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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
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

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

E, 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

TROUBLE AT WALNUT RIDGE Signed Lithograph, Farm Country, Green Hills, Horses
Located in Union City, NJ
The limited edition lithograph TROUBLE AT WALNUT RIDGE is a stylized rural landscape; a visual story depicting an expanse of farm country with rolling green hills, a turquoise blue r...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Pan di Zucchero - large scale photo of Mediterranean beach scene (framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
*temporary listing price reduction due to currency exchange rate large format photograph by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure Pan di Zucchero...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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

W, 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

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 ...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Offset

Bell Tower In Stockholm
Located in London, GB
Bell Tower In Stockholm, 2013 Giclée print in colours on 350gsm Hahnemühle Museum Etching paper. signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 295 printed by GTZ Fine Art Editions, New York, published by Washington Green...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Giclée

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

Running Hares, Limited edition print, Landscape, Nature, Bunny, Rabbit
Located in Deddington, GB
In early February, running hares can be seen locally as they compete for females. They are huge and fast as they run across the fields. they form a frequent entertainment and have in...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Linocut

Flower Field (FRAMED + FREE US SHIPPING) (Provence, landscapes, countryside art)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort Flower Field (Champ Fleuri) Color Lithograph Signed, numbered or inscribed Edition: 390 + 250 Size: 7.8 × 11.7 on 11.7 × 15.6 inches Framed: 16.25x20 inches COA provided *Framing Options Available - Please Inquire **edition number might vary from shown in listing image Tags: Provence landscapes, French countryside art...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Clemente Untitled A: surreal mythical landscape, voyage with ocean and animals
Located in New York, NY
A black and white, large-scale surreal mythical landscape of an ocean voyage, with a snake wrapped around a clock, female figure, greek urns, and an...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Convertible
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color spitbite aquatint and aquatint with drypoint. Edition of 35
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching, Intaglio

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

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Lithograph

Salish Fishermen
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish Salish Fishermen 44 x 30.5 cm, edition of 200, 2022 hand-signed and numbered by the artist Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and writer known for...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

New York (Golden Hour) [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 5 of 10 with 5 APs. In this new series of pai...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Rag Paper, Giclée

Early Morning Watering -- Etching, Aquatint, Print, Art by Tom Hammick
Located in London, GB
Early Morning Watering, 2022 Tom Hammick Etching with aquatint and chine colle in colours, on wove Signed, titled, dated and numbered Inscribed 'EV' (edition variable) and ‘A.P.I/VI...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Landscape - Screen Print by Renato Guttuso - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a mixed colored screen print realized by the Sicilian artist Renato Guttuso. Sheet dimension: 50 x 69 cm. Good conditions. Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, Palermo 1912 - Ro...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Carcavelos Pier Paddle (framed) - large scale photograph of summer beach scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of a summer beach scene along Portugal's Atlantic coast by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure Carcavelos Pier Paddle (2016) 61.25” x 81.68” / 155.60 cm x 207.46 cm limited edition of 6 + 2AP (signed, titled and dated on certificate of authenticity) 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 2021 'PienoVuoto' Forte di Belvedere, Florence 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 (New York, USA) 2016 ‘Landscapes with Figures’ Guido & Schoen Arte Contemponania (Genoa, Italy) 2016 ‘Massimo Vitali’ Crown Gallery (Knokke-Zoute, Belgium) 2016 ‘Massimo Vitali’ Ronchini Gallery (London, UK) 2015 ‘New Prints’ Hilger Next (Vienna, Austria) 2014 ‘Massimo Vitali’ Studio La Citta (Verona, Italy) 2014 ‘Into The White’ Erich Lindenberg Art Foundation (Porza, Switzerland) 2014 ‘Sempre più pallide. Towards Achrome’ Palazzo Tadea (Spilimbergo, Italy) 2013 ‘Between Normalities’ Bonni Benrubi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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

Caribbean Sandy Shore, Handmade Cyanotype on Watercolor Paper, Seascape in Blue
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. "Caribbean Sandy Shore" is a cyanotype of a shoreline on a Caribbean beach. It is a beautif...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Emulsion, Rag Paper, Lithograph

Monopoli Sunrise (framed) - large scale photo of Mediterranean beach ritual
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Puglia ritual by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern lei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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

View of Avellino - Etching by Tommaso Piroli - Mid-19th century
Located in Roma, IT
View of Avellino is a print realized by Tommaso Piroli in the mid-19th century. Etching Hand-watercolored on paper. Signed and titled on the plate. Good conditions with foxing
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Mid-19th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

Shepard Fairey "Force Of Nature" Fine Art Letterpress Print Contemporary Street
Located in Draper, UT
With hand-deckled edges. Obey publishing chop in lower left corner. "Both a celebration of nature and a cautionary tale. Waves are beautiful and represent a powerful, hypnotic rhyth...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Caminante No Hay Camino (hand-printed cyanotype, 11 x 8.5" matted to 14 x 11")
Located in Oakland, CA
A framed edition of this cyanotype sold to Timothée Chalamet at The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles. One of 10 mini editions of the same photograph printed by hand using the antique ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Venice Seascape Triptych, Blue Lido Island Reflections, Contemporary Cyanotype
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Monotype, Paper

Cloud Study III - large format photograph of dramatic cloudscape sky
Located in San Francisco, CA
large-scale original art photography from a series of dramatic cloud atlas observations and abstract skyscapes above the Mediterranean Sea CLOUD Study III...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée, Black and ...

Nocturnal, by Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: mezzotin Year: 2022 Edition: 50 Image Size: 17.75 x 23.5 inches Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist Dramatic image of the streets of New York from the air. ....
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Mezzotint

Redwoods Study II - large format observation panorama of green redwoods forest
Located in San Francisco, CA
A large scale photograph of lush emerald green nature biotope, a highly detailed observation of the natural beauty of Northern California's coastal redwood...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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

Trees
Located in London, GB
Woodcut on BFK Rives paper, produced in 2020. Edition of 100. Mint condition, unframed. Signed and numbered in pencil by Nicolas Party.
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Belgian Contemporary Art by Hugo Pondz - En Apesanteur
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

Ross Bleckner, Floating Red
Located in New York, NY
Ross Bleckner FLOATING RED Year: 2019 Medium: Archival pigment print on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper Size: 42 x 70 inches (107 x 178 cm) Edition: 30 Price: $7,000 Also sold as a set with Floating Red Glowing and contemplative, Ross Bleckner’s work blends abstraction with recognizable symbols to create meditations on perception, transcendence and loss. Ross Bleckner was born in 1949 in New York and grew up in the prosperous town of Hewlett Harbor on Long Island. The first art exhibition he saw—The Responsive Eye, a show of Op art on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965—had a strong impact on him. He decided to become an artist when he was in college, studying with Sol LeWitt and Chuck Close at New York University, where he earned a BA in 1971. Two years later, he completed an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, where he met David Salle. After moving back to New York, Bleckner purchased and moved into a Tribeca loft building in 1974. Painter Julian Schnabel rented three floors of the building, and the Mudd Club, a nightclub frequented by musicians and artists, occupied space there from 1977 to 1983. Bleckner sold the building in 2004. His first solo exhibition was held in 1975 at Cunningham Ward Gallery in New York. In 1979 he began his long association with Mary Boone Gallery in New York, which championed several of the so-called art stars of the 1980s. In 1981 Bleckner met Thomas Ammann, an important Swiss art dealer who went on to collect his work. Bleckner’s early 1980s Stripe...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Autumn Light
Located in Deddington, GB
This print of a tree uses litho printed kitakata chine collé to depict the warmth and colour of early autumnal sunlight. The depth of the blacks along with the layering, allude to th...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Drypoint

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

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Lithograph, Screen

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 Mal de Fin: Paintings 1989-1990 at the Petersburg Press Gallery, New York. The image reproduces his painting, Mal de Fin, ...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Morning Dawn - Handmade Landscape Linocut, Print Unique Number 8/8
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork will be sent unframed Linocut print „ Morning dawn” 2023 Reduction linocut print technique Limited edition, print unique number 8/8 Paper Fabriano Rosaspina Bianco 220g ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Coastal Fog
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Trees in fog. A band of fog off of the Pacific, pouring its way through the forest in Fiscalini Ranch, Cambria. Born in Berkeley, California, on December 21, 1949, he was raised in ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Late Night (Where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope)
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Late Night", Frederick Mershimer created a winter scene where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope. This image, the seventh in t...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Mezzotint, Aquatint

Seascape XVIII - large format photograph of monochrome water surface
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 Paper, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

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

The Art of Modern Living
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Art of Modern Living is a digital pigment print on paper, image size 24 x 38.5 inches and framed in a contemporary light wood frame. Signed 'RENÉ LALONDE' lower right and annotat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Digital Pigment

Wrapped Trees, Switzerland poster (Hand Signed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude)
Located in New York, NY
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Christo, Javacheff Christo Wrapped Trees, Switzerland poster (Hand Signed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude), 1998 Offset lithograph (hand signed) Signed Christ...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Wes Anderson's Dog - Battersea Power Station, London Cityscape Art, Animal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Wes Anderson's Dogs - Battersea Power Station by Artist Mychael Barratt is a limited edition print. This humorous scene depicts three dogs looking over the edge of the picture, with a floating pig flying in between the pipes of the power station. Buy Mychael Barratt printmaker works with Wychwood Art...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Lafitte's Blacksmith House (a bar named for a pirate on Bourbon St, New Orleans)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a New Orleans landmark at 941 Bourbon St. Like most New Orleans legends, history of Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a gumbo of tru...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Mezzotint, Aquatint

Landscape on Red - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976. Edition of 90. Hand signed in pencil. Very good condition.
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Ghost Moon by John Hogan, Desert Night Landscape lithograph black and white
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Ghost Moon by John Hogan, Desert Night Landscape lithograph black and white hand pulled lithograph edition 9/25 22 x 30 paper size 20 x 27 image size Wi...
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1970s 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

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Monotype, Woodcut

Marfa ( Texas ) - large format photograph of dramatic clouds over endless fields
Located in San Francisco, CA
Marfa ( Texas ) by Frank Schott country road view in West Texas, from a series of impressions captured in Marfa, Texas, longtime residence of minimalist artist Donald Judd 46 x 72 i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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

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

Cedar (small)
Located in London, GB
Cedar (small), 2022 Screenprint on Somerset Velvet Antique 280gsm hand-signed and numbered 47.5 x 38 cm 52 x 45 cm - framed Edition of 150 To commemorate Ai Weiwei’s gift of a tree ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

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

Large Landscape Black White Big Cat Photograph Cheetah Africa Nature Wildlife
Located in Norfolk, GB
Aditya Dicky Singh, Untitled, photograph on fine-art Hahnemuhle archival paper 44 x66" unframed (84cm x 56cm) 2022 Edition 1/10 *Should you wish the photograph to be printed at a...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

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

Digital Creator Landscape Painter Animation Golden Tree Magical Realism Light
Located in Norfolk, GB
Artwork details: Jamie Williams, Nightlies, image 30cm x 30cm, sheet size 26.5cm x 26.5cm, on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Paper Signed with Edition 3/20 verso, 2022 Jamie Williams is an e...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Myvatn Nature Baths (framed) - large scale photograph of Iceland hot springs
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of iconic Icelandic hot springs by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure Myvatn Nature Baths (2016) 61.25” x 81” / 156 cm x 206 cm signed, titled and dated verso edition of 6 + 2AP original archival photography print with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary white gallery frame Each limited edition original 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 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. He worked in cinematography for film and television before beginning a fine art practice in 1995. Over the next two decades, Vitali’s large scale works would become recognizable for his highly detailed sociopolitical observations of the natural habitat of humankind at leisure. His 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 humanity’s coastal habitats in the bright light of summer. Vitali’s work has been collected in six monographs: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, Swimming Pools, Short Stories and the just published 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 2021 'PienoVuoto' Forte di Belvedere, Florence 2021 'No Country For Old Men...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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

Panoplie, fantasy topiary etching by contemporary french artist Francois Houtin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Contemporary French artist Francois Houtin still developed his signature style of imaginary vegetation and symbols in the 1970's and has continued to master etching and fantasy lands...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

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

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Archival Paper

Turbulence (color version), by Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A spectacular wave breaking under a stormy sky . Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. Signed and numbered f...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Mezzotint

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

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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