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Untitled (Nr. 0894) Photography 18" x 24" Edition of 20 by Rowan Daly
By Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
Untitled (Nr. 0894) Photography 18" x 24" Edition of 20 by Rowan Daly
Unframed - ships rolled in a tube
Ben Cope + Rowan Daly Off the Grid
Off the Grid is the culmination of a six-year photographic journey through Baja, Mexico. Ben Cope and Rowan Daly began their travels in 2014, working their way through the towns of la Salinas, Baja Mar, and Cantamar, down through Ensanada and la Bufadora. This series of photographs depicts the pair’s adventures and explorations. Off the Grid documents the textures, people, and places visited during this incredible journey.
Ben Cope is a Los Angeles based portrait artist with a BFA in ceramic sculpture and photography from Columbus State University. He maintains a successful career with a diverse portfolio including fashion, editorial, celebrity portraiture and advertising. He is widely known for his celebrity and fashion portraiture, which has been published internationally in publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, GQ, The Work Magazine, Fucking Young, and l’Officiel, and has shot international campaigns for such clients as Adidas, L’Oréal, Paul Mitchell, and Vidal Sassoon. He has photographed Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez, David Lynch, Alex Rodriguez...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Horse Neck Clams
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil from the edition of 25. This print was a labor of love. "This is a tribute to my father, Jack Viramontes, who was a carpenter by trade and loved...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Abel Pann Israeli Bezalel School Lithograph Judaica Biblical Print Jewish Art
By Abel Pann
Located in Surfside, FL
Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under...
Category
Mid-20th Century Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Emil Åberg (1864-1940) - Swedish School Early 20th Century Etching, The Council
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking early 0th Century etching showing a characterful group of Swedish men in traditional dress, holding council on the snowy hills of Sweden. The artist has signed in plate an...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Signed Original Pastoral Etching by John E. Costigan
Located in New York, NY
This original, limited edition etching, was realized by the esteemed American artist John E. Costigan, who is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Philips M...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
"1398 antique girl" 5/20 Fine Art Print, Portrait, 21st Century
By Roger König
Located in Dessau-Rosslau, Sachsen Anhalt
Artist: Roger König (1968)
OriginalTitle:"1398 antique girl"
Year: 2024
Fine art print
Motif dimensions: 9.84" x 9.84" (25 x 25 cm)
Outer dimensions: 15...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Pigment
John F. Kennedy / Abraham Lincoln, Op Art Screenprint by Yvaral
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jean-Pierre Vasarely - "Yvaral" French (1934 - 2002)
Title: John F. Kennedy / Abraham Lincoln
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 14...
Category
1970s Op Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Lemon Blondie - Signed Limited Edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Lemon Blondie by BATIK
Archival pigment pop art print of pop culture icon Debbie Harry of punk rock glam band Blondie –
signed and numbered on front by the artist
limited edition ...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pierre Bonnard - Sunset on the Mediterranean - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pierre Bonnard - Sunset on the Mediterranean
Original Lithograph
Dimensions: 36 x 54 cm
Verve . Revue Artistique et Litteraire. Vol. II, No 8.
Printed by Mourlot at the start of Worl...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abel Pann Israeli Bezalel School Lithograph Judaica Biblical Print Jewish Art
By Abel Pann
Located in Surfside, FL
Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under...
Category
Mid-20th Century Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abel Pann Israeli Bezalel School Lithograph Judaica Biblical Print Jewish Art
By Abel Pann
Located in Surfside, FL
Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under...
Category
Mid-20th Century Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mabuse, Woodcut Print on Rice Paper, circa 1950 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 ...
Category
1950s Surrealist Portrait Prints
Materials
Rice Paper, Woodcut
3 Days (AP 6/6)
Located in Dallas, TX
Archival Pigment Print On 300 gsm Somerset Paper
With 2 layer screen print
Edition of 50
Signed And Numbered By The Artist
59.5 X 49.5 Cm
2019
Comes with Certificate Of Authent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
$528 Sale Price
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Lover's Embrace (framed hand signed serigraph)
By Aldo Luongo
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Artwork size 30 x 31 inches. Image size 26.25 x 26.5 inches. Frame size 40 x 40 inches. AP edition of 50.
A...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen, Paper
$840 Sale Price
30% Off
Sheri, Pop Art Lithograph by Dan Leighton
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dan Leighton, American XXth
Title: Sheri
Year: circa 1987
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 267/270
Size: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Category
1980s 85 New Wave Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abel Pann Israeli Bezalel School Lithograph Judaica Biblical Print Jewish Art
By Abel Pann
Located in Surfside, FL
Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under...
Category
Mid-20th Century Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abel Pann Israeli Bezalel School Lithograph Judaica Biblical Print Jewish Art
By Abel Pann
Located in Surfside, FL
Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under...
Category
Mid-20th Century Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abel Pann Israeli Bezalel School Lithograph Judaica Biblical Print Jewish Art
By Abel Pann
Located in Surfside, FL
Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under...
Category
Mid-20th Century Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abel Pann Israeli Bezalel School Lithograph Judaica Biblical Print Jewish Art
By Abel Pann
Located in Surfside, FL
Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under...
Category
Mid-20th Century Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abel Pann Israeli Bezalel School Lithograph Judaica Biblical Print Jewish Art
By Abel Pann
Located in Surfside, FL
Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under...
Category
Mid-20th Century Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abel Pann Israeli Bezalel School Lithograph Judaica Biblical Print Jewish Art
By Abel Pann
Located in Surfside, FL
Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under...
Category
Mid-20th Century Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PRECIOUS MOMENTS
By Pino Daeni
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on on deluxe paper. Hand signed and numbered on front by the artist. Image size 19.25 x 26 in. Frame size approx 27 x 34 in. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Giclée
$1,050 Sale Price
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Smoking Blonde, Pop Art Screenprint by Allan D'Arcangelo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Smoking Blonde
Allan D’Arcangelo, American (1930–1998)
Date: 1990
Screenprint, signed, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition of 57/65
Size: 37 x 46.5 in. (93.98 x 118.11 cm)
Frame Siz...
Category
1990s Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
WEST BANK CAFE
By Isaac Maimon
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size approx 32.25 x 44.25 inches. From the main edition of 275.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$497 Sale Price
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Agent X, George Michael, Limited Edition Print, Celebrity Art, Bright Pop Art
By Agent X
Located in Deddington, GB
Agent X
GEORGE MICHAEL
Limited Edition Giclee Print
Edition of 50
Paper Size: 101 cm x 78 cm x 1cm
Sold Unframed
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Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
Pop Art for the twenty-first century, ‘George Michael’ depicts the late singer in all his 80s glory – thick, coiffed hair; single crucifix earring...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Interior Prints
Materials
Paper, Giclée
"Mother and Child" A Signed Limited Edition Etching by John E. Costigan
Located in New York, NY
This original, limited edition etching, was realized by the esteemed American artist John E. Costigan, circa 1930. He is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, th...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
A Long Time Ago (framed hand signed serigraph)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed lower right by Peter Max. Hand numbered HC IV lower left. Published by AMX Art Ltd., NY and printed by Joseph Kleineman, NY. Printworld D...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$2,065 Sale Price
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"Saint George Contemplating Mustache" Comical Collage USA President Washington
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Yan Macs (Latvian, 1933 - 1993)
Size: 8 x 13 in.
Framed: 17.5 x 22 in.
Mixed media: found lithographs and blue paint.
This triptych, titled "St. George Contemplating a Mous...
Category
20th Century Dada Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Lithograph
Gyals BW- Contemporary Digital Illustration of Three Women (Black+White) (1/20)
Located in Gilroy, CA
“Gyals BW,” created by Washington DC-based emerging artist Samantha Viotty, is the digital illustration of a found image. This image goes in conjunction with the full-colored piece "...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Digital
Olivia 2
By Alex Katz
Located in Fairfield, CT
Silkscreen in colors on Saunders Waterford High White HP 425 gsm fine art paper
Edition of 50
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$14,000
Lisa Takahashi, Breeze, Limited Edition Cycling Print, RA Summer Exhibition Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Lisa Takahashi.
Breeze
Signed by the artist
Linocut print
Limited edition of 100
Image size is H: 61cm x W:89cm
Paper size is H: 70cm x W:100cm x D:0.1c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Portrait, Etching and Aquatint by Saint Clair Cemin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Saint Clair Cemin, Brazilian (1951 - )
Title: Portrait
Year: 1980
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed, Dated, and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: 75
Image Size: 9 x 11.5 inche...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
20th century color lithograph figurative print male subjects sketch scene signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Lecon Du Professor Tulp" is an original lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. The artist signed the piece lower right and wrote the edition (ETAT) in the lower left. This piece depicts ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Shepard Fairey "Swan Song" Silkscreen Print Gold Metallic Inks Contemporary Art
Located in Draper, UT
Manufacturer:
Obey Giant
Edition Details:
Year: 2023
Class: Art Print
Status: Official
Run: 68/550
Technique: Screen Print
Paper: Fine Art Thick Cream Speckletone
Size: 36 X 24
Mark...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Gold
SELF - TIEMANN PLACE
By Arthur Cohen
Located in Portland, ME
Cohen, Arthur Morris (American, 1928-2012). SELF - TIEMANN PLACE. Etching, not dated. Edition of 25, numbered 1/25, titled and signed, all in pencil. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (plate), 4 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Surrealist "Babies DJ" Portrait inspired in Old Masters. Giclée Print
Located in Segovia, ES
Babies DJ.
Funny and touching image composed by Spanish artist Pablo de Pinini as a reinterpretation of past masterpieces, in which contemporary or futuristic elements burst in in u...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée, Canvas
Yellow Shutters
Located in Austin, TX
Stephen Scott Young, "Yellow Shutters"
Etching on German copperplate paper
5.5 x 7.5 in. [sight], 13.25 x 14.75 in. [framed]
Pencil-signed lower right, titled lower center, and num...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Copper
Reflections, Lithograph by Paul Chelko
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul Chelko
Title: Reflections
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: PP 9/10
Paper Size: 24 x 34.5 inches
Category
1980s 85 New Wave Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Busy Woman
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Busy Woman" Artist Proof, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s
Depicts a woman sewing.
Color: Black and White
...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Beach Family
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Beach Family" Edition of 125, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1963
Depicts family in swimsuits and towels on a h...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
19th century color lithograph portraits ship seascape patriotic flags military
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present hand-colored lithograph is an excellent example of patriotic mid-nineteenth century American imagery. The print shows the battle and several of the major figures involved in the Battle of Lake Erie: At the center is a view of several frigates on the lake, embroiled in conflict. Above the battle is the quotation: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." Surrounding are laurel-lined roundels with portraits of Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819), Stephen Dicateur (1779-1820), Johnston Blakeley (1871-1814), William Bainbridge (1774-1833), David Porter (1780-1843), and James Lawrence (1781-1813) - all of these framed by American flags, banners and cannons. This print shows that the Battle of Lake Erie, part of the War of 1812, still held resonance for American audiences several decades later and was part of the larger narrative of the founding of the country.
9.5 x 13.5 inches, artwork
20 x 23.38 inches, frame
Entitled in the image
Signed in the stone, lower left "Lith. and Pub. by N. Currier"
Inscribed lower right "2 Spruce N.Y." and "No. 1"
Copyrighted lower center "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1846 by N. Currier in the Clerk's office of the Southern District of N.Y."
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and housed in a gold gilded moulding.
Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton.
A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America.
Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper.
In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business.
The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’
Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier.
Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published.
The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years.
In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death.
The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day.
Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives.
In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss.
Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife.
Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends.
Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production.
Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes.
Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier).
Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907.
Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey.
In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
Category
1850s Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Albert Gold Depression Era Philadelphia Artist Lithograph - Sunday Trolley
By Albert Gold
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Original Lithograph by Depression-era Philadelphia artist Albert Gold (1916-2006).
This work depicts the trolley on Sunday in downtown Philly. The image measures 10 ½ x 13 ½ inches, ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Maler mit Frau vor Spiegel
By Fritz Aigner
Located in Wien, 9
Fritz Aigner (1930 - 2005) was an Austrian artist who has been a solitary figure in the Austrian art scene of the 20th century throughout his life, defying any categorisation of art ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
See Me, Countryside
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1-11, 18-32
ARTIST STATEMENT
“Debbie Do Dallas” read the handwritten label on a plain black VCR tape tucked in amongst my father’s collection of westerns and adventure movies...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper
Portrait of an Elderly Woman Praying at a Table Etching
Located in Houston, TX
Portrait of a woman praying at a table with food. In the corner a cat reaching up to see over the table. The etching is signed by the artist in the botto...
Category
1910s Naturalistic Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Satan /// Surrealism Modern Andre Masson French Lithograph Mythological Art
By André Masson
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: André Masson (French, 1896-1987)
Title: "Satan"
Portfolio: Je Rêve (I Dream)
*Signed by Masson in pencil lower center
Year: 1975
Medium: Original Lithograph on Arches paper
L...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - The Elegant Toreador - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: The Elegant Toreador
1961
Dimensions: 28 x 38 cm
Lithograph made for the portfolio "Gitans et Corridas" published by Société de D...
Category
1960s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
FLEETING MOMENT
By Pino Daeni
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on canvas. Hand signed and numbered on front by the artist. Image size 32 x 40 in. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition of 295. Not...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Canvas, Giclée
$1,396 Sale Price
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MEDITATION AND MINOU
By Will Barnet
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, titled, dated and numbered by the artist. Image size 22 x 28 inches. Sheet size 28 x 34 inches. Custom framed as pictured. From the main edition of 150.
Artwork i...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,765 Sale Price
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The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso
The Human Comedy - Lithograph after an original drawing, as published in the journal "Verve"
Printed signature and date
Dimensi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Crucifixion, Realist Lithograph by Joseph Hirsch
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joseph Hirsch, American (1901 - 1981)
Title: The Crucifixion
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: 100
Si...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Pablo Picasso - The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Signed and dated in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
This artwork is a lithograph in colors on wov...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Jockey, Framed Pop Art Lithograph by Peter Max 1981
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
This lithograph was created by American Pop artist Peter Max. Max' work is an indispensable guide for cultural literacy of the 1960s, and it commands a large following worldwide. He ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Promises, Lithograph by Paul Chelko
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul Chelko
Title: Promises
Medium: Lithograph, signed, titled, and numbered in pencil
Edition: PP 6/10
Paper Size: 24 x 34.5 inches
Category
1980s 85 New Wave Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait Etching of English Victorian Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Located in Houston, TX
Etching of a woman dressed in turn of the century attire looking out at the viewer. The work is signed in pencil by the artist. The etching is not framed.
Artist Biography: William...
Category
1910s Naturalistic Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Europe's Faces - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Title: Europe's Faces
printed signature
Dimensions: 33 x 46 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Sciaky
1961
Jean Cocteau
Writer, artist and film director Jea...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Europe and the World - Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Europe and the World
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 33 x 46 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Sciaky
1961
Category
1960s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
HOMAGE TO DALI
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on canvas. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. AP edition. Canvas is not stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Interior Prints
Materials
Canvas, Giclée
$500 Sale Price
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THREE FACES
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered 'HC 27' by Peter Max. Frame size approx 31 x 40 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity i...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$2,765 Sale Price
30% Off
"Portrait of a Woman"
Located in San Antonio, TX
Margaret Putnam
(1913-1989)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2
Frame Size: 15 1/4 x 17 1/4
Medium: Lithograph
"Portrait of a Woman"
Biography
Margaret Putnam (1913-1987)
...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph