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Style: American Modern
Period: 20th Century
A Charming Lithograph of a Carnival by Children's Book Illustrator, Jo Poulson
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming ca. 1935 lithograph of children on a carousel, created by children's book illustrator, Jo Poulson. Artwork size: 10" x 14". Archivally matted to 16" x 20".
In 1904, Josephine Hollingsworth Poulson was born in Lebanon Indiana. In 1926, she graduated from the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and in 1929, she moved to Chicago to become an illustrator of children’s books. She continued her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, studying with Francis Chapin. In 1942, she had a one-woman show of her watercolors at the Hoosier Art...
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
20th century woodcut ink black and white figures musical instruments dramatic
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Chamber Music" is an original wood engraving by Robert Franz von Neumann. It features a room full of men in the thralls of creating music together. A small audience stands outside their circle.
Image: 5.5" x 7"
Framed: 14" x 15.56"
1888 - 1976 Born in Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany, Robert von Neumann...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Modernist Silkscreen Screenprint 'El Station, Interior' NYC Subway, WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
screenprint printed in color ink on wove paper. New York City subway station interior.
Anthony Velonis (1911 – 1997) was an American painter and designer born in New York City who helped introduce the public to silkscreen printing in the early 20th century.
While employed under the federal Works Progress Administration, WPA during the Great Depression, Velonis brought the use of silkscreen printing as a fine art form, referred to as the "serigraph," into the mainstream. By his own request, he was not publicly credited for coining the term.
He experimented and mastered techniques to print on a wide variety of materials, such as glass, plastics, and metal, thereby expanding the field. In the mid to late 20th century, the silkscreen technique became popular among other artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.
Velonis was born into a relatively poor background of a Greek immigrant family and grew up in the tenements of New York City. Early on, he took creative inspiration from figures in his life such as his grandfather, an immigrant from the mountains in Greece, who was "an ecclesiastical painter, on Byzantine style." Velonis attended James Monroe High School in The Bronx, where he took on minor artistic roles such as the illustration of his high school yearbook. He eventually received a scholarship to the NYU College of Fine Arts, into which he was both surprised and ecstatic to have been admitted. Around this time he took to painting, watercolor, and sculpture, as well as various other art forms, hoping to find a niche that fit. He attended NYU until 1929, when the Great Depression started in the United States after the stock market crash.
Around the year 1932, Velonis became interested in silk screen, together with fellow artist Fritz Brosius, and decided to investigate the practice. Working in his brother's sign shop, Velonis was able to master the silkscreen process. He reminisced in an interview three decades later that doing so was "plenty of fun," and that a lot of technology can be discovered through hard work, more so if it is worked on "little by little."
Velonis was hired by Mayor LaGuardia in 1934 to promote the work of New York's city government via posters publicizing city projects. One such project required him to go on a commercial fishing trip to locations including New Bedford and Nantucket for a fortnight, where he primarily took photographs and notes, and made sketches. Afterward, for a period of roughly six months, he was occupied with creating paintings from these records. During this trip, Velonis developed true respect and affinity for the fishermen with whom he traveled, "the relatively uneducated person," in his words.
Following this, Velonis began work with the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), an offshoot of the Civil Works Administration (CWA), where he was assigned to serve the different city departments of New York. After the formation of the federal Works Progress Administration, which hired artists and sponsored projects in the arts, he also worked in theater.
Velonis began working for the federal WPA in 1935. He kept this position until 1936 or 1938, at which point he began working in the graphic art division of the Federal Art Project, which he ultimately led. Under various elements of the WPA program, many young artists, writers and actors gained employment that helped them survive during the Depression, as well as contributing works that created an artistic legacy for the country.
When interviewed in December 1994 by the Library of Congress about his time in the WPA, Velonis reflected that he had greatly enjoyed that period, saying that he liked the "excitement" and "meeting all the other artists with different points of view." He also said in a later interview that "the contact and the dialogue with all those artists and the work that took place was just invaluable." Among the young artists he hired was Edmond Casarella, who later developed an innovative technique using layered cardboard for woodcuts.
Velonis introduced silkscreen printing to the Poster Division of the WPA. As he recalled in a 1965 interview: "I suggested that the Poster division would be a lot more productive and useful if they had an auxiliary screen printing project that worked along with them. And apparently this was very favorably received..."
As a member of the Federal Art Project, a subdivision of the WPA, Velonis later approached the Public Use of Arts Committee (PUAC) for help in "propagandizing for art in the parks, in the subways, et cetera." Since the Federal Art Project could not be "self-promoting," an outside organization was required to advertise their art more extensively. During his employment with the Federal Art Project, Velonis created nine silkscreen posters for the federal government.
Around 1937-1939 Velonis wrote a pamphlet titled "Technical Problems of the Artist: Technique of the Silkscreen Process," which was distributed to art centers run by the WPA around the country. It was considered very influential in encouraging artists to try this relatively inexpensive technique and stimulated printmaking across the country.
In 1939, Velonis founded the Creative Printmakers Group, along with three others, including Hyman Warsager. They printed both their own works and those of other artists in their facility. This was considered the most important silkscreen shop of the period.
The next year, Velonis founded the National Serigraph Society. It started out with relatively small commercial projects, such as "rather fancy" Christmas cards that were sold to many of the upscale Fifth Avenue shops...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Wrexham Tower, Yale University
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on watermarked cream laid J Perrigot Arches paper, 15 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches (400 x 248 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and dedicated to the the artist Ruth Knobl...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Mediterranean, Signed Cubist Lithograph by Remo Farruggio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mediterranean
Remo Farruggio, Italian/American (1904–1981)
Date: Circa 1979
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 300, AP 35
Image Size: 21 x 29 inches
Size: 28 in. x ...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Location Proposal Iris Print Ed. 12 Hand Signed Architectural Study
Located in Surfside, FL
Cindy Bernard’s career spans nearly three decades and she is best known for photographs and projections that explore the relationship between cinema, memory, and landscape including the widely exhibited series Ask the Dust (1988-92), now in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (21 part set), the Pompidou, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, California Arts Council, Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman, the Harpo Foundation, California Community Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan, and was included in the Whitney and Lyon Biennials.
In addition to her visual practice, Bernard takes an active interest in the spaces and production of social exchange. She was a director and advisor to Foundation for Art Resources from 1985 to 1990, a founding director of the Coalition for Freedom of Expression, and co-founder of MOCA Mobilization. Bernard is also the founder and director of The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS), an organization she began in response to the need for a flexible and sustainable association dedicated to experimental music in Los Angeles. She has curated and produced more than 50 concerts for SASSAS including Welcome Inn Time Machine for Pacific Standard Time in 2012.
Her interest in sound has spurred several projects including a series of photographs of municipal band shells which Bernard sees as an architecture of public exchange and The Inquisitive Musician, an adaptation of a 17th century German satire, Musicus Curiosus, or Battalus, the Inquisitive Musician; the Struggle for Precedence between the Kunst Pfeifer and the Common Players. The Inquisitive Musician pits itinerant “beer fiddlers” against the city sanctioned “Kunstpfeifer” in an argument over who has the right to perform and be compensated. Presented as a staged reading incorporating video and live music, The Inquisitive Musician has been performed in New York, in Los Angeles at the LA County Museum of Art, and most recently at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in June 2013.
Current projects include Vinland, a meditation on the complex and continually shifting relationships between spaces, social and economic structures, and personal and collective histories and, more recently, an “episodic” series based on the history of social nudism: Your Personal View of (Social) Nudism.
Bernard is a Adjunct Professor of Graduate Fine Art at Art Center College of Art and Design and was appointed the inaugural Ruffin Distinguished Artist-In-Residence at the University of Virginia for the academic year 2013/2014. She was a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow at the MacDowell Colony and will be in residence at the UCross Foundation in 2017.
Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp, text and photo combinations by Bill Barminski and Nancy Dwyer...
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1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color
Marlborough Godard Toronto
By Henry Moore
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original poster was created for Henry Moore’s 1974 exhibition at Marlborough Godard Gallery in Toronto, featuring one of the artist’s classic images from his evocative collectio...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Mine Near Continental Divide – 1930s Winter Landscape of Colorado Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
This rare 1933 lithograph by renowned modernist artist Arnold Rönnebeck captures a dramatic black-and-white winter scene of a Colorado mountain mine, blanketed in snow. The bold cont...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
1933 American Art Lithograph, Clear Creek Canyon by Ross Braught, Colorado
Located in Denver, CO
This striking original lithograph, Clear Creek Canyon I (Colorado), was created in 1933 by acclaimed American artist Ross Eugene Braught (1898–1983). A master of landscape and form, ...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Building a Babylon, Tudor City, NY.
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
McCarron 76. 12 7/8 x 7 7/8 (sheet 16 5/8 x 12 1/4). 6th trial proof (McCarron records 84 impressions including 4 trial proofs). Illustrated L'Amérique de la Dépression: Artistes En...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Sad Robot
Located in New York, NY
Tony Fitzpatrick is an American artist born in 1958 and based in Chicago.
He graduated from Montini Catholic High School in Lombard, Illinois in 1977.[1] In the early 1980s, Fitzp...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
'Winter Silhouettes, ' offset lithograph by Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Winter Silhouettes,' a small and delicate print, is an original offset lithograph by the Milwaukee artist Schomer Lichtner. The composition displays registers of foliage, emerging from the white of the paper as though emerging from the snow-covered ground. The artwork is thus plays with the materials of printmaking; the paper is both the support and the primary indication of the season. The subtle texture of the tooth of the paper also adds life to the image, giving the snow a wind-swept, creature trodden surface. The free forms of the grasses and leaves resemble the lyrical mid-century works of the French artist Henri Matisse, which combined with these material concerns demonstrate Lichter's modern sensibilities.
3.75 x 2.75 inches, image
5.5 x 4.5 inches, paper
10 x 8 inches frame
Signed and dated in the stone, lower right
Framed to conservation standards in a shadow-box style mounting, using 100 percent rag matting, museum glass, and housed in a cherry wood moulding
Overall excellent condition; some toning to edges of paper; some minor abrasions to frame
Milwaukee artist Schomer Lichtner was well known for his whimsical cows and ballerinas and abstract imagery. He and his late wife Ruth Grotenrath, both well-known Wisconsin artists, began their prolific careers as muralists for WPA projects, primarily post offices.
Lichtner also painted murals for industry and private clients. Schomer was a printmaker and produced block prints, lithographs, and serigraph prints. His casein (paint made from dairy products) and acrylic paintings are of the rural Wisconsin landscape and farm animals. He became interested in cows when he and Ruth spent summers near Holy Hill in Washington County. According to David Gordon, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Schomer Lichtner had a tremendous joie de vivre and expressed it in his art.
Schomer Lichtner was nationally known for his whimsical paintings and sculptures of black- and white-patterned Holstein cows and elegant ballerina dancers. Lichtner also painted all sorts of combinations of beautiful women, flowers and country landscapes. James Auer, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel art critic, said that his art eventually "exploded into expressionistic design elements with bold, flat areas of color and high energy that anticipated Pop Art." Auer went on to describe Lichtner’s work as full of "wit, vigor and virtuosity."
As early as 1930, Lichtner’s work was shown at the prestigious Carnegie International Exhibition in New York and at museums throughout the Midwest. As a student, he was a protégé of another icon of 20th century American art, Gustave Moeller.
Lichtner and his wife, Ruth Grotenrath (1912-1988), are celebrated as Milwaukee’s first couple of painting and are regarded as major Wisconsin artists. Lichtner’s impressive production, perseverance, longevity, and positive approach to his life and art made him and his work distinctive and much loved by his many admirers. His work is currently represented in collections at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the John Michael Kohler Art Center, the West Bend Museum, and in the collections of many individuals. Books on the lives and art work of both Lichtner and Grotenrath are in progress and it is anticipated that they will be published next year.
Schomer Lichtner passed away on May 9, 2006 at the age of 101. He continued to amaze and create with his whimsical paintings of ballerinas...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Black and White, Lithograph
Original Mardi Gras New Orleans 1978 festival serigraph poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Mardi Gras, New Orleans, 1978 linen-backed poster. Dressed up in what would be an American Indian costume with full headgear, he is holding a shield with a horse on it. Indian decoration on the footwear. Signed and numbered.
I believe this has to deal with Big Chief leading his Congo Nation Mardi Gras Indian group. Zulu Parade. Many of the original Mardi Gras jazz posters...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
"Balcony" 1938 WPA Print Mid 20th Century American Broadway Theatre Modernism
By Leon Bibel
Located in New York, NY
"Balcony" 1938 WPA Print Mid 20th Century American Broadway Theatre Modernism.
Silk screen on paper, 15” x 20". Numbered 15/20 lower left. Pencil si...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Screen
'St. Marks on the Bowery' - Famed New York City Landmark
By Leon Dolice
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'St. Mark's Church on the Bowery', aquatint with etching, edition not stated but small, 1932. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate lower left and titled in the plate lower right. A superb, atmospheric impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 9 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (248 x 187 mm); sheet size 13 1/8 x 10 inches (333 x 254 mm).
Impressions of this work are held in the collections of the Princeton University Art Museum and the Five College Museums.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Vienna, Leon Dolice left a secure position in the family business to pursue his artistic interests. He began his art education in his teens and early twenties when he traveled through Europe to study the works of the Old Masters. He immigrated to America in 1920 and made his home in Manhattan. As a printmaker, he chose as his subjects the architecture, back streets, dock scenes, and other aspects of New York City life that were being overtaken by the modern world.
In 1950, learning of the coming demolition of the Third Avenue El, Dolice created a series of Third Avenue and other New York City landmarks that were threatened with extinction. His images from that period provide a record of a New York that has passed into history.
During his lifetime, Dolice exhibited throughout Europe and the United States. Retrospectives of his work include a one-man show of his graphic work at Tribeca Gallery, New York; the traveling exhibition ‘Vintage New York’ with the New Rochelle Council on the Arts; and the Hofstra Museum, Hempstead.
Dolice's works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York, the National Gallery of Art, the New York Historical Society, Georgetown University, the Philadelphia Print Club, and the New York Public Library, as well as private and corporate collections.
ABOUT ST. MARKS CHURCH
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery is a parish of the Episcopal Church located at 131 East 10th Street, at the intersection of Stuyvesant Street and Second Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The property has been the site of continuous Christian worship since the mid-17th century, making it New York City's oldest site of continuous religious practice. The structure is the second-oldest church building in Manhattan.
In 1651, Petrus Stuyvesant, Director General of New Netherland, purchased land for a bowery or farm from the Dutch West India Company and, by 1660, built a family chapel at the present-day site of St. Mark's Church. Stuyvesant died in 1672 and was interred in a vault under the chapel.
Stuyvesant's great-grandson, Petrus "Peter" Stuyvesant, sold the chapel property to the Episcopal Church for $1 in 1793, stipulating that a new chapel be erected to serve Bowery Village, the community which had coalesced around the Stuyvesant family chapel. In 1795, the cornerstone of the present-day St. Mark's Church was laid, and the fieldstone Georgian-style church, built by the architect and mason John McComb Jr., was completed and consecrated on May 9, 1799.[4] Alexander Hamilton provided legal aid in incorporating St. Mark's Church as the first Episcopal parish independent of Trinity Church in New York City. By 1807, the church had as many as two hundred worshipers at its summer services, with 70 during the winter.
While the 19th century saw St. Mark's Church grow through its many construction projects, the 20th century was marked by community service and cultural expansion. Today, the rectory houses the Neighborhood Preservation Center, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, and the Historic Districts Council, as well as other preservation and community organizations such as the Poetry Project, the Millennium Film Workshop, and the Danspace Project.
St Mark's has supported an active artistic community since the 19th century. In 1919, poet Kahlil Gibran was appointed a member of the St. Mark's Arts Committee, and the next year, the two prominent Indian statues, "Aspiration" and "Inspiration" by sculptor Solon Borglum...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Aurora (Red), Framed and Signed Modern Screenprint by Will Barnet
By Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Aurora (Red)
Will Barnet, American (1911–2012)
Date: 1979
Color Screenprint on Lenox, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of AP
Image Size: 16.5 x 40 inches
Size: 20 x 43.5 in. (50...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Advice
By Walt Kuhn
Located in New York, NY
Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), Advice, etching and drypoint, 1915, signed in pencil lower right and titled lower left. In generally good condition but obviously a proof impression, with marg...
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1910s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
LOTUS FLOWER - ROEDING PARK - Provincetown Style
By Mary Travis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARY TRAVIS (Active 1935 - 40)
LOTUS FLOWER ROEDING PARK. c.1935-40
White line color woodcut. Signed and titled in pencil. Small edition. 10” x 8”. Full sheet. tears
in upper margin. Travis worked in Berkeley, California and was probably a follower of William S...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Adele and the Ladies (Rochester's fashion conscious ward in Jane Eyre)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Adele, the 10 year-old girl who may be the daughter of Rochester and Celine in "Jane Eyre" is being scrutinized by three women. One is seated on an ornate sofa...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Wool, Engraving
The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and the U.S.A.
By Christo
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Christo
Title: The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and the U.S.A.
Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper
Date: 1987
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 36 3/4" x 27...
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1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
'Monday in Wick Haven' original linoleum cut print by Howard Thomas
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this image, Howard Thomas presents the viewer with a domestic interior. The image is dominated by the figure of a black woman, resting her arm on an ironing board. To the right, the tool of her task dangles a chord above a checker tiled floor. Beyond, though a window, neighboring homes fill the landscape. The careful line-work of the linocut adds a sense of expressionism to the scene, but the image nonetheless falls into the Social Realism that captivated most American artists during the Great Depression.
This print was published in 1936 as part of the Wisconsin Artists' Calendar for the year 1937, which included 52 original, hand-made prints – one for each week of the year.
6 x 5 inches, image
10 x 7.13 inches, sheet
12.37 x 12.43 inches, frame
Entitled "Monday in Wick Haven" lower left (covered by matting)
Inscribed "Linoleum Cut" lower center (covered by matting)
Artist name "Howard Thomas" lower right (covered by matting)
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and museum glass, all housed in a silver gilded moulding.
Quaker-born in Ohio, Thomas trained in the Midwest at Ohio State University and the Chicago Art Institute. He taught in the Art Department of the Milwaukee State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) where he became good friends with Carl Holty, Edward Boerner, Robert von Neumann...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
Plate 11 from 'Album 19'
By Joan Miró
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Rhythmic serenity emanates from this delightful work. Miro creates a quirky yet sophisticated pattern of decorative and playful spots, irregular yet repetitive like a Dalmatian's coa...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Original Victor Victoria linen backed 1982 vintage movie poster
By John Alvin
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Victor Victoria vintage movie poster. Professional archival linen backed and in very good condition, ready to frame. NSS: 820018
• Original 1982 release poster
• Size...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Original Hell's Angels '69 vintage motorcycle movie poster half-sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Hell's Angels '69 vintage half-sheet movie poster.
Original horizontal half sheet movie poster from 1969: Hell's Angeles '69. The film stars the original Oakland Hell's Angeles with Tom Stern, Jeremy Slate, Conny Van Dyke; Steve Sandor, Sonny Barger, Terry the Tramp. Am American International Release original. 'For a wild, wicked weekend and the deadliest gamble ever dared!. The left-hand side features the famous landmark hotel signs from Flamingo Sahara, Caesars Palace...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Original London, Fly TWA Jets (Trans World Airlines) vintage travel poster
By David Klein
Located in Spokane, WA
Original LONDON FLY TWA vintage European travel poster created by the artist David Klein. Professional acid-free archival linen backed, excellent condition; no restoration; full boa...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Original Northwest Orient and Trans World Airlines vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES, TRANS WORLD AIRLINES poster. Description
There’s a New Way Around the World / Northwest Orient Airlines – Trans World Airlines. Circa 1...
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape at Stanton Street
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, 1971, on paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 60,
published by Hollanders Workshop and Fourcade, New York, 75.7 x 56 cm. (30 x 2 2in.)
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Leonard Bernstein" - Rare Signed Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Leonard Bernstein" - Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Bold lithograph by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). Leonard Bernstein is raising both ha...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
The King of the Masque
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The King of the Masque" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on wove paper by American artist Robert Raymond Anderson, 1...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Swimmers, " Seascape Linoleum Cut by Clarice George Logan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Swimmers" is an original linoleum print by Clarice George Logan. It features five figures enjoying a swim, jumping off from a small boat.
Image: 4.94" x 6"
Framed: 13.87" x 14.87"
Clarice George Logan was born in Mayville, New York in 1909 but moved to Wisconsin in 1921. She attended the Milwaukee State Teachers College from 1927 to 1931 where she studied with Robert von Neumann...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
Untitled II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Joseph Zirker (American, born 1924)
Title: Untitled
Year: 1988
Medium: Color monotype
Paper: Arche 88
Size: 42 x 30 inches
Signature: Signed and dated in pencil by the artist
Printer: The artist
Condition: Very good
Frame: Unframed
About the artist.
Joseph Zirker is a noted American modern artist, educator, lecturer that was born on August 13, 1924 in Los Angeles, California, United States. As a young man he Served with United States Navy, from 1944 to 1946.
He attended the University of California in Los Angeles 1946—1947. He got a bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Denver in 1949 and a master of Fine Arts, University Southern California, 1951.
He was a printer and research fellow at Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, 1961—1963. Lecturer University Southern California, 1963. Instructor Los Angeles County Art Institute, 1964, San Jose City College, California, 1966—1980.
Lecturer Stanford University, 1981—1983, 1986—1990. All along his carer, he had numerous acclaimed shows in the U.S and abroad. He is known worldwide as an innovator in monotype and printmaking. His works are represented in private and public collections, both in the USA and worldwide, including:
Grunwald Collection, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, California,
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Free Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
June Wayne, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, California
Tamarind Archives, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, California,
Charles White, Los Angeles, California
Stanley Freeman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
Ben Smith...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
House in the Sun, 1950s Modernist Black & White Lithograph of New Mexico Adobe
Located in Denver, CO
House in the Sun is an original 1950 lithograph by renowned New Mexico modernist Kenneth Miller Adams. This striking black and white composition captures the timeless geometry and su...
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Grand Canal, Venice
By Elias S. Mandel Grossman
Located in Middletown, NY
1926. Etching in sepia ink on Japon paper, 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 inches (245 x 292 mm), full margins with the lower margin slightly notched. Signed, titled and dated in pencil in the lower ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
MANHATTAN CLIFFS (Large Lithograph)
By Mark Freeman
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARK FREEMAN (1908 - 2003)
MANHATTAN CLIFFS, 1947
Lithograph (offset?) with 2 color plates. Signed, titled and dated. 19 1/2 x 15 in., large grey sheet, 22 3/8 x 17 1/2 in. Very good condition. A large and very strong image of New York.
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Original Quand le Rire Etait Roi Original Vintage French Poster, linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: QUAND LE RIRE ETAIT ROI. ( When Laughter Was King.) Artist: Boris Grinsson. French smaller format vintage movie comedy printed in 1960. Archival linen backed ...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Skiing Near Holy Hill, " Original Silkscreen Landscape by Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Skiing Near Holy Hill" is an original silkscreen print by Schomer Lichtner. The artist initials are lower right, and the title is along the lower edge. This print depicts people skiing near Holy Hill, Wisconsin. The artist used a muted blue, a deep and dark purple, and accents of red to create this piece.
4 7/8" x 6 7/8" art
11 7/8" x 13 7/8" frame
Milwaukee artist, Schomer Lichtner passed away on May 9, 2006 at the age of 101. He continued to amaze and create with his whimsical paintings of ballerinas and cows. He and his late wife Ruth Grotenrath, both well-known Wisconsin artists, began their prolific careers as muralists for WPA projects, primarily post offices.
Schomer Lichtner was well known for his whimsical cows and ballerinas, such as his "Ballerina Dancing on Cow" sculpture below. The late James Auer, art critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel referred to Lichtner as the artist laureate of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the official artist of the Milwaukee Ballet.
Lichtner also painted murals for industry and private clients. Schomer was a printmaker and produced block prints, lithographs, and serigraph prints. His casein (paint made from dairy products) and acrylic paintings are of the rural Wisconsin landscape and farm animals. He became interested in cows when he and Ruth spent summers near Holy Hill in Washington County.
According to David Gordon, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Schomer Lichtner had a tremendous joie de vivre, " joy of life," and expressed it in his art.
Schomer Lichtner was nationally known for his whimsical paintings and sculptures of black- and white-patterned Holstein cows and elegant ballerina dancers. Lichtner also painted all sorts of combinations of beautiful women, flowers and country landscapes. James Auer, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel art critic, said that his art eventually "exploded into expressionistic design elements with bold, flat areas of color and high energy that anticipated Pop Art." Auer went on to describe Lichtner’s work as full of "wit, vigor and virtuosity."
As early as 1930, Lichtner’s work was shown at the prestigious Carnegie International Exhibition in New York and at museums throughout the Midwest. As a student, he was a protégé of another icon of 20th century American art, Gustave Moeller...
Category
1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Gloria, Saint Riquier; The Church of Saint Riquier; Gloria Ecclesiae Antiquae
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with an "England" watermark; 13 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (353 x 221 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, titled, numbered "III," and inscribed in pencil. O...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Ted Witonski, NYC (Chelsea) skyline intaglio
Located in New York, NY
An Ohio native Witonski made his home in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and this subject may well be a Chelsea scene. But mostly it is a homage to intaglio printmaking. It...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Intaglio
QUEENSBRIDGE
Located in Portland, ME
Bernhardt, John (American 1921-1963. QUEENSBRIDGE. Color Woodcut, 1965. Ttiled, signed, dated and annotated "To Smitty" in pencil. 17 3/4 x 28 inches. In very good condition. Framed
...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Woodcut
Kent Hagerman, (United States Air Force, Fairchild XC-120 Packplane)
Located in New York, NY
Kent Hagerman was an amazing draftsman who managed to get fantastic detail into his work while showing the environment and atmosphere.
This print captures the moment a 'pod' is bein...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Alfred Bendiner, Sweet Innocence
Located in New York, NY
No matter the seriousness of the subject, everything is always beautifully drawn on the lithographic stone by Bendiner, but in this instance the negative space is exploited amazingly.
This courtroom...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Kris Dancer, Bali
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Al Hirschfeld, 'Kris Dancer, Bali', color lithograph, 1941, edition 1,000. Signed in the stone, lower right. A fine, clean impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper, the ful...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
'Havoc in Heaven' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Havoc in Heaven', lithograph, 1948, edition 30-35, Fine and Looney 270. Signed, titled, and numbered 'Ed 35' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. Printed...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Country Church, " Town Landscape Linoleum Cut by Elsa E. Ulbricht
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Country Church" is an original linoleum print by Elsa E. Ulbricht. A front facing view of a country church is proudly replicated within this print.
Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued.
Image:7" x 5"
Framed: 15.25" x 13.25"
Painter, Teacher When she directed The Milwaukee Handicraft Project, Elsa Ulbricht...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
San Marino (Sketch)
Located in Middletown, NY
Ecthing in black ink on cream laid paper with a partial watermark, full margins. In excellent condition. A very scarce work from an edition of less than 20 impressions. Signed, date...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Landscape with Trees
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Trees" c.1980 is an original lithograph on wove paper by noted American artist Robert Kipniss, b.1931. It is hand si...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
1930s Modernist Print by Hilaire Hiler: Indian with Bow in Fox Costume Artwork
Located in Denver, CO
This vintage 1934 color serigraph (silkscreen print) by Hilaire Hiler (1898-1966) depicts a Native American figure dressed in a fox costume and holding a bow, showcasing a stylized feather headdress and bold black, red, and white color contrasts. Created during the WPA era, this modernist print reflects Hiler's semi-abstract approach to Native American themes. The print is pencil signed by the artist in the lower right margin and titled on the verso.
About the Artist, Hilaire Hiler:
Hilaire Hiler was an influential New Mexico artist known for his modernist style and exploration of Native American subjects. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Hiler studied at prestigious art institutions such as the University of Paris and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before moving to Paris in 1919. Hiler was active in the European avant-garde scene, supporting himself as a jazz musician.
In 1934, he returned to America, where he was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to create murals for the Aquatic Park...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
'The Prairie School Collection' exhibition poster Milwaukee Art Museum
By Frank Lloyd Wright
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This poster, produced for an exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum, features the bold work of American architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright. Beneat...
Category
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Offset
Original 1917 "You Buy A Liberty Bond, Lest I Perish!" vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster: YOU BUY A LIBERTY BOND, LEST I PERISH! Linen-backed, fine condition. Ready to frame.
Statue of Liberty lithograph, W...
Category
1910s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Season's Greetings, " Abstract Holiday Silkscreen signed by Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Season's Greetings" is an original color silkscreen by Schomer Lichtner. The artist signed the piece in the screen on verso. This piece features abstract, linear patterns in blue and white on a brown paper background.
6 1/4" x 4 5/8" art
14" x 12 1/2" frame
Milwaukee artist, Schomer Lichtner passed away on May 9, 2006 at the age of 101. He continued to amaze and create with his whimsical paintings of ballerinas and cows. He and his late wife Ruth Grotenrath, both well-known Wisconsin artists, began their prolific careers as muralists for WPA projects, primarily post offices.
Schomer Lichtner was well known for his whimsical cows and ballerinas, such as his "Ballerina Dancing on Cow" sculpture below. The late James Auer, art critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel referred to Lichtner as the artist laureate of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the official artist of the Milwaukee Ballet.
Lichtner also painted murals for industry and private clients. Schomer was a printmaker and produced block prints, lithographs, and serigraph prints. His casein (paint made from dairy products) and acrylic paintings are of the rural Wisconsin landscape and farm animals. He became interested in cows when he and Ruth spent summers near Holy Hill in Washington County.
According to David Gordon, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Schomer Lichtner had a tremendous joie de vivre, " joy of life," and expressed it in his art.
Schomer Lichtner was nationally known for his whimsical paintings and sculptures of black- and white-patterned Holstein cows and elegant ballerina dancers. Lichtner also painted all sorts of combinations of beautiful women, flowers and country landscapes. James Auer, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel art critic, said that his art eventually "exploded into expressionistic design elements with bold, flat areas of color and high energy that anticipated Pop Art." Auer went on to describe Lichtner’s work as full of "wit, vigor and virtuosity."
As early as 1930, Lichtner’s work was shown at the prestigious Carnegie International Exhibition in New York and at museums throughout the Midwest. As a student, he was a protégé of another icon of 20th century American art, Gustave Moeller...
Category
1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Origianal BARBARELLA US 1-sheet Sci-fi vintage movie poster NSS 68/274
By Robert McGinnis
Located in Spokane, WA
Original BARBARELLA US 1-sheet, 1968, sexiest sci-fi art of Jane Fonda by Robert McGinnis, Roger Vadim. Paramount Pictures. Size: 27" x 41"; year: 1968. NSS: 68/274
Film...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
"Angelika's Pets, " Wood Engraving by Robert Franz Von Neumann
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Angelika's Pets" is an original wood engraving by Robert Franz Von Neumann. It features a young woman sitting at a desk, working on a wood engraving. Two large cats sit near her and look out a window nearby.
Image: 6" x 5"
Framed: 13.43" x 12.43"
1888 - 1976 Born in Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany, Robert von Neumann...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Self Portrait-L.B. AET 56
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Self Portrait-L.B. AET 56
Color woodcut printed in black and green, 1978
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: 150 (97/150)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 32 x 22”
Sheet: 35...
Category
1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Original Suddenly Last Summer vintage movie poster, Elizabeth Taylor, US 1-sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Linen-backed original “ Suddenly Last Summer “ vintage movie poster. Excellent condition with restored original fold marks as issued during conservation linen-backing. NSS 60/4. ...
Category
1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Late 20th century color lithograph prairie style Frank Lloyd Wright architecture
By Frank Lloyd Wright
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Prairie School Collection - Rug" is an offset lithograph poster with gold foil. This piece advertises an exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright's designs. Unsigned.
34 7/8" x 22" art...
Category
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Charles White "Blues" 1971 African American Artist - Color Lithograph Framed
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
A wonderful print by African American artist, Charles White (1918 - 1979)
"Blues"
Color lithograph on Rives paper, 1971.
11.5 x 26.75 inches (28.55 x 68.7 cm)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil, lower right.
Number 63/100 from the numbered edition of 100.
Framed
Printed by William Law III and the Tamstone Group, Los Angeles, with their blindstamps lower right.
Charles Wilbert White...
Category
1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
The Museum of Modern Art, Wrapped (Rear), Project for New York
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Christo
Title: The Museum of Modern Art, Wrapped (Rear), Project for New York
Portfolio: 1971 (Some) Not Realized Projects
Medium: Offset lithograph on Rives BFK and Special ...
Category
1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Original 'Fiesta Mayor Badalona' vintage Spanish festival poster 1955
Located in Spokane, WA
Original ‘Fiesta Mayor Badalona” vintage travel poster. Conservation linen backed and ready to frame. Very good condition full lithograph
A bright and vibrant travel poster that ...
Category
1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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