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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
Pomerrigio
Located in Deddington, GB
Pomerrigio (Afternoon) by Karen Keogh [2020] original Etching on Paper Image size: H:30 cm x W:40 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:58 cm x W:65 cm x D...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Etching

Peter Doig, Fisherman
Located in Hamburg, DE
Peter Doig (born 1959 in Edinburgh) Fisherman, 2013 Medium: Pigment print on paper Dimensions: 87.5 x 69 cm (34.4 x 27.1 in) Edition of 500: Hand signed and numbered Condition: ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Pigment

Men Hoisting Sails
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish Men Hoisting Sails, 2021 30.5 x 44 cm edition of 200 hand-signed and numbered by the artist Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, and writer known fo...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Maison Romaine, by Francois Houtin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist, edition of 30. This Imaginary building shows the move toward more elaborate landscape images Houtin started doing in the early 1980's. Fr...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

Fleurs #1 - Ipomée (sweet potato), one of 4 flowers by Marjan Seyedin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
This Ipomée (sweet potato) is one of a series of beautifully rendered flowers by Franco-Iranian artist Marjan Seyedin. Marjan has a contemporary and...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

Turtle Cannery Ruins, Punta Lobos
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: 7 color Screenprint Year: 2023 Image Size: 20.75 x 14.5 inches Edition of 12 The abandoned cannery at one end of the beach at Punta Lobos dates from the period 1960-80. Over...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

French Quarter (Golden Hour)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Archival pigment ink print on Hahnemuhle cotton paper. Each print is uniquely hand embellished by the artist with acrylic paint and prismacolor. Edition 1 of 5. Kristin Moore says o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Acrylic, Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Puerto Rico 1N
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Perez, Enoc Title: Puerto Rico 1N Date: 2016 Medium: Photogravures with hand coloring Unframed Dimensions: 25" x 32" Signature: Signed Editi...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Vladimir: Greek column abstract etching and screenprint, handmade paper frame
Located in New York, NY
An abstract black and white shadowbox drawing of a Greek column, with a unique handmade, hand printed, leather brown wood grain frame. According to Roberta Smith, Michael Hurson "......
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph, Screen, Intaglio

Billy Childish - Wading Out
Located in London, GB
Wading Out, 2019 Archival print on heavy matt stock 44.5 x 30.5 cm Edition 190 of 200 signed and numbered by the artist From Sold Out edition Billy Childish is a prolific British ar...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Pine Ridge (29.5 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Marina Reflections
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered. View of reflections of boats in a marina. Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 120. Born in Berkeley, California, on December 21, 1949, he was raised...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

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

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

Misty Slope, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 11 x 17 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Wandelaars II, Contemporary Mezzotint by Anne Dykmans
Located in Long Island City, NY
Anne Dykmans, Belgian (1952 - ) - Wandelaars II, Year: 2002, Medium: Mezzotint, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 50, Image Size: 2.5 x 3.5 inches, Frame Siz...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Mezzotint

Delta (River delta in front of mountains in volcanic landscape, Iceland)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Delta was first brought to attention as one of the dramatic images illustrated in Carol Wax's book, The Mezzotint, History and Technique. It was also exhibited at the New Orleans Mu...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Mezzotint

Ski Paradise, Limited Edition print, Sport art, Skiiing art
Located in Deddington, GB
This work is inspired by collage and surrealist artworks. I like combining images removed from their original narrative context and reconfigured into a new scenario. This screen prin...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Scorched Earth
Located in London, GB
Polymer gravure type etching on Velin Arches Blanc 250 gsm. Signed and numbered by the artist Paper size: 24 x 29.5 cm Edition of 100
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching

Landscapes Of Autumn - Screen Print by Rolandi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscapes Of Autumn is a modern artwork realized by the painter Rolandi, in the 1980s. Mixed colored screen print. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Artist's proof (as repor...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Peter Doig, Maracas - Etching and Aquatint, Signed Print, British Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Peter Doig (born 1959 in Edinburgh) Maracas, 2004 Medium: Etching and aquatint on wove paper Dimensions: 53.2 x 38.1 cm (20 9/10 × 15 in) Edition of 120 + 10 AP: Hand-signed and numb...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Moon At Dawn
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from the edition of 88. This tranquil scene of the moon at night by the waters' edge shows Schwaberow's technicque at its best. The grain of each piece of wood plays into the image perfectly. Micah Schwaberow was born in Eugene, Oregon and currently resides In Santa Rosa, California. The rolling hillsides, cloudscapes and coastline of Sonoma County are a major motif in his woodcuts. Seascape with light reflecting on the water just after sunset. Micah learned the art of Japanese woodblock art...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Flores para la Ñusta II
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with cut outs, Edition 30. Flores para la Ñusta translates as "Flowers for the Ñusta". The artist states: "In the Andean cosmology, the Ñusta is the feminine ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Le Figuier d'Antibes
Located in Chicago, IL
This lithograph comes from an edition of 120 and it is signed and numbered. Guiramand’s works all have one element in common: the artist’s extraordinary sensitivity and ability to a...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Brian, white Flower and House - Offset Poster after Douglas Prince - 1980
By Douglas Prince
Located in Roma, IT
Brian - White Flower and House is an original offset of 1980, realized by Douglas Prince. The state of preservation of the artwork is good. On the left margin, Signed, Titled and ...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Offset

Bending Pine, edition 1 of 5 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 11 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
The tree is a native Californian Monterey pine. They are found up and the down the coast of California from Carmel to San Francisco and all the way up north Mendocino. The moody scen...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Architectures - Lithograph by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Architectures is a contemporary artwork realized by Franco Gentilini in 1970s. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of 39/200.
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Bending Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 29.5 x 18" , edition 1 of 5)
Located in Oakland, CA
New. A nearly 30 inches (29 5/8") hand-printed version of the smaller landscape of the same name. There are just 5 editions of this largest size. All are unframed. The tree is a na...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

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

"Heading In, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 16" x 24"
Located in Westport, CT
This limited edition contemporary seascape print by S.C. Aldo features a cool coastal palette. It depicts a lightly abstracted coastal scene with a light blue sky, thick, white abstr...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Digital, Giclée

Life's a Beach
By Eric Holch
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Life's a Beach Screen print, 1980's Signed lower right (see photo) Mr. Holch’s formal art training began at Trinity-Pawling School where he won their first annual art award. He conti...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Cambria Coast, by Stephen McMillan
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 120. A November walk from Cambria led the artist to a patch of ice plant on a bluff in the local preserve, Fiscalini Ranch. These succ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Christo and Jeanne-Claude 'Wrapped Coast' Little Bay, Australia Signed Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Christo (1935 - 2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935 - 2009) Early Works, 'Wrapped Coast (1968-1969)' Project for Little Bay, Australia Offset lithograph in colors on smooth paper Signed in blue crayon, upper right, within image Original photograph by Harry Shunk...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Offset

The Lighthouse - Mandela, Former South African President, Signed, Robben Island
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Nelson Mandela, The Lighthouse, Signed Limited Edition Lithograph Many people are unaware that Nelson Mandela turned his hand to art in his 80's as a way of leaving a legacy for his family. He spent time with an art tutor and learnt to draw. In 2002, when creating the The Lighthouse print...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Forest of Doxa - Contemporary, 21st Century, Pigment Print, Limited Edition
Located in Zug, CH
This mythological woodland hints at the enigma and emotions of nature with a masterful use of chiaroscuro. Robert Longo, Forest of Doxa Contemporary, 21st Century, Pigment Print, Li...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Pigment

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

Billy Childish - Man in a Small Boat
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish Man in a Small Boat, 2017 Edition of 100 hand-signed and numbered 31 x 37 cm - sheet size. published by L4. Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, an...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

The Factory - Lithograph by Giuseppe Megna - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
The Factory is an lithograph on paper realized in 1980 by  Giuseppe Megna. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right, artist's proof. Good conditions. The artwork represents the a ...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

"Duration", Contemporary Landscape, Nature, Vines, Green, Color Photograph
Located in Franklin, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Duration” is a 24 x 36 inch color photograph. Overgrown green vines and foliage envelop an old stone building, blending nature with rustic architecture, symbolizin...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Metal

Butterfly Blossom, Anne Storno, Limited edition print, Contemporary art
Located in Deddington, GB
Butterfly blossom by Anne Storno Limited edition print and hand signed by the artist Screenprint on paper Images Size: H:52 cm x W:40 cm Complete size of unframed work: H:52cm x L:40cm x D:0.1cm Sold unframed Please note that the insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look. I have always believed that butterflies are magical and that if one lands on you, you can make a wish! So delicate and beautiful, I adore them. They effortlessly glide from flower to flower embracing their opportunity for freedom and change. Signifying sunshine and beauty, butterflies are everywhere in our culture. Often people say how butterflies are inspiring and that they can motivate one to change for the better. Maybe it’s their stunning beauty, or the fact that through metamorphosis they inspire change in a short period. Discover new works by Anna Harley available to buy online and in our art gallery. Anna Harley is a professional fine art screen-printer, making prints at Spike Print Studio in Bristol. She has a Masters Degree in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking and lives in South Bristol...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

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

Tight Tuck - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Tight Tuck - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman Limited Edition 01/04 This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Immerse yourself in...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Kaleidoscope VI, Pop Art Screenprint by John Grillo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Over the course of his career, John Grillo showed in 85 one-man and over 100 group exhibitions. One of the most influential of the San Francisco school...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

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

Notes from the Underground, London art, Underground, Trains, Illustration
Located in Deddington, GB
Limited edition screen print of the underground map with unique images representing each stop.  Additional information: Mychael Barratt Notes from the Underground [2023] Screen pri...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Decent - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Decent - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman Limited Edition 01/04 This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Immerse yourself in the...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

In the moment 1, stylised abstract landscape, limited edition print
Located in Deddington, GB
Katie Allen In The Moment 1 Limited edition giclée print, edition of 50, 100 x 98 cm. Signed, editioned and titled by the artist in pencil. If brought online, prints will be rolled and sent in a tube. Katie captures the seasonal changes within each artwork, focussing particularly on the colours and smaller details. when viewed as a whole her paintings are of recognisable landscapes and natural forms – trees and plants, insects and birds – but on closer inspection become detailed abstract patterns composed of intricate designs. “As well as numerous western artists, I am greatly influenced by Indian art and architecture, calligraphy, Arabic art...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Giclée

Landscape - Original Lithograph by Alfonso Avanessian - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original lithograph realized by Alfonso Avanessian in 1970's Hand-signed on the lower right: Avanessian Artist's proof (as reported on the lower left margin) Good ...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

"Coastal Reflection (part 1)" Photography 40"x50"in Edition of 12 by Rob Woodcox
Located in Culver City, CA
"Coastal Reflection (part 1)" Photography 40"x50"in Edition of 12 by Rob Woodcox Hahnemuhle Torchon Matte FineArt Paper (archival) Ships in a tube 2014 ABOUT Rob Woodcox Rob Woo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Paper

Seascape + Sails - Lithograph by Osvaldo Peruzzi - 1988
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape + Sails is an original artwork realized by Osvaldo Peruzzi in 1988 . Mixed colored lithograph. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower righ...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Sunrise on the Lake - Original Lithograph by Mario Sportelli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sunrise on the Lake is an original lithograph realized by Mario Sportelli in the 1970s Hand-signed on the lower right Artist's proof The artwork represents a beautiful landscape w...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Donald Sułtan, Mimosa, September 29, 2021
Located in New York, NY
MIMOSA, SEPT 29, 2021 2021 Silkscreen with enamel inks and flocking on Rising 4-ply museum board 42 x 42 inches (107 x 107 cm) Edition of 40 Signed and numbered DONALD SULTAN (b. 1...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

"Scotland 0111" Landscape Photography 18" x 24" Edition of 20 by Ben Cope
Located in Culver City, CA
"Scotland 0111" Landscape Photography 18" x 24" Edition of 20 by Ben Cope Unframed - ships rolled in a tube Ben Cope is a Los Angeles based portrait artist with a BFA in ceramic ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Turtle Release, Todos Santos
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Screenprint Year: 2021 Image Size: 11 x 18 inches Edition of 25 After over-exploitation led to a collapse in the green turtle population, the area is now used by conservatio...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Sunflowers - Screen print by Renzo Meschis - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized in 1980s. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Edition of 199. Very good condition.
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Screen

Bauhaus by Mychael Barratt, Limited edition print, Bauhaus art, Modernist [2022]
Located in Deddington, GB
Bauhaus by Mychael Barratt [2022] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Silkscreen print on paper Edition number 20 Image size: H:22 cm x W:22 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:38 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Bauhaus is a limited edition hand made print by artist Mychael Barratt. As part of his series of artist's pets this print features a sausage dog running up the stairs inside the Bauhaus with its brutalist architecture. Inspired by a Oskar Schlemmers 1931 stairs painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

"Ravanna's Palace Burning, " Woodcut Landscape signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ravanna's Palace Burning" is a woodcut signed by Carol Summers. The image combines landscape and architecture, which is typical of the works Summers produced during the 1980s and '90s. In the image, a dark building stands burning, bright red flames licking from the windows and rooftop. It stands beside an orange field framed in pink, probably representing a plaza. Beyond the plaza are multicolored trees, their branches reaching upward like the flames on the building. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Art: 24.5 x 37.25 in Frame: 30 x 42.75 in Numbered 53 of the edition of 125 Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MOMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Seasons Quartet III Lithograph AP 6
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Seasons Quartet III Lithograph AP 6 Yellow. The fine French paper BFK Rives is 30 X 22 inches and the image is 17 X 17. The signed Artist Proof 6 lithograph depicts Sebastian Spreng...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Flamenco Flamingo, Jane Peart, Limited edition print, Animals and wildlife art
Located in Deddington, GB
Flamenco Flamingo [2014] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Etching/aquatint Edition number 100 Image size: H:46cm cm x W:31cm cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:56cm c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Etching, Aquatint

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, plus proofs 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

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Lithograph

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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