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Art Subject: Modern Art
London, Psychedelic Screenprint by Risaburo Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - )
Title: London
Year: 1973
Medium: Silkscreen on BFK Rives, Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP 20
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. ...
Category
1970s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
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
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
Field, Abstract Landscape Lithograph by Millard Sheets
Located in Long Island City, NY
Field by Millard Owen Sheets, American (1907–1989)
Date: circa 1977
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 250
Size: 24 in. x 35 in. ...
Category
1970s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
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
Canal St. Martin, Lithograph by Bernard Buffet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bernard Buffet, French (1928 - 1999)
Title: Canal St. Martin
Year: 1968
Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate
Size: 19 x 23 in. (48.26 x 58.42 cm)
Frame Size: 25 x 28.5 inc...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
Sutherland, Hybrid, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes, 1972. Published by Fernand Mourlot, ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 88), Dans l'Atelier de Picasso (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches à la forme savoir paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Dans l'Atelier de Picasso, 1957. Published by Fernan...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Place de la Concorde, Surrealist Etching by Salvador Dali 1963
Located in Long Island City, NY
Spanish artist Salvador Dali is considered to be the father of Surrealism, renowned for his technical skill and unique style. This etching features a city landscape with fountains, c...
Category
1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Ranchos Winter Robert Daughters serigraph
Located in Paonia, CO
Ranchos Winter by American impressionist Robert Daughter shows two women approaching the pueblo with the sun reflecting off the sides of the buildin...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Chagall, Banished from Paradise (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25) (after)
By Marc Chagall
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, Marc Chagall, Dessins Pour La Bible, Verv...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Daybreak in Alabama, Sunrise Is Coming After While
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 14 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Bookmarks in the Pages of Life, 1998. Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York; printed by Drexel Press, Inc. Long Island City, 1998. Excerpted from the folio, CCC examples, designed, hand-set in Monotype Perpetua, printed, and hand-bound by Michael and Winifred Bixler, Skaneateles, New York. Paper made in France at Arches. Silkscreens printed by the Drexel Press, Inc. Long Island City, New York.
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Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
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
Le berger et le roi, Vingt fables de La fontaine, Jean Carzou
By Jean Carzou
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Vingt fables de La fontaine, 1961. Published by Éd...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Braque, Composition, Braque Espaces, 13 Dessins, Lavis, Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du moulin richard de bas specialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued....
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
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
Chagall, Rahab and the spices of Jericho (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25) (after)
By Marc Chagall
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, Marc Chagall, Dessins Pour La Bible, Verv...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Braque, Composition, Les Peintres mes amis (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Peintres mes amis, 1965. Published by Éditions d'art Les Heures Cla...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lhote, Composition, L'Art Cubiste, Théories et Réalisations (after)
By André Lhote
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
Braque, Composition, Braque Espaces, 13 Dessins, Lavis, Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du moulin richard de bas specialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued....
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
de La Fresnaye, Scène militaire, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper
Year: 1968
Paper Size: 26 x 20 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
Figura Hieratica, Surrealist Etching by Rufino Tamayo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portfolio: Rufino Tamayo 15 aguafuertes 1979
Date: 1979
Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 61/99
Image Size: 20 x 28 inches
Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
Printer...
Category
1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Flowers In Blue Vase III, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Flowers In Blue Vase III
Year: 2000
Edition: 419/500, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on archival paper
Size: 12 x ...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Le Goût du Bonheur 16 (Cramer 148; Bloch 2013) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, and charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition;...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Yellow Field, Modern Lithograph by Linda Plotkin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Linda Plotkin, American (1938 - ) - Yellow Field, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Lithograph, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 6/125, Image Size: 9 x 20 inches, Size: 1...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape 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
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
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
Metamorphic Cityscape 1998 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph Mourlot Paris
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Name: Jean-François Larrieu
Title: Metamorphic Cityscape
Year: 1998
Medium Type: Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper
Size-Width Size-Height: 28.75'' x 29.5''
Signed Edition ...
Category
1990s Abstract 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
Autumn, Signed Silkscreen by Gloria Vanderbilt
By Gloria Vanderbilt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gloria Vanderbilt, American (1924 - )
Title: Autumn
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches Paper, Signed and numbered in Pencil
Edition: 250
Size: 31 in. x 24 in. (78....
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Modern Painting of Sun Rays
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original mechanical screen print of Lichtenstein's Modern Painting of Sun Rays was published by the New York Graphic Society in 1972. Capturing the vibrant and iconic style of L...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Picasso, Le Goût du Bonheur 14 (Cramer 148; Bloch 2013) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, and charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition;...
Category
1970s Cubist 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, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 155, 1965. Publ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
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
Miró, Composition, Cahiers d'Art (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Cahiers d'Art N°24, 1949. Published and printed by Éditions des Cahi...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
Out my garden window, 1969 Signed Limited edition etching
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Warrington Colescott
Title Out My Garden Window
Year: 1969
Medium: Color drypoint, soft-ground etching, and aquatint, with roulette, vibrograver, à la poupée inking, found l...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Picasso, Le Goût du Bonheur 15 (Cramer 148; Bloch 2013) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, and charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition;...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Le Goût du Bonheur 10 (Cramer 148; Bloch 2013) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, and charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition;...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
Rosarian series-Aluminium Limited Edition of 20-British Award Artist-Signed
Located in London, GB
Summer Bloom series began in 2022, where Shizico Yi celebrating the season by painting en plein air in her garden. In 2024, she embarks on a fresh chapter with her new rose garden. T...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Metal
'Village du Var, Côte d'Azur', Academie Chaumiere, France, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Georges Lambert' (French, 1919-1998), inscribed, lower center, 'Village du Var' and, lower left, with number and limitation, '52/120'.
Georges Lambert first stu...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 557; Cramer 77) Chagall Lithographe (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, The Lithographs of Chagall 1963-1968, 1969; published by Boston Bo...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative 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
"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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Monotype, Woodcut
"Grave of Santa Anna's Leg" Original Woodblock Print, Signed Artist's Proof
Located in Soquel, CA
"Grave of Santa Anna's Leg" Original Woodblock Print, Signed Artist's Proof
Boldly colored woodblock print by Carol Summers (American, 1925-2016). This piece is a segment of a grave, with a headstone that has a skull and cross. There are two bright green plants flanking the headstone. Below the headstone and plants, there is a large arched blue shape, with a crescent moon and stars. A red leg, bent at the knee, cuts across the blue arch.
Signed "Carol Summers" along the right edge of the blue shape.
Numbered and titled "A/P Grave of Sant Anna's Leg" along the left edge of the blue shape.
Presented in a silver colored aluminum frame.
Frame size: 32.245"H x 27.25"W
Paper size: 29.75"H x 24.5"W
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...
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Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
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Materials
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Materials
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Materials
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
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Materials
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