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Art Subject: Men
Rouault, Composition, Visages (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Chiffon de Mandeure paper. Unsigned, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Visages, 1969. Published by Éditions L'étoile Pilante, Paris, a...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Eve's Figs, by Stan Washburn
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching
Edition of 90
Year: 1975
ImageSize: 1.75 x 1.75 inches
Signed, titled and numbered etching from the edition of 90. From the Expulsion series, Eve is shown naked in t...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Millard Sheets, Family Flats, 1935 (Los Angeles, CA, Depression-era tenements
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and numbered, in pencil. The proposed edition was 100 although it is very unlikely that these were printed.
This large and intensely urban lithograph, Family Flats, by Millard Sheets, portrays the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles. Now drastically changed, it's still home to the Angels Flight funicular railway built in 1901.
Sheets (1907-1989) was a painter, watercolorist, printmaker, mosaic artist, and teacher, who worked in Southern California. He attended the Chouinard Art institute and studied with F. Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
de La Fresnaye, Le Bouvier, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1968
Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Roger de la Fresnay...
Category
1960s Cubist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Passing Gondola
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
The Passing Gondola. c. 1926. Etching. Edition 80, #18. Hardie/Carter 230. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 (sheet 11 1/4 x 13). Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1927. Printed on antique wove pap...
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
de La Fresnaye, La Roumaine, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1968
Paper Size: 26 x 20 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Roger de la Fresnaye, III, Col...
Category
1960s Cubist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Petit Braconnier
Located in Middletown, NY
A boy kneels on a grass slope, trying to tempt an unseen animal.
Paris: Cadart & Luquet, 1865
Etching and engraving on Chine-collé mounted to watermarked Aqua-Fortistes cream laid ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Derain, Deux femmes nues et nature morte, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
By André Derain
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1970
Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, André Derain entre ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Listening
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Listening is a 2000 mezzotint that is signed by the artist.
Art Werger’s lyrical suburban scenes are evocative of boyhood summer evenings while his city images are fraught with tens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Léger, Composition, mes voyages (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger mes voyages avec un poème d'...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Skating on Ladies' Pond Central Park": Winslow Homer 19th C. Woodcut Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This Winslow Homer woodcut engraving entitled "Skating on the Ladies' Skating-Pond in Central Park, New York", was published in Harper's Weekly in the January 28, 1860 edition. It depicts a large number of men, women and children skating on a recently opened pond in Central Park. At the time of publication of this engraving, Central Park was in the early stages of construction. This engraving documents the very early appearance of Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux's masterpiece of landscape design. According to Olmsted, the park was "of great importance as the first real Park made in this century – a democratic development of the highest significance". The people of New York were very proud of the plans for their park. It was stated at the time: "Our Park, which is progressing very satisfactorily under the management of the Commissioners, will undoubtedly be, one of these days, one of the finest place of the kind in the world...Those who saw the Park before the engineers went to work on it are amazed at the beautiful sites which have been contrived with such unpromising materials; all fair persons believe that the enterprise is managed with honesty and good taste."
Skating was rapidly rising in national popularity in part due to the opening of Central Park’s lake to skaters on a Sunday in December 1858 with 300 participants. The following Sunday it attracted ten thousand skaters. By Christmas Day, a reported 50,000 people came to the park, most of them to skate. There were rules governing who could use the skating pond. “The Ladies’ Pond...
Category
1870s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut, Engraving
Landscape with Tree and Houses
Located in London, GB
HUGO SCHEIBER 1873-1950
1873 - Budapest-1950 (Hungarian)
Title: Landscape with Tree and Houses, circa 1930's
Technique: Signed Gouache and Pastel Painting on Paper
Size: 67.5 x 48...
Category
1930s Art Deco Landscape Prints
Materials
Gouache, Pastel
Original 'U. S. Savings Bonds, NOw Back Your Future' vintage poster 1946
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 'U. S. SAVINGS BONDS will help you get there! NOW Back Your future. Linen-backed, excellent condition. Archival linen backed with original government-issued fold ma...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Dufresne, Nature morte fruits et légumes, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1971
Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Dufresne, VI, Colle...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Le Livre Blanc, Jean Cocteau
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil with hand coloring on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Le Livre blanc, précédé d'u...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Folio of 6 signed etchings and engravings by Edgar Holloway
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
’Folio of 6 etchings and engravings'.
A portfolio of six etchings (Originally 7 but etching Number 1, Sef Portrait, is missing from this folio) and engravings produced by Merivale Editions in 1992. This portfolio has been printed from the original copper plates made by Edgar Holloway...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Montmartre : Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur - Original Lithograph Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Urbain HUCHET
Montmartre : Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur, 1960
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil by the artist
Numbered / 295 copies
On vellum paper, size 19 x 28 cm (c. 8 ...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Seuil (The Threshold)
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Le Seuil" (The Threshold) is an image printed in 2006. This impression is Roman numeral X of XX. It is titled, dated, numbered and signed by the artist.
Judith Rothchild, printma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Degas, Deux hommes en pied, Les Réalistes Lyriques (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1973
Paper Size: 26 x 20 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Les Réalistes Lyriques, VIII, ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Les Tuileries, Regards sur Paris, Maurice Brianchon
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Regards sur Paris, 1962. Published by André Sauret, Paris;...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Portrait of a Lady (Orozco 95), Picasso (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1946
Paper Size: 18.75 x 12.625 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Catalogue raisonné reference: Or...
Category
1940s Cubist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Immagine Feroce by Enzo Cucchi, portfolio of mythological ocean scene drawings
By Enzo Cucchi
Located in New York, NY
Whimsical, mysterious seascapes, animals, and mythological figures weave throughout this expressive set of black and white Enzo Cucchi lithographs. The complete set of five lithograp...
Category
1980s Symbolist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Family at Supper (Orozco 95), Picasso (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1946
Paper Size: 12.625 x 18.75 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Catalogue raisonné reference: Or...
Category
1940s Cubist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Saltimbanque (Orozco 95), Picasso (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1946
Paper Size: 18.75 x 12.625 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Catalogue raisonné reference: Or...
Category
1940s Cubist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Man with Pipe (Orozco 95), Picasso (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1946
Paper Size: 18.75 x 12.625 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Catalogue raisonné reference: Orozco, Migue...
Category
1940s Cubist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mani Sunset -- Reduction Woodcut, Print, Human Figure, Art by Tom Hammick
By Tom Hammick
Located in London, GB
Mani Sunset, 2025
Tom Hammick
Reduction woodcut in colours
On Saunders Waterford wove
Signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'E.V.' (edition variable)
From the edition of 25
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 158-159, 1966. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eternity
By Julian Jordanov
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A Greek warrior stands beside thee Trojan Horse, with beuatifully rendered landscape in this miniature print by Bulgarian artist Julian Jordanov.
Medium: Etching
Year: 2006
Artist P...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Seurat, Portrait de Paul Signac, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Seurat, La poseuse debout, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Seurat, L'échafaudage, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Seurat, Torse d'homme nu, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Seurat, L'homme au plaid, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper
Year: 1948
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From th...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Learn to Make and Test Big Guns vintage World War 1 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
"Learn to Make and Test the Big Guns" original vintage poster: linen backed. Grade A condition. Ordnance recruiting poster No. 2.
Better yourself – Enlist and learn a Trade in the Ordnance Department U.S.A. Linen-backed, horizontal, fine condition. A rare original poster.
Aberdeen Proving Ground …. Daily peacetime firing. Publisher: Washington, D.C.: Engineer Reproduction Plant, U.S. Army, 1919. OCLC: 51040606
The recruiting and training of artillery units were crucial to American victory in World War I. For the Saint-Mihiel offensive, General Pershing...
Category
1910s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Vers un monde volage, Marcel Gromaire
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by Éditions Marcel Seheur, Paris; printed by Atelier d'art Paul Haasen, Paris, Septembe...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Picasso, Composition (Hodorisch B2), Le manuscrit trouvé dans un chapeau (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des papeteries Lafúma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Le manuscrit trouvé dans un chapeau, orné de dessins a la ...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition, Les Bleus de Barcelone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil with gouache and pastel inks on vélin de Rives paper, archivally hinged on vélin de Rives backing sheet, as issued. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumb...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Matisse, Crayon, Dessins de Henri-Matisse (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Lafuma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Dessins de Henri-Matisse, 1925. Published by Édi...
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Scène XII, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on Vélin de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire, 1958. Published by Tériade,...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jacques and the Wounded Stag. Mezzotint by Lucas after John Constable, 1855
By David Lucas
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Jacques and the Wounded Stag, Scene from 'As you like it''
Mezzotint on steel by David Lucas (1802-1881) after John Constable (1776–1836).
From 'English Landscape Scenery', 1855. ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Sid Gotcliffe, Tompkins Square Park, about 1940
By Sid Gotcliffe
Located in New York, NY
British-born Sid Gotcliffe has made a powerfully poignant image in the lithograph Tompkins Square Park.
At the center sit three men dressed in black. Their clothes suggest they bel...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Original...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adrian Collaert Martin de Vos 17th Century Engraving Mary Washes Jesus' Feet
Located in London, GB
We have the full series of 52 prints (including title page) from Vita Passio et Resurrectio Iesu Christi listed. To find the others scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below i...
Category
17th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
When Predators Meet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "When Predators Meet" 1988 is an offset lithograph by renown Western artist Gary Carter, born 1938. It is hand signed and numbered 817/...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original New York Fly TWA - Trans World Airlines vintage travel poster
By David Klein
Located in Spokane, WA
NEW YORK FLY TWA is an original vintage travel poster created by David Klein. Size 25.25" x 40". Archival linen is backed in very good condition, Grade A, and is ready to frame. No damage, no restoration, no stains, no tape, just an excellent condition original.
Klein is best remembered for the dozens of destination advertisements he created for TWA during the 1950s and ‘60s. For Destination New York, Klein creates a stacked perspective of some of the city’s best-known sights, piling landmark upon a landmark – St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Rockefeller Plaza’s Prometheus et al. – then crowning them with a bust of the Statue of Liberty, and the typeface of the New York Times.
TWA (Trans World Airlines) was formed in 1924 as Transcontinental & Western Air. The airline's first route was from New York to Los Angeles, followed by multiple National routes. The airline expanded to serve Europe, the Middle East, and Asia after WWII when the company was under Howard Hughes's owner's control from 1939 until 1961. Hughes was a dominant force in expanding and promoting his company's routes. The economy was vastly improving, and travel by air for business and pleasure...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Rembrandt, Composition, Rembrandt, Drawings from the Bible (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin Hamilton Kilmory paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Rembrandt, Drawings...
Category
1940s Baroque Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rembrandt, Composition, Rembrandt, Drawings from the Bible (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin Hamilton Kilmory paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Rembrandt, Drawings...
Category
1940s Baroque Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rembrandt, Composition, Rembrandt, Drawings from the Bible (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin Hamilton Kilmory paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Rembrandt, Drawings...
Category
1940s Baroque Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvator Rosa et les Brigands; ..L'Art adoucit même les plus féroces
Located in Middletown, NY
"Art softens even the most ferocious."
Paris: Cadart & Luquet, 1865.
Etching and engraving on Chine-collé mounted to watermarked Aqua-Fortistes cream laid paper, 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inc...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
New Map of the Terraqueous Globe - WORLD MAP - CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND
By Edward Wells
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EDWARD WELLS (British 1667- 1727)
A NEW MAP of the TERRAQUEOUS GLOBE - according to the latest Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into CONTINENTS and OCEANS, 1700-01 (Shirley 609)
Engraved by Michael Burghers, Oxford. Hand-colored, Platemark 14 1/4 x 20 1/8 inches. Central cartouche flanked by figures representing the continents with dedication to William, Duke of Gloucester...
Category
Early 1700s Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Rembrandt, Composition, Rembrandt, Drawings from the Bible (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin Hamilton Kilmory paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Rembrandt, Drawings...
Category
1940s Baroque Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rembrandt, Composition, Rembrandt, Drawings from the Bible (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin Hamilton Kilmory paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Rembrandt, Drawings...
Category
1940s Baroque Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Farmers in boat with vegetables - Etching - 1860
Located in Roma, IT
"The Farmers in boat with vegetables" is an Artwork realized in 1860.
Etching on ivory old paper.
The state of preservation of the artwork is good except some stains and imperfect...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Paris : Square near Saint Germain - Original Lithograph Handsigned and Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Urbain HUCHET
Paris : Square near Saint Germain, c. 1980
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil by the artist
Numbered / 350 copies
On Arches velllum 19 x 14 cm (c. 7 x 6 in)
Exc...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Blanche Grambs, Unemployed
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, known to friends as 'Grambs' (1916-2010) was born in China. She came to New York as a very young woman to study at the Art Students Leag...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Navajo Medicine Ceremony of the Night Chant' — Southwest Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ira Moskowitz, 'The Three Gods of Healing (Navajo Medicine Ceremony of the Night Chant)', lithograph, 1945, edition 30, Czestochowski 148. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/4 to 2 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 12 1/4 x 15 13/16 inches (311 x 402 mm); sheet size 17 1/8 x 20 7/8 inches (435 x 530 mm).
ABOUT THIS WORK
The nine-night ceremony known as the Night Chant or Nightway is believed to date from around 1000 B.C.E. when it was first performed by the Indians who lived in Canyon de Chelly (now eastern Arizona). It is considered the most sacred of all Navajo ceremonies and one of the most difficult and demanding to learn, as it encompasses hundreds of songs, dozens of prayers, and several highly complex sand paintings. And yet the demand for Night Chants is so great that as many as fifty such ceremonies might be held during a single winter season, which lasts eighteen to twenty weeks.
The Night Chant is designed both to cure people who are ill and to restore the order and balance of human and non-human relationships within the Navajo universe. Led by a trained medicine man who has served a long apprenticeship and learned the intricate and detailed practices that are essential to the chant, the ceremony itself is capable of scaring off sickness and ugliness through techniques that shock or arouse. Once the disorder has been removed, order and balance are restored through song, prayer, sand painting, and other aspects of the ceremony.
The medicine men who supervise the Night Chant ensure that everything—each dot and line in every sand painting, each verse in every song, each feather on each mask is arranged precisely, or it will not bring about the desired result. There are probably as many active Night Chant medicine men today as at any time in Navajo history due to the general increase in the Navajo population, the popularity of the ceremony, and the central role it plays in Navajo life and health.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ira Moskowitz was born in Galicia, Poland, in 1912, emigrating with his family to New York in 1927. He enrolled at the Art Student's League and studied there from 1928-31. In 1935, Moskowitz traveled to Paris and then lived until 1937 in what is now Israel. He returned to the United States in 1938 to marry artist Anna Barry in New York. The couple soon visited Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico, returning for extended periods until 1944, when they moved there permanently, staying until 1949. During this especially productive New Mexico period, Moskowitz received a Guggenheim fellowship. His work was inspired by the New Mexico landscape and the state’s three cultures (American Southwest, Native American, and Mexican). He focused on Pueblo and Navajo life, producing an extensive oeuvre of authentic American Indian imagery. He and Anna also visited and sketched across the border in Old Mexico. While in the Southwest, Moskowitz flourished as a printmaker while continuing to produce oils and watercolors. Over 100 of Moskowitz’s works depicting Native American ceremonies were used to illustrate the book American Indian Ceremonial Dances by John Collier, Crown Publishers, New York, 1972.
After leaving the Southwest, printmaking remained an essential medium for the artist while his focus changed to subject matter celebrating Judaic religious life and customs. These works were well received early on, and Moskowitz was content to stay with them the rest of his life. From 1963 until 1966, Moskowitz lived in Paris, returning to New York City in 1967, where he made his permanent home until he died in 2001.
Shortly before his death, Zaplin-Lampert Gallery of Santa Fe staged an exhibition of the artist's works, December 2000 - January 2001. Other one-person shows included the 8th Street Playhouse, New York, 1934; Houston Museum, 1941; and the San Antonio Museum, 1941. The artist’s work was included in exhibitions at the Art Students League, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Print Club, College Art Association (promotes excellence in scholarship and teaching), and the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts (shown at MOMA, 1955).
Moskowitz’s lithographs of...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph