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Art Subject: Decor
Birds and Fishes - Facsimile, Ltd /450
By M.C. Escher
Located in Paris, IDF
M.C. ESCHER (1898-1972)
Birds and Fishes, 2008
Facsimile after the original woodcut from 1943
Unsigned
Numbered / 450 copies (the number you can see can be different)
On vellum 45 x...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Color
Cloudy Night, Blue & White, Desert Modernism Home, Modern Shapes Cyanotype Paper
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes and the desert modernism movement.
It's made by layering paper cutouts...
Category
2010s Dada Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Monotype
'The French Farm' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'The French Farm', color serigraph, 1942, Ryan 86. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 50' in pencil. A superb impression, with fresh colors, on cream, wove paper; ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$2,240 Sale Price
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Lines in Four Directions, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, Sol LeWitt
By Sol LeWitt
Located in Southampton, NY
Printer’s ink from rubber stamp on vélin d’Arches Satine paper. Paper Size: 8 x 8 inches. Inscription: Unsigned, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, 1977. Publi...
Category
1970s Minimalist Animal Prints
Materials
Printer's Ink
$5,996 Sale Price
20% Off
NATURE - Flight of birds - Facsimile, Ltd /450
By M.C. Escher
Located in Paris, IDF
M.C. ESCHER (1898-1972)
Flight of birds, 2008
Facsimile after the original woodcut from 1938
Unsigned
Numbered / 450 copies (the number you can see can be different)
On vellum 45 x ...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Color
Jonah
Located in Santa Monica, CA
SADAO WATANABE (Japanese 1913-1996)
JONAH, 1959
Color stencil, signed, numbered and dated in white ink. Sheet, 25 5/8 x 22 5/8 inches. Edition: 44/50. Good color and generally good ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut, Stencil
$1,200 Sale Price
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Indian Summer, Signed Abstract Screenprint by Gloria Vanderbilt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gloria Vanderbilt, American (1924 - )
Title: Indian Summer
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Screenprint on Arches Paper, Signed and numbered in Pencil
Edition: 250
Size: 31 in. x 24 ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall, Tribe of Judah, from The Jerusalem Windows, 1962 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Tribe of Judah, from the album Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows, originates from the 1962 edition published by And...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall, The Ceiling of the Paris Opera, 1965 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Le Plafond de l’Opera de Paris (The Ceiling of the Paris Opera), from the album Le plafond de l’Opera de Paris par Ma...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
David Hockney, Letter E, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by David Hockney (born 1937), titled Letter E, from the folio Hockney's Alphabet, Drawings by David Hockney, originates from the 1991 edition published by A...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Andre Derain, The Bathers, from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, 1940
By André Derain
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Derain (1880–1954), titled Les Baigneuses (The Bathers), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. II, No. 8, originates from the 1940 issue...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Star Catcher, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Star Catcher
Year: 2003
Edition: 453/500, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper
Size: 3.5 x 3 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription:...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$571 Sale Price
20% Off
Wind Blown Poplars
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM SELTZER RICE (1873 – 1963)
WIND BLOWN POPLARS c. 1915-20
Color woodcut, Signed and titled in pencil. 9 x 12”. On thin paper....
Category
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$3,600 Sale Price
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Vuillard, Intérieur aux tentures roses, L'œuvre gravé de Vuillard (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.375 x 9.5 inches; image size: 11.81 x 9.05 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Warhol, Chanel suite (four artworks), Chanel Ad Campaign (after)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Chanel suite (four artworks)
Year: 1997
Medium: Offset lithograph on archival paper mounted on canvas
Size: 29 x 22 inches, each
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed in th...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Canvas, Offset
$2,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Mediterranean Blue Sea Waves, Handmade Cyanotype Print, Calming Ripples, Limited
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Mediterranean Blue Sea Waves" is a handmade cyanotype print of the subtle tidal flow moving in on the Mediterranean Sea.
...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Emulsion
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “House in a Garden” collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #9, Haus Im Garten; aka Forester’s House in Weissenbach II; multi-color collotype after 1914 painting in oil on canvas.
GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GU...
Category
1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper
La Curva Luna - Lithograph by Cynthia Segato - 2000s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph made on zinc plate on Sicar paper 310 gr/m2, paper size 50cm x 55cm, work size 38cm x 38cm. Ellent condition, slight signs of use, no defects.
Cynthia Segato was born in ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Original Grece (Greece) vintage Greek Tourist Board vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1963 Greece Vintage Travel Poster – Greek National Tourist Board – Linen Backed, Grade A-
Bring home a piece of mid-century Mediterranean charm with this striking original 1963 Greece vintage travel poster, commissioned by the Greek National Tourist Board. This authentic The artifact captures the sun-drenched beauty of the Greek isles and the enduring charm of traditional Greek seafaring life.
This rare poster showcases a beautifully detailed illustration of a classic Greek boat, known as a kaiki (or caique)—a traditional wooden vessel that has sailed the Aegean and Ionian Seas for generations. Featuring its rounded hull, vibrant colors, and billowing sail, the kaiki was a staple of Greek fishing and local trade, embodying the spirit of the archipelago’s maritime culture.
Collector Features:
• Genuine vintage, not a reproduction
• Superb display condition; colors remain vivid and fresh
• Linen backing ensures durability and preserves value
• A rare example of Greek mid...
Category
1960s Abstract Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
NATURE - Flock of Birds - Facsimile, Ltd /450
By M.C. Escher
Located in Paris, IDF
M.C. ESCHER (1898-1972)
Flock of Birds, 2008
Facsimile after the original woodcut from 1938
Unsigned
Numbered / 450 copies (the number you can see can be different)
On vellum 45 x 3...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Color
STILL LIFE - Reptiles - Signed Facsimile, Ltd /450
By M.C. Escher
Located in Paris, IDF
M.C. ESCHER (1898-1972)
Still life with reptiles, 2008
Facsimile after the original woodcut from 1943
Signed in the plate
Numbered / 450 copies (the number you can see can be differ...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Color
Marine Fauna, Blue and White, Bold Shapes, Figurative Seascape Element, Paper
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes and the desert modernism movement.
It's made by layering paper cutouts...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Landscape Prints
Materials
Monotype, Paper
Georges Braque, The Black Bird on Brown Background, 1965 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Georges Braque (1882–1963), titled L’Oiseau Noir sur Fond Brun (The Black Bird on Brown Background), from the folio Les Peintres mes amis (The Painter...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Harold E. Keeler, Water Fall
Located in New York, NY
Harold E. Keeler worked in Hollywood as a set designer. That seems especially important here because the Water Fall looks a little as though it could be a w...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Linocut
SAN JACINTO
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869-1958)
(Mt.) SAN JACINTO c. 1926
Color block print. Signed in pencil. Unknown edition but uncommon. Image 6 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches. On Gearhart's typical fibrous japan paper. Sheet 10 ½ x 5 7/8 inches. Generally fresh with her usual pinholes along right margin for printing, slight bit of discoloration in the margins
Provenance: Whitmore - Print Corner, Hingham MA. Their Gearhart inventory no. They were Gearhart's principal East coast dealer in the 30's. Obtained from the Whitmore Collection’s grandson in 1995. Old Print Shop...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$3,700 Sale Price
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Victor Brauner, The Bird with the Fish, from XXe Siecle, 1963
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Victor Brauner (1903–1966), titled L'oiseau au poisson (The Bird with the Fish), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXVe Annee N°22, Noel 1963, o...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Extra Large Cyanotype Seascape of Pacific Ocean Currents, Nautical Blue & White
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Pacific Ocean Currents (Blue Border)" is a handmade cyanotype print of rough water texture resembling Pacific Ocean swell...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Other Medium, Rag Paper, Lithograph
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...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Endless Sleep (Black Variant) by Cleon Peterson Hand Pulled Limited Screen Print
Located in Draper, UT
Experience the intense and striking art of Cleon Peterson with his "Black Endless Sleep" print. This hand-pulled screen print, created in 2016, features Peterson's signature black an...
Category
2010s Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Georges Braque, The Horse and the Rider, from Carnets intimes, 1955 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Georges Braque (1882–1963), titled Le Cheval et le Cavalier (The Horse and the Rider), from Carnets intimes (Private Sketchbooks), Verve, Vol. VIII, N...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Jules Pascin, Little Red Riding Hood, from XXe siecle, 1938 (after)
By Jules Pascin
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Jules Pascin (1885–1930), titled Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), from the album XXe siecle, Sommaire du No. 1, 1er Mars 1938, Chroni...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
DAITOKUJI KYOTO
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KIYOSHI SAITO (Japanese 1907 - 1997)
DAITIKUJI KYOTO, 1957
Color woodcut, signed, titled, dated and no. 42/100 in pencil. Edition 100. Image 15 x 20 5/8 inches. Full margins with de...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Castle, Folk Art Aquatint Etching by Keiko Minami
By Keiko Minami
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Keiko Minami, Japanese (1911 - 2004)
Title: Castle
Year: circa 1985
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120
Image Size: 12 x 11 inches
Size: 22 ...
Category
1980s Folk Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Between Sky and Water - Signed Facsimile, Ltd /450
By M.C. Escher
Located in Paris, IDF
M.C. ESCHER (1898-1972)
Between Sky and Water, 2008
Facsimile after the original woodcut from 1938
Signed in the plate
Numbered / 450 copies (the number you can see can be different...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Color
Authentic Japanese Woodblock Print-Birds and Flowers-Edo-Fan Re-carved 1920s
By Utagawa Sadahide
Located in London, GB
This rare Original 1920s authentic print is a Taisho Period Woodblock print published from the Japan 1920's The Nippon Mokuhan Gasui, Masterpieces Series.;
it is authentically hand ...
Category
1920s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Louis Marcoussis, Still Life with Guitar, 1929 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Louis Marcoussis (1878–1941), titled Nature morte avec guitare (Still Life with Guitar), from the album L'Art Cubiste, Theories et Realisa...
Category
1920s Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,916 Sale Price
20% Off
Nocturnal Seascape, Black Sea, Nautical Cyanotype Print on Paper, Deep Navy Blue
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Black Sea Rhythms" shows the peaceful, abstract, subtle ripples of ocean waters in movement.
Details:
+ Title: Black Se...
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
Clouds Behind Clouds II with Screenprint on Paper by Simon Tozer
By Simon Tozer
Located in Deddington, GB
Clouds Behind Clouds II by Simon Tozer [2021]
This is one of an ongoing series of seascapes and sky images that have clouds as their main focus. Clouds are ethereal forms, and along...
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen, Paper
Composition (Vallier 153), Le Tir à l'arc mis en lumière par Georges Braque
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur Chiffon Moulin à papier Richard de Bas paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Le Tir à l'arc mis en lu...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$5,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Albert Gleizes, The Bathers, 1929 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Albert Gleizes (1881–1953), titled Les Baigneuses (The Bathers), from the album L'Art Cubiste, Theories et Realisations, Etude Critique (C...
Category
1920s Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Stencil, Lithograph
$1,916 Sale Price
20% Off
VILLAGE SCENE / TOWN FESTIVAL
By Herbert Gurschner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HERBERT GURSCHNER (Austrian / English (1901-1975)
VILLAGE SCENE / TOWN FESTIVAL ca.1924
Color woodcut 4 ¾ x 5 3/8” Signed in pencil. Good strong colors. On thin paper. Faint darkeni...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut, Linocut
David Hockney, Letter O, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by David Hockney (born 1937), titled Letter O, from the folio Hockney's Alphabet, Drawings by David Hockney, originates from the 1991 edition published by A...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Zurich, Switzerland vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Zurich, Switzerland vintage travel poster. Conservation linen backed and ready to frame. Excellent condition.
Created by the esteemed...
Category
1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
Joan Miro, Figures on a Black Background, from Cahiers d'Art, 1949 (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Personnages sur un fond noir (Figures on a Black Background), from the album Cahiers dArt No. 24, 1949, orig...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,396 Sale Price
20% Off
Lost In Venice
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The architecture of Venice reflected in the water of the canals. This is one of a series the artist completed during a residency in Venice. Signed, titled and numbered from the editi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Katsura Kyoto (L)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Kiyoshi Saito – Japanese – (1907-1997)
Title: Katsura, Kyoto (L)
Year: 1964
Medium: Woodblock
Image size: 18 x 24 inches.
Sheet size: 21.5x 28.5 inches.
Signature: Signed, ...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Home 1
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Ana Popescu is a French visual artist born in Romania. Her work has a modern charm, celebrating interior and exterior spaces with color ...
Category
2010s Interior Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead (Manaò tupapaú), Gauguin (after)
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin Utopian paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Gauguin, A portfolio of 12 color woodblocks, Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903 from the collection of the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946. Rendered by Albert Carman (1899-1949); published the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston and The Studio Publications, Inc., New York and London; printed by Holme Press Inc., New York, in an edition of MMMD. Excerpted from the folio, Paul Gauguin and Emil Bernard at Pont-Aven, Brittany, in 1888, each made a bas-relief, wooden panel to decorate a piece of furniture for a friend. In order to keep a record of their designs, a few inked impressions were made on paper. The illustration at left is a reproduction of a print which is possibly one of the above mentioned. It is further possible that this experiment later gave Gauguin the idea of making woodcuts. Just as his work in painting expressed a revolt against the overemphasis on factual representation of the nineteenth century in favor of decorative pattern and color, so also his woodcuts leaned strongly to the same side of the balance. Ten of the cuts reproduced (all excepting Soyez Amoureuses and Changement de Residence), which constitute the whole of his best known series, were made at Pont-Aven beginning in the fall of 1894, after Gauguin's return from his first trip to Tahiti and after he broke his ankle. They were at first roughly cut with a common carpenter's gouge, and the flat surfaces sandpapered and engraved with a sharp in-strument, perhaps an engraver's burin. A few trial proofs were printed in black ink only. Then the hollows were deepened with a woodcutter's gouge and highlights were added. An edition of thirty to fifty impressions of each subject, with the addition of color blocks (one, two or three), was made by Louis Roy...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$716 Sale Price
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Missing Peace (Homage to 911)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Artist's Christmas homage to the attack on the twin towers with reindeer atop the buildings.
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting.
In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Intaglio
"Little Wolf's Last Camp, " Colored Woodblock A/P signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Little Wolf's Last Camp" is a colored woodblock A/P signed by Carol Summers. In the image, a mountain looms over a circle of teat the edge of a lake, a scene likely inspired by the life events of the Northern Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf (c. 1820-1904) and his leadership during the Northern Cheyenne Exodus. The drama 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.
Frame: 37 x 37 in
This is an artist's proof from the edition of 100
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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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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Braque, Pélias et Nélée, Œdipe roi de Sophocle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on grand vélin d'Arches pur chiffon spécialement fabriqués paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Œdipe ...
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1980s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Sans titre, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 5 (double) Juin 1955,...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Red Poppies, Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Donald Sultan (1951)
Title: Red Poppies
Year: 2012
Medium: Silkscreen with Tar & Flocking on Museum Board
Edition: 10/75, plus proofs
Size: 23 x 39 inches
Condition: Excellen...
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Tar, Screen
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Vaso Anzio di Marmo press S.E. il Sig. Schowvaloff-Etching by G.B. Piranesi-1778
Located in Roma, IT
Artist proof, printed on contemporary filigree paper, large margins, representing an antique marble vase , whose details are described in the ending note . The piece is dedicated to ...
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1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Stewart Wheeler, Atlantic City (New Jersey)
Located in New York, NY
The little that is know about the painter and printmaker Stewart Wheeler indicates that most of his career was spent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Original Holy Land Fly TWA Jets vintage travel poster 1960s Noah' Ark
By David Klein
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Holy Land TWA vintage travel poster. Artist David Klein. Size 25" x 40.5". Archival linen-backed authentic vintage TWA travel poster...
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1960s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Offset
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Hiroshige (1797-1858) - View of Kasumigaseki (Kasumigaseki no zu) 東都名所
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Artist: 広重 Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Series: Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho) (東都名所)
Title: View of Kasumigaseki (Kasumigaseki no zu) 霞がせきの図
Size: O-ban 大判 24.2 x 36...
Category
1840s Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Rainbow: colorful Rosenquist pop art with gold, turquoise, purple, pink, blue
Located in New York, NY
A classic Rosenquist pop art composition with gold, turquoise, purple, pink, blue, green and yellow. Characteristically surreal and graphic, Rainbow incorporates bold geometric forms with painterly washes of color and airbrush texture. Rosenquist's signature gleaming metallic chrome texture can be seen on an inverted fork behind the glass of a golden window.
Paper 25.25 x 30.25 in. / 64 x 77 cm
Image 17 x 21.5 in. / 43 x 54.5 cm
Lithograph with screenprint on cream-coloured Hodgkinson handmade Wookey Hole paper. Edition of 75 with 8 color trial proofs: this impression 8/8. Signed and dated 1972 lower right in pencil; titled, numbered 8/8 and labeled Color Trial Proof lower left in pencil.
This graphic, colorful scene is based on Rosenquist’s 1962 oil painting of the same name, collected in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The artist used real glass and wood to construct windows for the original painting – here, house siding is abstracted to bold, black horizontal lines, and the window glass is printed in dark gold ink. At the top of the composition, a window with shutters pushed open is colored in turquoise, with sharp black shadows. The left-hand window pane is shattered, and to the right, the outline of an oversized...
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1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
"Spring" by Shunso Hishida. New York Society Litho. Printed in Japan, 1978.
Located in Chesterfield, MI
"Spring" by Shunso Hishida.
Published by New York Graphic Society, 1978.
Lithograph Printed in Japan
Measures 28 in x 16.5 in
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20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph



