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Style: American Modern
Original "Shoot Ships to Germany and help America Win" vintage poster 1918
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Shoot Ships to Germany. At this Shipyard are being built ships to carry to our men "Over There" -- Food, Clothing, and the Munitions of War.
Without these ships ou...
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1910s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Kiki Smith Lithograph/Collage Various Flying Creatures "fly" Signed Dated
By Kiki Smith
Located in Detroit, MI
A collage lithograph from her series Various Flying Creatures by Kiki Smith titled: "fly." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figures for this glassine paper and wove pap...
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1990s American Modern More Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
Original "Mr. Deeds goes to Town" vintage Belgium movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage movie poster: “MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN.” 'L'extravagant Mr. Deeds'
Linen-backed Belgium movie poster.
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small-town...
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1930s American Modern More Prints
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Offset
$360 Sale Price
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"Your War Savings Pledge, War Savings Stamps" original vintage 1918 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War 1 vintage military poster: YOUR WAR SAVINGS PLEDGE. Archival linen backed, very good condition; ready to frame. For War Savi...
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1910s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
$279 Sale Price
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Original "Maurice Chevalier, Alhambra Theatre" vintage poster medium size
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier vintage lithographic poster. Artist: Charles Kiffer (1902 - 1992). Size: 19.25" x 27.25". Archival linen-backed antique vintage poster; ready to frame. An original lithograph was done for the inauguration of the new Alhambra Theater, featuring Maurice Chevalier.
Over the years; Kiffer designed 13 for Chavalier from 1927 - 1963. (Kiffer also designed for Josephine Baker, Edith Piaf, and many other performers.) Today this version with the text of the Alhambra Theatre Maurice Chevalier is a rare poster. Mid-century-modern.
The Alhambra was a music hall located at 50, rue de Malte in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. It opened on August 11, 1866.
This image with the familiar tilted hat is a recognized image associated with several different poster designs created for the actor Maurice Chevalier. In addition to the images created for the French cabaret; a similar image is also associated with the liquor poster...
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1940s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Original "RADIO L. M. T. La Meilleure Tonalite" vintage French radio poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Radio L.M.T. "La Meilleure Tonalite". Elle l'aime tant.
French antique vintage poster for the L. M. T. Radio. The radio wit...
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1940s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Original Visit Washington State Diamond '75th" Jubilee vintage postger
Located in Spokane, WA
Original, linen backed, Visit Washington State - Diamond Jubilee vintage poster (1889 - 1964), excellent condition. This poster would be produced pri...
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1960s American Modern More Prints
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Offset
$300 Sale Price
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Original Kathreiners Malzkaffee vintage coffee poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Rare original Kathreiners Malzkaffee antique stone lithographic poster. Der Gehalt macht's! (Kathreiner’s Malt Coffee). Written in German, They had coffee roasting in both Muni...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
$780 Sale Price
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Kodavox original vintage poster for magnetic tape
Located in Spokane, WA
Original, linen-backed, KODAVOX original lithographic poster created by the artist Lantelme. The image features a large spool of magnetic recording tape as a face looking down on the Kodak packaging box. Bright reds and yellow in the smaller format original product poster. A fun art...
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1950s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
$452 Sale Price
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Original Buick Care Keeps Buicks Best vintage automotive poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Buick Care Keeps Buicks Best” 1940s vintage automobile poster. Conservation linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame...
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1940s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
$300 Sale Price
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Original 'Ghost of Zorro' vintage 1949 movie poster US 1-sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original ‘Ghost of Zorro’ vintage movie poster. 1949. Museum archival mounted on acid-free archival linen. Original fold marks touched up but could use more touch-up on the fol...
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1940s American Modern More Prints
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Offset
$840 Sale Price
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Original "Vienna Metropoli della musica" vintage poster Philharmonic Orchestra
Located in Spokane, WA
Orignal Vienna Metropoli della musica vintage poster.
Archival linen backed and ready to frame.
Grade A condition without any tears, damage, fading, or aging.
Printed by: Piller-Druckl-Wien.
Note that this is the rare “English” version for Vienna, however, the lower lettering is actually written in Italian.
One of the best orchestras in the world, many even consider it the best: the Wiener Philharmoniker. Ambassadors of Viennese music travel the world: concerts, tours, and reruns such as those of the New Year's Concert and the summer concert. Perhaps no other musical ensemble is more consistently and closely associated with the history and tradition of European classical music than the Vienna Philharmonic.
I am excited to offer this vintage poster for sale...
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1960s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Original "G.M.E. Sanitaire" vintage French kitchen poster
By G. Raoul
Located in Spokane, WA
Original G.M.E. Sanitaire vintage French poster. Linen backed in very good condition and ready to frame.
GME Sanitaire c'est la Cuisine is a French vintage poster that has been linen backed for preservation. The poster advertises the GME tile and cladding company, which specializes in kitchen tiles...
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1970s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
$1,039 Sale Price
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Original 'Quality Workmanship, A Sound Foundation...' vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Quality Workmanship
A sound Foundation on which to build one's future
Cooperative
Thoughtful
Skilful
Dependable
Careful
This lithograph was printed in 1940 by Elliott Service in NYC. Very good condition with only a minor tear on the bottom, which was laid down during linen-backing. Similar in design to Mather’s Work Incentive posters...
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1940s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
$300 Sale Price
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"Skyjacked" original vintage movie poster US 1-sheet NSS 72/181
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Skyjacked” vintage US 1-sheet movie poster 1972. NSS: 72/181
Starring Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, and Je...
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1970s American Modern More Prints
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Offset
Original "Stop Loose Talk to Strangers. Enemy Ears are Alert" vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original, Stop, Loose Talk to Strangers. ‘Enemy ears are alert’ vintage poster. Excellent condition, linen-backed WWII vintage war poster: STOP LOOSE TALK TO STRANGERS ENEMY EAR...
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1940s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Original Skarby Sultana a.k.a. The Story of Little Muck vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Orignial Skarby Sultana vintage poster. A.k.a.The Story of Little Much. Archival linen-backed Very good condition A. Bright and vibrant, lithograph, no stains, no damage, no...
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1950s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Original Inter-europäische Zusammenarbeit für bessere Lebensbedingungen poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. ERP European Reunification Program, Inter-europaische Zusammenarbeit fur bessere Lebenbedingungen. Mounted on acid free archival linen. Lithography Kühn & Zoon, Rotterda...
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1950s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Lost Shadow original limited edition serigraph by Chase Chen
By Chase Chen
Located in Paonia, CO
Lost Shadow by Chinese American artist Chase Chen depicts a country path that follows a receding fence line in a green field and a blue sky filled with scattered clouds. A limited edition [345/350] signed serigraph in excellent condition.
Paper size 36 x 29 image 30.50 x 24.
Born into a family of doctors and growing up during the cultural revolution Chinese...
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20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Screen
Ribert Desjardiin original French television vintage lithograph poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original French antique vintage poster: RIBET DESJARDINS. Professional acid-free archival linen backed, very good condition. Ready to fram...
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1950s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Kiki Smith Collage/Lithograph "squirrel" Flying Creatures Signed Dated
By Kiki Smith
Located in Detroit, MI
A collage lithograph from her series Various Flying Creatures by Kiki Smith titled: "squirrel." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figur...
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1990s American Modern More Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
Save your Child, Buy War Savings Stamps World War 1 vintage poster
By Herbert Paus
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War 1 vintage poster: Save Your Child from Autocracy and Poverty. Buy War Savings Stamps. W.S S. (Small Format). This poster for War Savings Stamps features a small blond child wearing nothing but shoes and socks. He is clutching the arm of the Statue of Liberty. The poster was designed by Minneapolis born Herbert Paus. His most noted work is found in the famed advertising campaigns for Victor Records...
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1910s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
$540 Sale Price
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Restaurant in Mott Street
Located in New Orleans, LA
The image depicts a restaurant on New York's Mott Street with ornamental iron work on the balconies. There are six figures in the scene in various stages of contrast. Mott Street is considered the unofficial Main Street of New York's Chinatown. Ella Fitzgerald sang it best: “And tell me what street compares with Mott Street in July? Sweet pushcarts gently gliding by.”
CFW Mielatz was an early influence on the drypoints and etchings of Martin Lewis. This piece was created in 1906 and it is signed in pencil. It is part of the collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
C.F.W. Mielatz
American, 1860-1919
Born in Bredding, Germany in 1864, Mielatz emigrated to the United States as a young boy and studied at the Chicago School of Design. Mostly self-taught, his first prints were large New England landscapes reminiscent of the painter-etcher school of American Art. Around 1890 he started to produce prints of New York City and by the time of his death, the number totaled over ninety images. He was a master technician in the field of etching, reworking many of his plates to get the exact feeling he was seeking. Mielatz was a member of the New York Etching...
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Early 20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
$400 Sale Price
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La Colegiata Toro (Romanesque Santa Maria la Mayor/Zamora province Spain)
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Taylor Arms created this superb architectural image of La Colegiata in 1935 in an edition of 153. It is #12 in his Spanish Churches series and is referenced as Fletcher #284.
One of the most characteristic examples of transitional Romanesque architecture in Spain, the church of Santa María la Mayor is inspired by the Cathedral of Zamora, in turn inspired by the Old Cathedral of Salamanca. The tower-dome is usually listed as one of the four most typical in León together with those in the cathedrals of Salamanca, Plasencia and Zamora.
The church was begun around 1170, and was finished in the mid-13th century. Two different directors of the work have been identified, according to the different types of stone used (limestone in the old sections, sandstone in the most recent ones), and by the barrel vaults...
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1930s American Modern More Prints
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Etching
A ca. 1958 Lithograph Titled "Edgartown Harbor" by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1958 lithograph titled "Edgartown Harbor" by notable artist Francis Chapin. Image size: 14 3/4" x 19 3/4". Archivally matted to: 22 1/2" x 26 1/2". Provenance: Estate of t...
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1950s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Still Life with Fruit, from 1¢ Life
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Tom Wesselmann
Title: Still Life with Fruit
Portfolio: 1¢ Life
Medium: Lithograph in colors
Year: 1964
Edition: 2000
Frame Size: 20 5/8" x 29 1/2"
Sheet Size: 16 1/4" x 22 3/...
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1960s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Road to Horizon original limited edition serigraph by Chase Chen
By Chase Chen
Located in Paonia, CO
Road To Horizon by Chinese/American artist Chase Chen depicts a hillside with a road that leads up to some trees on the top of the hill silhouetted against a blue sky and scattered clouds perhaps at sunset. Original limited edition [ 346/350 ] serigraph signed in pencil and in very good condition with two small creases in the outer margins on the lower left. Paper size 29.50 x 35.25 image 24 x 30.50.
Born into a family of doctors and growing up during the cultural revolution Chinese...
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1990s American Modern More Prints
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Screen
Trees
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Trees " c.1990 in an original monotype on B.F.K Rives paper by American artist Kelly Detweiler. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 1/1 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 17.85 x 15.65 inches, sheet size is 24.25 x 22.25 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright, has never been framed.
About the artist:
Born in Twin Falls Idaho, his family immediately moved to Monte Vista, Colorado where he lived until age 12. Many of the idyllic memories of this childhood inform his imagination and enter into his work. Moving from a very small farming and ranching community, he was plunged into the crazed consumer culture of Southern California. He lived in La Mesa, California and watched as the entire face of America changed with Vietnam, rampant divorce, and then the summer of love. He attended Grossmont College and immersed himself in art. Seeking to escape the drug crazed beach culture, he set out for northern California.
Kelly attended Cal State University at Hayward where he studied with Mel Ramos, Raymond Saunders, Harold Schlotzhauer, Misch Kohn, Kenji Nanao and Clayton Bailey...
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Late 20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Monotype
Popeye
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Popeye" c.1990 in an original monotype on B.F.K Rives paper by American artist Kelly Detweiler. It is hand signed, titled and inscribed M.T in pencil by the artist. The image size is 23.5 x 17.5 inches, sheet size is 29.85 x 22.25 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright, has never been framed.
About the artist:
Born in Twin Falls Idaho, his family immediately moved to Monte Vista, Colorado where he lived until age 12. Many of the idyllic memories of this childhood inform his imagination and enter into his work. Moving from a very small farming and ranching community, he was plunged into the crazed consumer culture of Southern California. He lived in La Mesa, California and watched as the entire face of America changed with Vietnam, rampant divorce, and then the summer of love. He attended Grossmont College and immersed himself in art. Seeking to escape the drug crazed beach culture, he set out for northern California.
Kelly attended Cal State University at Hayward where he studied with Mel Ramos, Raymond Saunders, Harold Schlotzhauer, Misch Kohn, Kenji Nanao and Clayton Bailey...
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Late 20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Monotype
A 1964 Lithograph Titled "Afternoon Race, Edgartown" by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1964 lithograph titled "Afternoon Race, Edgartown" by notable Chicago artist Francis Chapin. Image size: 14 1/2" x 19 3/4". Archivally matted to 22 1/2" x 28". Provenance: Est...
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1960s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Ornaments
Located in Missouri, MO
Ornaments, 1953
Ferol K. Sibley Warthen (American, 1890-1986)
Color Woodblock Print
7 x 4.75 inches
16 x 13.75 inches with frame
Signed and Dated Lower Right
Titled Lower Left
Born 1890, Died 1986...
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1950s American Modern More Prints
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Color
Bosch
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Bosch" c. 1980 is an original etching with aquatint by American artist Peter Paone, b.1936. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 10/...
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Late 20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Etching
$1,000
Bird House original limited edition serigraph by Chase Chen
By Chase Chen
Located in Paonia, CO
Bird House by Chinese/American artist Chase Chen depicts a barn on a hillside with birds flying into the sky from the roof and a small stream or irrigation ditch flowing downhill and a water pail sitting in the field. There is a blue above the hill. A limited edition [124/350] serigraph created in the year 2000, signed in pencil and in very good condition. Paper size 30.25 x 38.75 image 25 x 33.25.
Born into a family of doctors and growing up during the cultural revolution Chinese...
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Early 2000s American Modern More Prints
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Screen
Beautiful Pop Art Lithograph Signed & Numbered 4/18 by Diane Lachman
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful colors on this well done piece by Diane Lachman, circa 1980's , pencil signed and numbered 4/18. The piece its sold unframed very nice condition and colors.
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Late 20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Paper
The Wrapped Vestibule, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
By Christo
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Christo
Title: The Wrapped Vestibule, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Medium: Offset lithograph
Date: 1990
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 29 7/8" x 23"
Signature: Han...
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1990s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Robert Indiana, "Santa Fe Opera, " Hand signed, numbered, 1976
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Robert Indiana
Santa Fe Opera
1976
Silkscreen in colors
Hand signed in pencil
37.5 x 27 inches
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1970s American Modern More Prints
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Screen
Crosstown Traffic
Located in New York, NY
“Crosstown Traffic” is a color lithograph by Emilio Sanchez. Created in 1998, this impression is unsigned and came to us directly from the Emilio Sanchez Estate (circular estate stam...
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Late 20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Original "Farrell Lines, Happy Ships Sunny Skies" vintage cruise line poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Farrell Lines. Happy Ships, Sunny Skies. Farrell Lines United States to South Africa. Archival linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. Mid-Century Modern.
The image, created by an anonymous artist, displays some of the activities on a Farrell Lines cruise ship. It was a long travel period from New York to South Africa but it is portrayed as a pleasure trip.
About this poster: The Farrell Lines Company was established in 1948 by the sons of James Augustine Farrell, the president of US Steel. It was previously known as American South African Lines (ASAL). It created a regular passenger and cargo line between New York and South Africa. The ship had a capacity of approximately 180 travelers with nicely furnished rooms and accommodations. Stops along the line in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, and Marques in Mozambique.
Like all great vintage posters...
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1950s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
$798 Sale Price
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Thicket
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Yal...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Woodcut
$2,400 Sale Price
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WPA-Era Central City, Colorado, 1930s Modernist Lithograph, Cityscape 3/25
Located in Denver, CO
This 1933 lithograph, Central City, Colorado 3/25, by Arnold Rönnebeck, captures the architectural essence of a historic mining town during the Great Depression. Rendered in black an...
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1930s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
$1,350 Sale Price
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Weehawken Ferry.
Located in New York, NY
This drypoint from 1942 was printed in a very small edition. Signed under the image in pencil at the lower right.
Armin Landeck (1905-1984) was born in Crandon, Wisconsin, June 4...
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1940s American Modern More Prints
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Drypoint
Expulsion
Located in New York, NY
Donald Newman studied at the California Institute of Arts and at the Whitey Independent Study Program during the 1970s. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Artists Space in New York, at the Mary Boone and the Annina Nosei Galleries in New York, at the Barbara Balkin Gallery in Chicago, the Akira Ikeda Gallery...
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Late 20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
$720 Sale Price
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Smith Brothers Restaurant
Located in Milwaukee, WI
An original color silkscreen print by Ruth Grotenrath. A lovely assortment of different foods both vegetable and animal alike. The photos do not do this piece justice. The dark color...
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1950s American Modern More Prints
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Ink, Printer's Ink, Screen
Temptation
Located in New York, NY
Donald Newman studied at the California Institute of Arts and at the Whitey Independent Study Program during the 1970s. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Artists Space in New York, at the Mary Boone and the Annina Nosei Galleries in New York, at the Barbara Balkin Gallery in Chicago, the Akira Ikeda Gallery...
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Late 20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Modernist and mid-century architecture - Schindler House, Relief Print
By Andy Burgess
Located in London, GB
ANDY BURGESS
Schindler House, 2019
Signed, dated, numbered (A/P) recto
Relief Print
43.2 x 55.9 cm
17 x 22 in.
Framed:
18 ½ x 1 ½ x 22 ½ in.
Artist's Proof 6 of 20
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Andy Burgess is a London-born artist currently residing in Tucson, Arizona. Represented for many years by The Cynthia Corbett...
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2010s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
Sting Like a Bee
By Muhammad Ali
Located in New York, NY
Serigraph, Edition of 500
Hand-signed by artist, Signed and numbered in pencil
Muhammad Ali, the groundbreaking athlete and sociopolitical figure of the twentieth century, is rememb...
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Late 20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Paper, Screen
Price Upon Request
Mosque II
By Muhammad Ali
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 500
Hand-signed by artist, Signed and numbered in pencil
Muhammad Ali, the groundbreaking athlete and sociopolitical figure of the twentieth century, is remembered less ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Screen
Price Upon Request
Guiding Light
By Muhammad Ali
Located in New York, NY
Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 500
From a set of five prints that Muhammad Ali published in 1979, including Let My People Go, which was commissioned by the Wor...
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Late 20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Screen, Paper
Price Upon Request
Thoreau "If a Man Does Not Keep Peace"
By Corita Kent
Located in Missouri, MO
Thoreau "If a Man Does Not Keep Peace"
Sister Mary Corita Kent (American, 1918-1986)
Signed in Pencil Lower Right
22.5 x 22.5 inches
23.25 x 23.25 inches with frame
Sister Mary Cori...
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20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Color, Lithograph
Price Upon Request
Leo Baeck "and a Spirit is Characterized"
By Corita Kent
Located in Missouri, MO
Leo Baeck and a Spirit is Characterized
Sister Mary Corita Kent (American, 1918-1986)
Signed Lower Right in Pencil
Edition of 250 Lower center
21.5 x 21.5 inches
24 x 24 inches frame...
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20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Color, Lithograph
Price Upon Request
Colossal Flashlight in Place of Hoover Dam
Located in Missouri, MO
Colossal Flashlight in Place of Hoover Dam, 1982
By Claes Oldenburg (Swedish, American, 1929-2022)
Signed Lower Right
Dated Middle Right
Unframed: 23" x 22"
Framed: 36.5" x 27.5"
Whimsical sculpture of pop culture objects, many of them large and out-of-doors, is the signature work of Swedish-born Claes Oldenburg who became one of America's leading Pop Artists. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was a diplomat, and during Claes' childhood moved his family from Stockholm to a variety of locations including Chicago where the father was general consul of Sweden and where Oldenburg spent most of his childhood. He attended the Latin School of Chicago, and then Yale University where he studied literature and art history, graduating in 1950, the same year Claes became an American citizen.
Returning to Chicago, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1952 to 1954 and also worked as a reporter at the City News Bureau. He opened his own studio, and in 1953, some of his satirical drawings were included in his first group show at the Club St. Elmo, Chicago. He also painted at the Oxbow School of Painting in Michigan.
In 1956, he moved to New York where he drew and painted while working as a clerk in the art libraries of Cooper-Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Selling his first artworks during this time, he earned 25 dollars for five pieces.
Oldenburg became friends with numerous artists including Jim Dine, Red Grooms and Allan Kaprow, who with his "Happenings" was especially influential on Oldenburg's interest in environmental art. Another growing interest was soft sculpture, and in 1957, he created a piece later titled Sausage, a free-hanging woman's stocking stuffed with newspaper.
In 1959, he had his first one-man show, held at the Judson Gallery at Washington Square. He exhibited wood and newspaper sculpture and painted papier-mache objects. Some viewers of the exhibit commented how refreshing Oldenburg's pieces were in contrast to the Abstract Expressionism, a style which much dominated the art world. During this time, he was influenced by the whimsical work of French artist, Bernard Buffet, and he experimented with materials and images of the junk-filled streets of New York.
In 1960, Oldenburg created his first Pop-Art Environments and Happenings in a mock store full of plaster objects. He also did Performances with a cast of colleagues including artists Lucas Samaras, Tom Wesselman, Carolee Schneemann, Oyvind Fahlstrom and Richard Artschwager, dealer Annina Nosei, critic Barbara Rose, and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer.
His first wife (1960-1970) Pat Muschinski, who sewed many of his early soft sculptures, was a constant performer in his Happenings. This brash, often humorous, approach to art was at great odds with the prevailing sensibility that, by its nature, art dealt with "profound" expressions or ideas.
In December 1961, he rented a store on Manhattan's Lower East Side to house "The Store," a month-long installation he had first presented at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York. This installation was stocked with sculptures roughly in the form of consumer goods.
Oldenburg moved to Los Angeles in 1963 "because it was the most opposite thing to New York I could think of". That same year, he conceived AUT OBO DYS, performed in the parking lot of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in December 1963.
In 1965 he turned his attention to drawings and projects for imaginary outdoor monuments. Initially these monuments took the form of small collages such as a crayon image of a fat, fuzzy teddy bear looming over the grassy fields of New York's Central Park (1965) and Lipsticks in Piccadilly Circus, London (1966). Oldenburg realized his first outdoor public monument in 1967; Placid Civic Monument took the form of a Conceptual performance/action behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with a crew of gravediggers digging a 6-by-3-foot rectangular hole in the ground.
Many of Oldenburg's large-scale sculptures of mundane objects elicited public ridicule before being embraced as whimsical, insightful, and fun additions to public outdoor art. From the early 1970s Oldenburg concentrated almost exclusively on public commissions.
Between 1969 and 1977 Oldenburg had been in a relationship with Hannah Wilke, feminist artist, but in 1977 he married Coosje van Bruggen, a Dutch-American writer and art historian who became collaborator with him on his artwork. He had met her in 1970, when she curated an exhibition for him at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Their first collaboration came when Oldenburg was commissioned to rework Trowel I, a 1971 sculpture of an oversize garden tool, for the grounds of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands.
Oldenburg has officially signed all the work he has done since 1981 with both his own name and van Bruggen's. In 1988, the two created the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota that remains a staple of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden as well as a classic image of the city. Typewriter Eraser...
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20th Century American Modern More Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
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Brown Cottonwood
Located in Missouri, MO
Brown Cottonwood, 2005
By Andrew Millner (American, b. 1967)
Lightjet Print Mounted on UV Plex
Signed Lower Right
Unframed: 87" x 44"
Framed: 88" x 45"
Andrew Millner is a visual artist based in St. Louis, MO. His work investigates the relationship between art and nature, the natural and the made. Millner received a BFA from University of Michigan, in Painting and Sculpture.
He has had more than 56 group exhibitions since 1987 and over 15 solo exhibitions at institutions including Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; CCA, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Tria Gallery, New York City, New York; Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico; David Floria Gallery, Aspen, Colorado; Contemporary Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
"I started drawing on the computer in 2005. Previous to that, most of my work had been about finding lines in nature; the contours of leaves, the ripples on rivers, the edges of overlapping hills. Although I was using traditional art materials, I prepared the canvases with slicker and slicker surfaces so that the lines wouldn’t soak into the background but sit on top, preserving the nuances of my hand. I thought of the drawings as photographic, in the diaristic sense of recording moments of time. I enjoyed the easy correspondence of the endless novelty of line in these natural forms and the endless variety of line created by my hand. I couldn’t draw the same leaf twice so my subject and process were well matched.
I had the idea to draw every leaf of a tree, but I struggled with the scale and complexity of the subject. How does one bring a tree indoors? How can one see the whole tree and its individual parts simultaneously? I tried traditional strategies and materials but the results were unsatisfactory. I wondered if it would be possible to make the drawing on a computer. Since everything… music, photos, movies & books were being digitized, what about drawing? I wasn’t interested in something computer-generated, but sought to “dumb down” the computer and use it as a repository for simple line drawings. In the program I use, Adobe Illustrator, lines are called “paths”… an apt name since the line exists at no set scale or color. Only later do I assign the attributes of color and thickness.
Taking my laptop outdoors, I drew my first tree “en plein air.” Using a digital tablet and pen, I drew simple contours of the leaves and branches. Having these drawings remain in digital form rather than in physical form, opened up interesting possibilities and enabled me to tackle the complexity of a tree in intriguing ways. My lines were free and separate from the background and from each other. I drew the branches individually and then later, I could cobble them together to reconstitute the whole tree. On the screen, I could zoom in and out and draw at different scales simultaneously. I could zoom out to draw a simple contour of the entire trunk and then zoom in to draw the smallest leaf with equal effort. I drew in layers so that as the drawings accumulated I could turn layers “off” so that they wouldn’t obscure subsequent layers. These two novelties, drawing at different scales simultaneously and making parts of the drawing invisible to allow for work on top or behind previous drawings, allowed for the accumulation of hundreds of simple outlines to create a dizzying visual complexity.
Subsequent trees I drew from photographs. I would take hundreds of close-ups of a tree from a single point of view and then stitch all of these close ups together on the computer. Sometimes I photographed the same tree in the summer and then in the fall after it lost its leaves. This allowed me to see and draw all of the branches and limbs unadorned and unobscured. I would draw the tree twice, with and without leaves, merging the two drawings into one document. In this way, the drawings comprise and compress great spans of looking over vast time frames and seemingly contradictory close-up and distant points of view.
My digital drawings have been outputted in different ways… mostly as photographs printed directly from the digital file or as archival inkjet prints. The results defy easy categorization. Are they drawings, prints, or camera-less photographs...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern More Prints
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Plexiglass, Inkjet
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Columbus Circle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ARNOLD RONNEBECK (1885 – 1947)
COLUMBUS CIRCLE ca. 1929
Lithograph, edition probably 50. Signed and titled in pencil, 12 ½” x 8 ¼” In very good condit...
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1920s American Modern More Prints
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Lithograph
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And Acquainted With Grief.
By Joan Snyder
Located in New York, NY
Joan Snyder has been called an autobiographical, even confessional artist, who draws from her experiences and surroundings to create her paintings. While her subjects vary widely, Sn...
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Late 20th Century American Modern More Prints
Materials
Etching, Woodcut
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Relic
By Dana Schutz
Located in New York, NY
Dana Schutz is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for her humorous, gestural paintings that take on specific subjects or narrative situat...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Calling
By Allan Kaprow
Located in New York, NY
Allan Kaprow was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" a...
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American Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Fox, from American Signs portfolio
Located in New York, NY
ROBERT COTTINGHAM
Fox, from American Signs portfolio, 2009
screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins
40 1/8 x 39 1/8 in (101.9 x 99.4 cm)
signed, dated `2009' a...
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Early 2000s American Modern More Prints
Materials
Screen
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