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Art Subject: Comics
"Leger", Pop Art Print by Erró
By Erró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gudmundur Erro, Icelandic (1932 - )
Title: Leger
Year: 2005
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100
Image Size: 18 x 24 inches
Size: 23 x 31.5 in. (58....
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Skippy", Pop Art Print by Erró
By Erró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gudmundur Erro, Icelandic (1932 - )
Title: Skippy
Year: 2001
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 199
Image Size: 24 x 18 inches
Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wake Up Man from Bullet Space, Your House is Mine - Screenprint by Eric Drooker
By Eric Drooker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eric Drooker, American (1958 - )
Title: Wake Up Man from Bullet Space, Your House is Mine
Year: 1988-1992
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: 126/150
Size: 23...
Category
1980s Conceptual Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Cupid is calling 2 – Original Painting on canvas, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
One-of-a-kind Pop Art Original Painting on Canvas by Gardani available for you. Hand signed by the Artist front and back, comes with official Gardani Certificate of Authenticity with...
Category
2010s Pop Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Swimming in a Female Water - oil paint by J. Carruana - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Swimming in a Female Water is an oil on canvas realized by the cuban Artist Jorge Carruana in 1977.
Exhibited at Galleria Rondanini in 1978.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Revenge of the Cat, Pop Art Etching by Richard Bosman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Bosman, American (1944 - )
Title: Revenge of the Cat
Year: 1983
Medium: Sugarlift Etching with white ground, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 33/40
Image: 24 x...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Lionel Durieu - The Lily and the Rose - Belgian Arts & Crafts watercolour
Located in London, GB
LIONEL DURIEU
(Born 1865)
The Tournay of the Lily and the Rose
Signed and dated 1898
Watercolour and gold and silver paint on vellum
Framed
19 by 31 cm., 7 ½ by 12 ¼ in.
(frame ...
Category
1890s Pre-Raphaelite Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Rie Miyazawa Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (after Picasso), by Steven Pollack
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Steven Pollack
Title: Rie Miyazawa Les Demoiselles d' Avignon
Year: 1992
Medium: Lithograph with Superfine Glitter, Signed in Pencil.
Edition: AP
Size: 31 x 43 inches
Category
1990s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Glitter, Lithograph
Ex Remover, Kunstrasen - Contemporary Street Art Screenprint Pop Art
By Kunstrasen
Located in Draper, UT
Kunstrasen
Ex Remover
Signed and Numbered by the Artist
Size: 60 cm x 60 cm
Edition Of 100
2022
Screenprint with visual cues inspired by Roy Lichenstein with a street twist
Born i...
Category
2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas, Screen
Noshi & Meg on Earth Year 2036 (2005) Offset print by Aya Takano signed
By Aya Takano
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Noshi & Meg on Earth, Year 2036 (2005).
Offset print by Aya Takano
Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist
58 x 51 cm
22 4/5 × 20 1/10 in
Edition 151/300
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Jose Luis Cuevas, "El Siniestro, " Etching, 1968
Located in Long Island City, NY
This lithograph was created by Mexican artist Jose Luis Cuevas. Known for his aggressive attitude and strong beliefs, Cuevas' work is characterized by...
Category
1960s Conceptual Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Emotions (Orange Variant)
By AIKO
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Aiko
Title: Emotions - Orange Variant
Medium: 8 Color Hand Painted Stencil + 2 Screen Print on 290gsm Fine Art Paper
Size: 24 x 20 inches (Framed: 25.5 x 21.5 Inches)
Editio...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen, Stencil
I Know I Manufacture Crises...
By Amy Wilson
Located in New York, NY
Amy Wilson received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1995 and her MFA from Yale University in 1997. Her drawings explore the tensions between her inner life and t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Devdariani - Kimono N1
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media, acrylic and ink on paper
Nino Devdariani is a Georgian artist born in 1970 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her inspiration is th...
Category
2010s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
This Is Not A Picasso
By Eric Liot
Located in Sofia, BG
"This is not a Picasso" decorated wood sculpture.
It is created by the French artist Eric Liot.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: Mixte, Low reliefs, wood...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Kiss, Screenprint by Aiko Nakagawa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portfolio: Urban Pop Portfolio (1972-2012)
Date: 2012
Screenprint, signed, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition of AP III/XVI
Image Size: 32.75 x 26.5 inches
Size: 39 x 29.5 in. (99....
Category
2010s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
"The Moonwalker", Pop Art Print by Erró
By Erró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gudmundur Erro, Icelandic (1932 - )
Title: The Moonwalker
Year: 2001
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 199
Image Size: 24 x 18 inches
Size: 30 x 22 i...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Better Alone than in Bad Company
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Joseph Shuster’s Action Comics #1 Cover (1938) and #19 Burning Flesh from Wally Wood’s, Bob Powell’s, and Norm Saunders’ Mars Attacks trading cards (1962)
Framed: 9h x 9w in
Continuing the exploration of Superman’s role as extraterrestrial anomaly – an alien who’s also a friend, I spent time considering how important one’s actions (on a singular occasion, in sum, alone, in collaboration with others, etc.) are in determining overall “goodness” or social value.
In literally his first exposure to any reader, on the cover of Action Comics #1, Superman is shown smashing a large car against a rock, while three well-dressed men run away in fear. Taken by itself the image presents a deranged, super-strong vandal. It’s only upon reading the full narrative that we understand Superman’s action to be part of a rescue mission and the men to be gangster villains.
When we allow Superman to be considered as an individual, responsible for his own actions, and over a series of events, rather than one incident, we find our hero. But when I offer Superman another alien (this one up to no good), and deny any exposure to a fuller understanding of circumstance, it’s much more difficult to separate Superman’s destructive actions from those of his new companion. Better Alone Than in Bad Company...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Ex Remover Variant, Kunstrasen - Contemporary Street Art Screenprint Pop Art
By Kunstrasen
Located in Draper, UT
Kunstrasen
Ex Remover
Signed and Numbered by the Artist
Size: 60 cm x 60 cm
Edition Of 15
2022
Screenprint with visual cues inspired by Roy Lichenstein with a street twist
Born in...
Category
2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas, Screen
Tango, Ink Drawing by John Grillo
By John Grillo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Grillo, American (1917 - 2014)
Title: Tango
Year: 1994
Medium: Ink on Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 8 x 6 inches
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Silver Saber", Pop Art Print by Erró
By Erró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gudmundur Erro, Icelandic (1932 - )
Title: Silver Saber
Year: 2001
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 199
Image Size: 24 x 17 inches
Size: 30.5 x 22 i...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"The Sisters", Pop Art Print by Erró
By Erró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gudmundur Erro, Icelandic (1932 - )
Title: The Sisters
Year: 2001
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: LX
Image Size: 31 x 17 inches
Size: 36 x 21 in. (...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Don't Try So Hard, limited edition, silkscreen, Pop Art, Green Eyes, unframed
By Mitch McGee
Located in Riverdale, NY
Mitch McGee, Don't Try So Hard, Limited Edition Pop Art Print, Silkscreen, Edition of 40. Image is 20" round, paper size 24x24. Each signed and numbered. It is unframed.
The influences for McGee's own artwork came from the style of Pop Art legend, Roy Lichtenstein. According to McGee, "Lichtenstein with a Red Bow was the first piece that started me down this rabbit hole. Roy Lichtenstein took comic strips and repositioned them as lithography. In an almost tongue-in-cheek fashion I wondered how I could take one of his pieces and recreate it in another medium. The easy answer for me was wood. I grew up working with it and, combined with my graphic design background, it left me with a new medium and expression that I think really works." From that start, Houston artist, McGee began to create his own style and establish his unique voice.
Today, his creativity exists in that space between painting and sculpture. In his Birch series, McGee uses pieces of wood, each illustrated, hand cut and stained or painted to create dimensional pieces. Each painting is filled with thick layers and subtle shadows. There is a warmth created by the imperfection of the birch and its grain that creates an emotional connection. Each painting is a labor of love, taking 40 to 50 hours or more to complete.
McGee has created original works inspired by Superhero comics, Sports icons, as well as romantic moments using thick lines and bold colors to bring these scenes to life in his own way. Each artwork is filled with humor, irony, compassion or seduction.
His artwork has been exhibited throughout Texas since 2001 and in New York with Elisa Contemporary Art...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Woodcut
"Amazon", Pop Art Print by Erró
By Erró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gudmundur Erro, Icelandic (1932 - )
Title: Amazon
Year: 2001
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 199
Image Size: 24 x 17.5 inches
Size: 30.5 x 22.5 in. ...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harper's August, Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain by Edward Penfield, 1897
Located in Chicago, IL
Lithograph of Edward Penfield’s 1897 advertisement for Mark Twain's short story, Tom Sawyer Detective (1896).
While this poster was printed in multiple siz...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Sunshine Plays A Major Part In The Daytime
By Mark Drew
Located in Draper, UT
Mark Drew, Sunshine Plays a Major Part in the Daytime comes from a limited edition of 150. This contemporary print is inspired from Wu-Tang...
Category
2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Alex Katz - Sunset-American Dance Festival - First Edition
By Alex Katz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: CB1508
Artist: Alex Katz
Title: Sunset-American Dance Festival
Year: 1984
Signed: No
Medium: Lithograph
Paper Size: 37.5 x 25.5 inches ( 95.25 x 64.77 cm )
Image Size: 37.5 x 25...
Category
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Build Yourself
Located in BARCELONA, ES
This is a profound visual representation that invites reflection on identity, authenticity, and the influence of society on our being. The artwork is rich in symbolism.
The figure o...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Other Medium
Slashing Eddie
Located in Koto-Ku, 13
Craftsmen
Illustrator: Ishikawa Masumi
Woodcarver: Watanabe Kazuo
Printer: Yoshida Hideo
Details
Edition: limited edition of 300
Size: 16.73 x 12 inches (42.5 x 30.5 cm)
Paper: Echi...
Category
2010s Edo Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
MODERN LIVING
By Faile
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand-painted with acrylic, stained silkscreen on heavy lenox 100 paper. Hand-signed by the artist duo; numbered and stamp-dated on reverse Edition of 250. Each is unique. Frame s...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen, Acrylic
Paul Stanley
Located in Koto-Ku, 13
Craftsmen
Illustrator: Ishikawa Masumi
Woodcarver: Sekioka Senrei III
Printer: Ito Tatsuya
Details
Edition: limited edition of 200 (first 100 autographed by the members of the band)...
Category
2010s Edo Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Les Affairs Comme D'Habitude
By Jed Jackson
Located in Buffalo, NY
Jed Jackson received his MFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, 1980 and his BFA from Memphis College of Art in Tennessee, 1977 and was awarded a residency at the Skowhegan Schoo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Revised Endpapers for "The Homosexual Neurosis" (Pink)
By Hernan Bas
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Emotions (Purple Variant)
By AIKO
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Aiko
Title: Emotions - Purple Variant
Medium: 8 Color Hand Painted Stencil + 2 Screen Print on 290gsm Fine Art Paper
Size: 24 x 20 inches (Framed: 25.5 x 21.5 Inches)
Editio...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen, Stencil
4 Todd Goldman Prints
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Todd Goldman (American, 20th Century)
Marking(s); notes: signed, stamped (see Additional Information for indivi...
Marking(s); notes: signed, stamped (see Additional Information for indivi...
Category
20th Century Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color
"Bal AAAA Bullier, " Original Lithograph Poster by Achille-Emile Othon Friesz
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bal AAAA Bullier" is an original color lithograph poster by Achille-Emile Othon Friesz, signed by the artist in the plate in the lower left. This p...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Printing - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Printing is a watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Ju...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
19th century color lithograph portraits ship seascape patriotic flags military
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present hand-colored lithograph is an excellent example of patriotic mid-nineteenth century American imagery. The print shows the battle and several of the major figures involved in the Battle of Lake Erie: At the center is a view of several frigates on the lake, embroiled in conflict. Above the battle is the quotation: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." Surrounding are laurel-lined roundels with portraits of Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819), Stephen Dicateur (1779-1820), Johnston Blakeley (1871-1814), William Bainbridge (1774-1833), David Porter (1780-1843), and James Lawrence (1781-1813) - all of these framed by American flags, banners and cannons. This print shows that the Battle of Lake Erie, part of the War of 1812, still held resonance for American audiences several decades later and was part of the larger narrative of the founding of the country.
9.5 x 13.5 inches, artwork
20 x 23.38 inches, frame
Entitled in the image
Signed in the stone, lower left "Lith. and Pub. by N. Currier"
Inscribed lower right "2 Spruce N.Y." and "No. 1"
Copyrighted lower center "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1846 by N. Currier in the Clerk's office of the Southern District of N.Y."
Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and housed in a gold gilded moulding.
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...
Category
1850s Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Wuxtry! [Extra!]
Located in New York, NY
Albert Abramovitz (1879-1963), Wuxtry! [Extra?!], linocut in colors, c. 1936, signed in pencil lower right and titled lower center [also initialed in the plate]. In very good conditi...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Eugénie Buffet Ambassadeurs by Lucien Métivet, Imperial Japon lithograph, 1897
Located in Chicago, IL
Eugénie Buffet was a French singer, actress, and pioneer of the chanson réaliste (realist song) genre, which portrayed the day to day lives of the poor and working-class in Paris. Métivet’s Ambassadeurs poster depicts Buffet as a prostitute working on the cold, windy streets of Paris; Buffet describes following working women to effectively reflect their demeanor in her roles, “Huddled in the shadow of dark alleys, I espied their beckoning calls to passersby, followed them from afar, scraping invisibly along the walls, listened to their words in the doorways of seedy hotels; sometimes, even, made up and dressed like them, I would slip among them, sitting at tables in their dives, and join in the conversation” (Buffet, 1930 via Conway, 2004). Her name, much like that of fellow performer Aristide Bruant, was further solidified in history by their likenesses in iconic and historically important artworks by Métivet’s and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
“Métivet’s talent is seen at its best in the Eugénie Buffet advertisements, two studies worthy a place amongst the best posters which have come from the hands of contemporary French artists” (Hiatt, 1896).
This artwork is presented in archival rag mat and arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Notable museum collections containing this work include: Yale University Art Gallery (large-format version) (1969.3.3)
Notable museum collections featuring works by Lucien...
Category
1890s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Les Petites Barnett, " Color Lithograph Poster by Charles Levy
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Les Petites Barnett" is an original color lithograph poster by Charles Levy. This poster features five dancers in matching dresses and it advertises an Operette. Unsigned.
23" x 30...
Category
1890s Victorian Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Home Early /// Contemporary Screenprint Nude Figurative Interior Funny Humor
By Dan May
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-)
Title: "Home Early"
*Signed by May in pencil lower left
Year: 1995
Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded white cotton rag laid paper
Limited edi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Pop Art Therapy, Digital on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
The artwork is a digital decoupage and an artistic experiment with this medium. Technically, it is Giclée quality print on the fine art paper 265 gram Hahnemühle. The edition i...
Category
2010s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Digital
Twilight
Located in Toronto, ON
36" x 23.5" Unframed
Limited Edition Hand Pulled Silkscreen with Hand Embellishment of 300
Hand Signed by R.J. Hohimer
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Salvador Dali - Freud with a Snail's Head - Original Signed Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Freud with a Snail's Head - Original Signed Engraving
Handsigned in pencil and Numbered
Edition: F195/195
- Printer: Atelier Rigal.
- Paper: Rives vellum ; each etch...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Uses and Customs - Thebes - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Thebes is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the governmen...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Meryl Streep John Lithgow "Secret Service" 1976 Off Broadway Theatre Caricature
Located in New York, NY
Meryl Streep, John Lithgow and others starred in the Phoenix Theatre Company's Off-Broadway production of "Secret Service." This original 14 x 29 inch drawing by Sam Norkin was published in the New York Daily news on April 11, 1976.
Samuel Norkin (1917-2011) was a Brooklyn, New York-born cartoonist who specialized in theatre caricatures for more than seven decades. His drawings of theatre, opera, ballet and film celebrities appeared in Variety, Backstage, The Philadelphia Enquirer, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and many other publications. Norkin learned composition and anatomy from the muralist Mordi Gassner...
Category
1970s Performance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board
Japanese Art Figurative Painting, Love for a street-walker, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
LOVE FOR A STREET-WALKER
Crayon, graphite, pencil on paper.
Measurements: (H) 76 x (W) 56 cm.
Attractive portrait of an Edo prostitute hurrying through the streets. She wears a black kimono over layers of colored kimono, tucking her hand into the "obi" at her waist. A white scarf is draped over her head, the edge caught between her teeth, and loose wisps of hair framed her face. There is an impressive contrast between the black kimono and the yellow-orange of collars, sleeves and "obi", balancing the composition the pastel pink of the scarf that covers her head.
This image is part of the "bijin-ga" series, Pretty Women, drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print "Love for a street-walker" (1795), 37,2 x 24,6 cm. The British Musem. London, UK.
The artist reproduces the seal of the censor (Kiwame) and from the original publisher ("Tsutaya", climbing leaf)), between the two, the signature of Mario BGil written in Japanese, with the date 14 (2014).
The mesaurements of the drawing are 76 x 56 cm. (29,92 x 22,05 in.), with a painted surface of 67 x 49,5 cm.
With his work on the "bijing-ga" series, Mario BGil wanted to embellish, give brilliance and volume to the images presented by japanese artist Kitigawa Utamaro in those beautiful engravings, ennobled with the patina of time, which have served as inspiration. The result obtained is almost life-size portraits, endowed with strong chromaticism and valuable contrasts, all enhanced, in turn, with the volume provided by the weight and rigidity of the paper, and its thick texture (Fabriano Artistico “grana grosso”, 640g/m2; the thickness and hardness of the paper makes it necessary to transport it without rolling).
In this way, Mario BGil pays tribute to his admired artist and offers us a new and enriched vision of this popular facet of oriental art from the 18th and 19th centuries.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mario BGil is a self-taught artist who for years has combined his creative activity with his work in the family business, away from commercial art galleries. In 2012, a deep interest in oriental art was awakened in him and he began to study the great masters of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, who had such an influence on the European avant-garde of the late 19th century.
The discovery of Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), a key figure in the metropolitan culture of Edo (now Tokyo), and a point of reference in the history of Japanese engraving...
Category
2010s Edo Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil, Graphite
Original Vintage WWI War Savings Stamps Poster Keep the Hun Out by Ireland
Located in Boca Raton, FL
The image of the "Bloodthirsty Hun" was one of the major themes in American World War I propaganda posters. Here, one such German soldier breaks into our home, fiercely looking right...
Category
1910s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Innocence in Venice
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, titled and annotated "100 prints" in pencil by the artist
Edition: 100
Printed by George Miller, New York
This lithograph was a selection of the Adolf Dehn Pr...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
An Artist Who Bends Stone
Located in Kansas City, MO
Darrell Wilks
An Artist Who Bends Stone
Color Lithograph w/chine colle
Year: 2018
Size: 15 x 24 in
Edition: 30
Signed, dated and numbered by hand
Printer cho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ex Libris - Giorgio Balbi - Woodcut - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Giorgio Balbi is an Artwork in Mid 20th Century.
Woodcut.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The adventures of Dixwell Hastings (episode 24) (Pop Art, Street Art, Urban Art)
By Agent X
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X
The adventures of Dixwell Hastings (episode 24) (Pop Art, Street Art, Urban Art)
Digital Print on Archival Paper
Year: 2021
Edition: 200
Size: 30 x 30 in
Signed
COA provided ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Naruto power (Pop Art, Street Art, Urban Art)
By Agent X
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X
Naruto power
Digital Print on Archival Paper
Year: 2021
Edition: 200
Size: 30 x 30 in
Signed
COA provided (gallery issued)
Ref.: 924802-402
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Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Fried Potatoes
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Framed dimensions: 24.75 x 29 inches
We proudly welcome Alejandro Sainz Alfonso, (b.1965), to the fold. Alfonsos hugely colorful and at times, comedic take on his life in Cuba is expressed in this series of silkscreen prints. From “Fried Potatoes” to “Review of History” we see a world from the perspective of a population living under the sea inside of the 100 year old divers suits. When I asked him if this is what it is like to live in Cuba under the current political regime – he said “no – that this is what its like to be a human on planet earth”. We were intrigued to see Cuba, from an artistic perspective. Like Darwin’s Galapagos Islands, we were able to see a vibrant artistic community that has had very few outside influences since 1959. The visual and literary diet seems to have been limited to 1950s movie stars, Albrecht Durers prints...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The adventures of Dixwell Hastings (episode 24) (Pop Art, Street Art, Urban Art)
By Agent X
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X
The adventures of Dixwell Hastings (episode 24) (Pop Art, Street Art, Urban Art)
Digital Print on Archival Paper
Year: 2021
Edition: 200
Size: 35 x 35 in - 88 x 88 cm
Signed
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Original Vintage WWII Poster Buy That Invasion Bond by R Moore 1944 Medium
By R. Moore Price
Located in Boca Raton, FL
American soldiers storm a beach embankment in this dramatic and scarce WWII war bond poster. A naval, ground, and air battle is in full swing, cr...
Category
1940s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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