Leonard Baskin

"Helen Goes Ahead- Crow, " an Original Lithograph signed by Leonard Baskin

1993

"Love Letter, After Kunimasa" is a hand-painted lithograph by Michael Knigin. It is signed in the lower right and is edition 16/200. This print is inspired by the Ukiyo-e prints of U...

"Arab Children" is an original lithograph by Fletcher Martin. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece features two young children--a boy and a girl--with downcast eyes in draped fabric clothes in an interior. 12" x 8" art 22" x 18" frame Fletcher Martin was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and educator. He is best known for his images of soldier life during World War II and his sometimes brutal images of boxing and other sports. His artistic skills were largely self-taught. He worked as a printer in Los Angeles in the late 1920s, and as an assistant to Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros in the early 1930s. He taught at local art schools such as Otis Art Institute. He won commissions to paint murals for the New Deal's Section of Painting and Sculpture, including Mail Transportation (1938), painted for the San Pedro Federal Building and Post Office in Los Angeles. Under the WPA he painted a mural study for the Kellogg, Idaho post office titled Mine Rescue (1939). Local industrialists objected that it depicted the dangers of mining, while officials of the Mine & Smelt Workers Union praised it. The industrialists prevailed and Martin painted an uncontroversial mural, Discovery (1941), depicting the prospector who founded the town. The rejected mural study is now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Perhaps his most ambitious mural, also done under the WPA, was painted for North Hollywood High School in Los Angeles. Legends of Fernandino and Gabrileno Indians (1937) depicts overlapping scenes of Native American life and ritual, and the world being carried on the backs of giants. As an artist-correspondent for Life Magazine during World War II, he made hundreds of sketches of U.S. soldier life. Fourteen of his paintings from the North African campaign were published in the December 27, 1943 issue of Life, and brought him national recognition. Among these was Boy Picking Flowers...

Niño Payaso is an original hand drawn stone lithograph by the Mexican artist Rafael Coronel. Niño Payaso was printed one color at a time on archival printmaking paper using traditional hand lithography techniques in Paris c.1973 from lithographic stones drawn by the artist. Niño Payaso is a sensitive profile portrait depicting a young boy wearing an antique-style clown outfit whose image suggests a deeply dispirited child at a moment of gloom; a very strong impression printed in rust orange, light beige and black ink on buff colored paper. Framed size - 24 x 30 in., dark brown Mexican wood frame...

CITY GROUP is an original hand drawn lithograph by the NY figurative expressionist painter, Lester Johnson. Printed using hand lithography techniques on archival printmaking paper 10...