for sale online and in our art gallery at Wychwood Art. Rob Barnes studied painting and printmaking at Hull College of Art and London University in the early 1960s. He taught etching, screen-printing, lino and related surface printmaking at Keswick Hall College in Norfolk. He later moved to the University of East Anglia, Norwich where he continued teaching in the School of Education until 2006. Presently he divides his time between printmaking and his other passion, playing the violin in local orchestras and for choral performances. In 2017 he began making a small number of sterling silver jewellery pieces following a course at West Dean, Sussex. His artwork follows themes, such as light on water, or shadows in the landscape. Linocuts are hand-printed on an Albion press...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Paris
Located in Miami, FL
Inspired by architecture, historical urbanism, passion for creation with intense multicultural experiences thru traveling and living in different parts of the planet, my drawings are...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Canvas, Ink

Contemporary landscape prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary landscape prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add landscape prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Frank Schott, Giuseppe Malandrino, Addison Jones, and Andrew Moore. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Pigment Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary landscape prints, so small editions measuring 0.04 inches across are also available.

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