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Medium: Woodcut
Tide Race, Japanese Woodcut Art, Ocean Art, Art for your Beach House, Coastal
Located in Deddington, GB
Tide Race by Artist Rod Nelson is a limited edition print. The scene captures the violently beautiful way in which waves crash. Rod Nelson is a printmaker w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

19th century color woodcut Japanese ukiyo-e print samurai figure
By Toyoharu Kunichika
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ichimura Hazaemon as Hatsuyumeya Mitsujiro" is a woodcut print by Toyoharu Kunichika in red, blue, and black. 14" x 9 1/2" art 20 3/4" x 16 3/4" framed From the series “First Per...
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1860s Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

'Merry Christmas' original color woodcut on paper, signed in block
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 5 1/2 x 4 3/8" Frame: 10 1/8 x 8 1/8" Original color woodcut on paper, signed in block. Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
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1950s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Three (3) images from Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fuji sanjūrokkei)
Located in Middletown, NY
Tokyo: Kawaji, 1830. Three (3) woodblock prints (nishiki-e) in color on handmade mulberry paper, each 2 5/8 x 3 3/8 inches (67 x 82 mm), the full sheet, margins slightly trimmed. Ea...
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Early 19th Century Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut

Millepertuis Corail, Woodcut Print by Gaston Petit
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gaston Petit, Canadian (1933 - ) Title: Millepertuis Corail Year: 1971 Medium: Woodcut, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil Edition: 3/37 Ima...
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1970s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Winter on Cruise
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color woodcut and lithograph diptych. Signed and dated in pencil by Dine. From a limited edition of 12.
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Early 2000s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Color, Lithograph, Woodcut

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

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Woodcut

'Courtesan and Young Man at Fuchu' Original Erotic Shunga Woodblock
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work is an excellent example of the erotic Shunga prints produced by Utagawa 'Ando' Hioshige and his school. Shunga imagery became especially widespread in Japan with the...
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Mid-19th Century Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Chrysanthemums and the Rising Moon
Located in Middletown, NY
An image that originally appeared in an astrological calendar for the year 1766. Tokyo: Shuei-Sha, 1766. Woodblock print in colors printed on laid mulberry paper, 10 3/4 x 7 7/8 in...
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Mid-18th Century Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut

Homing Geese at Kanazawa
Located in Fairlawn, OH
(The poetess Chiyo turns to watch a flight of wild geese while sweeping up autumn leaves) Signature: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga; Censor seal: Muramatsu Series: Kenjo hakkei ...
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1840s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) - Mid 19th Century Japanese Woodblock, Niwa Suzumi
Located in Corsham, GB
The central print from a triptych by the prolific ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kunisada titled *Niwa Suzumi* (Cooling Off in the Garden). Signed within the print to the lower right. On Jap...
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Mid-19th Century Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

In the Fifth Season
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

KOPF (Head)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAX KAUS (German 1891-1977) KOPF (Head( (Rifkind 1387) Woodcut, unsigned, monogram in block. As issued as plate 1 from “Genius” Zeitschrift für werdende und alte Kunst, vol. 2, no. ...
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1920s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"By the Woodstove, " Pola Gauguin, woodcut, figurative, nude
By Paul Rollon "Pola" Gauguin
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Paris, France in 1883, Paul Rollon "Pola" Gauguin was the youngest of artist Paul Gauguin's (1848-1903) five legitimate children. Gauguin studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1905, and from 1906 to 1909 was an assistant to architects Hermann Baagøe Storck and Anton Rosen. He debuted as an artist at Blomqvist Kunsthandal and Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo in 1913, and exhibited in the Oslo Autumn Exhibition in 1914. Gauguin started his own artist school in Oslo which he ran until 1924. He also worked as an author and critic for Dagbladet, Tidens Tegn, Verdens Gang and Ekstrabladet. Among his books are biographies of Henrik Lund, Christian Krohg...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

The Surgeon’s Photograph by Mychael Barratt, limited edition woodcut print
Located in Deddington, GB
The Surgeon’s Photograph by Mychael Barratt [2022] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Woodcut Print on Paper Edition number of 50 Image size: H:50 cm x W:49 cm Complete S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, 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

Schwarze Madonna
Located in Wien, 9
Auguste Kronheim was born in Amsterdam in 1937. The artist makes woodcuts and drawings. She received her training in drawing from Hanns Kobinger and graduated from the Linz Federal T...
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20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Untitled - G, Abstract Expressionist Woodcut by Charlie Hewitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charlie Hewitt, American (1946 - ) Title: Untitled Year: circa 1995 Medium: Woodblock, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 100 Image Size: 16 x 20 inches Size: 20 in. x 24...
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1990s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Utagawa Kunisada(Toyokuni III) -- A Woman Diver Combing Her Hair 美人合 春曙
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) Diving Woman Combing Her Hair, 「美人合 春曙」髪をとく美人 from the series Spring Dawn: A Contest of Beauties (Haru no akebono...
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1820s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Mnemosyne
Located in New York, NY
Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts ...
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1980s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Mnemosyne
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20th century woodcut ink black and white figures musical instruments dramatic
By Robert Franz Von Neumann
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Chamber Music" is an original wood engraving by Robert Franz von Neumann. It features a room full of men in the thralls of creating music together. A small audience stands outside their circle. Image: 5.5" x 7" Framed: 14" x 15.56" 1888 - 1976 Born in Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany, Robert von Neumann...
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1930s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Motif. Abstract, African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in orange abstract. From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination. Viola Burley Leak, American (1944 - ) Viola Leak was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she received a B.A. in Art from Fisk University, a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an M.A. from Hunter College, NY and an M.F.A. in Media from Howard University, Washington, DC. Leak was an art consultant for both the New York State Board of Education and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print Department, in addition to working for the Experimental Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute. Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile designing, soft sculpture, appliqué tapestries, doll making, and multi-media. Viola has studied with many renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, and Charles White. Her works can be found in the collections of World Federation of United Nations, New York State Office Building, Manufacturers of Hanover Trust Company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company and many more organizations. Viola's exhibition experience is extensive - more than 100 showings over a decade, national and international. Her quilts exude a miraculous and magical presence. They have traveled in two international shows and three national quilt projects in the past three years. A proud moment for her was being featured in the December 20, 2000 of the Smithsonian magazine; the article praised her mural "Afro Dance Scan" as one of the outstanding artworks in the "When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance...
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1980s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Woodcut

La Penitenciaria
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this early woodcut. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 145/300 in pencil by Siqueiros.
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1930s Realist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

untitled ( Pikachu Pokémon )
Located in New York, NY
untitled woodcut by Kjell Otterness from the early 2000s printed in an edition of 6. Pickachu Pokémon
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Early 2000s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Titre pour "Le Sourire"
Located in London, GB
Paul Gauguin Titre pour "Le Sourire" 1899 Woodcut Paper size 13.8 x 21.9 cms (5 1/2 x 8 5/8 ins) Image size 10.5 x 20.8 cms (4 1/8 x 8 1/8 ins) Kornfeld 61 Signed in lower left corn...
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1890s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

'Diver' — 1930s American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'Diver', wood engraving, 1931, edition 150, Burne Jones 88. Signed, and titled 'The Diver' in pencil.. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the f...
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1930s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Decent - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Decent - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman Limited Edition 01/04 This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Immerse yourself in the...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Tracking a place
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1/3 BARBARA KUEBEL is a Daphne, AL-based artist who uses oil and pencil for her works on paper and on canvas. She was born and raised in Austria and earned two art degrees f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

Circle and Square
Located in Boston, MA
Werner Drewes. Circle and Square, 1980. Rose 386. Number 1 in an edition of 20. Signed and dated in pencil lower right margin: "Drewes -80-"; numbered in pencil lower left margin: "N...
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20th Century Bauhaus Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Two Kabuki Actors Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Houston, TX
Two kabuki actors posing a samurai's. The print is printed on rice paper and is not framed. It is stamped by the artist with details about the actors in ...
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1860s Edo Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Metamorphosis of Zan Biell, Woodcut Print on Rice Paper by Keisuke Serizawa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Keisuke Serizawa, Japanese (1895-1984) Title: Metamorphosis of Zan Biell Year: circa 1970 Medium: Woodcut on Rice Paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP Size: 29 x...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Rice Paper, Woodcut

Black Hat -- Woodcut, Print, Portrait by Alex Katz
Located in London, GB
Black Hat, 2012 Alex Katz Woodcut, on Somerset satin white Signed and numbered from the edition of 25 Printed by Collaborative Art Editions, Tampa Published by Lococo Fine Art Publi...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Homage a Dito, 1982, Folk Art Woodcut by Florence Grace Putterman
By Florence Putterman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Florence Grace Putterman, American (1927 - ) Title: Homage a Dito Year: 1982 Medium: Woodcut, signed in pencil Edition: TP Size: 27.5 x 39 in. (69.85 x 99.06 cm)
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1980s Conceptual Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Stehendes nacktes Mädchen im Profil (Standing Naked Girl in Profile) /// Woodcut
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976) Title: "Stehendes nacktes Mädchen im Profil (Standing Naked Girl in Profile)" 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. 220, page 45; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118 Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38" Image size: 6.5" x 3.57" Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). 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. 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...
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1910s Expressionist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Woodcut

Shana Tova, New Year Woodcut Israeli Judaica Early Bezalel School Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed in Hebrew and English. Titled. Size matted 16 x 12, image is 3.5x5.5 inches. Shulamit Wittenberg Miller Born 1908 in Jerusalem, attended Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem, under P...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Invocation
Located in New York, NY
M a x W e b e r – – 1 8 8 1 – 1 9 6 1 Invocation- – 1919-20, Color Woodcut. Rubenstein 27. Proofs only. Signed in pencil. Image size 3 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches (124 x 54 mm); sheet size ...
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1910s Cubist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Ted Davies, El Station (New York City), woodcut
By Ted Davies
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s woodcuts were getting bigger and bigger. This one isn't gigantic, but at an image size of 17 x 11 inches it is substantial. And of course NYC's El Trains and their stati...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern 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

Gaspara Stampa, Woodcut Print by Italo Scango
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Italo Scanga, Italian (1932 - 2001) Title: Gaspara Stampa Year: 1982 Medium: Woodcut on Japon, Signed and numbered in Pencil Edition: 20 Paper Size: 30.5 x 20.5 inches [77.47...
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1980s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Freesia
Located in Fairfield, CT
7-color woodcut on Somerset white 500 gsm
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Woodcut

HAIL AND FAREWELL
Located in Portland, ME
Kent, Rockwell. HAIL AND FAREWELL. Burne-Jones 55. Wood engraving, 1930. Edition of 120. 8 x 5 1/2 inches, 203 x 140 mm. Signed in pencil. In excellent condition.
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1930s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

'Da - Da I' — German Expressionism, Rare
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Da-Da I' also titled by the artist 'Der Abgott' (The Idol), woodcut, 1918, a proof impression. Prasse W91. Signed in pencil and annotated '1876', the artist’s inv...
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1920s Bauhaus Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Transformed Fantasy, Hand Printed Work on Paper, Woodcut
Located in Yardley, PA
Traditional French Tapestry wants to create an exotic paradise in an imaginary illusion of objects landscapes and animals in a home of eleg...
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2010s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Clench 1969 linocut screen print
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Michael Rothenstein Clench – 1969 Print – Colour linocut, photo screenprint black 23” x 31.25” Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 44/125 Unframed in Good Condition. Condition no...
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1960s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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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

The Night Sound
Located in Toronto, Ontario
As always, Caviar20 is thrilled to present the esteemed work of Louise Nevelson - one of the most revered and unique artists of the 20th century. (Also, an artist who continues to b...
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1970s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Shirasuga, Shiomi -zaka zu - Original Woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige - 1833/1834
Located in Roma, IT
Shirasuga, Shiomi -zaka zu (View of Shima Slope) is a superb polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e, ink and colour on paper) by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858). This is the p...
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1830s Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Motif, Gold Abstract African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in orange, blue and gold abstract. From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination. Viola Burley Leak, American (1944 - ) Viola Leak was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she received a B.A. in Art from Fisk University, a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an M.A. from Hunter College, NY and an M.F.A. in Media from Howard University, Washington, DC. Leak was an art consultant for both the New York State Board of Education and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print Department, in addition to working for the Experimental Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute. Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile designing, soft sculpture, appliqué tapestries, doll making, and multi-media. Viola has studied with many renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, and Charles White. Her works can be found in the collections of World Federation of United Nations, New York State Office Building, Manufacturers of Hanover Trust Company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company and many more organizations. Viola's exhibition experience is extensive - more than 100 showings over a decade, national and international. Her quilts exude a miraculous and magical presence. They have traveled in two international shows and three national quilt projects in the past three years. A proud moment for her was being featured in the December 20, 2000 of the Smithsonian magazine; the article praised her mural "Afro Dance Scan" as one of the outstanding artworks in the "When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance...
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1980s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Woodcut

Burst Variation 15, Abstract Woodcut Print Metallic Silver Bright Turquoise Blue
Located in Kent, CT
This square woodcut print on paper is composed of a central, circular, metallic silver shape spreading outward into an abstract pattern over a bright turquoise blue background that c...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype, Woodcut

Chrysler Building (Chrysler Building in Construction)
Located in New York, NY
Howard Cook (1901-1980), Chrysler Building (Chrysler Building in Construction) – –1930, Wood Engraving. Duffy 122. Edition 75, only 50 printed. 19...
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1930s American Modern Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Motif, Orange Blue, African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Motif (Abstract) in orange and blue abstract. From the small edition of 10. from 1982. I am not sure if this is a woodcut or woodblock print or a silkscreen screenprint or some combination. Viola Burley Leak, American (1944 - ) Viola Leak was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she received a B.A. in Art from Fisk University, a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an M.A. from Hunter College, NY and an M.F.A. in Media from Howard University, Washington, DC. Leak was an art consultant for both the New York State Board of Education and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print Department, in addition to working for the Experimental Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute. Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile designing, soft sculpture, appliqué tapestries, doll making, and multi-media. Viola has studied with many renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, and Charles White. Her works can be found in the collections of World Federation of United Nations, New York State Office Building, Manufacturers of Hanover Trust Company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company and many more organizations. Viola's exhibition experience is extensive - more than 100 showings over a decade, national and international. Her quilts exude a miraculous and magical presence. They have traveled in two international shows and three national quilt projects in the past three years. A proud moment for her was being featured in the December 20, 2000 of the Smithsonian magazine; the article praised her mural "Afro Dance Scan" as one of the outstanding artworks in the "When the Spirit Moves: African American Dance...
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1980s Contemporary Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Woodcut

MORTE D'ARTHUR
Located in Portland, ME
Malory, Thomas. MORTE D'ARTHUR. J. M. Dent, London, 1893. First Edition thus. Edition of 300 printed on Dutch handmade paper, this copy Numbered "72." (There was a "regular" editi...
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1890s Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Six Red Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Created by Donald in 1999, Six Red Flowers is a woodcut in colors on wove paper. Measuring 27 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (69.8 x 90.2 cm), unframed, this work was published and printed by Tyle...
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20th Century Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Four trees. Paper, wood carving , 29x29 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Four trees. Paper, wood carving, 29x29 cm Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013) Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1...
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1970s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

CALLED BY SAKE (C.70)
Located in Aventura, FL
Woodcut, collagraph and photo-engraving in colors, on Rives Lightweight Cream paper, with full margins. Hand signed, dated and numbered lower front by Jim Dine. From the edition of...
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1990s Pop Art Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving, Woodcut

CALLED BY SAKE (C.70)
CALLED BY SAKE (C.70)
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"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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Untitled Abstract Woodcut by Charlie Hewitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charlie Hewitt, American (1946 - ) Title: Untitled - M Year: circa 1995 Medium: Woodblock, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 100 Image Size: 16 x 19.5 inches Size: 20 x ...
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1990s Abstract Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Ex libris. Paper, woodcut, 11x7cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ex libris Olav Tähe Paper, woodcut, 11x7cm
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1990s Jugendstil Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Woodcut

WO RO SI IA ZIN Russian Soldier with His Family
Located in Fairlawn, OH
WO RO SI IA ZIN Russian Soldier with His Family Color woodcut, 1861 2nd month Signed upper left (see photo) Titled upper right in black cartouche (see photo) Format: oban Style: Yokohama-e Publisherr: Sagamiya Tokichi (Marks #435) active 1955-1866 Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has an impression of this image RARE Condition: with usual aging Image size: 13 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches Rebecca Salter in her Japanese Popular Prints... on page 18 gives a different take on the situation that Yoshifuji found himself in. "A giant of the period, however, was Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-861). Although best known for warrior prints which reflected the militaristic undercurrents of the time, he was also responsible for some of the most light-heartend and humorous works in this book. His followers in the Utagawa school, Utagawa Yoshitsuya...
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1860s Other Art Style Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Homage to Gene Debs, Woodcut Print on Rice Paper by Leonard Baskin
Located in Long Island City, NY
This woodcut print was created by American artist Leonard Baskin. Baskin is well known for his somewhat grotesque, intricate, surreal drawings and natural subject matter. This print ...
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1940s Surrealist Woodcut Prints and Multiples

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Rice Paper, Woodcut

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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.

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“[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.”

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