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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
Ocotillo, by Stephen McMillan
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. A view of ocotillo cactus, based on a view near Clark Dry Lake, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California. Born in Berkeley, California,...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Campo Vio
Located in Palm Springs, CA
One of eight prints completed for this set based on Henry James Aspern Papers. Signed and numbered digital print from the editon of 75. Peter Milton is one of the most honored and respected printmakers in the world today. His work is in most major museums, and he continues to produce stunning and masterful prints in his 6th decade of printmaking. Since 2008 he has been a major proponent for digital printmaking. THE ASPERN PAPERS is a classic tale by Henry James of duplicity foiled and love denied. Taking place in Venice, this is one print from a portfolio set of eight prints...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Digital Pigment

Sunday Afternoon
Located in London, GB
Bob Dylan Sunday Afternoon, 2012, Giclée print on Hahnemühle Museum paper, published by Washington Green Fine Art, framed. Edition of 295 signed and numbered in pencil Original Wash...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Giclée

Kansei (The Voice of the Mountain Stream)
Located in Bristol, GB
Offset lithograph in colours, on smooth wove paper Edition of 300 71 cm (D) (28 in) Signed and numbered on front Mint. Minor imperfections may appear due to the nature of the materials.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Offset

Anna Harley, Sunrise Mini, Limited Edition Silkscreen Print, Landscape Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Anna Harley Sunrise Mini Limited Edition Silkscreen Print Edition of 80 Size: H 22cm x W 22cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

SIBERIAN TIGERS Signed Hand Drawn Lithograph Snow Landscape Big Cats Drinking
Located in Union City, NJ
SIBERIAN TIGERS by the British wildlife artist Sydney Taylor, is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset paper 100% acid free. SIBERIAN TIGERS is a contemporary wildlife landscape scene depicting a pair of Siberian tigers taking a cool drink from a snow covered riverbank. Printed in shades of blue, gray, light orange, brown, and touches of black with white accents emphasizing the icy landscape. This lithograph is a handmade original print, not a commercially mass produced poster or digital reproduction, quality craftsmanship. Year published - 1983 Edition size - 200 Print size - 21.5" x 29.5", unframed, excellent condition, hand signed in pencil by Sydney Taylor The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Evening Rain, by Stephen McMillan
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Abstract patterns from reflections in water. Signed, titled and numbered from edtion of 120. Born in Berkeley, California, on December 21, 1949, he was raised in a home that had a s...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Topiary II - large format photograph of ornamental shaped sidewalk trees
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photogaph from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening and whimsical botanical art of topiaries' green minimalism TOPIARY II by Fran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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

YOUR CHOICE, bold colorful, amusement park, coney island, rides, signs modernism
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Archival pigment print Philomena Marano has spent decades “penetrat[ing] the soul of Coney Island to reveal its twin promises of candy-colored paradise and garishly ornate nightmare...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Malbacco Desiata - large format photograph of iconic Italian summer moment
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Malbacco Desiata, a secret swim hole in Tuscany, by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale to...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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

Prairie Winter - Cerrillos Flats, by John Hogan, serigraph, New Mexico Landscape
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Prairie Winter, Cerrillos Flats by John Hogan serigraph New Mexico Landscape brown, white, blue, pink limited edition framed serigraph 2/20 © 1979 John Hogan A graduate of Northeast...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

Porto Miggiano - large scale photograph of Mediterranean beach (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
rare vertical work featuring iconic summer beach scene in Puglia by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the summer rites and rituals of modern leisure Porto Miggiano...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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

Shepard Fairey Lifeguard Not on Duty Screenprint Contemporary Street Art Summer
Located in Draper, UT
Manufacturer: Obey Giant Edition Details: Year: 2014 Class: Art Print Status: Official Released: 08/12/14 Run: 98/450 Technique: Screen Print Size: 18 X 24 Markings: Signed & Numbere...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Zodiaco-Gemelli - 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 and...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Reds and Black August 20, 2020
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Donald Sultan Title: Reds and Black August 20, 2020 Year: 2020 Medium: Silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking, and tarlike texture on Rising 4-ply Museum Board Sheet: 44 x 84...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Canyon Road, by John Hogan, lithograph, edition, black, white, Santa Fe
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Canyon Road, by John Hogan, lithograph, edition, black, white, Santa Fe hand pulled lithograph edition signed and numbered by the artist unframed 30 x 44 paper size John Hogan A gr...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Moonset Yangna
By William Acedo
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Linocut showing the downtown Los Angeles skyline. Yangna was the largest village of indigenous peoples located near downtown Los Angeles when the Spanish arrived. This print pays hom...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

Eyvind Earle 'Three Horses' Limited Edition Signed Serigraph Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Eyvind Earle (1916-2000) Three Horses (Version 2), 1987 Serigraph in colors on black wove paper Edition 46/100 Signed and editioned in blue pencil along lower edge 21 1/4 x 40- /8 in...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Rowboat
Located in New York, NY
Although best known for his portraits, Katz has depicted landscapes both inside the studio and out of doors since the beginning of his career. This print of a boat on the water feat...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Aquatint

Fireball
Located in Bristol, GB
Offset lithograph in colours, on smooth wove paper Edition of 300 71 cm (D) (28 in) Signed and numbered on front Mint. Minor imperfections may appear due to the nature of the materia...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Offset

Clare Halifax, Champagne City, Aqua Thames, Contemporary Cityscape London Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Champagne City, Aqua Blue Thames Clare Halifax Signed by the artist Limited edition of 10 Image size: H:48 cm x W:48 cm Paper size: H:56 cm x W:56 cm x D:0.1 cm Please note that insitus are purely an indication of how a piece may look. Champagne City, Aqua Blue Thames is a limited edition cityscape print by Clare Halifax. Champagne City, Aqua Blue Thames features hand gilded champagne gold leaf 22.5ct with aqua blue thames. This 2 colour screen print with hand finished gilding is printed by the artist and shows the view of the thames from sky garden, edition of 10, printed onto somerset satin 300gms with deckle edge. Clare Halifax, artist, joins Wychwood Art selling art online and in their art gallery in Deddington. Clare Halifax is offering exclusive Cotswold screen prints with Wychwood Art as well as scenes of London and Oxford. Clare Halifax graduated from the University of Loughborough in 2000 with a BA Hons in Printed Textile design and went on to sell her work internationally to the fashion and interior markets...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Topiary I - large format photograph of ornamental shaped tree
Located in San Francisco, CA
from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening and striking art of topiaries' green minimalism Topiary I by Frank Schott ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Tree Study III - large format b/w photograph of lone ancient tree in landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
From a series of large scale black & white photographs capturing the ancient flora and dramatic arboretum of California's vast Sierra Nevada mountain landscapes, an homage to photogr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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

Life Below, by Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A sspectacular view from above of the buildings and traffic a large city. Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to comple...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Alexander Calder lithograph 1960s (Calder derriere le miroir)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Alexander Calder Lithograph c. 1967 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 11 inches. Very good overall vintage condition; well-preserved. Unsigned from an edition of u...
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1960s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Waterfall
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
’Waterfall’ By Jamie Boyd Medium - Lithograph Edition - AP Signed - Yes Size - 635mm x 870mm Date - c1975 Condition - Good. 8 out of 10. Colour of print may not be accurate when vi...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Seascape Diptych 23, Large Blue Horizontal Woodcut Print of Water, Ocean Waves
Located in Kent, CT
This large, horizontal diptych of two woodcut prints on paper evokes the peacefulness of ocean waves depicted in shades of blue, bright royal blue offset by soft, pale blue tones. Th...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Monotype, Woodcut

C, Hockney's Alphabet, David Hockney
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Paper Size: 12.75 x 9.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Hockney's ...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Marfa { The Road } - large scale photograph of endless road and horizon sunset
Located in San Francisco, CA
The Road by Frank Schott country road outside of town, from a series of impressions captured in and around the artist community of Marfa, Texas, longtime residence of minimalist art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée

Strawberry Tree and Mount Tahoma
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish Strawberry Tree and mount Tahoma, 30.5 x 38.3 cm, edition of 200, 2022 hand-signed and numbered by the artist Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Five Window Chevy Pickup, by Frank Romero
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Cars are a central theme in a lot of Chicano art, and Frank Romero has made several famous images on the theme. This a unique stencil painting made on handmade paper (from Bhutan). There are 20 prints in the edition, with hand-painting on each. Throughout his 40 year career as an artist, Frank Romero has been a dedicated member of the Los Angeles arts community. As a member of the 1970s Chicano art collective, Los Four, Romero and fellow artists Carlos Almaraz...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Paint, Stencil

Hommage a Sullivan, by Francois Houtin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. This print was an hommage to the architect Louis Sullivan, done after a trip to Chicago. With the same elaborate fantasy garden scenery, th...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

GIARDINO SEGRETTO Signed Lithograph Lakeside Villa Mediterranean Landscape, Moon
Located in Union City, NJ
GIARDINO SEGRETTO is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph created in 1988 by the Iowa born artist, Jim Buckels who is known for his dream-like ima...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Hollywood - large format photograph of iconic California landmark in Los Angeles
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of the iconic HOLLYWOOD sign in golden California sunlight with downtown Los Angeles in the distance HOLLYWOOD by Christian Stoll 48 x 48 inches (122 x 122c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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

Saint Jerome and his Camel , by Stan Washburn
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching Edition of 120 Year: 1976 ImageSize: 4.5 x 5.5 inches Signed, titled and numbered etching from the edition of 90. An view Saint Jerome writing in his cave, with his ...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

Zodiaco-Cancro - 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

Let Us Devote Our Hearts
Located in Bristol, GB
Offset lithograph in colours, on smooth wove paper Edition of 300 71 cm (D) (28 in) Signed and numbered on front Artwork in excellent condition. Minor points of without pigment benea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Offset

Mychael Barratt, London Bestiary, Animal Art, Illustrated Cityscape, Happy Art
Located in Deddington, GB
London Bestiary by Mychael Barratt Limited Edition Etching: Edition of 100 Image Size: H 66m x W 99.7cm Complete size of Sheet: H 76.9cm x W 112.1cm x D 0.1cm Signed and titled Sold ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Landscape - Lithograph on paper by Ivan Lackovic - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Lithograph on paper realized by Ivan Lackovic in the 1980s . Hand-signed. Artist's proof. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted th...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Two Tall Pines, (hand-printed cyanotype, 23 x 14 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a larger version of the 18 x 11 inch photograph of the same name. This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pin...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

PONT NEUF LE SOIR Signed Lithograph Paris Night Scene Historic Bridge, Moon Boat
Located in Union City, NJ
Pont Neuf Le Soir is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper by the popular French artist Michel Delacroix, well known for his naif style paintings of a city he calls "the Paris of then". Pont Neuf Le Soir is a dramatic Paris night scene depicted with a deep gray blue moonlit evening sky as a backdrop for the oldest historic Paris bridge crossing the River Seine - the Pont Neuf. In the foreground, a nostalgic street scene of people in Victorian dress strolling beneath the glowing lampposts; women with a baby carriage, flowers, children, small dog, and a black tugboat billowing smoke heading up river toward a rosy...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

View of Paris - Lithograph By Orfeo Tamburi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
View of Paris is a Modern artwork realized by Orfeo Tamburi (Jesi, 1910 – Paris,1994) in the 1980s. Colored Lithograph on paper. Hand-signed. Numbered on the lower, Edition, 12...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Industrial Train - Bob Dylan
Located in London, GB
Giclée print in colours 58 × 76 cm - Paper size 62 x 80 cm - Framed size Edition of 295 hand-signed and numbered by the artist. framed by the publishers on release.
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Giclée

Lee Wells 'Resplendent Reverie'
Located in New York, NY
Lee Wells End of the World Party #6 2023 Archival pigment print Edition of 5 Caption: Resplendent Reverie: In the embrace of a verdant utopia, distinguished figures—Theo the Trendse...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Vintage Rene Ricard Mal de Fin: Paintings 1989-1990 poster with poetry and ocean
Located in New York, NY
Original poster commemorating Rene Ricard's 1990 exhibition Paintings 1989-1990 at the Petersburg Press Gallery, New York. The poster is folded as it was sent out for the original ex...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Nizza - large format photograph of summer beach scene in South of France
Located in San Francisco, CA
observation of a Mediterranean beach scene in Nice, France, on a hazy summer day Nizza by Frank Schott 48 x 75.5 inches (122 x 192cm) signed edition of 7 44 x 69 inches (122 x 17...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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

Storm Wave III
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. His seascapes and ocean prints are from the California coastline. Sign...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Mezzotint

Rising Tide
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. His seascapes and ocean prints are from the California coastline. Sign...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Mezzotint

Swim Team Outerspace
Located in London, GB
Giclee Print On Paper 28 × 21 in 71.1 × 53.3 cm Edition of 125 Hand-signed and numbered #1-65 of this edition are signed en verso; #66-125 are signed on front Katherine Bradford i...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Giclée

TAXI Hand Drawn Lithograph, Lady in Red, London Black Cab, British Humor
Located in Union City, NJ
TAXI is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the well known and loved British artist and humorist, Beryl Cook(1926-2008). Printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. TAXI presents a satirical city street scene depicting a male businessman dressed in a beige pin stripe suit assisting a vivacious, curvy, curly haired "lady in red" into an iconic London "Black" cab. TAXI's amusing scene takes place in front of an intriguing backdrop of building construction complete with rubble and beams, where a nonchalant construction worker stands whistling by his steam shovel in the background as the spectacle unfolds. Seeing the facial expressions portrayed on the faces of fellow passengers and cab driver add to the viewer's amusement in this quintessential Beryl Cook image. Print size - 34 x 27 inches, unframed, unsigned Printers Proof from the master printer's private collection Image size - 25" x 19" Edition size - 300, plus proofs Year published - 1990, printed at J K Fine Art Editions Co. NYC Publisher - Flanagan Graphics Beryl Cook's unique artistic humor documented familiar social situations...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

BIRD IN HAND Signed Lithograph, Comical Landscape, Couple Walking, British Humor
Located in Union City, NJ
BIRD IN HAND is a hand drawn, pencil signed limited edition lithograph by the well known and loved British artist and humorist, Beryl Cook. BIRD IN HAND is a lighthearted, comical la...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

FATHER & SON Signed Lithograph, Horseback Riding Lowcountry SC, Gullah Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
FATHER & SON is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. FATHER & SON is a beautifully simple composition depicting a refreshing Lowcountry South Carolina landscape...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" Woodcut & Monotype signed by Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. In the image, an abstracted volcano erupts in a joyous burst of purples and oranges. 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: 8 x 11 in Frame: 17 x 19 in 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 non-western 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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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Monotype, Woodcut

SUNBATHERS Signed Lithograph, Women in Bikinis, Sunglasses, Beach, Sailboats
Located in Union City, NJ
SUNBATHERS by the woman artist Robin Morris, is an original limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. SUNBATHERS depicts a two female sunbathers sitting in their lounge chairs on a sunny day at the beach wearing dark sunglasses, straw sun hats, and snazzy red and purple bikinis...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Gates Project for Central Park, New York (18370)
Located in New York, NY
Serigraph Signed in pencil
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen, Lithograph

"Grave of Santa Anna's Leg" Original Woodblock Print, Signed Artist's Proof
Located in Soquel, CA
"Grave of Santa Anna's Leg" Original Woodblock Print, Signed Artist's Proof Boldly colored woodblock print by Carol Summers (American, 1925-2016). This piece is a segment of a grave, with a headstone that has a skull and cross. There are two bright green plants flanking the headstone. Below the headstone and plants, there is a large arched blue shape, with a crescent moon and stars. A red leg, bent at the knee, cuts across the blue arch. Signed "Carol Summers" along the right edge of the blue shape. Numbered and titled "A/P Grave of Sant Anna's Leg" along the left edge of the blue shape. Presented in a silver colored aluminum frame. Frame size: 32.245"H x 27.25"W Paper size: 29.75"H x 24.5"W 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...
Category

1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper, Woodcut

Presence - Vintage Offset Print After Franco Fontana - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Presence is a beautiful offset realized by Franco Fontana . Limited edition of 1.000. good conditions except for some foldimgs. Colored poster from a photograph by Franco Fontana ...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Offset

Venice - Etching by Gianpaolo Berto - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Venice is an Etching realized by Gian Paolo Berto in 1974. Hand signed, dated, and numbered by the artist with pencil on the lower right corner. Edition of 50. Good condition. Gia...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

New Mexico Landscape by John Hogan, serigraph screen print limited edition
Located in Santa Fe, NM
New Mexico Landscape by John Hogan, serigraph screen print limited edition #6/20 limited edition hand pulled screen print/serigraph © 1977 John Hogan A graduate of Northeast Louisia...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

EYVIND EARLE 'VALLEY OF MYSTERY' 1973, HAND SIGNED LIMITED EDITION SERIGRAPH
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
"Valley of Mystery" by Eyvind Earle Type: Limited Edition Media: Serigraph on Paper Image Dimensions: 24" x 36" Year Produced: 1973 Edition Number: 177/188 Hand signed and numbered b...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

Tower Bridge and City Reflections limited edition framed print by Sarah Fosse
Located in London, GB
Sarah Fosse paints an original artwork freehand using professional drawing tools and a specialised tablet. A highly technical printing technique called dye...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Digital

Mustard Flowers
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The rolling hills of the wine country in Sonoma, CA when the mustard flowers are in full bloom. Three plate etching and aquatint. Signed titled and numbered in pencil from the edition of 250. Born in Berkeley, California, on December 21, 1949, he was raised in a home that had a sweeping view of the San Francisco Bay. This scene kindled his interest in landscape and was one of his earliest drawing subjects. Stephen McMillan's etchings and aquatint prints capture the landscapes of California...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

At the Crossroads (color), by Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A spectacular view from above of a major cross roads in a town where some large gathering of people or protest is happening. Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Summer Sky, limited edition lithograph, landscape, desert, turquoise, orange
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Summer Sky, limited edition lithograph, landscape, desert, turquoise, orange
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Donald Baechler Creamsicle 1999 (Donald Baechler prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Donald Baechler, Creamsicle, 1999: A fun, whimsical, and highly decorative signed limited edition Baechler piece that works well in any setting. Medium: Soft-ground etching and aq...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph, Screen

Aspen Study I - large scale photograph of Indian summer autumnal color palette
Located in San Francisco, CA
Aspen Study I by Frank Schott a series of images capturing the yellow golden Indian summer foliage palette of aspen trees in California's Sierra Nevada ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Flowers
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
’Flowers’ By Jamie Boyd Medium - Lithograph Edition - AP Signed - Yes Size - 635mm x 870mm Date - c1975 Condition - Very good. 9 out of 10. Colour of print may not be accurate when...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Forte dei Marmi - iconic Italian beach resort on Mediterranean Sea (48" x 72")
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of a sea of green sun umbrellas and yellow-green striped sun chairs, a Mediterranean pre-summer season study of Italian beach clubs in the iconic coastal resort town of Forte dei Marmi, Italy FORTE DEI MARMI by Frank Schott 48 x 72 inches / 122cm x 183cm edition of 7 signed 26.5 x 40 inches / 67cm x 102cm edition of 25 signed archival quality fine art pigment print limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity ________________________ Frank Schott grew up in Germany and attended the prestigious Academy of Arts in Cologne, studying under Professor Arno Jansen, who was an early influence. Moving to California in 1998, Schott's work has evolved to include the epic landscapes and deserts of the American West as well as architectural, conceptual and more formal environments from both home and his travels. Influenced by a number of photographic peers and precursors such as Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Michael Wolf, Gregory Crewdson, Ed Rusha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Der Wald (portfolio of 9) 10 of 12 - grouping, woodblock prints on art paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Der Wald - or, the Forest - consists of nine wood block prints in a single portfolio. In each of the nine images a single tree is printed cleanly in solid black on manila colored ar...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Woodcut

Lampedusa (framed) - large scale photograph of Mediterranean summer beach scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large format photograph of a summer beach scene on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, from an earlier body of works (2012) by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure Lampedusa (2012) 61.25” x 81.7” / 156 cm x 207,5 cm limited edition of 6 + 2AP (signed, titled and dated on certificate of authenticity) last available edition: AP1 original archival photography print with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary white lacquered gallery frame Each limited edition original Massimo Vitali photograph is printed in Italy under artist supervision in strictly limited edition (6 + 2AP) , signed/titled/dated upon final inspection and expertly framed at renowned European art framing facility Disclaimer of authenticity: although it is possible to acquire (small size) single page offset prints from the book "A Portfolio of Landscapes and Figures" (published by Steidl) in the secondary market, the artist studio strongly dissuades collectors from purchasing these single page prints outside of the context and authenticity of the complete portfolio. About the artist: Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944. He studied photography at the London College of Printing, in the 1970s initially working as a photojournalist, but at the beginning of the 80s a growing mistrust in the belief that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality led to a change in his career path. Vitali worked in cinematography for film and television before beginning a fine art practice in 1995. Over the next two decades, he would gain recognition for his highly detailed, epic-scale panoramas — sociopolitical observations of the natural habitat of humankind at leisure. Vitali’s iconic series of beach panoramas, captured from a distance with an elevated large-format camera platform, began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy. Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Old Flemish masters, in which the central space is fully exploited and the urban or natural landscape becomes the background, Vitali’s photographs grasp the viewer by capturing highly detailed observances of the recreational habitats of modern civilization. Vitali’s work has been collected in six monographs: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, Swimming Pools, Short Stories and Entering A New World. Additionally, his work is represented in the world’s major museums, including the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Fond National Art Contemporaine in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Museo Luigi Pecci in Prato. Massimo Vitali lives and works in Lucca (Italy) and in Berlin (Germany). __________________________ SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2025 94/22 Zander Galerie, Cologne 2024 Photolux Festival - Il bel paese? Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, Italy 2023 La Grande Oasi - The way we live, now OCA, Oasy Contemporary Art, Pistoia 2023 Standing Still Cortona On The Move, Arezzo, Italy 2022 Massimo Vitali PhotoESPANA Biblioteca Central Cantabria, Santander 2022 Endless Summer Edwin Hook Gallery, New York 2022 Massimo Vitali: Leporello 2020 Melbourne 2022 Ti ho visto Mazzoleni Gallery, Turin 2021 PienoVuoto Forte di Belvedere, Florence 2021 No Country For Old Men Visionarea Art Space, Rome 2020 'Human Constellations' Museo Ettore Fico, Turin 2019 Massimo Vitali: Short Stories' Mazzoleni, London 2018 'Coastal Colonies' Spiral, Tokyo 2017 ‘Disturbed Coastal Systems’ Benrubi Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

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

Seascape X - large format photograph of monochrome blue water surface & horizon
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

Materials

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

Over the River (From Above) Project for the Arkansas River, CO, Signed Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Christo (1935 - 2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935 - 2009) Over the River (From Above) Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado Offset lithograph in colors on smooth paper Signed by Chris...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Archival Paper

CHRISTO 'PONTE NEUF EMPAQUETTE-SMALL - 1985
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Christo Title: Ponte Neuf Empaquette-Small Medium: Photograph Size: 26 x 27 inches Year: 1985 Publisher: Nouvelles Image Reference #: Schellmann 86 Hand signed by the artist ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Offset

Contemporary landscape prints for sale on 1stDibs.

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