American Impressionist Portrait Prints

William Henry Brown (American, 1803-1883) Silhouette Portrait of John Tyler, 1844 Lithograph Sight: 14 1/2 x 10 3/8 in. (image) Framed: 20 1/8 x 14...

Some of his prints were published by the WPA. it is a wood engraving signed in pencil. From a small edition. Albert Abramovitz (1879-1963), bor...

Some of his prints were published by the WPA some were done in Soviet Moscow in Russia.. it is a wood engraving signed in pencil. From a small edition. Albert Abramovitz (1879-1963...

Some of his prints were published by the WPA some were done in Soviet moscow in Russia.. it is a wood engraving signed in pencil. From a small edition. Albert Abramovitz (1879-1963...

"Eternal Problem" - 1924 Etching on Paper Etching on paper titled "Eternal Problem" by Elias M. Grossman (American, 1898-1947). A bearded rabbi is portrayed thinking with his hand p...

Female Figure Underwater Realist Etching --"Separation" by Carol Bennett Unique etching of a female figure submersed beneath the surface of water by California and Hawaii artist Ca...

Collotype in colors on paper. Unsigned. Title and copyright info in typeset lower margin. Artwork is in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered.

Collotype in colors on paper. Unsigned. Title and copyright info in typeset lower margin. Artwork is in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered.

Collotype in colors on paper. Unsigned. Published in 1972. Copyright info in typeset lower margin. Artwork is in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered.

Original “Stocks Americans” vintage poster. Linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. No paper loss, no fold marks, clean and bright. Distress on one letter “S” in A...

Some of his prints were published by the WPA. it is a wood engraving signed in pencil. From a small edition. It measures 12 X 12.5 full sheet with margins. image is smaller. Albert...

Collotype in colors on paper. Unsigned. Title and copyright info in typeset lower margin. Artwork is in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered.

Original American Red Cross vintage poster. Linen backed and ready to frame. The Red Cross nurse warming thousands, feeding thousands, hea...

Original "Beware Spreading Vital Information Will Undermine Our War Effort. Do your Part In Silence" vintage World War 2 poster. Ori...

Original INDUSTRY THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY, vintage poster. Defense in the field begins in the factory. National Association of Manufacturers. Linen backed in excellent condit...

Original poster: The Sesquicentennial International Exposition Philadelphia. June First to December First, 1926. "The Voice of the Liberty Bell." Original vintage poster, line...

Collotype in colors on paper. Unsigned. Title and copyright info in typeset lower margin. Artwork is in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered.

One hundred years ago 1805-1905 original print signed and dated 1905 by Albert w holden (British, 1848-1932) features a royal naval seaman admiring portraits and art wall in the form...

Mid-century portrait of a young girl by a window by acclaimed California artist Ben Messick (American, 1891-1981). Signed "Ben Messick" in plate, and in pencil in the lower right corner, by the estate. Presented in an off-white mat. Unframed. Paper size: 12"H x 12"W The following is submitted by Jim Lafferty whose sources include the autobiography of the artist: William Washington Messick married Sarah A. Bristow January 2,1889 and from this marriage a son, Benjamin Newton Messick was born on January 9, 1891 on a farm near Strafford, Missouri. His art talent was apparent from the time he was a child and later recognized by his commanding officer in World War I. He completed his training in Los Angeles at Chouinard in the late-1920s and is well-known for his Regionalist scenes and Modernist paintings. He was an instructor at Chouinard through the 1950s & influenced a generation of LA Modernists. Little is recorded in his autobiography about Messick's life from his teen years and service during the War. He enrolled at Chouinard Institute in the Fall of 1925, and was given a three-year scholarship by Mrs. Chouinard. In 1925 he won a cash award at the Los Angeles County Fair for a group of pen and charcoal drawings done in the parks and streets of Los Angeles. These works give the appearance of being spontaneous and fluid. In 1930 Messick left Chouinard as a full-time student and rented an apartment on West Eighth Street to use as a studio and living quarters. He had his own ideas on what he was trying to accomplish in art. "If you should ask what is the message of my drawings, I should say that they may explain themselves or may be just a technical exercise." By the mid 1940s, Messick's position in the art world had been well established as a teacher, painter, printmaker, writer and critic. Over his life time he had over 400 shows and exhibitions. Starting in 1939 he produced a number of stone lithographs that appear to the untrained eye as original drawings. To Messick the image was the most important aspect of his lithographs, and his signature in the plate was sufficient. Hand signing each lithograph did not seem necessary to him. He exhibited prints widely including the Albany Print Club and the Metropolitian Museum. To further substantiate the authenticity of Messick's prints the Eclectic Gallery under the authority of the Messick family posthumously pencil signed each estate-acquired stone lithograph. Messick had a childhood fascination with the circus and started drawing and painting the circus in 1935. His circus work, especially his clown studies, and his lithographs became his trademark work for in the 1940s and 1950s. A critic for ART REVIEW described his Big Top work this way: "His circus canvases...

Original theatrer release for: The Wizard of Oz Children's Matinees vintage movie poster. With Judy Garland, re-release 1972 movie poster. Linen backed. Professionally restored original fold marks. 1972 rerelease of this movie shown in movie theaters.. Starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger...

Early 20th Century Miniature Etching, Portrait of an Old Woman by Ralph Sweet Compelling early 20th century small-scale figurative etching of an old...

Some of his prints were published by the WPA. it is a wood engraving signed in pencil. From a small edition. Albert Abramovitz (1879-1963), born in Riga, Latvia, on January 24, 187...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size approx 20 x 15 inches.. Frame size approx 33 x 27 inches. From the main edition of 200. Artwork is in excellent condition. Ce...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Sheet size 27 x 21 inches. Frame size approx 36 x 30 inches. From the edition of 200. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of A...

From Poor Richard's Almanac portfolio. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Lithograph on arches. Sheet size 25.5 x 19.5 inches. Image size approx 16.75 x 13.5 inches. From t...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Lithograph on arches paper. Edition of 200. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size approx 20.5 x 16 inches. Frame size approx 32 x 27 inches. From the edition of 200. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certific...

Original American work incentive poster: ‘HE IS RISEN”. Artist: Willared Frederick Elmes. This isn't actually a war/propaganda poster per se, but it was produced by Mather & Co. Elmes was an artist similar to Mather in that they were both prolific with their morale + work incentive posters in the 1930s. Elmes also created other pieces done for the early railway posters. The poster with the stained-glass panel in the back and the ray of light shining in is the last Mather & Company poster printed (1930). All others were printed in 1929 and earlier. The very last in the Work Incentive Mather’s posters...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From Tom Sawyer Portfolio. Sheet size 25.5 x 19.5 inches. Image size approx 17 x 13 inches. Frame size approx 28 x 24 inches. AP edition. ...

From the 'American Family' portfolio. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Lithograph on arches paper. Printed by Atelier Mourlot, Paris. Published by Raymond & Raymond, Inc. in ...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From Tom Sawyer Portfolio. Sheet size 25.5 x 19.5 inches. Image size approx 17 x 13 inches. Frame size approx 30 x 26 inches. From the editi...

From Poor Richard's Almanac portfolio. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Lithograph on arches. Sheet size 25.5 x 19.5 inches. Image size approx 16.75 x 13.5 inches. From t...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From Tom Sawyer Portfolio. Sheet size 25.5 x 19.5 inches. Image size approx 17 x 13 inches. Frame size approx 30 x 26 inches. From the editi...

Lithograph of a figure of a woman by Jim Smyth (American, b. 1938). Numbered, titled, signed and dated "3/12", "Study 8", "Smyth 74” along the bottom edge. Unframed. Jim Smyth has studied at the Academia de Belle Arti in Fiorenza, Italy, Ecole des BeauxArts in Geneva, New York Academy, and the Art Students League. He is also a graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in Fine Art. Although academically trained, Smyth practices and teaches a more impressionistic style of painting, focusing on the Alla Prima technique. He is particularly knowledgeable about drawing, perspective, color theory and the human figure, his passion. Smyth, with extensive academic knowledge, has a profound love of all human representations as illustrated by his humorous quick sketches from life. He also practices and teaches oil painting and pastels. When not in Provence, or Southeastern France, Smyth teaches intensely in art schools, art centers and several colleges in the Bay Area. He is a beloved instructor and his classes fill in quickly as he is very knowledgeable. On his return to the United States, he began studying with Mr. Alanson Appleton at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. Smyth was a founding member of the Appletree Etchers, Inc., an etching print shop organized by Mr. Appleton and his students to develop and promote color intaglio. Smyth served as Master Printer at the studio for many years perfecting the techniques of intaglio and developing the color theories of Mr. Appleton as applied to the deeply etched plate. Smyth received his degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972 and holds the California Community College Certificate and an Adult Education Certificate. Smyth was invited to teach "Anatomy for Artists" at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, as a result of his many years of dissection of the cadaver and developed the course of study of Perspective for the college. During this period, he began teaching Life Drawing at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California. During the following thirty years Smyth has taught an average of twelve classes per week at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, the Palo Alto Art Center and the Burlingame Recreation Department among others in all phases of drawing and painting. He has conducted many workshops for the California Academy of Painters in many aspects of drawing and painting. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of Drawing at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. He is an authority on the materials of painting and drawing, techniques of traditional drawing and painting, color theory, perspective and anatomy for artists. In his career in Life Drawing, Smyth has made over two hundred thousand drawings from the model. In addition to studies at Berkeley, Smyth has studied at the College of San Mateo, Foothill College, De Anza College, Mission College, and West Valley College, all in California. One of the pivotal points in his career was studying with Mr. Maynard Dixon Stewart at the University of San Jose, California. He spent a year at the New York Academy of Art where he was offered a full scholarship and at the Art Students League of New York. He concurrently attended classes at the National Academy of Design in New York. Among others, Smyth studied with M. Andrejivec, Ted Schmidt, Elliot Goldfinger, Gary Fagin, Ted Jacobs, Leo Neufeld, David Leffel, Jack Ferragasso, Jim Childs and Everett Raymond Kinstler and Kim English. Smyth has also studied with the noted painter and colorist, Ovanes Berberian...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size approx 17.25 x 13.25 inches. Frame size approx 30 x 26 inches. From the edition of 200. Artwork is in excellent condition. Cert...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From School Days portfolio. Artwork size 26 x 20 inches. Frame size approx 30 x 26 inches. Edition of 200. Artwork is in excellent condi...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From Tom Sawyer Portfolio. Sheet size 25.5 x 19.5 inches. Image size approx 17 x 13 inches. Frame size approx 30 x 26 inches. From the editi...

From Poor Richard's Almanac portfolio. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Lithograph on arches. Sheet size 25.5 x 19.5 inches. Image size approx 16.75 x 13.5 inches. From t...

From the 'American Family' portfolio. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Lithograph on arches paper. Printed by Atelier Mourlot, Paris. Published by Raymond & Raymond, Inc. in ...

From Poor Richard's Almanac portfolio. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Lithograph on arches. Sheet size 25.5 x 19.5 inches. Image size approx 16.75 x 13.5 inches. From t...

Venus. 1859. Etching and drypoint. Kennedy catalog 59 state ii; Glasgow catalog 60 state ii. 6 x 9 (sheet 8 x 11 3/16). Glasgow records 27 known impressions. A very rich impression p...

Rotherhithe (Originally published as Wapping). 1860. Etching. Kennedy catalog 66 state iii; Glasgow catalog 70. state vi. 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 (sheet 12 7/8 x 9 1/2). Series: "Sixteen Etc...

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...

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...

Some of his prints were published by the WPA some were done in Soviet Moscow in Russia.. it is a wood engraving signed in pencil. From a small edition. Albert Abramovitz (1879-1963...

Richard Segalman Beach Friends I, 2007 monotype 30 x 22 1/4 in. (76.2 x 56.5 cm)

Some of his prints were published by the WPA some were done in Soviet moscow in Russia.. it is a wood engraving signed in pencil. From a small edition. Albert Abramovitz (1879-1963...