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Medium: Lithograph
FEMME AU CHAPEAU GRIS
Located in Aventura, FL
Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of t...
Category
1980s Cubist Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"G. Contratti & Co. Casa di L Ordine", Aleardo Villa, Lithograph, 54x78, Framed
Located in Dallas, TX
Rare large (2-sheet format) Italian stone lithograph original fashion poster by Aleardo Villa, 1890. This is an advertisement for G. Contratti ...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Gamblers-Poster. Printed in Italy-Fratelli Alinari S.A. Firenze.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster. Image measures 10.5 x 14.5 inches/Paper image is mounted to measures 13.25 x 17.25 inches and is Unframed. Good Condition.
Category
Late 20th Century Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"The Almighty Fiend" Macy's O'Farrell Street Gallery.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
"The Almighty Fiend" is a Gallery Poster featuring the artwork of CHARLES BRAGG (American, b. 1931). It measures approximately 28 x 20.63 inches and is unframed. The piece is Plate-S...
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Late 20th Century Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Artist's Studio-Poster. New York Graphic Society. Printed in Austria.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster. Measures 34.75 x 27.25 inches and is Unframed. Good/Fair Condition.
Category
Late 20th Century Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hendrikje Stoffels-Poster. New York Graphic Society, Ltd.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster. Measures 31 x 25.5 inches and is Unframed. Good/Fair Condition.
Category
1960s Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Brigitte Bardot - Exhibition Poster
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Kees Van Dongen - Brigitte Bardot - Vintage Exhibition Poster
Vintage Brigitte Bardot, exhibition poster for "Les Peintres Témoins de leur Temps" at G...
Category
1960s Modern Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Husband and Wife" signed Lithograph 14"x10" in Edition 22/100 by Hamed Abdalla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Husband and Wife" signed Lithograph 14"x10" in Edition 22/100 by Hamed Abdalla
Hamed Abdallah (1917-1985), a trailblazer in Egyptian and Arab modernism, took his artistic focus one...
Category
20th Century Post-War Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Exposition Dessing D’Humour 75-Galerie Gerard Guerre, Auignon
Located in Clinton Township, MI
JEAN-MICHEL FOLON (Belgian, 1934-2005). Exposition Dessing D’Humour 75, Galerie Gerard Guerre, Auignon-Event Poster. Measures 24.5 x 17.5 inches and is ...
Category
1970s Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eine Frau, Äpfel Schälend-Poster.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster. Measures 36.25 x 29.75 inches and is Unframed. Good/Fair Condition.
Category
1950s Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Beside the Dying, " an Original Lithograph signed by Ben Shahn
By Ben Shahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Beside the Dying" is an original signed lithograph by Ben Shahn. This print is from the series "For the Sake of a Single Verse" and depicts the head of a man in dark gray seemingly asleep or dead on a white background. It is signed lower right and is edition 27/200.
22" x 17" art
32 3/8" x 27 3/8" frame
Ben Shahn (American, September 12, 1898 - March 14, 1969) was a painter, lithographer, and photographer best known for his left-wing political leanings, works of social realism, and The Shape of Content, a publication of his lectures. Shahn was born in Kovno, Lithuania, when the country was still occupied by the Russian Empire. In 1902, Shahn's father, Joshua Hessel, was exiled to Siberia. Shahn then moved to Vilkomir, Lithuania, with his mother, Gittel, and his two siblings. Their family moved to the United States in 1906 to join their father who had fled from exile. After settling in Brooklyn, NY, Shahn began to train in lithography and graphic design, and his favorite medium was egg tempera. In 1919, Shahn enrolled in New York University to study Biology before entering the City College in 1921 to study Art. He also studied Art at the National Academy of Design. In the 1920s, Shahn and his wife traveled around Africa and Europe to study the works of renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881- 1973) and Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953).
In 1933, Shahn worked as an assistant of Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886 - 1957); at this time, Rivera was working on the mural at the Rockefeller Center in New York. Two years later, Shahn was recommended by Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975) to join the Farm Security Administration photographic group. One of the artist’s most famous works is the fresco mural he did for the Jersey Homesteads' community center. Shahn also worked on murals for the state on the Federal Security Building and the Bronx Central Annex Post Office.
During the Second World War, Shahn made a series of paintings laced...
Category
1960s Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Kees van Dongen - The Models - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Kees van Dongen
Title: The Models
Original Lithograph
Edition of 180
Dimensions: 39 x 30 cm
References: Juffermans JL 33
Information :
This lithograph was created for the portfolio ...
Category
1960s Modern Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ann Chernow, Noir I, 2015, 15 Lithographs with printed captions, Rag paper, Ink
By Ann Chernow
Located in Darien, CT
Ann Chernow’s work is based on impressions related to images from movies from the l930s and l940s. She uses film clips, studio publicity material, fan magazines and other memorabilia...
Category
2010s Feminist Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Athena - Original Lithograph
By Enki Bilal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Enki Bilal - Athena - Original Lithograph
Publisher: Amis du Livre
Edition: 240
2012
Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm.
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
2010s Contemporary Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pigment
YOUNG WOMAN, STRIPED TEE SHIRT Signed Lithograph, Realist Portrait, Casual
Located in Union City, NJ
YOUNG WOMAN, STRIPED TEE SHIRT is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism...
Category
1970s Realist Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
after Henri Matisse - Zulma - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri Matisse - Zulma - Lithograph
Artist : Henri MATISSE
posthumous edition of 200 after the original paper cut-out
signature printed in the plate
80 x 60 cm
With stamp of t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Paul Kleinschmidt (German, 1883-1949)
Title: Untitled
Date: 1923
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Signed in pencil
Dimensions: 16.5"h x 13.5"w (sight), 25.5"h x 19"w (with frame)
Provenance: The Estate of Roberta Kimmel Cohn, NY; Property from a Private Estate, NY; ACA Galleries...
Category
1920s Expressionist Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Title Unknown" Limited Edition Print. Pencil-Signed by the Artist
By Savino
Located in Clinton Township, MI
"Title Unknown" Soccer-themed Limited Edition Print (edition number is illegible). Pencil-signed by the artist. Print measures 8 x 7.5 inches and is unframed. The date of creation is...
Category
Late 20th Century Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jane Avril-Poster. Haddad's Fine Art.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster. Measures 22.5 x 17.5 inches and is Unframed. Good/Fair Condition-signs of wear consistent with age and handling.
Exhibited at Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Massac...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Léonard Foujita - Eve With an Apple - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Léonard Foujita
Eve With an Apple
Original Lithograph
Signed in the plate
50 x 38 cm
Reference: Sylvie Buisson #60.29
Léonard Foujita (French/Japanese, 1886–1968)
The Three Grace...
Category
1930s Modern Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Red-Hair - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Red-Hair - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris
Unsigne...
Category
1960s Modern Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Candelabra" Poster, 1979
Located in Clinton Township, MI
1979, Touchstone Publishers, Greenwich, Conn. Printed in U.S.A. Measures 26.5 x 32 inches and is unframed. The piece is in Good Condition.
Category
1970s Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
(Title Unknown) Limited Edition Print-Artist Signature is Illegible
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Limited Edition Print. Signed by artist (signature is illegible). The print measures 24.75 x 19.75 inches and is unframed. The date of creation is unknown, but is believed to be with...
Category
Late 20th Century Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Maternity" Poster, 1979
Located in Clinton Township, MI
1979, Touchstone Publishers, Greenwich, Conn. Printed in U.S.A. Measures 34.5 x 26 inches and is unframed. The piece is in Good Condition.
Category
1970s Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Marine Mountains - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Marine Mountains - Original Lithograph
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 200
In Rives
From: COCTEAU. — VERDET (André). Montagnes marines. S. l. (Paris), Les Messagers du...
Category
1960s Modern Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Auguste Rodin, Impressionist Portrait Etching by John Phillip
By John Phillip
Located in Long Island City, NY
John Phillip, Scottish (1817 - 1867) - Auguste Rodin. Medium: Lithograph, signed, numbered and titled in pencil mounted to board, Edition: 1/10, Image Size: 12.25 x 9.75 inches, Size...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
LA CALERA
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. Edition of 46. All reasonable offers will be considered.
Category
1970s Contemporary Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Théo Tobiasse - A train - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Théo Tobiasse
Title: C'est un train portant un parfum d'odalisque
Signed and Numbered
Dimensions: 57 x 76 cm
Information : Edition of 175
Condition : E...
Category
1980s Surrealist Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Army Hospital Corps Surgeon Institute of Army Education uniform lithograph
Located in London, GB
Army Hospital Corps Surgeon - 1st Class 1866 uniform
Lithograph
50 x 31 cm
Produced for the Institute of Army Education. Printed for HM Stationery Office by I A Limited, Southall 51...
Category
1950s Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Royal Army Service Corps Institute of Army Education military uniform lithograph
Located in London, GB
Royal Army Service Corps (now Royal Logistics Corps) 1954 uniform
Lithograph
50 x 31 cm
Produced for the Institute of Army Education. Printed for HM Stationery Office by I A Limited...
Category
1950s Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Renjishi" framed, hand-signed lithograph from "Kabuki Suite" by Al Hirschfeld
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Renjishi" by Al Hirschfeld from the "Kabuki Suite," a series of 12 color lithographs on Arches paper capturing Hirschfeld's impressions from a trip to Japan in 1975 of the country's...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Standard Bearer-Framed (Reproduction) Print
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Measures 17.75 x 16.25 inches with frame and matting. Image is in Good Condition. Frame and casing are in Fair/Distressed Condition-signs of wear consistent with age and handling (i....
Category
Late 20th Century Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait De Jeune Fille-Poster. Printed in Italy.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster. Measures 19.5 x 14.75 inches and is Unframed. Good Condition.
Category
Late 20th Century Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Young Woman With A Violin-Poster. New York Graphic Society Ltd.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster. Measures 28.5 x 32 inches and is Unframed. Fair/Distressed Condition-signs of wear consistent with age and handling/tear near the title information (please see secondary imag...
Category
1970s Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
(Title Unknown) Algernon-Limited Edition Lithograph, Pencil-signed and Numbered
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Based on characters from "Flowers for Algernon." Limited Edition Lithograph (available in multiple editions out of 50). Print is pencil-signed and numbered by the artist. Good Condit...
Category
1970s Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Late 19th century color lithograph art nouveau ornate bookplate female subject
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In 1897, Alphonse Mucha created illustrations for "Ilsee, Princesse de Tripoli." This double-sided print is a rare proof of an original color lithograph before any text from the story was added. This is a special edition print from edition 252 and is 12/35 on Chinese paper.
4.25" x 5.0625" image
20.75" x 17.5" frame
Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in what is now the Czech Republic. His career began in decorative painting for theater scenery...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Arab Children, " Portrait of Two Figures Lithograph signed by Fletcher Martin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"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...
Category
1940s American Realist Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Le Philosophe au Papillon from Je Reve (I Dream) Portfolio, " signed by Masson
By André Masson
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Philosophe au Papillon" is an original color lithograph from the Je Reve portfolio by surrealist artist Andre Masson. The artist signed the piece i...
Category
1970s Surrealist Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
FIRST DAY OF TRAINING (BOXING)
Located in Aventura, FL
Offset lithograph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 500.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Al...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
MACBETH
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Artwork in excellent condition. Additional images are available upon request. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Of 110. All reasonabl...
Category
1980s Contemporary Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Enki Bilal - Mermaids - Original Lithograph
By Enki Bilal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Enki Bilal - Mermaids - Original Lithograph
Publisher: Amis du Livre
Edition: 240
2012
Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm.
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
2010s Contemporary Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pigment
SHICAGO JUSTUS
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors, on Arches paper. Hand signed, dated & numbered by the artist. Edition of 150. Published by David R. Godine Publishers and the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Category
1970s Contemporary Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Eve - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234)
On the reverse: another black and white original lith...
Category
1960s Modern Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Surrealist Portraits - Handsigned Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Surrealist Portraits
Original Lithograph
Handsigned
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums.
Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931.
Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy,
very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy.
In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture...
Category
1970s Modern Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau (after) - Carmen - Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph after a drawing by Jean Cocteau
Title: Carmen
1971
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Lithograph made for the portfolio "Gitans et Corridas" published by Société de Diffusion Artistique
Category
1960s Modern Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Domergue - Française - Original Signed Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Title: Française
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 31 cm
1956
Edition of 197
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio "La Parisien...
Category
1950s Impressionist Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
NITA NALDI
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed 'Vargas' and numbered by proxy, not the artist. Lithograph on rives. From the edition of 500. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included....
Category
1970s Contemporary Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
A stone lithograph on Vélin de Rives paper after a drawing by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) titled "La Comedie Humaine", 1954, unsigned as issued. From "Verve", no. 29-30,...
Category
1950s Modern Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wifredo Lam - Knight - Original Lithograph
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Wifredo Lam - Knight - Original Lithograph
Published in the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1960s Post-Modern Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled, from The Song of Songs of King Solomon (hand signed lithograph)
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on Japon paper. Hand signed and numbered by Theo Tobiasse. Edition HC LVI (there is also a main edition of 200). Artwork size 30 x 22 inches.
Artwork is i...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Brothers" signed Lithograph 14"x10" in Edition 62/100 by Hamed Abdalla
Located in Culver City, CA
"Brothers" signed Lithograph 14"x10" in Edition 62/100 by Hamed Abdalla
Hamed Abdallah (1917-1985), a trailblazer in Egyptian and Arab modernism, took his artistic focus one step fu...
Category
20th Century Post-War Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Théo Tobiasse - Jerusalem Inside - Original Lithograph with Collage
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Théo Tobiasse
Title: Jerusalem roule le long de ma gorge
Signed and Numbered
Dimensions: 57 x 76 cm
Information : Edition of 175
Condition : Excellent
Category
1980s Surrealist Lithograph Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Hanjo" framed, hand-signed lithograph from 1976 "Kabuki Suite" by Al Hirschfeld
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Hanjo" by Al Hirschfeld from the "Kabuki Suite," a series of 12 color lithographs on Arches paper capturing Hirschfeld's impressions from a trip to Japan in 1975 of the country's cl...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Lithograph 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...
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