Skip to main content

American Realist Prints and Multiples

4
to
108
713
20
79
99
377
292
20
209
129
154
134
63
Overall Height
to
Overall Width
to
20,749
17,261
11,339
6,282
4,486
2,530
1,312
1,265
1,037
932
606
501
271
199
387
175
175
126
101
75
64
59
56
54
51
48
47
46
35
34
32
30
27
25
38
618
77
4
41
44
81
99
40
45
43
69
10
29
15
14
13
12
291
164
100
71
61
Style: American Realist
Black and White Etching Travel 1930's Realism Water Industrial Outdoors Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fishing Boats Gloucester" is a soft ground etching created by Joseph Margulies. The artist signed this piece in the lower right margin with graphite. This piece depicts several fish...
Category

1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Ink, Etching, Aquatint

'Gloucester Harbor 2' — Mid-Century East Coast Regionalism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Nelson Wilbur, 'Gloucester Harbor', drypoint, 1940. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower right. Annotated 'PERSONAL...
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Drypoint

Waterfront
Located in Raleigh, NC
Excellent condition and matted with archival materials. An excellent addition to any New York or WPA collection.
Category

1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Social Realist Lithograph Moses Soyer WPA Artist Hudled Refugees
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer was born in Borisoglebsk, Russian Empire, in 1899. His father was a Hebrew scholar, writer and teacher. His family emigrated to the United States in 1912. Two of Soyer's brothers, Raphael (his identical twin) and Isaac were also painters. Soyer's wife, Ida, was a dancer, and dancers are a recurring subject in his paintings. Soyer studied art in New York, first at Cooper Union and later at the Ferrer Art School, where he studied under the Ashcan painters Robert Henri and George Bellows. He had his first solo exhibition in 1926 and began teaching art the following year at the Contemporary Art School and The New School. He died in the Chelsea Hotel in New York while painting dancer and choreographer Phoebe Neville. He was included in the show “American Modernism – Paintings from the Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kauffman Collection,” along with 30 leading masters of American modernism, which captured the essence of a revolutionary era...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

"Sherman Rose" Adobe, Monterey California - Signed 1923 Original Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful early 20th Century etching on vellum of the Monterey Bonifacio Adobe known as The Old Sherman Rose House, with climbing roses, by Ferdinand Burgdorff (American, (1881 - 197...
Category

1920s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Etching

Alibi Ike
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFINEARTS is pleased to offer this baseball themed lithograph of Alibi Ike after the character in the 1935 movie. A fine example of the draftsmanship that Pickhardt was known for.
Category

1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Pin Up Girl with Red Hat, untitled, original pinup vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Pin-Up Girl with Red Hat vintage pin-up poster. Artist: Billy Devorss. Size: 15.25" x 20". Archival linen backed in mint condition; ready to frame. This striking ...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Steel Town Panarama
Located in Raleigh, NC
Super rare screenprint done by Harry Gottlieb for the WPA with the NEW YORK WPA ART PROJECT stamp lower left. Signed in the image in pencil "Harry Gottlieb". Gottlieb's screenprint...
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Original "Khartoum" Style B, U.S. 1-sheet vintage movie poster, linen-backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Khartoum vintage U. S. 1-sheet Style B, movie poster. Archival lien-backed in very fine condition, ready to frame. Original issued movie fold marks restored. - where the Nile dives, the great adventure begins! Khartoum is a 1966 film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden. It stars Charlton Heston as General Gordon and Laurence Olivier as the Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmed). It is based on Gordon's defense of the Sudanese city of Khartoum from the forces of the Mahdist army during the Siege of Khartoum. The movie depicts the historical events surrounding the Siege of Khartoum in 1884-1885 during the Mahdist War. CAST: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Richard Johnson, Alexander Knox, Hugh Williams, Nigel Green, Michael Hordern, Johnny Sekka; DIRECTED BY: Basil Dearden; PRODUCER: Julian Blaustein. Movie posters from the 1960s often feature distinctive artwork and design styles that reflect the aesthetics of that era. If you appreciate vintage graphic design...
Category

1960s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Jennie
Located in New York, NY
Sheldon Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Jennie" Artist Proof, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s Depicts female "Jennie" sleeping ...
Category

1960s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

The Hold Up, First State
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil by the artist lower right Titled "Hold Up" by the artist in pencil. Signed by the printer Bolton Brown lower left. Edition: 42 in this state Note: In The Hold Up, se...
Category

1920s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Grand Canyon of Arizona from Hermit Rim Road
Located in Raleigh, NC
The original painting by Thomas Moran was sold to the Santa Fe railroad company which copyrighted the image and made prints to hang in railway stations to promote tourism and therefo...
Category

1910s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

C Print, Lithograph

Down for the Count
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFINEARTS is pleased to offer this rare boxing themed screen print bt Carl Pickhardt. On green paper. Signed and numbered at lower right within the image as as customary with scree...
Category

1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Original George Petty Pinup 'woman sitting with sunhat and phone
Located in Spokane, WA
Original George Petty pinup, woman sitting with big sunhat and telephone. Archivally linen backed vintage pinup in very fine condition, ready to frame. (Note: this lithograph is NOT removed from a pinup calendar!) Introducing the original George Petty pinup, a captivating piece of art that showcases the iconic style and exquisite talent of George Petty himself. This artwork features a stunning woman adorned with a large red outlined sun hat, donning a classic one-piece bathing suit and high heels. The addition of a telephone in her right hand adds an intriguing element, making this pinup a unique and visually striking piece. The attention to detail and expert craftsmanship are evident in every brushstroke, bringing the woman to life and capturing the essence of Petty's artistic mastery. As an original George Petty pinup, this artwork holds historical and artistic value, making it a collectible and valuable addition to any art enthusiast's repertoire. About Petty: George Petty was an American pin-up artist from the 1920s to the 1970s. His pin-up art appeared primarily in Esquire and True magazine, but was also in calendars marketed by Esquire, True and Ridgid Tool Company. Petty's Esquire gatefolds originated and popularized the magazine device of centerfold spreads. Reproductions of his work were widely rendered by military artists as nose art decorating warplanes during the Second World War, including the Memphis Belle...
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Original Mercedes-Benz Type 300-SL vintage, 1958, print, linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Mercedes-Benz Type 300-SL. Linen-backed, horizontal format, fine condition. This is an original small format Mercedes 300 SL sports car pri...
Category

1950s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Photographer
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFineArts is pleased to offer this WPA Era lithograph by Carl Pickhardt. Sight dimensions are 18 x 11.5 in and the image measures 11.5 x 9 in. Signed and titled in pencil.
Category

1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Sun Bathers
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFINEARTS is pleased to offer this fine lithograph of a couple on the beach appropriately titled Sun Bathers" from and editoon of 30 prints. Signed and numbered below the image.
Category

1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

TAPESTRY OF SPRING Hand Drawn Lithograph Grand Tetons Wyoming Mountain Landscape
Located in Union City, NJ
TAPESTRY OF SPRING by the American Western artist Conrad Schwiering, is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset paper 100% acid free. TAPESTRY OF SPRING is a realistic Western landscape scene set in Wyoming featuring a backdrop of Wyoming's majestic Grand Teton snow...
Category

1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Idyll
Located in New York, NY
Sheldon Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Idyll" Artist Proof, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s Depicts female nudes bathing in a ...
Category

1960s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Woodland (New Hope, Pennsylvania)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woodlands (New Hope, Pennsylvania) Lithograph, 1950 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo) Annotated: Ed/55 in pencil by the artist lower left (see photo) Edition: 55...
Category

1950s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

ABS, Lithograph

"Song of Portofino" Colorful Harbor Scene on The Italian Riviera Serigraph
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Song of Portofino" features a colorful harbor scene with rich blues and golds leading to the sparkling Mediterranean sea, and is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced rea...
Category

2010s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Original "You Can Lick Runaway Prices, You Hol The 7 Kesys to Hold Down Prices"
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WWII poster: YOU CAN LICK RUNAWAY PRICES ORIGINAL VINTAGE WWII POSTER BY JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG Distributed originally by OWI for the Office of Economic Stabilization. 1. Buy and hold War Bonds. 2. Pay willingly our share of taxes. 3. Provide adequate life insurance and savings for our future. 4. Reduce our debts as much as possible. 5. Buy only what we need and make what we have last longer. 6. Follow ration rules and price ceilings. 7. Cooperate with our Government's wage stabilization program. Publisher: [S. l.]: Distributed by O.W.I. for the Office of Economic Stabilization. Linen backed fine condition. Restored original Government fold marks (on all World War 2 American vintage posters) James Montgomery Flagg is best known for depicting Uncle Sam in recruitment and public service announcement posters of both World War I and II. You Can Lick Runaway Prices? Features a new painting created by Flagg in c.1942. The poster emphasizes seven steps that the average American could take to prevent inflation. Among these points include significant themes of buying war bonds, conservation, and food rationing. The seven steps correspond to the seven letters that spell Victory. The imagery references Flagg's iconic I Want You poster...
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Girl in Ballerina Dress (Thonet Chair) Color Lithograph, American Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Girl in Ballerina Dress, c. 1970 Color lithograph printed on wove paper, hand signed in pencil and numbered 22/75, with the inkstamp of the publisher, Landfall Press, Chicago (they have published an eclectic list of many important artists including Christo, Judy Chicago, David Levinthal and Jack tworkov to name a few.) Philip Pearlstein is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. Philip M. Pearlstein was born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Saturday morning classes at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942, at the age of 18, two of his paintings won a national competition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, and were reproduced in color in Life magazine. In 1942, he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology's art school, in Pittsburgh, where he painted two portraits of his parents now held by the Carnegie Museum of Art, but after one year he was drafted by the US Army to serve during World War II. He was initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit at Camp Blanding, Florida, where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams and signs. In this role, he learned printmaking and the screenprinting process, and subsequently was stationed in Italy making road signs. While in Italy, he took in as much renaissance art as was accessible in Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and also produced numerous drawings depicting life in the Army. In 1946, sponsored by the GI Bill, he returned to Carnegie Institute, and first met Andy Warhol, who was attracted to Pearlstein because of his notoriety in the school, having been featured in Life magazine. During the summer of 1947, the three rented a barn as a summer studio. Immediately after graduating in June 1949 with a BFA, Pearlstein and Warhol moved to New York City, at first sharing an eighth-floor walkup tenement apartment on St. Mark's Place at Avenue A. He was eventually hired by Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar, mainly doing industrial catalog work, while Warhol immediately found work illustrating department store catalogs presaging Pop Art. In April 1950, they moved to 323 W. 21st Street, into an apartment rented by Franziska Marie Boas, who ran a dance class on the other side of the room. During this time, Pearlstein painted a portrait of Warhol, now held by the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1950, Philip Pearlstein married Dorothy Cantor, with Andy Warhol in the wedding party...
Category

1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Spotted Leopard and Iris, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Photorealist flower screenprint by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt, signed and numbered in pencil. Title: Spotted Leopard and Iris Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and num...
Category

1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Convention, 1976 Signed Limited Edition 7-Color Collotype on Rives BFK Paper
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Norman Rockwell Title: Convention. Year: 1976 Medium Type: 7-Color Collotype on Rives BFK paper Size-Width Size-Height: 25" x 31" Signed Edition Size: Signed by the artist 9/200 ...
Category

1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Original "Here. Mister! AMOCO Service" vintage automotive poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original HERE. Mister! AMOCO Service mid-century vintage poster. Archivally linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. A- condition with a dime size touch-up in the low...
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Flaxen Hair
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Flaxen Hair" Edition of 150, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s Depicts a female nude with flaxen hair sittin...
Category

1960s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

"Harbor Rainbow" Colorful Boat With Deep Blue Water Reflections Serigraph
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Harbor Rainbow" with rippling water reflections of the blue boat floating in the sea is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This c...
Category

2010s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Original Mahatma Gandi vintage inspirational poster "In a gentle way...
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Mahatma Gandi vintage poster. Photo: Information Services of India, N.Y. In a gentle way, you can shake the world. The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, New York, NY. Archival linen backed, ready to frame, Grad A condition. Condition, c. 1960s From a series of portraits with inspirational quotes from The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Photo from the Photo Information Service of India, NY. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. (Wikipedia) About Equitable Life. After closing to new business in 2000, parts of the business were sold off, and the remainder of the company became a subsidiary of Utmost Life and Pensions in January 2020. The Equitable Life Assurance Society (Equitable Life), founded in 1762, is a life insurance...
Category

Late 20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Antarctica #119 Small, Color Photograph, Limited Edition, Travel, Iceberg
Located in Riverdale, NY
This photograph is part of the Antarctica/Patagonia Series by John Conn taken in 2010. The image is 13x19. It is printed on 17x22 archival paper. Signed and Numbered. This is curre...
Category

2010s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Photographic Paper

Original 'Will You Supply Eyes for the Navy?' vintage American military poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster, linen-backed. Very good condition, rare American WW1 antique military poster. Navy ships need binoculars and spy-glasses. Will you ...
Category

1910s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Original Einstein "Hair. It's not the style that counts" vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Einstein vintage poster. “Hair. It’s not the style that counts, it’s what’s under it.” A black and white image of Einstein with his hair messed me. Linen-backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. From a series of portraits with inspirational quotes from The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Photo from Bettmann Archive. The poster is a variation of the original photo with the quote “It’s not the style that counts, it’s what’s under it”. This quote is a play on words emphasizing substance's importance over style. The poster reminds us that actual value lies in what is inside a person rather than their outward appearance. About Equitable Life. After closing to new business in 2000, parts of the business were sold off, and the remainder of the company became a subsidiary of Utmost Life and Pensions in January 2020. The Equitable Life Assurance Society (Equitable Life), founded in 1762, is a life insurance...
Category

Late 20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Original "For Your Boy, YMCA, vintage WW1 1918 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. YMCA for Your Boy. Acid-free original vintage poster in excellent condition with archival linen backing, ready to frame. Certificate o...
Category

1910s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Faded Glory 1978 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Jon Carsman Faded Glory - 1978 Print - Silkscreen, on Arches archival paper 34¼'' x 24'' inches Edition: signed in pencil and marked 159/100 image size 20" x 30" inches “Jon Carsman did for suburban and hometown views what Edward Hopper did for cities, except Carsman exchewed a human presence.” Annette Dixon, curator of the University of Michigan Museum. Jon Carsman found the source of his inspiration in the play of color and light reflected across the framed houses...
Category

1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Original CHICAGO Continental Airlines - Jazz trumpet, vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Chicago Continental Airlines” linen-backed mint vintage poster. FREE Continental USA shipping on this Continental poster! Step back in ...
Category

1960s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Sunday Morning
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Sunday Morning. Title: Sunday Morning Artist: Dox Thrash (American, Griffin, Georgia 1893–1965 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Printer: Sam J. Brown (1901-1994). Date: ca. 1939. Medium: Drypoint Dimensions: sheet: 12 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (32 x 27 cm) plate: 8 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (22.5 x 20 cm) This is the most heavily inked, atmospheric example known to exist. Unique, unsigned example from the collection of artist Samuel J. Brown. Dox Thrash (1893–1965) was an African-American artist who was famed as a skilled draftsman, master printmaker, and painter and as the co-inventor of the Carborundum printmaking process.[1] The subject of his artwork was African American life. He served as a printmaker with the W.P.A. at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia. The artist spent much of his career living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] Early life Dox Thrash was born on March 22, 1893, in Griffin, Georgia.[2] He was the second of four children in his family. Thrash left home at the age of fifteen in search of work up north. He was part of the Great Migration (African American) looking for industrial work in the North. The first job that Thrash got was working with a circus and a Vaudeville act. In 1911, at the age of 18, he moved to Chicago, Illinois.[3] He got a job as an elevator operator during the day, and used this source of income to attend school.[3] In 1914 he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[1] In 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I. In September 1917, at the age of twenty-four, Thrash enlisted in the army.[3] He was placed in the 365th Infantry Regiment, 183rd Brigade, 92nd Division, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers.[1] During combat, Thrash suffered shell shock and a gas attack, but was not permanently injured. Career as an artist Front cover of Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, by John Ittmann. After having served in the war, Thrash qualified as a war veteran and enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago with the support of federal funding.[3] After finishing his education, he traveled intermittently from Georgia to Chicago, Boston, New York, and finally Philadelphia, working odd jobs - experiences that provided him with subject matter to later paint. Settling in Philadelphia by 1925, he took a job working as a janitor. In his free time, he continued his art career and used his talent to create emblems, such as the one for the North Philadelphia Businessmen's Association, and posters in exhibitions and festivals, including the 2nd Annual National Negro Music Festival and the Tra Club of Philadelphia.[1] This gained him local recognition and opened doors for new artistic endeavors. By 1929, Thrash was attending nightly classes within these clubs, namely with Earl Horter of the Graphic Sketch Club, now known as the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial.[3] In 1937 Thrash joined the government-sponsored Works Progress Administration (WPA)'s Federal Art Project.[4] Through the WPA, Thrash began working at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia.[5] At the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia, Thrash, along with Michael J. Gallagher and Hugh Mesibov, began experimenting and co-inventing the process of carborundum mezzotint, a printmaking technique.[1] Carborundum printmaking uses a carbon-based abrasive to burnish copper plates creating an image that can produce a print in tones ranging from pale gray to deep black. The method is similar to the more difficult and complicated mezzotint process developed in the 17th century. He used this as his primary medium for much of his career and created his greatest works with it. One of his first pieces employing this nascent technique was his anonymous self-portrait entitled Mr. X. With this new technique, the three gained increasing recognition as they published more and more graphics within newspapers and featured more and more pieces within exhibitions. Their works often featured subtle commentaries about social and economic exploitation regarding the contemporary politics of the Great Depression and the Second World War. By 1940, Thrash, Gallagher, and Mesibov all began to gain attention in local circles for their carborundum prints, although the role that each artist played in the development of the process was left unclear.[6] In 1960, Thrash participated in a show at the Pyramid Club, a social organization of Black professional men that held an annual art exhibit starting in 1941. Others on hand were Howard N. Watson, Benjamin Britt, Robert Jefferson and Samuel J. Brown Jr. Thrash spent the later years of his life mentoring young African American artists. He died on April 19, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] He was posthumously honored almost 40 years later in 2001 with a major retrospective, titled Dox Thrash: An African-American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[7] Thrash's work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.[8] Relation to Alain Locke and the New Negro Movement This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954) was an intellectual, professor and author who espoused that African Americans, specifically artists, to capture the personality, lives, and essence of their people in The New Negro. He explained “The Negro physiognomy must be freshly and objectively conceived on its own patterns if it is ever to be seriously and importantly interpreted. Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.”[9] What Locke is expressing here is not only the call for black artists to overcome racial prejudices via positive artistic representations of blacks, but that the actual African American individual like Thrash portrayed the lives of fellow blacks, and had the power to propagate this idea of the New Negro, as Locke explains, “There is the possibility that the sensitive artistic mind of the American Negro, stimulated by a cultural pride and interest, will receive…a profound and galvanizing influence.”[10] In his shadowy carborundum mezzotint Cabin Days, Thrash depicts a southern black family on the porch of their shack-like home in a rural landscape. The man, woman, and child, clutched tenderly to the female figure's breast, create an intimate scene highlighted by the bright cleanliness of the laundry hanging behind them. Placed in front of the drying laundry, they are framed by one aspect of the hard work accomplished during the day. Close to one another, staring collectively outward at the Southern landscape, they, and their laudable priorities of cleanliness and family, are made the bright focal point in the poor, unstable atmosphere. Such inner warmth is seemingly incompatible with the family's crooked and disheveled surroundings, and their fuzzy appearance with a lack of facial detail makes the scene into a general archetype for rural southern blacks living conditions and qualities. Thrash was referencing an experience common to thousands of black families in rural occupations at the turn of the 20th century, often forced into slavery-like tenant farming as their only means of livelihood in the racist South. The “uneven clapboards, leaning porch, broken shutter, and uprooted fence” are rife with instability, much like the post-slavery economic and social systems of the South, making it clear that for African Americans, “the house is not the home; rather, the figures on the porch represent family unity and continuity”.[10] In this way, Thrash is able to not only champion the positive qualities of blacks in the family setting but underscore this with a symbolic look at their disadvantaged situation, making it all the more impressive that they persevere. Thrash symbolically depicted harsh realities for the African American at this transitional point in history while conferring a sensitive rendering of their humanity, akin to any other race, despite its utter denial by American society. Through softer tempera washes like A New Day, he literally and figuratively paints a picture of a black family transitioning from the South to the North during the Great Migration, making a hopeful, daring leap to attempt to be equal members of the society that has historically oppressed them. On the left side of the canvas lie muddled farm houses and plow handles, embodiments of their rural life of tedious hard labor behind them, fading to gray. Their hopeful gazes “…convey the optimism of the scores of African Americans who left the countryside to pursue better job opportunities, health care, and education in urban centers”.[6] The stance of the figures, with their chins raised in a dignified gesture towards cityscape ahead suggest a confidence and ambitiousness in their collective futures in this new northern industrial terrain. Even the child, clutched securely in the arm of the mother figure against her breast is not only serenely grinning, but calm enough to appear to gently doze, confident in that the journey ahead will result positively, poses no threat. The exposed arm of the woman is notable as well, being unusually thick and muscular, along with the general proportions of the kneeling father, who position on the ground appears not pleading but rather in a slightly exhausted, but upright gratefulness for the promise ahead. Thrash makes it clear that this family has traveled a long way, but is not depleted; rather they are strong and preparing for further hard work and hopeful success ahead. They are the quintessence of the New Negro, in that they are not only journeying forward to seize previously unobtainable opportunities that will enhance their lives, but the manner with which they hold themselves provokes a certain level of warranted respect for their humanity, from the viewer. In fact it was the strength of his fellow African Americans that Thrash often emphasized, amongst other positive characteristics in the face of adversity in personal portraits. Through his carborundum print Life, he depicts a neatly dressed black girl reading...
Category

1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching

Original "First Class Soldier and Citizen, USA" vintage American poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Linen backed original post-World War II military poster "First Class Soldier and Citizen, U.S.A." Original fold marks have been restored during linen backing. The poster features a smiling Army soldier in his khaki uniform. A rare original military poster to find today. (The poster was documented as being printed in a larger size.). R-224-RPB-2-1-47 A military recruitment poster for young men to join the military post World War 2. The poster features a clean-cut, handsome man in his military uniform with crossed arms smiling at you. Artist: Glass. No known biography of this artist. This is an original 1947 vintage American poster...
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Kansas Farmyard / Missouri Farmyard
Located in Santa Monica, CA
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975) MISSOURI FARMYARD, 1936 (Fath 10) AKA KANSAS FARMYARD Lithograph as published by Associated American Artists. Edition 250. Signed in pencil and in the...
Category

1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Cannas 1978 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print on Arches
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Jon Carsman Cannas - 1978 Print - Silkscreen, on Arches archival paper   34½" x 24" in Edition: Signed in pencil, titled and marked 157/175 "Jon Carsman did for suburban and hometown views what Edward Hopper did for cities, except Carsman exchewed a human presence." Annette Dixon, curator of the University of Michigan Museum. Jon Carsman found the source of his inspiration in the play of color and light reflected across the framed houses...
Category

1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Original Ford, The all New Taunus 12M Super vintage German poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Ford of Germany, The All New Taunus 12M Super vintage German antique poster. Archivally linen-backed om excellent condition and ready to frame. We have not be able to locate any other document copy of this poster. The Taunus 12M, presented in 1952, was the first new German Ford...
Category

1950s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Summer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Title: Four Ages of Love: Summer Year: circa 1985 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
Category

1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

PHOEBE PASSES MY GATE
Located in Portland, ME
Hutty, Alfred. PHOEBE PASSES MY GATE. Drypoint, c. 1931. Edition size c.75. 8 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (plate), 10 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches (sheet). Printed on laid paper. In excellent condit...
Category

1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Drypoint

Original Vintage Color World War 2 Propaganda Poster TAKE CARE Offset Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
TAKE CARE Don't be delayed by V.D.; 1946 military poster by Franz Oswald Schiffers. the 1946 U.S. (or Australian) World War II (WWII) health poster warning soldiers overseas of the consequences of venereal disease. Thisis a vintage 1946 public service announcement poster by Franz O. Schiffers (1902-1976). Schiffers was commissioned to create several posters warning against venereal disease for the U.S servicemen stationed overseas. The artwork is bold, clear and direct. In the post-World War II era, the piece sent a serious message to prevent contracting disease through relations with foreigners. In today's day and age, these pieces are quite humorous and decorative. Virile soldiers are shown to be up against the looming threat of venereal disease. The soldier standing on the pier watching his ship sail away would have to make a very embarrassing explanation to his wife or girlfriend as to why he was left behind. Franz Oswald Schiffers (born August 5, 1902 in Eilendorf in Aachen , February 12, 1976 in Berlin ) was a graphic artist and film poster artist . He was one of the first graphic artists of the 1930s to achieve photorealistic effects in their works. At his father's request, Schiffers initially trained as a teacher before moving to Berlin in 1925 and became a graphic designer at UFA (Universum Film AG). After designing a series of movie posters there, Schiffers became independent in 1932 as a commercial artist (now a graphic designer). In the 1930s, Schiffers specialized in advertising posters for beverage producers - especially beer advertising. The trademark of his beer posters is the meticulous design of beer glass with shiny drops of water that trickle down the misted glass. In this photorealistic context one also speaks of " veristic " graphics. After the seizure of power by the National SocialistsNazis , Schiffers temporarily worked for the Reich Propaganda Ministry. He designed u. a. the so-called "shadow man campaign" with the well-known slogan "enemy hears with!" - A German graphic artist who designed movie posters and advertisements in late-1920s and early 1930s Germany. During the Nazi era, Schiffers was commissioned by the Nazi propaganda office to create German propaganda...
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Winter
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Title: Four Ages of Love: Winter Year: circa 1985 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
Category

1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Original 1944 "Back 'Em Up Buy Extra Bonds" Eisenhower vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: Buy Extra Bonds!, the 1944 U.S. World War II (WWII) War Bonds poster ("Back 'Em Up!") encouraging people to purchase more than the recommended amount of war bonds and featuring Boris Chaliapin...
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Pond, screen print, 2004 by Joseph Raffael (red & yellow koi in pond)
Located in New York, NY
This signed and numbered print is in excellent condition and comes directly from Lincoln Center, publisher of the edition. b. 1933, Brooklyn, NY Joseph Raffael’s paintings are infl...
Category

Early 2000s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Autumn
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Title: Four Ages of Love: Autumn Year: circa 1985 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
Category

1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Original Vintage Color World War II Propaganda Poster Delayed! Offset Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
DELAYED VD; 1946 military poster by Franz Oswald Schiffers. Delayed! VD, the 1946 U.S. World War II (WWII) health poster warning soldiers overseas of the consequences of venereal disease. He can see the bright lights big city in the distance but he is chained to the VD block... VD Almost! is a vintage 1946 public service announcement poster by Franz O. Schiffers (1902-1976). Schiffers was commissioned to create several posters warning against venereal disease for the U.S servicemen stationed overseas. The artwork is bold, clear and direct. In the post-World War II era, the piece sent a serious message to prevent contracting disease through relations with foreigners. In today's day and age, these pieces are quite humorous and decorative. Virile soldiers are shown to be up against the looming threat of venereal disease. The soldier standing on the pier watching his ship sail away would have to make a very embarrassing explanation to his wife or girlfriend as to why he was left behind. Franz Oswald Schiffers (born August 5, 1902 in Eilendorf in Aachen , February 12, 1976 in Berlin ) was a graphic artist and film poster artist . He was one of the first graphic artists of the 1930s to achieve photorealistic effects in their works. At his father's request, Schiffers initially trained as a teacher before moving to Berlin in 1925 and became a graphic designer at UFA (Universum Film AG). After designing a series of movie posters there, Schiffers became independent in 1932 as a commercial artist (now a graphic designer). In the 1930s, Schiffers specialized in advertising posters for beverage producers - especially beer advertising. The trademark of his beer posters is the meticulous design of beer glass with shiny drops of water that trickle down the misted glass. In this photorealistic context one also speaks of " veristic " graphics. After the seizure of power by the National SocialistsNazis , Schiffers temporarily worked for the Reich Propaganda Ministry. He designed u. a. the so-called "shadow man campaign" with the well-known slogan "enemy hears with!" - A German graphic artist who designed movie posters and advertisements in late-1920s and early 1930s Germany. During the Nazi era, Schiffers was commissioned by the Nazi propaganda office to create German propaganda...
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Original Vintage Color World War II Propaganda Poster "Almost" Offset Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
ALMOST VD; 1946 military poster by Franz Oswald Schiffers. Almost! VD, the 1946 U.S. World War II (WWII) health poster warning soldiers overseas of the consequences of venereal disease. VD Almost! is a vintage 1946 public service announcement poster by Franz O. Schiffers (1902-1976). Schiffers was commissioned to create several posters warning against venereal disease for the U.S servicemen stationed overseas. The artwork is bold, clear and direct. In the post-World War II era, the piece sent a serious message to prevent contracting disease through relations with foreigners. In today's day and age, these pieces are quite humorous and decorative. Virile soldiers are shown to be up against the looming threat of venereal disease. The soldier standing on the pier watching his ship sail away would have to make a very embarrassing explanation to his wife or girlfriend as to why he was left behind. Franz Oswald Schiffers (born August 5, 1902 in Eilendorf in Aachen , February 12, 1976 in Berlin ) was a graphic artist and film poster artist . He was one of the first graphic artists of the 1930s to achieve photorealistic effects in their works. At his father's request, Schiffers initially trained as a teacher before moving to Berlin in 1925 and became a graphic designer at UFA (Universum Film AG). After designing a series of movie posters there, Schiffers became independent in 1932 as a commercial artist (now a graphic designer). In the 1930s, Schiffers specialized in advertising posters for beverage producers - especially beer advertising. The trademark of his beer posters is the meticulous design of beer glass with shiny drops of water that trickle down the misted glass. In this photorealistic context one also speaks of " veristic " graphics. After the seizure of power by the National SocialistsNazis , Schiffers temporarily worked for the Reich Propaganda Ministry. He designed u. a. the so-called "shadow man campaign" with the well-known slogan "enemy hears with!" - A German graphic artist who designed movie posters and advertisements in late-1920s and early 1930s Germany. During the Nazi era, Schiffers was commissioned by the Nazi propaganda office to create German propaganda...
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Beautiful Child (Artist Proof)
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Beautiful Child" Artist Proof, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s Depicts a young girl. Color: Black and Whi...
Category

1960s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Harvest
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Harvest" c.1930 is an offset lithograph on wove paper by noted Taos, New Mexico artist Kenneth Miller Adams, 1897-1966. It is signed and titled in the plate. Th...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Original Vintage Color World War II Propaganda Poster Soldier Offset Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Going home? Don't be delayed by V.D.; 1946 military poster by Franz Oswald Schiffers. Going home? Don't be delayed by V.D. VD, the 1946 U.S. (or Australian) World War II (WWII) health poster warning soldiers overseas of the consequences of venereal disease. Bound up in rope. Going home? Don't be delayed by V.D.! is a vintage 1946 public service announcement poster by Franz O. Schiffers (1902-1976). Schiffers was commissioned to create several posters warning against venereal disease for the U.S servicemen stationed overseas. The artwork is bold, clear and direct. In the post-World War II era, the piece sent a serious message to prevent contracting disease through relations with foreigners. In today's day and age, these pieces are quite humorous and decorative. Virile soldiers are shown to be up against the looming threat of venereal disease. The soldier standing on the pier watching his ship sail away would have to make a very embarrassing explanation to his wife or girlfriend as to why he was left behind. Franz Oswald Schiffers (born August 5, 1902 in Eilendorf in Aachen , February 12, 1976 in Berlin ) was a graphic artist and film poster artist . He was one of the first graphic artists of the 1930s to achieve photorealistic effects in their works. At his father's request, Schiffers initially trained as a teacher before moving to Berlin in 1925 and became a graphic designer at UFA (Universum Film AG). After designing a series of movie posters there, Schiffers became independent in 1932 as a commercial artist (now a graphic designer). In the 1930s, Schiffers specialized in advertising posters for beverage producers - especially beer advertising. The trademark of his beer posters is the meticulous design of beer glass with shiny drops of water that trickle down the misted glass. In this photorealistic context one also speaks of " veristic " graphics. After the seizure of power by the National SocialistsNazis , Schiffers temporarily worked for the Reich Propaganda Ministry. He designed u. a. the so-called "shadow man campaign" with the well-known slogan "enemy hears with!" - A German graphic artist who designed movie posters and advertisements in late-1920s and early 1930s Germany. During the Nazi era, Schiffers was commissioned by the Nazi propaganda office to create German propaganda...
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

INSTRUCTION
Located in Santa Monica, CA
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975) INSTRUCTION 1940 (Fath 41) Lithograph, signed edition of 250 as published by Associated American Artists. 10 ¼” x 12 ¼”. Full margins, deckle edges....
Category

1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Antarctica 93, Iceberg, Blue, Photograph, unframed, home office, Travel, climate
Located in Riverdale, NY
Antarctica #93 is a limited edition photograph which is part of the Antarctica/Patagonia Series by John Conn taken in 2010. The image is 13x19 and it is printed on 17x22 archival pa...
Category

2010s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Photographic Paper

Antarctica 29, Icebergs, Photograph, unframed, home office, Travel
Located in Riverdale, NY
Antarctica #29 is a limited edition photograph which is part of the Antarctica/Patagonia Series by John Conn taken in 2010. The image is 13x19 and it is printed on 17x22 archival pa...
Category

2010s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Photographic Paper

Antarctica 35, Mountains, Photograph, unframed, Snow, Travel, Burst, Sun
Located in Riverdale, NY
Antarctica #35 is a limited edition photograph which is part of the Antarctica/Patagonia Series by John Conn taken in 2010. The image is 13x19 and it is printed on 17x22 archival pa...
Category

2010s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Photographic Paper

Dreamer
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Dreamer" Edition of 150, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s Depicts a boy dreaming. Color: Black and White ...
Category

1960s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Antarctica 25, Iceberg, Photograph, unframed, home office, Travel, Blues
Located in Riverdale, NY
Antarctica #25 is a limited edition photograph which is part of the Antarctica/Patagonia Series by John Conn taken in 2010. The image is 13x19 and it is printed on 17x22 archival pa...
Category

2010s American Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Photographic Paper

American Realist prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic American Realist 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, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Lowell Nesbitt, Reginald Marsh, John Sloan, and Richard Haas. 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 Realist prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 2.5 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 $95 and tops out at $106,195, while the average work sells for $799.

Recently Viewed

View All