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Style: American Modern
'Sea And Sky' — 1930s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'Sea and Sky', wood engraving, edition 150, 1931 (published 1932). A brilliant, richly-inked impression on cream wove Japan; the full sheet with margins (2 to 2 1/2 in...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
City Scene II — Mid-Century Modernism, Precisionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Brussel-Smith, 'City Scene II', wood engraving, 1949, artist's proof, edition 100. Signed, titled, and annotated 'A.P.' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on whit...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Charles Locke, McCosh Walk, Princeton University
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph is signed in pencil under the image at the lower right. Just above that, in the image, are the artist's initials and the date, 1942.
This well-known walkway on the P...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Original Jeva de la tête aux pieds from head to toe vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Jeva de la tête aux pieds vintage French fashion poster.
Jeva would dress you from your head to your feet, and this cat implies in this poster de...
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
R2D2 30x40 First Release , Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, Movie, Signed
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
R2D2 from the original Kenner release of the Star Wars toys in May of 1977
This is pre release is the first release in the much anticipated series "The Toys"
"They encapsulate an era...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Archival Pigment
Underwater — Mid-century Modern
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Underwater', 1948, chiaroscuro wood engraving, edition 12. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '3/12' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, in dark brown and warm black, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/2 inch), in excellent condition. Scarce.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929 and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters.
After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter, to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium, which he learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’
In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later, Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’, were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’, and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’ was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’
At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951.
Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’.
An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Original Marine Nationale, French Navy recruitment vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster, Marine Nationale. Engagements, devancements d'appel. Service des engagements de la Marine: 3, avenue Octave Greard, Paris VII “Bureau d'engagement, LYON, Caserne de la Part-Dieu". Archival linen backed in Grade A condition, ready to frame. Images shown are...
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Fifth Avenue Bridge.
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
Fifth Avenue Bridge. 1928. Drypoint. McCarron 72. 9 7/8 x 12 (sheet 12 3/4 x 15). Edition of 108 recorded impressions. A rich impression printed on cream laid paper, with full margin...
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1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
Original Let's Go U. S. Marines On Land at Sea in the Air vintage WW2 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original, LET’S GO! U.S. MARINES, on Land at Sea and in the Air, 1941 vintage poster. Archival linen backed and ready to frame. Original US Government-issued fold marks were pr...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
'Verdi' — American Modernism - Italian Opera Composer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Verdi', wood engraving, 1936, edition 60, (only 14 printed), Wien 188. Signed, titled, and numbered '10/60' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream, laid Japan paper, ...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Night Walk 3 (Natural Structures, Shifting Daylight, Floral, Botanical, 26% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Susan Davidoff
Night Walk 3 (Natural Structures, Shifting Daylight)
Year: 2013
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 36
Paper: Rives BFK, White
Paper Size: 22″ x 21.75″
Image Size: 16″ x 15.25...
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2010s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Original 'Help RCA help USA, You and I Beat the Promise" vintage WWII poster
Located in Spokane, WA
‘Help RCA Help USA, Beat the Promise, You and I Beat the Promise,’ original WWII antique vintage military poster. In the foreground are two clasped hand...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Rendez-Vous — Early 20th-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Rendez-Vous), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. From a suite of 10 lithographs published by the artist ...
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1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Rio Osmarin (boats on the canal Rio de S. Provolo o de l'Osmarin, Venice)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rio Osmarin shows boats on the canal Rio de S. Provolo o de l'Osmarin in Venice) It was created in 2006 and this impression is #31 of 75 It is signed, titled, numbered and dated by...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
On the Beach (Coney Island, New York) — 1930s Graphic Modernism, WPA
By Lou Barlow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lou Barlow (Louis Breslow), 'On the Beach' (Coney Island) wood engraving, c. 1937, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. Stamped 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT NYC WPA' in the bottom left margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, with all the fine lines printing clearly, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 3 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Image size 11 x 8 1/8 inches; sheet size 16 x 11 3/8 inches.
Created during the Great Depression for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, New York City.
Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Amon Carter Museum of Art, Illinois State Museum, and the New York Public Library.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
Due to Coney Island's proximity to Manhattan, Brooklyn, and other New York boroughs, it began attracting vacationers in the 1830s and 1840s. Most of the vacationers were wealthy and went by carriage roads and steamship services that reduced travel time from a formerly half-day journey to two hours. By the late 1870s, the development of Coney Island's amusement park attractions and hotels drew people from all social classes. When the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company electrified the steam railroads and connected Brooklyn to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge at the beginning of the 20th century, Coney Island turned rapidly from a resort to an accessible location for day-trippers seeking to escape the summer heat in New York City's tenements. In 1915, the Sea Beach Line was upgraded to a subway line, and the opening of the Stillwell Avenue station in 1919 ushered in Coney Island's busiest era. On the peak summer days, over a million people would travel to Coney Island. In 1937, New York City purchased a 400-foot-wide strip of land along the shoreline to allow the boardwalk to be moved 300 feet inland. At this point, Coney Island was so crowded on summer weekends that parks commissioner Robert Moses...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
He Repeated the Letters of the Alphabet
By Corita Kent
Located in Missouri, MO
Sister Mary Corita Kent (American, 1918-1986)
He Repeated the Letters of the Alphabet...
Color Screenprint
22.5 x 38.75 inches
Signed Lower Right
Sister Mary Corita Kent, once the n...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Color, Screen
Original Watch Out .. Safe Direction NRS vintage gun safety poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Watch Out .. Point the Muzzle in a SAFE Direction” vintage National Rifle Association of America vintage poster. Printed in 1946 on a thick cardboard stock. Excellent ...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Original Foire de Paris, Paris Fair, 1954 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Foire de Paris; original lithograph; artist: Albert Solon. Year: 1954. Acid free archival linen backed Size 10.5" x 16 5/8". Excellent condition. Ready to frame
The top of this antique poster features the image of the first poster from 1904 in the art nouveau style; and the bottom of the 1954 Foire de Paris where the sails cover part of the earliest poster image. The bottom portion of this design is reflected in its art deco style with the wording of the name of the Foire de Paris reflecting in the water.
Original. Linen-backed. The annual Paris Fair was a large international industrial exhibition that attracted not only manufacturers from around the world, but also posterists who vied for the honor of having their design selected as the official poster of the event. For 1954, this poster artist is nostalgic for the turn of the century. He is reminding us that it is the 50th anniversary of the Paris Fair. The vintage poster...
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Whore of Babylon
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Middletown, NY
A scarce impression by Dehn, the spirit of sedultive culture personified.
Lithograph on white wove paper with deckle edges, 13 1/2 x 17 1/8 inches (343 x 435 mm), full margins. Sign...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Old Man Reading
Located in London, GB
Accompanied by a lantern, an elderly man sits alone, engrossed in a newspaper. Benton used a lithographic process to draw and produce this image. He renders the face and paper well-l...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
"Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947-1976" Oakland Museum Show Poster
By (After) Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Soquel, CA
"Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947-1976" Show Poster from the Oakland Museum 1976-1977
Silkscreen poster from the Oakland Museum 1976-1977 show "Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947-1976" with a printing of an original drawing (Six Candied Apples...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Screen
Growing #5
By Keith Haring
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1988, on Lenox Museum Board, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 100, published by Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, New York, with their...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Screen
THOMAS HART BENTON
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HARRY STERNBERG (American, 1904-2001)
THOMAS BENTON, 1943. Color screenprint on gray card stock wove paper. Edition of 30. Signed "Benton by Sternberg" in ink, by hand by the artist...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Freedom From Want - The Four Freedoms
Located in New York, NY
NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978) - The Freedom from want - [from the series THE FOUR FREEDOMS.] 1943.
40x28 1/4inches, 101 1/2x71 3/4 cm.
World War II poster
U.S. Government Printing Office...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Cat and Busybody
Located in Middletown, NY
A 1933 lithograph on cream wove paper 14 x 18 inches (354 x 452mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and numbered 17/33 in pencil, lower margin. Minor mat tone around the perimeter of t...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Ten of views of Manhattan (10).
Located in Middletown, NY
The Society of Iconophiles (New York, 1894–1936), 1898. Each a lithograph printed on grayish-green, or white wove paper each sheet 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (274 x 190 mm), each with ful...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Genesis 3th Day
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Genesis 3th Day" 1962 is a n original colors etching , with embossing by noted American artist Dennis Ray Beall, b.1929. It is hand signed, titled, dated and num...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Etching
'Victim of Misfortune and Folly' — Surrealist Fantasy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Zena Kavin, 'Victim of Misfortune and Folly, lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '17/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, wi...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
'Wild Pilgrimage' (Contemplation) — 'Story Without Words' Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Wild Pilgrimage', No. 26, wood engraving, 1932, edition not stated but very small. Signed in pencil. A fine, black impression, with full margins (1 1/16 to 3 3/16 inches), on tissue-thin cream Japan paper, in very good condition. A scarce, artist-printed, hand-signed proof impression before the published edition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Created by Lynd Ward for his narrative book of illustrations without words, 'Wild Pilgrimage', published by Harrison Smith...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Original Washington D.C. American Airlines vintage travel poster Midcentury
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Washington (D.C.) American Airlines mid-century vintage travel poster. Professional archival linen backed in very fine condition, ready to frame.
Featuring one of the ...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
'Modern Music' — WPA Modernism, New York City El
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Albert Potter, 'Modern Music' also Twilight Melodies', linocut, c. 1935, from the posthumous edition of 20, printed in 1977, authorized by the artist’s widow. Estate authenticated in...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Linocut
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph of a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder
"Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper a reproduction lithograph after the drawings by the artist
Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's)
these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph.
James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor”
Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro.
These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great.
Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War.
Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work.
In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending.
Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles.
Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968).
In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale.
One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas."
Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
New Glory Banner (Americana, Iconic, Classic, Vintage, 28% OFF, FRAMED)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Robert Indiana
New Glory Banner
Silkscreen on heavy woven paper
Year: 1997
Unsigned as issued
Size: 10.4 × 16.8 on 16.6 × 21.7 inches
Framed: 29 x 21.25 inches
COA provided
*W...
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1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Screen
"Die Segen" (Sins/Blessing) - 1986 Lithograph On Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Die Segen" (Sins/Blessing) - 1986 Lithograph On Paper
Original 1986 lithograph on paper titled "Die Segen" ("Sins/Blessing") by Deborah Rumer. Red, green, purple, black and white m...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Lithograph, Acrylic
Original Pin-Up - Telephone Call linen backed vintage pinup girl.
Located in Spokane, WA
Behold the original lithographic Petty Pin-up, a unique vertical-format piece. The see-through bathing suit she wears seems to make her glow, especially with her red hair peeking fro...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Tranquil Harbor (Gloucester, Massachusetts) — 1950s Cape Ann Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Nelson Wilbur (1897-1988), 'Tranquil Harbor' (Gloucester, Massachusetts), wood engraving, edition 55, 1958. Signed in pencil, and signe...
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Wilby Church, Northhamptonshire, England
Located in Middletown, NY
A fine proof impression on antique paper
Etching on antique laid paper with a large heraldic watermark. 4 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches (109 x 61mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Etching
'The Visitor' — Surrealist Fantasy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Zena Kavin, 'The Visitor', lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '9/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Gerry Mulligan, Baritone Sax - Rare Signed Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Gerry Mulligan, Baritone Sax - Rare Signed Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Bold lithograph by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). Gerry Mulligan sits on a stool holding his ba...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Ink, Lithograph
Original Radio Radiola vintage French poster with parrot
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Radio Radiola vintage French antique poster. Archival linen-backed and in very good condition. Bright and vibrant. Artist: Rene Ravo....
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Original Switzerland mid-century modern vintage travel poster
By Kurt Wirth
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Switzerland” vintage travel poster. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, Grade A, ready to frame. The images shown...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Royal Hotel - New Orleans 1920s Depression Art Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Royal Hotel - New Orleans 1920s Depression Art Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Dramatic street scene with a man wearing a trench coat and hat by Robert J We...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Lithograph
Madman's Drum (Brothel) — 'Story Without Words' Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Madman's Drum, Plate 41', wood engraving, 1930, edition small. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white tissue-thin Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 2 1/2 inches); a small paper blemish in the upper right margin, away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. A scarce, artist-printed, hand-signed proof impression before the published edition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (140 x 95 mm); sheet size 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches (244 x 181 mm).
From Lynd Ward’s book of illustrations without words, 'Madman’s Drum', Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1930.
Reproduced in 'Storyteller Without Words, the Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward', Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lynd Ward is acknowledged as one of America’s foremost wood engravers and book illustrators of the first half of the twentieth century. His innovative use of narrative printmaking as a stand-alone storytelling vehicle was uniquely successful in reaching a broad audience. The powerful psychological intensity of his work, celebrated for its dynamic design, technical precision, and compelling dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers, Ward was concerned with the themes of man’s inner struggles and the role of the subconscious in determining his destiny. An artist of social conscience during the Great Depression and World War II, he infused his graphic images with his unique brand of social realism, deftly portraying the problems that challenged the ideals of American society.
The son of a Methodist preacher, Lynd Ward, moved from Chicago to Massachusetts at an early age. He graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University, New York, in 1926, where he studied illustration and graphic arts. He married May Yonge McNeer in 1936 and left for Europe for their honeymoon in Eastern Europe. After four months, they settled in Leipzig, where Ward studied at the National Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookmaking. Inspired by Belgian expressionist artist Frans Masereel's graphic novel ‘The Sun,’ and another graphic novel by the German artist Otto Nückel, ‘Destiny,’ he determined to create his own "wordless" novel. Upon his return to America, Ward completed his first book, ‘God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts,’ published in 1929. ‘Gods’ Man’ was a great success for its author and publisher and was reprinted four times in 1930, including a British edition. This book and several which followed it, ‘Madman’s Drum,’ 1930, ‘Wild Pilgrimage...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Original Signed 1970s Blue Birds Colored Lithograph - Mid Century Modern Artwork
Located in Denver, CO
This vintage original lithograph by renowned artist Mary Chenoweth features an abstract depiction of birds in flight, showcasing her unique technique of layering various textures of ...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Original "Think American" USA World War II vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: For a Country Where We Are Still Masters of Our Own Destinies, Let's Be Truly Thankful. Silk-screened patriotism. This is a poster meant to appeal to the American family. Soft, rich colors and a patriotic vision...
This poster has been archivally mounted on linen and is in fine condition condition. Touched up pin-holes in the corners. A- condition.
The Original Think American, USA World War 2 Poster is a captivating piece of history and art. This vintage poster showcases a unique design that captures the era's essence. It features a pilgrim couple gazing out to sea towards their three-master schooner, representing America's pioneering and adventurous spirit. The outline of the United States is a powerful symbol of national pride and strength. The large text along the bottom of the poster delivers a thought-provoking message, reminding viewers to be grateful for the country where they can shape their own destinies. Created and printed by Think America, a renowned brand, this poster is a true collector's item that celebrates American history and values.
The ghosted image of early Pilgrims seems to reach out to the American family who are standing on an outline of the United States. The old sailing...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Miami Vice Soundtrack Cassette 30x50 Pop Fine Art Unsigned Photography Photo
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of 2Pacs iconic "Miami Vice" soundtrack cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These ic...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Cargo Carriers' — New York Harbor
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'Cargo Carriers', etching and drypoint, c. 1932, edition 10, Kennedy 44. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression with rich burr and selectively wiped overall plate tone, in dark brown ink, on Arches cream laid paper; wide margins (2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Original Kennedy Galleries mat and label. Scarce.
"On my trips up and down N.Y. harbor on the Weehawken Ferry, the late evening sun playing on the side of the big liners has always intrigued me... The liner shown I believe to be the Vaterland of the North German Lloyd...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Drypoint
'Tenant Farmers' — Depression Era, WPA
By Lou Barlow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lou Barlow (Louis Breslow), 'Tenant Farmers', color wood engraving, 1936, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '15/25' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh c...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
30x20 Pillars of Creation James Webb Telescope Space Photography NASA Photo Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The WEBB imagery is of the most important imagery every taken.
The finest museum quality WEBB images avialable.
Printed on archival paper using archival inks.
Framing options avail...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Nude on Blue Backgroung - Original Lithograph Poster (Maeght, 1974)
By Walasse Ting
Located in Paris, IDF
Walasse Ting
Nude on Blue Backgroung, 1974
Original Lithograph Poster
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 63 x 50 cm (c. 25 x 20 in)
Created for the artist exhibition in M...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
14th Street Oriental
Located in Middletown, NY
New York, Associated American Artists, 1950. Drypoint and aquatint on cream wove paper, 5 7/8 x 3 15/16 inches (150 x 100 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 48/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Stephen Sholinsky...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Under the Manhattan Bridge
Located in Middletown, NY
New York, circa 1940
Etching with aquatint in colors on cream laid paper with a partial watermark and a deckle edge, 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (297 x 208 mm), full margins. Minor mat to...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Original San Francisco United Air Lines vintage travel poster mid-century
Located in Spokane, WA
The Original San Francisco United Air Lines Vintage Poster, 1967 Travel, is in very good condition, A-, and backed in Mid-Century Modern Linen. Ready to frame.
Capture the timeles...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Original "Scandinavia by SAS, Scandiavian Airlines System vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original first edition printing of Scandinavia by SAS, Scandinavian Airlines System. The first edition has a greyish panel along the bottom. The poster also features the SAS logo...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
40x60 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "BORN IN THE USA" Cassette Photography Pop Art
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of a BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "BORN IN THE USA" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These i...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Labor in a Diesel Plant" Machine Age American Scene Industrial Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
"Labor in a Diesel Plant" Machine Age American Scene Industrial Mid 20th Century
Letterio Calapai (American 1902-1993)
''Labor in A Diesel Plant''
Wood engraving, 1940
17 x 10 1/2...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Original Chicago Fly TWA vintage travel poster
By David Klein
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage travel poster: Chicago - Fly TWA. UP UP and Away Trans World Airline. Artist: David Klein. Size 25" x 40" Dated 1960's. ...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
"Ali" Muhammad Ali Portrait 36x48 Photomosaic Photography Pop Art Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Ali" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller im...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Pigment
American Modern prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic American Modern prints and multiples available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add prints and multiples created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Destro, John Taylor Arms, Tom Blachford, and Carol Wax. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Etching and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large American Modern prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 1.5 inches across are also available. Prices for prints and multiples made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $36 and tops out at $80,000, while the average work sells for $800.