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Medium: Woodcut
Toadstool - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....
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1930s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Kabuki Actor with Pine-Patterned Robe - Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Kabuki Actor with Pine-Patterned Robe - Japanese Woodblock Print Finely detailed woodblock by Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769-1825). A kabuki actor is standing on a wooden deck, wearing a robe with a pine-needle pattern. He is holding a sword and a staff. In the background, tree branches hang down from out of frame. Presented in a gold colored frame with a silk mat. Frame size: 20"H x 14.25"W Image size: 14"H x 8.5"W Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769-1825) was born in Edo, the son of Kurahashi Gorobei, a carver of dolls and puppets...
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Early 19th Century Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut

Libro de Miguel Angel Dieguez - Woodcut by Joaquín Diéguez y Díaz - 1903
Located in Roma, IT
Libro de Miguel Angel Dieguez is a Modern Artwork realized in 1903, by the Spanish Artist Joaquín Diéguez y Díaz. Coloured woodcut on paper. Hand signed on the back The work is g...
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Early 1900s Symbolist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Heretics - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Heretics - Hell  plate 10 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Good conditions. Limited e...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

wood engraving for Mille Nuits
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: wood engraving (after the watercolor). Printed in Paris in 1955 at the atelier Coulouma for "Mille nuits et une nuit" (1001 Nights) which was the last major portfolio by Kees...
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1950s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Woodcut

Hyacinth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hyacinth Color woodcut, 1917-1918 Unsigned From: Seiyo Kusabana Zufu (Illustrations of Western Plants and Flowers) 1st edition Publisher: Unsodo, Kyoto Condition: Centerfold...
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1910s Other Art Style Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Virgil Comforts Dante - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Virgil Comforts Dante - Hell, Plate-2- Divine Comedy is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not ...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Sumo - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - Mid 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Sumo Tournament is a Woodcut print realized in the first half of the 19th century by Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print. This wonderful modern artwork represents Japanese Sumo...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Werner Drewes Woodblock Print Cubist Colorful Rare Framed Green Black Red 1982
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original woodblock print by American artist Werner Drews. This composition comes in an archival frame presentation which measures 26 x 30 on the wall. Werner Drewes (1899-1985) Werner Drewes, painter, printmaker, and teacher was born in Canig, Germany in 1899. His father, a Lutheran Minister, hoped he would become and architect but Werner chose the life of an artist. After he served on the front line in France during the war, Werner was admitted to the Bauhaus in 1921 where he studied under Klee, Itten, and Muche. Later, he traveled through Europe to study such old masters as Tintoretto, Velasque, and El Greco. After marrying Margaret Schrobsdorff, they traveled throughout South America, North America, and Asia. In 1930, Werner immigrated to New York City with his family. In New York City, despite the Depression, Werner joined other Bauhaus artists such as Mondrian and Feininger to make a living as an artist. This group became the core of the American Abstract Artists group. Werner taught at Columbia University, worked on the design of the 1939 Worlds Fair building...
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1980s Cubist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

Steamroller - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....
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1930s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Sailboat - Original woodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Edward PELLENS The Sailboat, 1922 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /154 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of t...
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1920s Art Deco Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Illusion : Boy, Cat and Soap Bubbles - Original woodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Gabriel BELOT Illusion : Boy, Cat and Soap Bubbles, 1922 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /154 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of the ed...
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1920s Art Deco Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

19th Century Japanese Woodblock - Greetings
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant woodblock print depicting a man dressed in expressively patterned robes tipping his hat. Signed and inscribed in characters. Presented in a contemporary black frame. On paper.
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19th Century Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Rare 1923 Cubist Reuven Rubin Woodcut Woodblock Kabbalah Print Israeli Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the original first edition 1923 printing. there was a much later edition done after these originals. These are individually hand signed in pencil by artist as issued. This listing is for the one print. the other documentation is included here for provenance and is not included in this listing. The various images inspired by the Jewish Mysticism and rabbis and mystics of jerusalem and Kabbalah is holy, dramatic and optimistic Rubin succeeded to evoke the spirit of life in Israel in those early days. They are done in a modern art style influenced by German Expressionism, particularly, Ernst Barlach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Franz Marc, as introduced to Israel by Jakob Steinhardt, Hermann Struck and Joseph Budko. Reuven Rubin 1893 -1974 was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania. Rubin Zelicovich (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galati to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. He was the eighth of 13 children. In 1912, he left for Ottoman-ruled Palestine to study art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Finding himself at odds with the artistic views of the Academy's teachers, he left for Paris, France, in 1913 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He was of the well known Jewish artists in Paris along with Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine, At the outbreak of World War I, he was returned to Romania, where he spent the war years. In 1921, he traveled to the United States with his friend and fellow artist, Arthur Kolnik. In New York City, the two met artist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in organizing their first American show at the Anderson Gallery. Following the exhibition, in 1922, they both returned to Europe. In 1923, Rubin emigrated to Mandate Palestine. Rubin met his wife, Esther, in 1928, aboard a passenger ship to Palestine on his return from a show in New York. She was a Bronx girl who had won a trip to Palestine in a Young Judaea competition. He died in 1974. Part of the early generation of artists in Israel, Joseph Zaritsky, Arieh Lubin, Reuven Rubin, Sionah Tagger, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Mordecai Ardon, Yitzhak Katz, and Baruch Agadati; These painters depicted the country’s landscapes in the 1920s rebelled against the Bezalel school of Boris Schatz. They sought current styles in Europe that would help portray their own country’s landscape, in keeping with the spirit of the time. Rubin’s Cezannesque landscapes from the 1920s were defined by both a modern and a naive style, portraying the landscape and inhabitants of Israel in a sensitive fashion. His landscape paintings in particular paid special detail to a spiritual, translucent light. His early work bore the influences of Futurism, Vorticism, Cubism and Surrealism. In Palestine, he became one of the founders of the new Eretz-Yisrael style. Recurring themes in his work were the bible, the prophet, the biblical landscape, folklore and folk art, people, including Yemenite, Hasidic Jews and Arabs. Many of his paintings are sun-bathed depictions of Jerusalem and the Galilee. Rubin might have been influenced by the work of Henri Rousseau whose naice style combined with Eastern nuances, as well as with the neo-Byzantine art to which Rubin had been exposed in his native Romania. In accordance with his integrative style, he signed his works with his first name in Hebrew and his surname in Roman letters. In 1924, he was the first artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Tower of David, in Jerusalem (later exhibited in Tel Aviv at Gymnasia Herzliya). That year he was elected chairman of the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Palestine. From the 1930s onwards, Rubin designed backdrops for Habima Theater, the Ohel Theater and other theaters. His biography, published in 1969, is titled My Life - My Art. He died in Tel Aviv in October 1974, after having bequeathed his home on 14 Bialik Street and a core collection of his paintings to the city of Tel Aviv. The Rubin Museum opened in 1983. The director and curator of the museum is his daughter-in-law, Carmela Rubin. Rubin's paintings are now increasingly sought after. At a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2007, his work accounted for six of the ten top lots. Along with Yaacov Agam and Menashe Kadishman he is among Israel's best known artists internationally. Education 1912 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 1913-14 École des Beaux Arts, Paris and Académie Colarossi, Paris Select Group Exhibitions Eged - Palestine Painters Group Eged - Palestine Painters Group, Allenby Street, Tel Aviv 1929 Artists: Chana Orloff, Abraham Melnikoff, Rubin, Reuven Nahum Gutman, Sionah Tagger,Arieh Allweil, Jewish Artists Association, Levant Fair, Tel Aviv, 1929 Artists: Ludwig Blum,Eliyahu Sigad, Shmuel Ovadyahu, Itzhak Frenel Frenkel,Ozer Shabat, Menahem Shemi...
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1920s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Angel of Mercy - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Angel of Mercy - from the Series "The Divine Comedy" is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. No...
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1960s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Saruwaka-machi District and Kinryûzan Temple Seen from Matsuchiyama
Located in Houston, TX
Three women in the Saruwaka-machi District with a view of Kinryûzan Temple seen from the famous landmark Matsuchiyama. The woodblock print is from the series "Famous Places in Edo". ...
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1850s Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Gondolas on the Grand Canal in Venice - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Robert BONFILS Gondolas on the Grand Canal in Venice Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /154 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of the edito...
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1920s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Kabukie - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1840
Located in Roma, IT
Kabukie is an original artwork realized in 1840 by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). From the series "Mitate Yakusha gojusan tsui no uchi" (juxtaposition of actors and the 53 Tokaido s...
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1840s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

David Shrigley - I Woke You At Dawn, I Make No Apology - Edition of 30
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley I Woke You At Dawn, 2024 Woodcut 53 x 40 cm Edition of 30 hand-signed and numbered by the artist published by Shäfer Editions and comes with COA from the publishers D...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Scorpio - Original Woodcut Print by P. C. Antinori - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Zodiac Signs - Scorpio is original Black and white woodcut print, realized by Italian artist Piero C. Antinori. Excellent condition. Written on the lower left; Original woodcut by ...
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1970s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Suma - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kunisada II - 1864
Located in Roma, IT
Suma is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada II and Hiroshige II in 1864. Woodcut Print Oban Format. From the series "Omokage Genji go...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Winslow Homer 19th Century Woodcut Engraving "The Morning Walk"
Located in Alamo, CA
This Winslow Homer woodcut engraving entitled "The Morning Walk, Young Ladies' School Promenading the Avenue", was published in Harper's Weekly in the...
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1870s American Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Woodcut

Flute-Like Voices, Abstract Woodcut Print by Bruce Porter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bruce Porter, American (1948 - ) Title: Flute-Like Voices Year: 1993 Medium: Woodcut on Wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 11/20 Image Size: 33 x 23.5 inches
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1990s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"Pura Vida" original color woodcut print signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Pura Vida" is an original color woodcut signed by Carol Summers. A multi-colored piece shows a waterfall with red flames behind it in the middle of the piece. On the left stands a tree with yellow leaves on a hill. To the right is a rainbow. This is an excellent example of Summer's printmaking, not just because of the technique and imagery, but because it numbered 1 of the edition of 125. In addition, it contains a personal inscription to the Milwaukee gallerist David Barnett, who has championed the work of Summers and produced catalogs of his work. Indeed, this print appears as no. 189 in the David Barnett Gallery's 1988 catalogue raisonné of Summer's woodcuts. Feel free to inquire if you would like to purchase a copy of the catalogue raisonné along with your Carol Summers print. Art: 24.25 x 24.75 in Frame: 36 x 35 in signed lower right titled and inscribed to David [Barnett] lower right edition (1/125) lower right Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MOMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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1980s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Beauties under a Maple Tree Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Houston, TX
Three Beauties under a maple tree from the series "A Contest of Fashionable Beauties of the Gay Quarters". The woodblock print is printed on rice paper....
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1780s Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

April: Otsuyu of Yanagibashi in Wisteria Arbor at Kameido
Located in Fairlawn, OH
April: Otsuyu of Yanagibashi in Wisteria Arbor at Kameido Color woodcut, 1880 From the series: "Pride of Tokyo's Twelve Months" (Tokyo jiman juni kagetsu) Signed and sealed lower rig...
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1880s Other Art Style Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Henry R. Diamond, Whaler
By Henry R. Diamond
Located in New York, NY
Really a wood engraving rather than a woodcut, Henry R. Diamond's Whaler is majestic. It is signed and titled in pencil.
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Early 20th Century American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Portrait of Man with a Pipe - Woodcut print after Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Man with Pipe is a superb color woodblock print on paper, from the Japanese print-series “Taiheiki eiyu den”, 'Tale of Grand Pacification', designed by Utagawa Kuniyoshi ...
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1850s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

Sidney Chafetz, The Stroller (Wallace Stevens)
Located in New York, NY
Sidney Chafetz was known for his clever compositions and his many portraits, all made in the most 'difficult to control' medium of woodcut.. This charmi...
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1970s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Charles Pont, Splicing
Located in New York, NY
An old sailor is shown at work on a what must be a huge sailing vessel. He's splicing, or joining ropes together -- probably still a useful skill in the mi...
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1930s Ashcan School Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Portrait - Woodcut by Lorenzo Viani - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original woodcut on paper, realized by the Italian Artist Lorenzo Viani in 1930 ca. The State of preservation is excellent. Monogrammed...
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1930s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Southampton, NY
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Portrait of a Samurai - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental Warrior is an original print realized in the first half of the XIX century by Utagawa Kunisada. Beautiful colored woodblock print. This wonderful woodcut by Utagawa Kunisa...
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1860s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Ripple
Located in Columbia, MO
Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Mulberry Paper, Woodcut

"Gertrude" - Eleven Color Woodcut on Laid Rice Paper 2/45
Located in Soquel, CA
"Gertrude" - Eleven Color Woodcut on Laid Rice Paper 2/45 Portrait of a woman by artist, Dan Miller (American, b. 1928) made by layers of color in woodcuts in Miller's signature sty...
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1980s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Rice Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut

Les Hommes a/p cvII (blue/green variant), by Fernando Reyes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed on the front, and signed, titled and numbered on the reverse, This is an artist proof, unique color variant, aside from the edition of 15. An abstraction of male nudes. In J...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Pochard - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Pochard is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. ...
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1870s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Ichimura Uzaemon XIII - actor as Okaji of Gion, 1862 "The Six Poetry Immortals"
Located in Soquel, CA
Ichimura Uzaemon XIII - actor as Okaji of Gion, 1862 "The Six Poetry Immortals" A Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcut print created circa 1862 by artist Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786-1864). ...
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1850s Realist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Printer's Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut

The Actor Nakamura Shikan II - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Hirosada - 1850
Located in Roma, IT
The Actor Nakamura Shikan II is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hirosada (Japanese, active 1825–75) in 1850. Original woodcut print chuban format, 1850. Signed Hirosada. Publisher: Kagawa. From the series "Kokon yujin ki" (Transcription on past and present heroes). The actor Nakamura Shikan II as Danshichi Kurobei in the play Natsumatsuri Naniwa kagami. Excellent impression, fresh in colour, with blindstamping (floral design), visible wood grain (grey kimono...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Meeting of Two Samurai - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Kuniyasu - 1820
Located in Roma, IT
Meeting of two samurai is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kuniyasu in 1820. Woodcut Print Oban Dyptich Format. Meeting of two samurai ...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Southampton, NY
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

A Rural Genji - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1829-1842
Located in Roma, IT
A rural Genji is an original artwork realized in 1829-1842 by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). Illustrated book in two volumes. Book title "Nise Murasaki Inaka Jenji", 9th instalment....
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Japanese Woodcut Print - Original Woodcut Print by Utagawa Hiroshige - 19th Cent
Located in Roma, IT
This is a superb polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e, ink and color on paper), likely realized by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858) at the middle of 19th century. This plate ...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

2020 Original Woodcut on 3 Plates 30x44in signed limited edition abstract
By Gabriel Macotela
Located in Miami, FL
Gabriel Macotela (Mexico, 1954) 'Untitled', 2020 woodcut on paper Guarro Super Alpha 250g. 30 x 44.1 in. (76 x 112 cm.) Edition of 20 ID: MAG-103 Unframed
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Dancers, 1936 Woodcut by Georges Rouault
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dancers Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958) Date: 1936 Woodcut, initialed in the stone Size: 3 x 2 in. (7.62 x 5.08 cm) Frame Size: 9.5 x 8.25 inches
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1930s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Artist - Original Woodcut by René Perrot - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Artist is an original Woodcut print realized by René Perrot in the Mid-20th century. Good conditions. Signed on the plate. The artwork is depicted t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Bernard, Composition, Éloge de Émile Bernard (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Éloge de Émile Bernard, 1962. Published by Editions d'Art Ma...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Allerheiligen- All Saints Day.
Located in New York, NY
KANDINSKY, Wassily. Allerheiligen- All Saints Day. Original three-color woodcut (red, yellow ochre, blue – with olive green). 1911. Signed with the monogram...
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1910s Blue Rider Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Heading out to Pasture, woodblock print by Penelope Ellis
Located in London, GB
Penelope Ellis (1935-2016) Heading out to Pasture Woodblock print 11 x 16 cm Provenance: From the artist's estate sale. ​Penelope Mary Ellis (1935–2016) was a British artist celeb...
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1950s Folk Art Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

A form driven from a rectangular solid
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Sol Lewitt "A form driven from a rectangular solid" Year: 1.992 Woodcut on Japanese paper copy 19/75 Signed and justified by hand Print run of 75 copies. 57,5 x 77 cm.
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1990s Cubist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Dance Hall - Woodcut by Gaspard Maillol - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dance hall is a woodcut print realized by Gaspard Maillol (1880-1946). Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin. Edition 19/160. Gaspard Maillol , born on July 10 , 1880 in Ba...
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Early 20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

WPA Expressionist woodblock print. "The Worker"
Located in Surfside, FL
Pencil signed original limited edition woodcut woodblock print great depression era. from the 1930s. Abramovitz, Albert 1879-1963 Born in Riga, Latvia, Abramovitz studied art at th...
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1930s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Three leaves (taro) - Landscape Print - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Minimal image in black ink on buff rice paper. Taro leaves are a simple form inspiring this woodcut print. Three leaves (taro) - Landscape Print - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman T...
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2010s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Bathing at Long Branch-“Oh, Ain’t it Cold”
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bathing at Long Branch-“Oh, Ain’t it Cold” Wood engraving, 1871 Signed in the block with the artist's initials "WH", see photo Published in: Every Saturday, Aug. 16, 1871 Condition: ...
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1870s Hudson River School Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

White Owl - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
White Owl is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by Londo...
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1870s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Actors - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Sadafusa - 1820s
By Utagawa Sadafusa
Located in Roma, IT
Actors is an original modern artwork realized in 1820-1830 by Utagawa Sadafusa. Woodcut Print Oban Dyptich Format. Arashi Kanjuro as Benkei, Ichikawa Komazo as Minamoto Yoshitsune ...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Portrait of the Actor Nakamura Shikan - Woodcut Print by Masunao - 1847
Located in Roma, IT
Half-length portrait of the actor Nakamura Shikan is an original modern artwork realized by Masunao in 1847. Original Woodcut Print Chuban Format, 1847. From the series "Shukoku se...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Southampton, NY
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Zwei Frauen (Two Women) /// German Expressionism Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Woodcut
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976) Title: "Zwei Frauen (Two Women)" Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman) *Issued unsigned Year: 1918 Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany Reference: Schapire No. 222, page 45; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118 Overall size with attached page: 8.5" x 10.63" Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38" Image size: 6.5" x 3.63" Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). A few tiny pinholes in right margin. In very good condition Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. Presently attached to its accompanying page. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany. Biography: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died August 9, 1976, West Berlin [now Berlin]), German painter and printmaker who was noted for his Expressionist landscapes and nudes. In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff began to study architecture in Dresden, Germany, where he and his friend Erich Heckel met Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl...
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1910s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Woodcut

Little Spring Horse - Woodcut Print by Keisai Eisen - 1830s
Located in Roma, IT
Little Spring Horse is an original modern artwork realized by Keisai Eisen in 1820-30. Woodcut Print Oban Format From the series "Osana asobi" (Children'...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Find Original Woodcut Prints for Your Home

Original woodcut prints and other types of fine art prints can help enhance any room in your home while supporting your effort to tie an interior design together.

Woodcut is a type of relief print that is made by carving a block of wood with a knife or gouge. The surface is then inked with a roller and pressed onto paper. Unlike with intaglio techniques, the section of the surface that has not been incised is what appears in the print. 

Woodcut printmaking is one of the oldest printing techniques, first used in 9th-century China, mastered by Albrecht Dürer during the Northern Renaissance and famously associated with the ukiyo-e artists of 17th- and 18th-century Japan. (For concision, power and delight, it’s hard to beat a Japanese woodblock print, the product of an artistic tradition that is aging very well indeed.)  

Elsewhere, German Expressionists like Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner embraced the medium for its bold, graphic power in the 1920s, and artists continue to use it today.

OK, so what is the difference between a woodcut print and an intaglio print?

“[Intaglio] is the opposite of relief printing — woodcut, linoleum cut, letterpress, and rubber or metal stamping,” says Rhea Fontaine of Paulson Fontaine Press. “With relief printing, the raised areas of the printing surface are inked and printed, while the areas that have been cut away do not pick up the ink. Often these prints are made by hand.”

Find original woodcut prints by Katsushika Hokusai, Suzuki Harunobu, M.C. Escher, Mino Maccari and many other artists on 1stDibs.

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