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Style: American Modern
Light Study with Mirrors #1
By Leigh Behnke
Located in New York, NY
Leigh Behnke was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1946. She studied at both the Southern Connecticut State College and at the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn New York. She also received...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Night Table
Located in New York, NY
Sally Mara Sturman studied art at the University of Michigan, the Rhode Island School of Design, ands the École des Beaux Artes, Paris, France. She has exhibited widely in the Unite...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
$800 Sale Price
20% Off
Calling
By Allan Kaprow
Located in New York, NY
Allan Kaprow was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" a...
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1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Sienna, Signed American Modern Screenprint by Clarence Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sienna
Clarence Holbrook Carter
American (1904–2000)
Date: 1979
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 200, AP 30
Image Size: 20 x 13 inches
Size: 25.5 in. x 20 in. ...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Snack Bar
Located in Westport, CT
A member of New York's 14th Street School, Isabel Bishop is best known for her graphic art and urban subject matter. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she arrived in New York in 1918 at age ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
"Reflecting Thoughts About Remembering" - Monoprint on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Reflecting Thoughts About Remembering" - Monoprint on Paper
Sepia colored monoprint of a male figure "reflecting and remembering." A nude male figure sits with his head facing down...
Category
1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Oil, Laid Paper
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
"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...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
This Way Out, colorful graphic amusement park with text
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Silkscreen Edition of 125 + 1AP
Philomena Marano has spent decades “penetrat[ing] the soul of Coney Island to reveal its twin promises of candy-colored paradise and garishly ornate nightmare,” as Ann Aptaker describes, through the prints and cut-paper collage in her “American Dream-land” series (1979-). These colorful, graphic style works evoke the energy and amusement of Coney Island through depictions of the rides, the boardwalk, clowns, and food vendors. Many are large-scale papier collé installations, a technique Marano learned from Robert Indiana in whose studio she formerly assisted. In conjunction with “American Dream Land,” in 1981 Marano and Richard Eagan co-founded the Coney Island Hysterical Society, which undertakes projects such as restoring old rides in response to the alarming rate at which they were shutting down in the fabled amusement park of their childhood.
Ms. Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is an intimate of the visual poetry of Coney Island, created the winning poster for the first Spirit of Brooklyn poster...
Category
2010s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Strange Animals
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Strange Animals
Engraving, 1949
Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by the artist
The composition was created at the Univerisity of Iowa while the artist was enrolled in the famous M...
Category
1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Exhibition of Designs by Frank Lloyd Wright at Unity Temple. Lake St. Kenilworth
By Alfonso Iannelli
Located in New York, NY
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Exhibition of Designs by Frank Lloyd Wright at Unity Temple. Lake
St. Kenilworth, Oak Park. (Published by the Chicago Heritage Committee with the Cooperation of the Unitarian Unive...
Category
1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Mid Century Vintage 356 Porsche, Midnight Modern Architecture Palm Springs
Located in Brooklyn, NY
TOM BLACHFORD
Mid Century Modern Palm Springs Architecture. Steve McQueen. Classic Vintage 356 Porsche, Midnight Modern Series Architecture Palm Springs.
Archival Inkjet Print on C...
Category
2010s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Cotton, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Mosque II
By Muhammad Ali
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 500
Hand-signed by artist, Signed and numbered in pencil
Muhammad Ali, the groundbreaking athlete and sociopolitical figure of the twentieth century, is remembered less ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
AT THE SEASHORE
By Will Barnet
Located in Portland, ME
Barnet, Will. AT THE SEASHORE. Szoke 69, Cole 68, Johnson 54. Woodcut printed in black, brown and white, 1939. There was no edition, only a few proofs printed by the artist on Japane...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
1930s Lithograph Print of Tourists at Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO
Located in Denver, CO
"Photo Opportunity" is a rare and captivating original lithograph by American Modernist Charles Wheeler Locke (1899–1983), created circa 1935. This lim...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
"Noel, " Religious Linocut on Blue Paper stamped signature by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Noel" is an original linocut on blue paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower center. This artwork features the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus. Both figu...
Category
1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
"Hotel Lobby, " Linoleum Cut by Alexander Tillotson
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Hotel Lobby" is a linoleum print by Alexander Tillotson. It features the view of a hotel lobby from the viewpoint of the back of two men. Thick lines and minimal negative space give...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
'Flowers' original abstract linocut by Wisconsin artist Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Flowers' is an original linocut by Wisconsin-based artist Schomer Lichtner. The composition presents a scattered floral still life amongst abstracted shadows and forms, rendered with Lichtner's quintessential abstract sensibilities. This print is one from a series that each depict abstracted subjects in black silhouette, taking pleasure in the materiality of the linocut technique. The free forms of the flower resemble the lyrical mid-century works of the French artist Henri Matisse, which combined with these material concerns demonstrate Lichter's modern sensibilities. The prints from this series are unusual because of how below the image, Lichtner also includes his Chinese seal and a linocut remarque of a cow, each of which act as an additional signature of the artist on the artwork.
Linocut in black and red on Permalife white wove paper
4 x 5.25 inches, image
11.5 x 8.75 inches, sheet
16.5 x 13.63 inches, frame
Signed in pencil, below image, lower right.
Edition 1/100 in pencil, below image, lower left.
Chinese signature stamp in red, below image, lower right.
Remaque of a cow in red, below image, lower right.
Permalife watermark to paper.
Framed to conservation standards in a shadow-box style mounting, using 100 percent rag matting, museum glass, and housed in a silver-finish wood moulding.
Overall excellent condition with no creases or discoloration.
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...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Black and White, Linocut
Bosch
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Bosch" c. 1980 is an original etching with aquatint by American artist Peter Paone, b.1936. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 10/...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
$1,000
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...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Mid Century Modern Architecture Photograph - Jennings Pool - Tom Blachford's
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The latest and final release in Australian photographer Tom Blachford’s long-running project, Midnight Modern, will be exhibited for the first time at TOTH Gallery in New York.
Loos...
Category
2010s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Mid Century Vintage 356 Porsche, Midnight Modern Architecture Palm Springs
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid Century Modern Palm Springs Architecture. Steve McQueen. Classic Vintage 356 Porsche, Midnight Modern Series Architecture Palm Springs.
Archival Inkjet Print on Cotton Paper. Mi...
Category
2010s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Cotton, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper
Blue Hydrangea, oversize lithograph, classical architectural elements
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Blue Hydrangea - image bled to plate size ~ 39 x 29 - printed on 100% cotton rag - edition 3/5
Architectural elements
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Lithograph
"Noel, " Relief Print signed by Sylviz Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Noel" is an original relief print by Sylvia Spicuzza. A holiday themed print, this features the image of the virgin Mary and baby Jesus.
Image: 4" x 3"
...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
"Play, " Figurative Etching Nude with Children signed by Kenneth Hayes Miller
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Play" is an original etching by Kenneth Hayes Miller. The artist signed the piece in pencil and in the plate. This piece features a nude figure with two smaller doll-like figures.
...
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1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
THE CLINIC
By Peggy Bacon
Located in Portland, ME
Bacon, Peggy. THE CLINIC. Flint 109. Drypoint, 1932. Edition size not known, but likely very small as the print is rare. 4 15/16 x 6 7/8 inches, plus wide margins (the sheet is 11 x ...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Harry Sternberg, Whitney and ACA, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography.
The deluxe editions of...
Category
1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
"Trees, " Landscape Wood Engraving by Betsy Ritz Friebert
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Trees" is an original wood engraving print by Betsy Ritz Friebert. It features a man walking down a large path underneath tall barren trees. Unsig...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
SLEEPING MAN (REST)
By Will Barnet
Located in Portland, ME
Barnet, Will. SLEEPING MAN (REST). Szoke 42, Cole 41, Johnson 40. Woodcut, 1937. Edition of 10. Titled "Sleeping Man" at left, and signed at right, both in pencil. This print is usua...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Golden Sails
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Golden Sails" 1991 is a color etching, with embossing and gold addition on handmade paper by noted artist Bruce Weinberg, 1942-1994 It is hand signed, titled, nu...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media
Storm
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Storm" 1991 is a color etching, with embossing on handmade paper by noted artist Bruce Weinberg, 1942-1994 It is hand signed, titled, numbered 20/50 and dated i...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media
Savared
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Savared" 1991 is a color etching, with embossing and gold addition on handmade paper by noted artist Bruce Weinberg, 1942-1994 It is hand signed, titled, numbere...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media
WPA-Era Central City, Colorado, 1930s Modernist Lithograph, Cityscape 3/25
Located in Denver, CO
This 1933 lithograph, Central City, Colorado 3/25, by Arnold Rönnebeck, captures the architectural essence of a historic mining town during the Great Depression. Rendered in black an...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$1,350 Sale Price
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Henry Spanner, Beer
Located in New York, NY
This is among the very few prints known by Spanner. It's the epitome of joie de vivre. It is signed, numbered, and annotated 'Hand print,' in pencil. The numbering indicates an edit...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Bernard Sanders, Man at Piano
Located in New York, NY
For a print that's nearly one hundred years old it feels very contemporary.
Signed and titled in pencil. Besides the etching I think there is some false biting that adds tone here.
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Mid Century Modern Architecture Classic Porsche Palm Springs Tom Blachford
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited Edition photography by Tom Blachford. Mid Century Modern Architectural Design.
What began for Tom Blachford as a fateful discovery one night has developed into an ongoing s...
Category
2010s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Pigment
"White Horse, " Wood Engraving signed in Image by Howard Thomas
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"White Horse" is an original wood engraving by Howard Thomas, signed in plate. A white horse trots past the foreground of the image, spirals in it's eyes and spots on its hide. A bla...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
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
...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Woodcut
$700 Sale Price
36% Off
CHILD REACHING
By Will Barnet
Located in Portland, ME
Barnet, Will. CHILD REACHING. Szoke 83, Cole 82, Johnson 65. Woodcut, 1940. Edition of 25. Titled and signed in pencil. 7 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (image), 8 1/8 x 11 1/2 inches (sheet). ...
Category
1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
NEW BIRD
By Anne Ryan
Located in Portland, ME
Ryan, Anne. NEW BIRD. Linocut in colors, not dated. Edition of 50. Titled, numbered 20/50, and signed in white chalk or ink. Printed on black paper. 4 1/4 x 3 1/8 in., 109 x 79 cm, (...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
Corralled Horse, 1940s WPA-Era American Modernist Etching, Artist’s Proof
Located in Denver, CO
"Corralled Horse" is a 1940s WPA-era modernist etching by acclaimed American artist Ethel Magafan (1916–1993), renowned for her dynamic murals and evocative depictions of the America...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Doel Reed “Nude with Winter Bouquet” 1972 Aquatint Etching, Signed, Framed
By Doel Reed
Located in Denver, CO
Nude with Winter Bouquet is an exquisite 1972 aquatint etching by celebrated American printmaker Doel Reed (1894–1985), masterfully capturing a reclining female nude beside a winter ...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Angel
Located in Missouri, MO
Angel, 1952
Ferol K. Sibley Warthen (American, 1890-1986)
Color Woodblock Print
6.5 x 5 inches
16 x 13.75 inches with frame
Signed Lower Right
Titled Lower Left
Born 1890, Died 1986...
Category
1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color
Mid Century Mercedes Benz SL, Midnight Modern Series Contemporary Photography
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Palm Springs Mid Century Modern Architecture, Vintage Classic Mercedes Benz SL, Palm Desert, Limited Series.
Archival Inkjet Print on Cotton Paper. Mid Century Modern Architecture ...
Category
2010s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Cotton, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper
"A E" Albert Einstein Portrait #7
Located in Soquel, CA
Albert Einstein portrait, "A E", a black and white collotype print by Lilya Vorobey (American, 21st C). Unsigned. From a collection of her works. On mat board. Image, 9.75"H x 7.75"W...
Category
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
"Albert", Albert Einstein Portrait Silhouette
Located in Soquel, CA
Albert Einstein silhouetted portrait, a collotype print, watercolor by Lilya Vorobey (American, 21st C). Unsigned. From a collection of her works. Image, 9.75"H x 5.88"W. Full Sheet...
Category
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Color, Etching
"Victoria" original lithograph signed by Malvin Marr "Zsissly" Albright
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present print, "Victoria," is the most iconic example of the printmaking of Malvin Marr Albright, called Zsissly. The composition for the image comes from Albright's painting from about 1935, done while he was studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. We can see clearly in the image how he possesses the same skill for unsettling, magic realist images as his more famous twin brother Ivan Le Lorraine: The lady Victoria sits at a dining room table, surrounded by luxurious still-life objects. All the textures and surfaces of the image express a horror vacui as seen in his painted works, such as "The Trail of Time is Dust" at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. The door in this print recalls one of the more famous works by his brother, "That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)" at the Art Institute of Chicago.
1947, after ca. 1935 original painting
8 1/2 x 13 inches, image
12 x 16 inches, sheet
16 1/4 x 20 1/2 frame
Signed in pencil, lower right
Title in pencil, lower left
Published by Associated American Artists Inc.
Unnumbered from the edition of 250
A painter and sculptor, Malvin Albright was born in Chicago, one of twin sons of Adam Emory Albright, famous Chicago figure painter of juvenile subjects, who often used Malvin and his brother Ivan Le Lorraine as models.
Malvin's middle name, Marr, was after Wisconsin artist Carl von Marr...
Category
1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Smith Brothers Restaurant
Located in Milwaukee, WI
An original color silkscreen print by Ruth Grotenrath. A lovely assortment of different foods both vegetable and animal alike. The photos do not do this piece justice. The dark color...
Category
1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Printer's Ink, Screen
'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...
Category
1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Black and White, Lithograph
"Portrait of a Girl, " Wood Engraving
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Portrait of a Girl" is an original wood engraving by Barbara K. Warren Weisman. It features an an overhead view of a girl, with her arms crossed and eyes clothes. A plant sits on a ...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
"Prospector's Cabin" – 1937 WPA-Era Lithograph by Archie Musick, Modernist Art
By Archie Musick
Located in Denver, CO
This original, signed lithograph titled "Prospector's Cabin" was created circa 1937 by acclaimed American Modernist artist Archie Musick (1902–1978). A powerful example of WPA-era ar...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Fog Bound
Located in Missouri, MO
Fog Bound
Tod Lindenmuth (American, 1885-1976)
Woodblock Print
14 x 11 inches
26 x 20.25 inches with frame
Signed Lower Right
Titled Lower Left
A founder of the Provincetown Art Association and one of the original Provincetown Printers, Tod Lindenmuth was a semi-abstract painter and graphic artist who did much to promote modernist styles. Although he was much influenced by Abstract Expressionism, his subject matter was realistic enough to be recognizable. He did linoleum cuts and was one of the first to work with that medium, and towards the end of his life, he experimented with collage. In the 1930s, he had commissions for the Public Works of Art Project and the Works Progress Administration.
Lindenmuth was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He studied with Robert Henri at the New York School of Art in Manhattan, and in Provincetown with E. Ambrose Webster and George Elmer Browne.
He first exhibited in Provincetown in 1915, and between 1917 and 1928 served on the jury for the Provincetown Art Association's 'First Modernistic Exhibition". He exhibited regularly with the Society of Independent Artists in New York.
He married artist and illustrator Elizabeth Boardman Warren...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color
$3,000
Four Nudes in a Landscape
By Jan Matulka
Located in New York, NY
Jan Matulka (1890-1972), Four Nudes in a Landscape, drypoint, c. 1923, signed in pencil lower right margin [also with initials in the plate lower left]. Ref...
Category
1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
'Jones Island' original woodcut engraving by Gerrit Sinclair
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The print 'Jones Island' is something of a self portrait. In the image, an artist stands before and easel, depicting the docks and buildings on the coast. The title indicates that this is Jones Island in Milwaukee, the peninsula along Lake Michigan that today is home to largely industrial buildings. The buildings and figures in the print suggest that this might be a view of the last of the Kashubian or German immigrant settlements on the peninsula before they were evicted in the 1940s to make way for the development of the harbor. The artist in the image thus acts as a documentarian of these peoples. The careful line-work of the woodblock engraving adds a sense of expressionism to the scene, leaving the figures and buildings looking distraught and dirty, though the image nonetheless falls into the Social Realist category that dominated 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
13.43 x 12.43 inches, frame
Signed "GS" in the print block,upper left
Entitled "Jones Island" lower left (covered by matting)
Inscribed "Wood Engraving" lower center (covered by matting)
Artist name "Gerrit V. Sinclair" lower right (covered by matting)
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and museum glass, all housed in a silver gilded moulding.
Gerrit Sinclair studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1910 - 1915, under Vanderpoel, Norton, and Walcott. In World War I, he served in the Army Ambulance Corps and later recorded his experiences in a series of oil paintings. He taught in Minneapolis before arriving in Milwaukee in 1920 to become a member of the original faculty of the Layton School of Art. He was also a member of the Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors.
Sinclair's paintings and drawings were executed in a lyrical, representational style, usually expressing a mood rather than a narrative. His paintings reveal a great sensitivity for color and atmosphere. His subject matter focused on cityscapes, industrial valleys, and working-class neighborhoods, captured from eye-level. A decade before the popularity of Regionalism, Sinclair's strong interest in the community was reflected not only in his paintings, but also in his encouragement to students to return to their communities as artists and teachers. Joseph Friebert...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut, Engraving
'Field' original abstract linocut in black by Wisconsin artist Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Field' is an original linocut by Wisconsin-based artist Schomer Lichtner. The composition presents fields of flowers, trees and grasses below a cloudy sky, but rendered with Lichtner's quintessential abstract sensibilities. This print is one from a series that each depict abstracted subjects in black silhouette, taking pleasure in the materiality of the linocut technique. The free forms of the plants resemble the lyrical mid-century works of the French artist Henri Matisse, which combined with these material concerns demonstrate Lichter's modern sensibilities. The prints from this series are unusual because of how below the image, Lichtner also includes his Chinese seal and a linocut remarque of a cow, each of which act as an additional signature of the artist on the artwork.
Linocut in black and red on Permalife white wove paper
4.5 x 6 inches, image
11.5 x 8.75 inches, sheet
16.5 x 13.63 inches, frame
Signed in pencil, below image, lower right.
Edition 1/100 in pencil, below image, lower left.
Chinese signature stamp in red, below image, lower right.
Remaque of a cow in red, below image, lower right.
Permalife watermark to paper.
Framed to conservation standards in a shadow-box style mounting, using 100 percent rag matting, museum glass, and housed in a silver-finish wood moulding.
Overall excellent condition with no creases or discoloration.
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...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Black and White, Paper, Linocut
"Noel, " Religious Linocut in Blue on Tissue Paper signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Noel" is an original linocut on tissue paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower right. This artwork features the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus. Both fig...
Category
1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
Noon Hour
Located in Westport, CT
Noon Hour. 1935. Etching. Teller 18. 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 (sheet 11 3/8 x 8 1/2). Edition 250 published by Associated American Artists in 1946 (were a few earlier impressions from a propose...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
"Squall, " Sailboat Maritime Scene Wood Engraving by Lowell Merritt Lee
By Lowell Merritt Lee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Squall is an original wood engraving by Lowell Merritt Lee. It features a rendition of a squall, a sudden violent gust of wind that often brings in rain, snow, or sleet.
Image: 6.1...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
'The Rabbit' original woodcut engraving by Clarice George Logan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In 'The Rabbit,' Wisconsin artist Clarice George Logan presents the viewer with a multi-figural scene: under a wood-frame structure, four children crouch on the ground, gathered around a young woman who presents a rabbit. Under normal circumstances, such an image of children with a bunny would recall childhood storybooks. In this case, however, the image is more ambiguous and suggests the unfortunate economic circumstances many children suffered during the interwar years. Nonetheless, the group could also be interpreted as a nativity play, with the rabbit taking the place of the Christ child, shining light on the children like in a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Correggio. The careful line-work of the woodblock engraving adds a sense of expressionism to the scene, leaving the figures looking distraught and dirty, though the image nonetheless falls into the Social Realist category that dominated 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.
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...
Category
1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
"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
Apple Blossoms, American Modern Lithograph by Jon D'Orazio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jon D'Orazio, American (1942 - ) - Apple Blossoms. Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 19 x 24.5 inches, Size: 23 in. x 30 in. (5...
Category
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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