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St Marks Place (Cityscape, James Rizzi, Fun, NYC, Kids Room, 55% OFF - MUST GO)
St Marks Place (Cityscape, James Rizzi, Fun, NYC, Kids Room, 55% OFF - MUST GO)

St Marks Place (Cityscape, James Rizzi, Fun, NYC, Kids Room, 55% OFF - MUST GO)

By Linnea Pergola

Located in Kansas City, MO

Linnea Pergola St Marks Place Giclee on handmade cotton paper Year: 2019 Image Size: 14.75 x 20.375 inches (37.47 x 51.75 cm) Paper Size: 17.13 x 24.02 inches (43.5 x 61 cm) Edition:...

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2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Archival Paper, Giclée

“City of love”
“City of love”

“City of love”

By Charles Fazzino

Located in Warren, NJ

Charles Fazzino 3d Pop Art Signed And Numbered “City of Love”. In good condition

Category

21st Century and Contemporary More Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Original California Ferrari Louis Vuitton Parc de Bagatelle hand signed poster
Original California Ferrari Louis Vuitton Parc de Bagatelle hand signed poster

Original California Ferrari Louis Vuitton Parc de Bagatelle hand signed poster

Original 1989 Louis Vuitton Automobile Classiques Poster –Hand Signed, Archival Linen-Backed. This poster was created for the Concours d’Elegance ...

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1980s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

New York City, Modern Lithograph by Fairfield Porter
New York City, Modern Lithograph by Fairfield Porter

New York City, Modern Lithograph by Fairfield Porter

By Fairfield Porter

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Fairfield Porter, American (1907 - 1975) Title: Untitled (NYC) Year: 1969 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.8...

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1960s American Impressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Salvador Dali Surrealist Etching Engraving Pochoir L'Automobile Da Vinci Hommage
Salvador Dali Surrealist Etching Engraving Pochoir L'Automobile Da Vinci Hommage

Salvador Dali Surrealist Etching Engraving Pochoir L'Automobile Da Vinci Hommage

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Surfside, FL

Salvador Dali Title: L'automobile (Automobile) 1975 From Portfolio, Hommage à Leonardo da Vinci (Great Inventions) Original Engraving and Etching with Pochoir on Arches paper Edi...

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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching, Engraving

New York Skyline
New York Skyline

New York Skyline

By Louis H. Ruyl

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper with deckle edges, 4 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches (233 x 323 mm); sheet 9 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches (240 x 338 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/75 ...

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Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint

Royal Diner 1980 Signed Limited Edition Silkscreen
Royal Diner 1980 Signed Limited Edition Silkscreen

Royal Diner 1980 Signed Limited Edition Silkscreen

By John Baeder

Located in Rochester Hills, MI

Artist: John Baeder Title: Royal Diner  Year: 1980 Print - Screen print on Somerset paper    Size: 22'' x 30'' inches Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 133/250 John Baeder's calc...

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1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

Heiner Meyer Car Pop Art Screenprint, Signed, 2024, Red Kiss
Heiner Meyer Car Pop Art Screenprint, Signed, 2024, Red Kiss

Heiner Meyer Car Pop Art Screenprint, Signed, 2024, Red Kiss

By Heiner Meyer

Located in Washington, DC

Artist: Heiner Meyer Title: Red Kiss Medium: Screenprint on handmade paper Year: 2024 Edition: 33/35 Framed Size: 34 1/2" x 35 1/2" Sheet Size: 30 5/8" x 31 1/4" image Size: 24 3/4" ...

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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Screen

Naess Sovereign, lithograph by Laurence Dunn
Naess Sovereign, lithograph by Laurence Dunn

Naess Sovereign, lithograph by Laurence Dunn

By Laurence Dunn

Located in London, GB

We acquired a series of marine works from Laurence Dunn's Archives. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller." Laurence D...

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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'Financial District', New York City — American Modernism
'Financial District', New York City — American Modernism

'Financial District', New York City — American Modernism

By Howard Norton Cook

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Howard Cook, 'Financial District', lithograph, 1931, edition 75, Duffy 155. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 3/4 to 5 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 13 5/16 x 10 3/8 inches (338 x 264 mm); sheet size 23 x 16 inches (584 x 406 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed. Literature: 'American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy Collection', the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., 1987. Collections: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980) was one of the best-known of the second generation of artists who moved to Taos. A native of Massachusetts, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Woodstock Art Colony. Beginning his association with Taos in 1926, he became a resident of the community in the 1930s. During his career, he received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected an Academician in the National Academy of Design. He earned a national reputation as a painter, muralist, and printmaker. Cook’s work in the print mediums received acclaim early in his career with one-person exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum (1927) and the Museum of New Mexico (1928). He received numerous honors and awards over the years, including selection in best-of-the-year exhibitions sponsored by the American Institute of Graphics Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Society of American Etchers, and the Philadelphia Print Club. His first Guggenheim Fellowship took him to Taxco, Mexico in 1932 and 1933; his second in the following year enabled him to travel through the American South and Southwest. Cook painted murals for the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 and the Treasury Departments Art Program in 1935. The latter project, completed in Pittsburgh, received a Gold Medal from the Architectural League of New York. One of his most acclaimed commissions was a mural in the San Antonio Post Office in 1937. He and Barbara Latham settled in Talpa, south of Taos, in 1938 and remained there for over three decades. Cook volunteered in World War II as an Artist War Correspondent for the US Navy, where he was deployed in the Pacific. In 1943 he was appointed Leader of a War Art Unit...

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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

KFC'vette
KFC'vette

KFC'vette

By Matthew Carden

Located in New York, NY

THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information. ABOUT THIS PIECE: This image comes from the series "Fast Food Fast Cars: The Pursuit of...

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2010s Still-life Prints

Materials

Plexiglass

Christo-L'Arc de Triomph, Wrapped Project for Paris I, 2019
Christo-L'Arc de Triomph, Wrapped Project for Paris I, 2019

Christo-L'Arc de Triomph, Wrapped Project for Paris I, 2019

By Javacheff Christo

Located in Brooklyn, NY

"L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped Project for Paris I" is one of the last projects realized by Christo before his passing. This limited edition piece is a testament to Christo's enduring v...

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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

The Castle (bronze green), Engraving
The Castle (bronze green), Engraving

The Castle (bronze green), Engraving

Located in Paris, IDF

Henry CLEWS (1876–1937) The Castle, 1959 Engraving (transferred to copper by Bacons-Duplessis and André Collot) Unsigned Authenticated by Henry Clews’s studio stamp on the reverse O...

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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Coenties Slip
Coenties Slip

Coenties Slip

By Charles Frederick William Mielatz

Located in Middletown, NY

Lower Manhattan and the Seaport as the artist imagined it would have appeared before 1835. New York: 1907. Etching with drypoint on Japon paper, 13 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches (353 x 248 mm...

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Late 19th Century American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Shadows, Garage at Night

Shadows, Garage at Night

By Martin Lewis

Located in New York, NY

Martin Lewis (1881-1962, Shadows, Garage at Night, drypoint, 1928, signed in pencil lower right [also signed in the plate lower right]. Reference: McCarron 69, only state, from the t...

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1930s American Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Drypoint

"A BRISK GALE" and "A MODERATE GALE"
"A BRISK GALE" and "A MODERATE GALE"

"A BRISK GALE" and "A MODERATE GALE"

Located in Portland, ME

Canot, P.C. (French, worked in England, 1710-1777), after Willem van de Velde and Ludolph Bakhuizen. "A BRISK GALE" and "A MODERATE GALE," engravings, ...

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Mid-18th Century Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving

Original advertising poster from the 1970s - Le combi Volkswagen
Original advertising poster from the 1970s - Le combi Volkswagen

Original advertising poster from the 1970s - Le combi Volkswagen

Located in PARIS, FR

This original advertising poster from the 1970s pays tribute to the legendary Volkswagen Combi, a vehicle that became synonymous with freedom, travel, and the countercultural movemen...

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1970s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper

Going to the Olympics
Going to the Olympics

Going to the Olympics

By Frank Romero

Located in Palm Springs, CA

Frank Romero created this serigraph after learning that the original mural, completed on the 101 freeway in Los Angeles, 1984, had been painted over. The mural, which was done for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, has since been restored. Signed and numbered by the artist in black marker, in lower left corner of print on black background - hard to see except at an angle. Throughout his 40 year career as an artist, Frank Romero has been a dedicated member of the Los Angeles arts community. As a member of the 1970s Chicano art collective, Los Four...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

Bliss at the Cliff’s Edge (Climate Activism, Clean Air, Clean Water, Earth Day)
Bliss at the Cliff’s Edge (Climate Activism, Clean Air, Clean Water, Earth Day)

Bliss at the Cliff’s Edge (Climate Activism, Clean Air, Clean Water, Earth Day)

By Shepard Fairey

Located in Kansas City, MO

Shepard Fairey Bliss at the Cliff’s Edge Screen print on thick cream Speckletone paper Year: 2024 Size: 24 x 18 inches (60.96 x 45.72 cm) Edition: 550 Signed by Shepard Fairey, dated...

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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Bob Dylan - Brooklyn Heights
Bob Dylan - Brooklyn Heights

Bob Dylan - Brooklyn Heights

By Bob Dylan

Located in London, GB

Bob Dylan Brooklyn Heights, 2016. Giclée print on Hahnemühle 350gsm Museum etching paper. Signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 295 Published by Washington Green Fine Art in ass...

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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Giclée

MANHATTAN
MANHATTAN

MANHATTAN

By Anton Schutz

Located in Santa Monica, CA

ANTON SCHUTZ MANHATTAN c 1940 Etching, signed in pencil, edition 100, no. 15/100. On thin simili-japan paper. Very slight toning around plate mark. Remnants of old tape on verso, s...

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1940s American Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

Harbour with a Round Tower
Harbour with a Round Tower

Harbour with a Round Tower

By Claude Lorrain

Located in Middletown, NY

1641. Etching on cream wove paper, 5 1/16 x 7 11/16 inches (128 x 195 mm), narrow margins. Printed 19th century on a remainder which has a partially trimmed, printed image of a Virgi...

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Mid-17th Century French School Figurative Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching

“Broadway ii”
“Broadway ii”

“Broadway ii”

By Charles Fazzino

Located in Warren, NJ

Charles fazzino 3D called “Broadway ii”. In good condition . Measures 28x25

Category

1990s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Rare and striking artifact of automotive history original 1928 Bugatti poster
Rare and striking artifact of automotive history original 1928 Bugatti poster

Rare and striking artifact of automotive history original 1928 Bugatti poster

Located in PARIS, FR

A rare and striking artifact of automotive history, this original 1928 Bugatti poster is a celebration of modern engineering and brand prestige. Featuring a bold, minimalist rendering of a Bugatti Type 35 — one of the most iconic racing cars of its time — this design fuses mechanical precision with graphic elegance. The poster proudly proclaims in bold red lettering: "Les 7 merveilles du monde sont les vestiges des gloires passées — la Bugatti est la merveille de notre époque" (“The seven wonders of the world are relics of past glories — the Bugatti is the marvel of our time”). It's a declaration of innovation, pride, and forward-looking optimism, capturing the spirit of the interwar years when technology and speed symbolized progress. This composition is a masterpiece of early automotive advertising — clean lines, bold contrast, and sharp typography emphasize the modernist aesthetic of the 1920s. More than a promotional piece, it stands as a cultural statement about Bugatti’s place in the modern world. Ideal for collectors of classic car memorabilia...

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1920s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

SLOW TRAIN THROUGH ARKANSAS
SLOW TRAIN THROUGH ARKANSAS

SLOW TRAIN THROUGH ARKANSAS

By Thomas Hart Benton

Located in Portland, ME

Benton, Thomas Hart (American, 1889-1975 SLOW TRAIN THROUGH ARKANSAS. Fath . Lithograph, 1941. Edition of 250 published by Associated American Artists (A.A.A.). 9 7/8 x 12 inches (im...

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1940s Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Edward Hopper 'Sun on Prospect Street' 2010- Offset Lithograph
Edward Hopper 'Sun on Prospect Street' 2010- Offset Lithograph

Edward Hopper 'Sun on Prospect Street' 2010- Offset Lithograph

By Edward Hopper

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Paper Size: 13 x 17 inches ( 33.02 x 43.18 cm ) Image Size: 13 x 17 inches ( 33.02 x 43.18 cm ) Framed: Yes Frame Size: H: 14 x W: 18 x D: .75 in. Condition: A: Mint Additiona...

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2010s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Ice Cream Truck, Wildwood, New Jersey - Color Pop Art Photography Print
Ice Cream Truck, Wildwood, New Jersey - Color Pop Art Photography Print

Ice Cream Truck, Wildwood, New Jersey - Color Pop Art Photography Print

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

Ice Cream Truck, vibrant street photography from the seaside town of Wildwood, from Richard Heeps Jersey Shore series. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photographic pri...

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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Original Porsche 928 Cutaway Techical Art vintage automotive poster
Original Porsche 928 Cutaway Techical Art vintage automotive poster

Original Porsche 928 Cutaway Techical Art vintage automotive poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original Porsche 928 German factory poster. Archival linen-backed and presents in Grade A condition. The white area was cleaned up during linen backing. This should be the lowes...

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Late 20th Century American Realist Interior Prints

Materials

Offset

Original "La 18 ch" vintage art deco automobile poster
Original "La 18 ch" vintage art deco automobile poster

Original "La 18 ch" vintage art deco automobile poster

By Rene Vincent

Located in Spokane, WA

Original vintage poster: La 18 ch Peugeot. Archival linen-backed art deco early antique French automobile poster. Notable artist Rene Vincent. Excellent condition. Black and white lithograph on natural unbleached paper. Ready to frame. This is a full-size poster and not a magazine ad. From our research, it has been almost a decade since the last copy of this poster was available. Rare Rene Vincent automobile poster. Black and white posters are a rarity as far as vintage posters are concerned. The original idea was to catch the attention of passersby in every possible way. Color was an essential tool in advertising when posters were an essential source for name-brand recognition. The absence of color gives these auto posters a touch of class. They can also be compared to old photographs. Either way, you're looking at something special. This one is incredibly cool since it came from the talented artist Rene Vincent. If his name doesn't ring a bell, his poster "Porto Ramos" probably will if you look it up on our site. You will find that he also created automobile posters as early as 1905, which are all extremely rare and hard to find. Don’t let this excellent-condition vintage poster pass you by. Vincent only got to devote a little time to posters once he was in his forties, after working for many years in various publications--mainly humor and fashion magazines--and in decorative design. However, once he made the switch, he produced prolifically posters, even using additional pseudonyms. He preferred sleek automotive posters...

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1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Chase - Third Day, by Jos Sances
The Chase - Third Day, by Jos Sances

The Chase - Third Day, by Jos Sances

By Jos Sances

Located in Palm Springs, CA

A double image, with multiple narratives. The title and main imagery depict the third day of Captain Ahab's fateful chase of Moby Dick (chapter 135). In the lower image the whale is ...

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2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Screen

Walter Rudolph, Winter sports 1976

Walter Rudolph, Winter sports 1976

By Walter Rudolph

Located in Cologne, DE

Walter Rudolph His photographs are reminiscent of the jet-set photographer Slim Aarons. Walter Rudolph discovered the world as a photographer on the idea, travel was his passion, hi...

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1970s Modern Interior Prints

Materials

Color

Uncharted Territory - Signed Limited Edition

Uncharted Territory - Signed Limited Edition

By Blank Barbie

Located in London, GB

Uncharted Territory Signed Limited Edition By Blank Barbie pop artwork Archival pigment print 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size unframed signed and numbered by artist ...

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2010s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Archival Pigment

Brandenburger Tor, Berlin (Brandenburg Gate, Berlin)
Brandenburger Tor, Berlin (Brandenburg Gate, Berlin)

Brandenburger Tor, Berlin (Brandenburg Gate, Berlin)

By Luigi Kasimir

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Brandenburger Tor, Berlin (Brandenburg Gate, Berlin)". c1930 is a color etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 13 x 16.5 inches, framed size is 23.75 x 27 inches. Custom framed in a wooden ornate gold frame, white beige matting and green color fillet. It is in excellent condition, the artwork is very slightly toned around the plate mark, barely visible. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand. Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...

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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

"L'Aviation" pochoir for Les Joies du Sport

"L'Aviation" pochoir for Les Joies du Sport

By Milivoy Uzelac

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: pochoir. Printed in Paris in 1932 on Velin du Marais paper at the atelier of Daniel Jacomet for the Les Joies du Sport portfolio and issued in an edition of 750. This was pub...

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1930s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

'Times Square' — 1920s Modernism
'Times Square' — 1920s Modernism

'Times Square' — 1920s Modernism

By Adriaan Lubbers

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Adriaan Lubbers, 'Times Square', lithograph, 1929, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and editioned '(50)' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2...

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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Conway, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving
Conway, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving

Conway, Wales. Paul Sandby C18th landscape engraving

By Paul Sandby

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

'Conway' Engraving by William Watts (1752-1851) after Paul Sandby (1731-1809). From Paul Sandby's 'The Virtuosi's Museum, Containing Select Views in England, Scotland, and Ireland'...

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18th Century Naturalistic Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving

17th Gran Premio di San Marino Formula 1 original racing poster
17th Gran Premio di San Marino Formula 1 original racing poster

17th Gran Premio di San Marino Formula 1 original racing poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original 17th Grand Prix of San Marino vintage Italian poster. Gran Premio di San Marino. Artist: Giovanni Cremonini. Larger format race poster. Linen backed and ready to frame. This original poster advertises the 17th Grand Prix in San Marino. This is a great poster for Ferrari enthusiasts. Archival is mounted on acid-free paper bonded to linen canvas. The San Marino Grand Prix (Italian: Gran Premio di San Marino) was a Formula One championship race that was run at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari...

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1990s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Offset

1983 Variety Photo Plays Signed Limited Edition Lithograph in colors
1983 Variety Photo Plays Signed Limited Edition Lithograph in colors

1983 Variety Photo Plays Signed Limited Edition Lithograph in colors

By Davis Cone

Located in Rochester Hills, MI

Davis Cone 1983 Variety Photo Plays Signed in pencil and marked 3/7 PP (Printers Proof) Lithograph in colors Paper Size 34½ x 26 inches Image Size 32½ x 23¼ inches Eleanor Ettinger G...

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1980s Photorealist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

19th century color lithograph seascape boat ship waves maritime landscape
19th century color lithograph seascape boat ship waves maritime landscape

19th century color lithograph seascape boat ship waves maritime landscape

By Currier & Ives

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"The Celebrated Clipper Ship Dreadnought" is an original hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives. It depicts a sailing ship. 13 1/4" x 17 1/2" art 19" x 23 1/2" frame Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...

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1870s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Koln Rathaus (Cologne City Hall)
Koln Rathaus (Cologne City Hall)

Koln Rathaus (Cologne City Hall)

By Luigi Kasimir

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Koln Rathaus (Cologne City Hall)" c.1920 is an original colors etching and aquatint by noted Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed, titled ...

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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching