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Art Subject: Tree
The Coconut - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Lost Trace / - The Holy Night as a real dream -
Located in Berlin, DE
Ernst Fuchs (1930 Vienna - 2015 ibid), The Lost Trace, 1972. Vernis mou and aquatint etching, 46.8 x 36.4 cm (plate), 66 x 50 cm (sheet), 69.5 x 53.5 cm (frame), WVZ Hartmann no. 185...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

In th Bighorns (Wyoming)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
In th Bighorns (Wyoming) Drypoint, c. 1930's Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Titled in the plate lower left Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 6 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches Hans Kleiber (1887-1967) Hans Norbert Kleiber, painter, etcher, illustrator, and naturalist, was born in Cologne, Germany on August 24, 1887. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1900, settling in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming. Kleiber first worked in lumber camps before working for the United States Forest Service from 1906 until 1924. One of his duties as a ranger was to monitor the logging camps in the Bighorn Mountains. Kleiber was primarily self-taught as an artist and it was in the 1920s that he began devoting himself to art. It appears that he first began to work in watercolor and oil but was producing etchings and drypoints as early as 1924. He traversed the mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and his subjects are drawn from the pristine landscapes and wildlife. Kleiber's first exhibition of his etchings was mounted in 1928 at Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. His etching, Crossing the Platte, was included in the 1939 New York World's Fair exhibition, American Art Today. There was an exhibition of fifty of his etchings at the National Museum in 1944, and an exhibition of his watercolors was mounted at the Grand Central Galleries in New York in 1950. Kleiber was a member of the Society of American Etchers and the California Society of Printmakers. He received a silver medal in 1931 from the Printmakers Society of California for his print, Leaving the High Country...
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1930s American Realist Animal Prints

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Drypoint

Tree - Woodcut - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Tree is a woodcut realized by an unknown artist in the early 20th Century. Very Good conditions. the artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

Topiary I (framed) - large format photograph of ornamental shaped urban tree
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photogaph from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening and whimsical botanical art of topiaries' green minimalism Topiary I...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Giclée

Screech Owl, American Realist Lithograph by Chris Forrest
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Screech Owl, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: ...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

River Bank, American Realist Etching with Aquatint by John McNulty
Located in Long Island City, NY
John McNulty, Irish/American (1949 - ) - River Bank, Year: 1982, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and titled in pencil, Edition: 175, Size: 22 x ...
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1980s American Realist Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Great Horned Owl, American Realist Lithograph by Chris Forrest
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Great Horned Owl, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 19 x 24 inches, Size: 23 in...
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1980s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

1983 Jack Perlmutter 'American Dance Festival 1983'
By Jack Perlmutter
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 30 x 22 inches ( 76.2 x 55.88 cm ) Image Size: 30 x 22 inches ( 76.2 x 55.88 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Detai...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

LITTLEWOODS Signed Lithograph, Historic Stone Farmhouse, Bucks County Landscape
Located in Union City, NJ
LITTLEWOODS is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by Peter Sculthorpe (b.1948 Ontario, Canada) printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100...
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1980s Realist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Passage, by Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. Anonymous pedestrians passing on a snowy walk through Central Park. Um...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Mezzotint

Arabian, American Realist Lithograph by Mel Hunter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Arabian, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Size: 22 in. x 29.5 in. (55.88 cm x 74.93 cm), Descript...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The Turkish Grasslands, Limited Edition Offset print by Aya Takano signed
Located in Hong Kong, HK
The Turkish Grasslands (2005). Offset print by Aya Takano Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist 23 ¹/₃₂ x 19 ¹³/₃₂ in 58.5 x 49.3 cm Edition 81/300
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Offset

Acer & Carduus - 18th century Weinmann botanical plant flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Acarna Theophrasti' and 'Acer Campestre minus' Mezzotint printed in colours. Circa 1740. From Johann W Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, published in Regensburg 1737-45. The fi...
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18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Autumn Pine
Located in Deddington, GB
This print of a pine tree uses kitakata chine collé to depict the warmth and colour of early autumnal light. This body of work is based on the book by Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mo...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

Joan Miro 'Moonbird' 2003- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 24 x 24 inches ( 60.96 x 60.96 cm ) Image Size: 23 x 23 inches ( 58.42 x 58.42 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Det...
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Early 2000s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Mid Century Modern Architecture Classic Corvette Palm Springs Tom Blachford
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited Edition photography by Tom Blachford. Mid Century Modern Architectural Design. What began for Tom Blachford as a fateful discovery one night has developed into an ongoing s...
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2010s American Modern Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Red Mountain Relic (View of Red Mountain, Colorado), Signed Black & White Print
Located in Denver, CO
A stunning example of American printmaking, “Red Mountain Relic” is an original etching with drypoint by acclaimed artist Gene Kloss (1903–1996). This atmospheric composition capture...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints

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Etching

Autumn Light
Located in Deddington, GB
This print of a tree uses litho printed kitakata chine collé to depict the warmth and colour of early autumnal sunlight. The depth of the blacks along with the layering, allude to th...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

Between
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The photo was done during a lovely walk in the park during the pandemic.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Prints

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Archival Pigment

Between
$245 Sale Price
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The Lonesome Road (La course seule) Provence, landscapes, countryside art
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ella Fort The Lonesome Road (La course seule) Color lithograph Signed, numbered or inscribed Edition: 390 + 10 E.A. size: 7.8 × 11.7 on 11.7 × 15.6 inche...
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1980s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

High Country Chill, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - High Country Chill, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 17 x 26 inches, S...
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1970s American Realist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Royal Palm With Turkish Design, by David Smith-Harrison
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled artist proof. Edition of 135. Like much of his work, Royal Palm has atmosphere of the Mediterranean, but all of the elements are rooted in the artist's neighborhood. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Trees
Located in London, GB
Woodcut on BFK Rives paper, produced in 2020. Edition of 100. Mint condition, unframed. Signed and numbered in pencil by Nicolas Party.
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Growing Tall, Psychedelic Screenprint by Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Growing Tall, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 295, Image Size: 28 x 18.5 inches, Size: 35 in. x 23...
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1980s Pop Art Landscape Prints

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Screen

The Olaceae - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
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1870s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Tomás Sánchez (1948) This lithograph from 1982 shows a beautiful landscape by the artist Tomas Sanchez. It is signed and dated in the bottom right corner and numbered on the left on...
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1980s Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Winding Path (18 x 11 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
New as of Jan. 1, 2025. This is a brand-new addition to the artist's ever-growing series of foggy woods in northern California near San Francisco. These tall eucalyptus trees are the...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Big Foot Country, Psychedelic Screenprint by Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Big Foot Country, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 50, Image Size: 13 x 20 inches, Size: 15 in. x 2...
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1980s Pop Art Landscape Prints

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Screen

Poster-Bonsai Exhibition-Miki-San/Our Place, San Diego-September 1982
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Poster-Bonsai Exhibition, Miki-San/Our Place, San Diego, September 1982. Published and distributed by Up Front Graphics Inc, San Diego. Printed in Hong Kong....
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1980s Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Forest Sunrise (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. New from 2023. This is an original, hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints were made. Four have sold. Only six...
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2010s Realist Landscape Photography

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Photogram

Autumn Leaves, Psychedelic Screenprint by Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Autumn Leaves, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 99, Size: 30 in. x 44 in. (76.2 cm x 111.76 cm)
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1980s Pop Art Landscape Prints

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Screen

Crow - Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Crow is an artwork realized by the Contemporary Italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017) in 1972. Black and white etching on paper. Hand Signed on the lower right margin, dated and ...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Etching

Greville Smyth Pine
Located in Deddington, GB
This print considers how we view the contemporary sublime landscape and how easy it can be to experience when we take the time to look. We often don’t have to travel far: parks in cities, the coastline and stars in the night sky. The mature Scots Pine tree pictured...
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2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

1980 After Fredrich Cantor 'Paris' Photography Black & White USA
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 24 x 18 inches ( 60.96 x 45.72 cm ) Image Size: 8.5 x 12.5 inches ( 21.59 x 31.75 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional ...
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1980s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Prize Rack, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Prize Rack, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 17.5 x 23 inches, Size: ...
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1970s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Jardins de Luxembourg, American Realist Etching with Aquatint by John McNulty
Located in Long Island City, NY
John McNulty, Irish/American (1949 - ) - Jardins de Luxembourg, Year: 1984, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and titled in pencil, Edition: 175, Size: 22 x 28 in. (55.88 x 7...
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1980s American Realist Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Le Figuier d'Antibes
Located in Chicago, IL
This lithograph comes from an edition of 120 and it is signed and numbered. Guiramand’s works all have one element in common: the artist’s extraordinary sensitivity and ability to a...
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Farmhouse 3, Folk Art Screenprint by Ted Jeremenko
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ted Jeremenko, Yugoslavian/American (1938 - ) - Farmhouse 3. Year: circa 1985, Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 175, Image Size: 13 x 19 inches, Size: 19.5...
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1980s Folk Art Landscape Prints

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Screen

Untitled (Skull)
Located in New York, NY
This signed and numbered lithograph by Jasper Johns, produced in an edition of 100, is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Spring Thaw, Pop Art Lithograph by Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Spring Thaw, Year: 1977, Medium: Lithograph, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil, Edition: 50, Size: 23.25 x 31 in. (59.06 x 78.74...
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1970s Pop Art Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Large Monotype Monoprint Print Scenic Lake Landscape Susan Hall Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Monotype Monoprint Hand signed and numbered 1/1 Lake landscape Sheet: 37.5" X 27" Image: 29.5" X 19.75" Susan Hall lives and works in Point Reyes Station, California, a town in the heart of the Point Reyes National Seashore. This pristine wilderness area is dominated by a mosaic of bays and ocean, rolling grass lands and forests. It is inhabited by a diversity of wildlife, including over 450 species of birds, mountains lions, deer, bobcats, foxes, and elk. Ms. Hall who is a native of this area returned after spending twenty years in New York City. In her book, “Painting Point Reyes”, Hall says, “Point Reyes is the center of my painting life. Point Reyes has been my life and when I haven’t lived here, it has been an underground stream that spoke to me in dreams and visions.” While living and painting in New York City, Ms. Hall exhibited her work widely in museums and galleries. Among them are the Whitney Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Trabia MacAfee Gallery, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago; Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles. In addition, her work has been featured in group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, including in 2020 Bud Shark's Ink: The California Crew at BMoCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Colorado USA representing the panoply of aesthetics, cultural backgrounds, viewpoints, and talent held within the bounty of art “made in California.” This remarkable grouping of artists, Brad Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Roy De Forest, Amy Ellingson, Susan Hall, Don Ed Hardy, Mildred Howard, Robert Hudson, Hung Liu, Kara Maria, Rex Ray, Alison Saar, Italo Scanga, and William T. Wiley. Women to the Fore, Hudson River Museum Yonkers 2021 A group of women artists working in oil painting and drawing, lithograph prints and photograph, collage and sculpture. Many icons of feminist art history. Judy Chicago, Judy Giera, Marisol, and Shanequa Benitez, Ann McCoy, Anna Walinska, Audrey Flack, Barbara Morgan, Berenice Abbott, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Hannelore Baron, Harriet, Judy Chicago, Louise Nevelson, Marisol, Mary Frank, Nancy Graves, Susan Hall, Yvonne Thomas...
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20th Century Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Monotype

Squirrel - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher in 1931. It belongs to the series "Emblemata". Signed with initials in the plate lower right. Ref. F.H. Bool, J.R. Kist, J.L. Locher and F. Wierda...
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1930s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Forest - Contemporary Linocut, Flora, Nature, Polish artist, Young art
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA GARBACZEWSKA (born 1987) - Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Diploma in 2012 in the studio of prof. Maria Targońska, annex by prof. Czesław Tumielewicz. PROVENAN...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Linocut

Mountain Fog, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Vic Herman, American (1919 - 1999) - Dances of Guanajuato, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 13 x 23.5 inches, Size: 1...
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1970s Folk Art Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

"Green Pastures" by Gene Pelham. Printed in U.S.A.
Located in Chesterfield, MI
New York Graphic Society Printed in USA, plate signed. Good condition 13.5 x 16 in.
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20th Century Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

A little Bit of London and A little bit of Canary Wharf diptych
Located in Deddington, GB
A little Bit of London and A little bit of Canary Wharf diptych Overall size cm : H48 x W102 Jayson Lilley A little bit of Canary Wharf Limited Edition City Scape Print Hand pulled Screen Print with Gold Leaf, Finished with Pen and Ink on Archival Museum Board Size: H 24cm x W 51cm x Sold Unframed Edition of 50 (Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.) Jayson Lilley A little Bit of London Limited Edition City Scape Art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Gold Leaf

Bob White Quails II, American Realist Lithograph by Chris Forrest
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Bob White Quails II, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 22 x 18 inches, Siz...
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1980s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

1949 travel poster “Forêts de l'Île-de-France” by Roger Chapelain-Midy SNCF
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1949 travel poster “Forêts de l'Île-de-France” by Roger Chapelain-Midy for SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français) beautifully captures the allure of the lush forest...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

Inner Love
Located in Miami, FL
Tomas Sanchez Inner Love, 2024 Print Ed. 510 of 630 23 x 18 in Includes a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Evenfall
Located in London, GB
Evenfall, 2024 Archival Inkjet with Screenprint Overlay on Somerset Enhanced Infinity 330 gsm Paper edition of 99 hand-signed and numbered by the artist Stanley Donwood is a British...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Inkjet, Archival Pigment, Screen

Oiso, Tora ga ame - Woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige - 1832
Located in Roma, IT
Oiso, Tora ga ame is a woodcut print realized by Utagawa Hiroshige in 1832.  It is part of the suite The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido - Oiso. Very good condition.
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1830s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Bob White Quails, American Realist Lithograph by Chris Forrest
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Bob White Quails , Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 22 x 18 inches, Size:...
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1980s American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Early 20th Century Camping in Sierra Mountains Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful hand-colored lithograph of Sierra Mountain camping scene by Donald Masefield Easton (American, 1896 - 1956), published in 1931. Signed lower right (partially obscured by mat). Presented in rustic wood frame under glass. Image size: 14"H x 18"W. Donald Masefield Easton was a painter, illustrator with his subjects being California landmarks and western scenes. Born is Port Costa...
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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Paper, Oil Crayon, Ink

1913 Original poster of Allevard Les Bains by Geo Dorival for the PLM Railway
Located in PARIS, FR
Original poster of Allevard Les Bains resort and tourist center issued by the PLM Paris Lyon Méditerranée railroad with a colorful drawing by Geo Dori...
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1910s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Linen, Lithograph

SOLO Signed Lithograph, Mini Landscape, White Tree, Green Grass, Yellow Flowers
Located in Union City, NJ
SOLO is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches pri...
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1990s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Trees on the Shore of Grunewaldsee, from: Berlin Impressions - German Berlin
Located in London, GB
This original etching and drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "L. Ury" at the lower left margin. It is numbered 20 from the standard edition of 100. There was also an edi...
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

"Chestnut Tree" Copper Plate Heliogravure
Located in Palm Beach, FL
2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extolling his artistic merits during his lifetime to showing something of a feigned disdain- more reflective of the world political order than a true change of heart for Hodler’s work. After years of Hodler being all but a footnote in the annals of art history and generally ignored, finally, the pendulum has righted itself once again. Recent retrospective exhibitions in Europe and the United States have indicated not only a joyful rediscovery of Hodler’s art but a firm conviction that his work and world view hold particular relevance today. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is not only a collection of printed work reflecting the best of all of his painted work created up to 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I, the portfolio itself is an encapsulation of Hodler’s ethos, Parallelisme. Hodler developed his philosophy of Parallelisme as a unifying approach to art which strips away detail in search of harmony. By means of abstraction, symmetry and repetition, Hodler sought ways to depict Nature’s essence and her fundamental, universal order. He believed these universal laws governing the natural, observable world extend to the spiritual realm. Symbolist in nature with Romantic undertones, his works are equally portraits of these universal concepts and feelings governing all life as they are a visual portrait in the formal sense. Whether his subject is a solitary tree, a moment in battle, mortal fear, despair, the awe inspired by a vast mountain range, a tender moment or even the collective conviction in a belief, Hodler unveils this guiding principle of Parallelisme. Several aspects of Hodler’s portfolio reinforce his tenets of Parallelisme. The Table of Contents clearly preferences a harmonious design over detail. The two columns, consisting of twenty lines each, list the images by order of appearance using their German titles. The abbreviated titles are somewhat cryptic in that they obscure the identities of the sitters. Like the image Hodler presents, they are distillations of the sitter without any extraneous details. This shortening was also done in an effort to maintain a harmonious symmetry of the Table of Contents, themselves, and keep titles to a one-line limit. The twenty-fourth title: “Bildnis des Schweizerischen Gesandten C.” was so long, even with abbreviation, that it required two lines; so, for the sake of maintaining symmetry, the fortieth title: “Bauernmadchen” was omitted from the list. This explains why the images are not numbered. Hodler’s reasoning is not purely esoteric. Symmetry and pattern reach beyond mere formal design principles. Finding sameness and imposing it over disorder goes to the root of Hodler’s identity and his art. A Swiss native, Hodler was bi-lingual and spoke German and French. Each printed image, even number forty, have titles in both of Hodler’s languages. Certainly, there was a market for Hodler’s work among francophones and this inclusion may have been a polite gesture to that end; however, this is the only place in the portfolio which includes French. With German titles at the lower left of each image, Hodler’s name at bottom center and corresponding French titles at the lower right of each image, there is a harmony and symmetry woven into all aspects of the portfolio. This holds true for the page design, as it applies to each printed image and as it describes the Swiss artist himself. Seen in this light, Hodler’s portfolio of printed work is the epitome of Hodler’s Parallelisme. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is also one of the most significant documents to best tell the story of how Hodler, from Switzerland, became caught between political cross-hairs and how the changing tides of nations directly impacted the artist during his lifetime as well as the accessibility of his art for generations to come. The Munich-based publisher of the portfolio, R. Piper & Co., Verlag, plays a crucial role in this story. Publishing on a wide range of subjects from philosophy and world religion to music, literature and the visual arts; the publisher’s breadth of inquiry within any one genre was equal in scope. Their marketing strategy to publish multiple works on Hodler offers great insight as to what a hot commodity Hodler was at that time. R.Piper & Co.’s Almanach, which they published in 1914 in commemoration of their first ten years in business, clearly illustrates the rapid succession- strategically calculated for achieving the deepest and broadest impact - in which they released three works on Hodler to hit the market by the close of 1914. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS was their premier publication. It preceded C.A. Loosli’s Die Zeichnungen Ferdinand Hodlers, a print portfolio after 50 drawings by Hodler which was released in Autumn of 1914 at the mid-level price-point of 75-150 Marks; and a third less expensive collection of prints after original works by Hodler, which had not been included in either of the first two portfolios, was released at the end of that year entitled Ferdinand Hodler by Dr. Ewald Bender. The title and timing of DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS' debut leaves little doubt as to the connection it has with another avant-garde portfolio of art prints, Das Werk Gustav Klimts, released in 5 installments from 1908 -1914 by Galerie Miethke in Vienna. Hodler, himself, was involved in Klimt’s ground-breaking project. As the owner of Klimt’s 1901 painting, “Judith with the Head of Holifernes” which appears as the ninth collotype print in the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts, Hodler was obliged to grant access of the painting to the art printers in Vienna for them to create the collotype sometime before 1908. Hodler had been previously invited in 1904 to take part in what would be the last exhibition of the Vienna Secession before Klimt and others associated with Galerie Miethke broke away. In an interview that same year, Hodler indicated that he respected and was impressed by Klimt. Hodler’s esteem for Klimt went beyond the art itself; he emulated Klimt’s method aimed at increasing his market reach and appeal to a wider audience by creating a print portfolio of his painted work. By 1914, Hodler and his publisher had the benefit of hindsight to learn from Klimt’s Das Werk publication. Responding to the sluggish sales of Klimt’s expensive endeavor, Hodler’s publisher devised the same diversified 1-2-3 strategy for selling Hodler’s Das Werk portfolio as they did with regards to all three works on Hodler they published that year. For their premium tier of DAS WERKS FERDINAND HODLERS, R. Piper & Co. issued an exclusive Museum quality edition of 15 examples on which Hodler signed each page. At a cost of 600 Marks, this was generally on par with Klimt’s asking price of 600 Kronen for his Das Werk portfolio. A middle-tiered Preferred edition of 30, costing somewhat less and with Hodler’s signature only on the Title Page, was also available. The General edition, targeting the largest audience with its much more affordable price of 150 Marks, is distinguishable by its smaller size. Rather than use the subscription format Miethke had chosen for Klimt’s portfolios which proved to have had its challenges, R. Piper & Co. employed a different strategy. In addition to instantly gratifying the buyer with all 40 of the prints comprising DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS and the choice among three price points, they advertised in German journals a fourth possibility of ordering single prints from them directly. These printed images are easily discernible from the three complete folio editions. The paper size of the single purchased images is of the larger format like the Museum and Preferred editions, measuring 65 h x 50 w cm; however, the paper itself is the same copper print paper used in the General edition and then mounted on poster board. The publishing house positioned itself to be a direct retailer of Hodler’s art. 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