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Art Subject: Modern Art
Landscape - Screen Print by Renato Guttuso - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a mixed colored screen print realized by the Sicilian artist Renato Guttuso.
Sheet dimension: 50 x 69 cm.
Good conditions.
Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, Palermo 1912 - Ro...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Composition (Michler/Löpsinger 1601), Romeo e Giulietta
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, silkscreen in colors on vélin vergata paper. Paper size: 16.5 x 12.625 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue Raisonne Reference: M...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Chagall, Composition, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches Arjomari paper
Year: 1965
Paper Size: 11.81 x 9.45 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Lettr...
Category
1960s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Hill' — American Modernism, California
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Hill', wood engraving, 1936, edition 60 (only 54 printed); only 2 impressions printed in a second edition of 150. Signed, titled, and numbered '49/60' in pencil. Wien...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Le Purgatoire XXII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Provençal Landscape', Post-Impressionist, Academie Chaumiere, Paris Salon
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Georges Lambert' (French, 1919-1998), titled lower center 'Landscape' and inscribed lower left, number and limitation, 'XV/LX' (15/60).
Georges Lambert first st...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Landscape on Red - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
L'escargot
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Title: L'escargot
Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1958
Edition: 2000
Framed Size: 17" x 17"
Sheet Size: 14" x 10 1/2...
Category
1950s Fauvist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Hiroshima, Jacob Lawrence
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen in eleven colors on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.81 x 9.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Hiroshima, 1983. Published by Th...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
SALVO, March, Color aquatint
Located in Torino, IT
SALVO (SALVATORE MANGIONE), Leonforte 1947 - Turin 2015
March, ca. 1990.
Original aquatint and aquatint hand-signed by the artist. (cm. 53x48). Paper size: cm.80x60
Perfect specimen,...
Category
1990s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 67; Bloch 748), La Guerre et la Paix (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper
Year: 1954
Paper Size: 14.25 x 10.125 inches
Inscription: Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Catalogue Raisonné Reference: Cramer 67; B...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
View of Paris - Lithograph By Orfeo Tamburi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
View of Paris is a Modern artwork realized by Orfeo Tamburi (Jesi, 1910 – Paris,1994) in the 1980s.
Colored Lithograph on paper.
Hand-signed.
Numbered on the lower, Edition, 12...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vision de Paris (Cramer 23; Mourlot 81), Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 20.50 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné ref...
Category
1950s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Romare Bearden, Dreams of Exile (Green Snake), 1971, by African-American, signed
Located in New York, NY
A North Carolina native, the African-American Romare Bearden spent most of his career in New York City. For several decades he was a social worker in Harlem. But of course he traveled widely, read and studied with great care, and created a phenomenal body of work.
This 1971 lithograph is a good example of his oeuvre -- far reaching though it may be. It speaks to his skill and knowledge of contemporary printmaking while featuring a complex subject representative of his interests.
A lush jungles is packed with flora and fauna. 'Green Snake' is part of the title and there is a particularly winsome reptile showing up so well on the sand-colored border between the dense forest and the aquamarine water. There are of course many other land and sea animals showing themselves -- even a curious ginger cat...
Category
1970s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition, Faunes et Flore d'Antibes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin pur chiffon d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Faunes et Flore d'Antibe...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Picasso, Composition, Faunes et Flore d'Antibes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin pur chiffon d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Faunes et Flore d'Antibe...
Category
1960s Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Chagall, Composition (Cramer 33; Mourlot 206), Derrière le Miroir (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 99-100. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Éditi...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Incandescent City
Located in New York, NY
Richard Florsheim created this color lithograph entitled “Incandescent City” in 1960 in an edition of 35 pieces. This impression is signed and inscribed “34/35.” It is in good condit...
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flower Lined Home, Modern Lithograph by Guy Charon
By Guy Charon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Guy Charon, French (1927 - 2021) - Flower Lined Home, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed, and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, EA, Image Size: 22.75 x 18.25 ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition, Faunes et Flore d'Antibes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin pur chiffon d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Faunes et Flore d'Antibe...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Franz Marc, Der Traum, L'édition de tête (after)
By Franz Marc
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, tête edition, Consacré au Blau...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Cramer 36; Bloch 360; Horodisch A6), Non Vouloir, Pablo Picasso
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Zincograph on Vélin Bouffant paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Non Vouloir, 1942. Published by Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris; printed...
Category
1940s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Dufy, Bouquet, Vacances forcées (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper
Year: 1970
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Léger, Composition, L'Art Cubiste, Théories et Réalisations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, L'Art Cubiste, Théories et Réalisations, Etude Critique...
Category
1920s Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Valmier, Composition, L'Art Cubiste, Théories et Réalisations (after)
By Georges Valmier
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, L'Art Cubiste, Théories et Réalisations, Etude Critique...
Category
1920s Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Picasso, Composition (Orozco 238), Picasso, La flûte double (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas paper, spécialement filigrané pour cette édition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From ...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Regards sur Paris-The Place de la Concord (Mourlot 353; Cramer 53), Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches paper. Edition: 180, plus proofs. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Regar...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 84), Picasso en marge du Buffon (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper
Year: 1957
Paper Size: 14.5 x 11 inches
Catalogue raisonné reference: Cramer, illustration 84
Inscription: Inscription: Unsigned and unnum...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Composition, Couleur amour (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du Moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good conditi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Composition, Hiroshima, Jacob Lawrence
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen in eleven colors on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.81 x 9.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Hiroshima, 1983. Published by Th...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Louisiana Serenade (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77), Jazz Series
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: hand signed and numbered, 110/175, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the Jazz Series, 1979. Published by London Arts Group, Detr...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Composition, Derrière le Miroir (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 148, 1964. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Purgatorio, Canto XXXII (Field 189-200; M/L. 1039-1138), La Divina Commedia
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
L'Opera (Cramer 24; Mourlot 102), Derrière le miroir
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc, and Julien Cain. Chagall Lithogr...
Category
1950s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Soutine, Paysage à Cagnes, Soutine, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1966
Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Soutine, I, Collection Pierre ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paradies XX (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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
Buffet, Les deux oiseaux, Lithographs 1952-1966 (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin Acropole Papeteries de Renage paper.
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 12.25 x 9.5 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Paradis XX (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Picasso, Composition (Orozco 207-261), Vingt-Neuf Portraits Imaginaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Picasso, Vingt-Neuf Portraits Imaginaires, 1969. Published by Éditions Cerc...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Beaudin, Composition, André Beaudin, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, André Beaudin, Verve: Revue Artistique et...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Hiroshima, Jacob Lawrence
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen in eleven colors on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.81 x 9.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Hiroshima, 1983. Published by Th...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Volcano
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish
volcano, 2022
22 Colour Screenprint with Lithographic elements on Somerset Velvet warm white 400gsm
Signed and numbered by the artist
76 x 60 cm
Edition of 100
Billy ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Picasso, Composition, Picasso 1930-1935, Cahiers d'Art (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Picasso 1930-1935, 1936. Published and printed by Éditions des Cahiers d'Art, Pa...
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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,...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, La Danse, Derrière le miroir (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, Sur Quatre Murs, N° 36-3...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L’écuyère au cheval rouge (Mourlot 191), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Mourlot, Fernand, and Marc Chagall...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bopping at the Birdland (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77), Jazz Series
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: hand signed and numbered, 110/175, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the Jazz Series, 1979. Published by London Arts Group, Detr...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chagall, Composition, Couleur amour (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du Moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good conditi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Mediterranean Landscape - Original Lithograph - Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Charles CAMOIN
Mediterranean Landscape, 1946
Original lithograph
Signed in pencil bottom right
Numbered / XX
On Lana vellum 26 x 36 cm (c. 10...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Umbrella Man at Sunrise, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Umbrella Man at Sunrise
Year: 2001
Edition: 303/500, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper
Size: 9 x 11 inches
Condition: Excellent
In...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" Woodcut & Monotype signed by Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. In the image, an abstracted volcano erupts in a joyous burst of purples and oranges. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form.
Art: 8 x 11 in
Frame: 17 x 19 in
Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented.
In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother.
From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum.
In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade.
After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957.
Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape.
In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge.
Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal.
By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MoMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia.
Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape.
In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country.
In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and non-western as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image.
The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist.
At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Monotype, Woodcut
Pop Quiz
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Paris, FR
Edition : 29/50
Publisher : Galerie-F Edition
Very good condition
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Category
2010s Landscape Prints
Materials
Silk
Dufy, Composition, Eaux-de-vie, Esprit de la fleur et du fruit (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Bernard Klein, éditeur, Paris, February 26, 1954. Notes: ...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Picasso, Composition (Orozco 207-261), Vingt-Neuf Portraits Imaginaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Picasso, Vingt-Neuf Portraits Imaginaires, 1969. Published by Éditions Cerc...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Katonah Muse
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper size: 26.75 x 19.25 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 46/100, as issued. Notes: Published and printed by Tyler Graphics, Ltd., ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Palazuelo, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 119. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Éditions...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Somewhere Inbetween BY KATIE ALLEN, Abstract Landscape Art for Sale Online
By Katie Allen
Located in Deddington, GB
Katie Allen
Somewhere Inbetween
Limited edition giclee print
Katie’s artwork is based on the natural world, their changing seasons and shades, which she transforms into a rich textile of patterns, forms and colours.
“As well as numerous western artists, I am greatly influenced by Indian art and architecture, calligraphy, Arabic art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Giclée