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Art Subject: Drawing
Cocaine - Drawing - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Cocaine is a satiric drawing realized by an Anonymous artist in the mid-20th century.
Watercolor and China ink on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is created...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Abimelech - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Abimelech is an artwork from the Series "The Bible", by Marc Chagall in 1960.
Mixed colored lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature.
Edition of 6500 unsigned lithographs. Prin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Princess in her tower David Hockney Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
Located in New York, NY
One of David Hockney’s Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm illustrations, taken from the story of ‘The Little Sea Hare’. This tower was likely inspired by Hockney’s travels throu...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
HUMAN ATMOSPHERE Retro-study 5 - contemporary artwork, emerging artist
Located in London, GB
In this collection, British painter Michael Pemberton (b. 1974) suggests we each have a personal HUMAN ATMOSPHERE. An ether where we truly exist, unseen by the naked eye but as real ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
They Thunder forth from Their Clouds-Lithograph by George Grosz - 1922
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
They Thunder forth from Their Clouds is an original lithograph, realized by George Grosz in 1922, from Die Raüber, edition Malik Verlag in 100 prints, plate n°8 da Die Raüber, hand-signed in pencil.
"They thunder forth from their clouds about gentleness and forbearance, while they sacrifice human victims to the God of love." (Da donnern sie Sanftmut und Duldung aus ihren Wolken und bringen dem Gott der Liebe Menschenopfer.)"
Sheet dimension: 61,5 x 42 cm.
In very good conditions.
Here representing a man in front of cross miserably praying, below of his feet laid down many dead bodies and ruined part of the city. here is one of his artwork affected by consequences drama of war.
George Grosz (1893 -1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic.
He studied drawing at the Dresden Academy 1909-11 and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Berlin 1912-14, He was in the army 1914-15 and again for a short time in 1917, but spent the rest of the war in Berlin where he made violently anti-war drawings...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
"Laughing Matters" Comedy Legends-Marx Bros, Laurel, Hardy, Burns, Allen, Twain
Located in New York, NY
"Laughing Matters" Comedy Legends-Marx Bros, Laurel, Hardy, Burns, Allen, Twain
Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003)
Laughing Matters
Lithograph on heavy paper, 1987
Signed lower right, numbe...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Church - Screen print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Franco Gentilini in 1970s.
Edition of 125.
Hand signed and numbered.
Belongs to the Series "Churches".
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Erotic Scene - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Hutch Historical White House
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Hutch Historical White House
Series: Bunnies
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 40" x 40"
Framed Dimensions: 42" x ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Magnolia 10 - Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print, Flower, Floral
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Paper, Etching
Les Ames Mortes by N. Gogol - Complete Suite by Marc Chagall - 1948
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Les Ames mortes (by N. Gogol) is a very rare suite of etchings realized by Marc Chagall (1887-1985).
Complete set of 96 etchings hors-texte and 11 etched vignettes en-texte for the ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Hell 8 - The Angry - woodcut - 1963
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Hell 8 - The Angry
woodcut
Plate signed
1960/63
Printed on paper Vélin BFK Rives
Size 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10")
REFERENCES : Field p. 189 à 200 / Mic...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
1950s French Charming Charcoal Sketch of a Rustic European Courtyard
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
European Courtyard
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Tauramachie Surrealiste The Giraffe on Fire
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Tauramachie Surrealiste The Giraffe on Fire
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: LXIV/C
MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 26"
YEAR: 1970
FRAMED...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Degas, Dancer at the bar, Ten Ballet Sketches (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper
Year: 1945
Paper Size: 17 x 13 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Degas, Ten Balle...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Maurice Legendre Watercolor of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris
Located in New York, NY
Maurice Legendre
Untitled (Notre Dame), Early 20th Century
Watercolor on paper
Sight: 9 x 12 in.
Framed: 14 1/4 x 18 x 1 in.
Signed lower left: M. Legendre
Maurice Legendre was a noted French impressionist and sculptor, especially known for his Parisian and London landmark scenes. The present paintings depict iconic spots in Paris, and their charming size affords the opportunity to hang them anywhere in your home.
Legendre was a pupil of Robert Couturier and Marcel Grimond...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Picasso, Composition (Horodisch D10), Serge Lifar, Destin d'un danseur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin Saint-Vincent-de-Blanzat des Papeteries Navarre paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Sources du vent 1915-1929, avec ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 101), Carnet de la Californie (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper
Year: 1959
Paper Size: 10.25 X 16.5 inches
Catalogue raisonné reference: Cramer, illustration 101
Inscription: Inscription: Unsigned and u...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Woman, Etching by Henri Matisse
Located in Long Island City, NY
Henri Matisse, French (1869 - 1954) - Portrait of Woman, Portfolio: Poesies de Stephane Mallarme, Year: 1932, Medium: Etching, Size: 13 x 9.75 in. (33.02 x 24.77 cm), Provenance: Fr...
Category
1930s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Picasso, Composition, Faunes et Flore d'Antibes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin pur chiffon d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Faunes et Flore d'Antibe...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Water (Dolphin Spirit), 2017, figurative, blue, drawing, tribal, MarYah
By Jay Golding
Located in Jersey City, NJ
China marker on smooth bristol paper. Jay Golding’s realistic portrait and figure drawings/paintings are inspired primarily by Indigenous culture and heritage but are not limited to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
The Fruit Seller - Tall original ink and charcoals drawing, Handsigned
By Miguel Conde
Located in Paris, IDF
Miguel CONDE (1939-)
The fruit seller, 1998
Original ink drawing with charcoal enhancement
Signed bottom left
On heavy tinted vellum 79 x 60 cm (c. 32 x 26 in)
Excellent condition
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink
Gold Tiara Round Crown
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled, and numbered from the edition of 15. Image of a young girl with a crown and brooch. While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
'J' From 'Hockney's Alphabet' By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
'J' From 'Hockney's Alphabet'
By David Hockney
David Hockney is a renowned British artist known for his vibrant paintings and innovative use of technology in art. His work often e...
Category
1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Shepard Faiery AK-47 Silkscreen Letterpress Print Contemporary Street Art War
Located in Draper, UT
Letterpress on thick cream cotton paper with hand-deckled edges.
13 × 10 in 33 × 25.4 cm
Edition of 450
Part of a limited edition set
"Inspired by Vietnam War protesters who would...
Category
2010s Street Art Interior Prints
Materials
Screen
Pablo Picasso Visage de Dora Maar, 1942 Original etching. Bibl. Bloch 360.
Located in Torino, IT
PABLO PICASSO, Malaga 1881 - Mougins 1973
Non Vouloir - Visage de Dora Maar, 1942
Original Zincography. Bibliography: Bloch 360, Block books no. 36, Cramer 36, Galantaris 189, Gaya...
Category
1940s Cubist Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Tertia Die Resurrexit - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Tertia die resurrexit ("Raised up the Third Day") is an artwork realized in 1964.
It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969.
Color lithograph on heavy rag paper. Signed and dated on plate on the right margin.
Perfect conditions.
Prov. Private Collection, Southern France.
This artwork represents the Resaurrection of God after his Death. According to the Scriptures, in fact the God raised up after three days. In the representation there are two figures that spread light and brightness. The spontaneous Bulletism process and the richiamo colors in the image truly highlight Dali’s range of creativity and use of space. The lithograph is part of the imponent work Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. It was illustrated by Salvador Dalí with a suite of 105 colored lithographs after water-color artworks. The paper sheets are signed and dated on plate, and each of them comes with a Japanese paper tissue with a printed biblical quotation. In 1963, Biblia Sacra was commissioned by Giuseppe Albaretto, a very pious man, who was one of Dalí’s closest friends and patrons between the 1950s and the 1960s. Giuseppe Albaretto and his wife Mara commissioned several of Dalí's works, and became important publishers of his etchings and lithographs, including the Biblia Sacra.
Through these commissions, Albaretto hoped that Dalí would reconcile with religion. The friendship between the Albarettos and Salvador Dalì provided the art world with some of the most spectacular Surrealist artworks. These works are a few of the most desirable graphic works ever created by the artist. In the preface of the work, the publisher asserts that the lithographs “configure, in both a universal and a personal way, the dynamic vision that characterizes the relationship between men and God”.
Salvador Dalí (Figueres, 1904 – Figueres, 1989) is considered one of the most versatile and prolific artists of the XX century and the founding father of Surrealism. In the course of his long career, he successfully experimented with sculpture, fashion, writing, and filmmaking. In his early use of organic morphology, his work bears the stamp of Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. His work is also characterized by a fascination with classical art, manifested in the realistic style and religious symbolism of his latest works. Dalí was born near Barcelona to a middle class family. He soon demonstrated an interest in art, and, at the age of 18, he attended the Special Painting, Sculpture and Engraving School of San Fernando in Madrid. His eccentricity was notorious, and at first even more famous than his works. When he traveled to Paris, he met Pablo Picasso in his studio and took inspiration from Cubism. In 1928, he collaborated with Buñuel on Un Chien Andalou...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Satyrical Portrait of Benito Mussolini - Pencil and Pastel on Paper - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Mussolini is an original drawing realized by the satirical cartoonist Alberto Fremura in 1975.
Drawing in pencil and pastel. The artwork rapresents a caricature of the italian dictator Benito Mussolini...
Category
1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
The Lovers Condemned
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: The Lovers Condemned
Series: Tristan et Iseult
Date: 1970
Edition: 587 (numbered on justification page only)
Medium:...
Category
1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Chagall, Composition, Couleur amour (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du Moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good conditi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Tugs on the Hudson
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching with engraving printed in black ink on Japanese mulberry paper, 4 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (113 x 84 mm), full margins. In superb condition. A beautiful New York City river...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Crazy Horse
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Crazy Horse
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 223/250
MEASUREMENTS: 30.5" x 22.25"
YEAR: 1968
FRAMED: No
CONDITION: Excelle...
Category
1960s Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paris Night 2 by Guillaume Chansarel - Urban landscape painting, Paris, city
Located in Paris, FR
Paris Night 2 is a unique drawing by French contemporary artist Guillaume Chansarel. The drawing is made with ink and acrylic on kraft paper, dimensions are 28 × 36 cm (11 × 14.2 in)...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Paper
Portraits: Anne
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz uses outline drawings, called “cartoons”, as templates to transfer full size images onto the canvas prior to painting. Rendered in red chal...
Category
Early 2000s Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Souvenir d'Italie
Located in Greenwich, CT
Etching "Souvenir d'Italie” by Jean Baptiste Camille
printed on laid paper (partial watermark Annonay).
rich impression
size : sight 11.5 x 9 in. , matted 17 x 14 in.
A remarkab...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Ponte dei Baratteri, Venice
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on chine collé laid down to cream wove paper, 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (318 x 217 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and numbered 68/100 in pencil, lower margin. Th...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
"West Ritner hill" Color-Forward Cityscape with Geometric Abstraction Elements
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "West Ritner hill" is an original artwork by Miriam Singer and is made of pencil, marker, and acrylic on paper. The artist spends her free time biking around the ci...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Faust Marguerite/Gretchen
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Faust Marguerite/Gretchen
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris
EDITION NUMBER: 89/95
MEASUREMENTS: 11" x 14.75"...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Portrait of a Young Man - Drawing by Valentine Hugo - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Young Man is a Pencil Drawing realized by Valentine Hugo (1890-1968).
Good condition on a yellowed paper included a white cardboard passp...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Amazone et Tonneau
Located in Columbia, MO
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
Amazone et Tonneau
1948
Lithograph on paper
Ed. 166/740
20.5 x 14 inches
Category
19th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Susanna
By Lucian Freud
Located in New York, NY
Lucian Freud
Susanna
1996
Etching on Somerset Textured White paper
20 x 19 5/8 inches; 51 x 50 cm
Edition of 40
Initialed and numbered in graphite (lower recto)
Frame available upon request
Published by Matthew Marks Gallery...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Two Faces, Etching by Henri Matisse
Located in Long Island City, NY
Henri Matisse, French (1869 - 1954) - Two Faces, Year: 1948, Medium: Etching on Arches, Image Size: 11 x 13.75 inches, Size: 13 x 19.75 in. (33.02 x 50.17 cm), Provenance: From the ...
Category
1940s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
THE BEGGERS - Unique, only known example of the 10th state in a fine impresssion
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES ABBOTT McNEILL WHISTLER (1834 – 1903)
THE BEGGARS 1879-80 (Glasgow 190 x/xvii: K.194 ii/ix?: M.191: W.159)
Etching and drypoint, from “Venice, a Series of Twelve...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Etching
"Femme nue couchée (tournée à droite)" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1909 for Theodore Duret's "Die Impressionisten" and published in Berlin by Bruno Cassirer. This impression on laid paper bears the Fortuna waterm...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape - Original Pencil and Pen by Herta Hausmann - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original pencil and pen drawing on ivory-colorated cardboard by Herta Hausmann (1916-?).
In very good condition.
Not signed. Stamp of the atelier on the back.
Imag...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Pen, Paper
NIGHT BLUES - Female Nude original unique art by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Night Blues" Female Nude, seen from the back, and a second view in the mirror. from another perspective. Part of "Nude in Interior" series, inspired by Matisse. Ultramarine tempera ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Carbon Pencil, Rag Paper
Bowling on the Green (from the Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington)
Located in Soquel, CA
Bowling on the Green (from the Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington)
'Bowling on the Green', by printmaker Frederick Childe Hassam, depicts George Washington and friends lawn b...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Etching, Laid Paper
Salvador Dali Pencil Signed Nude on a Rhinoceros Horn
Located in San Francisco, CA
Salvador Dali: 1904-1989. One of the most famous artist of the 20th century. A master surrealist, whose auction prices are well into the millions. This image of a nude on a rhinocero...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Mark Beard 054 (Figurative Charcoal Drawing of Two Male Nudes on Arches Paper)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative drawing of two male nudes made with graphite, charcoal, and conte crayon on Arches paper
30 x 14 inches, unframed
This unique life study drawing of two standing nude m...
Category
2010s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, Paper
LA ORANA MARIA (HAIL MARY)
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PAUL GAUGUIN (French 1848 - 1903)
LA ORANA MARIA (HAIL MARY) 1894/5 (Mongan/Kornfield 27B:Guerin 51) Transfer zincograph on coarse-grained transfer paper, in...
Category
1890s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Western Front" (2024) Limited Edition Poster Print, Portrait of Woman
Located in Denver, CO
"Western Front" is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece, released in 2024, is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag premium ...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
Young Lovers - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Young Lovers is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about 1940. Pencil Drawing.
Good Conditions.
Georges Henri Tribout (1884-1962)
...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Louis Bouché, (Standing Woman)
By Louis Bouché
Located in New York, NY
Louis Bouché was based in New York and taught at the Art Students League. The figure was an important subject in his oeuvre. An ink drawing on tan paper, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
MB 017 (Figurative Life Drawing of Female Nude by Mark Beard)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic style life drawing of female nude with charcoal and graphite by Mark Beard, "MB 017"
graphite, Conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper
30 x 22 inches unframed
Signed, lowe...
Category
2010s Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
1937 Academic Female Nude Charcoal Drawing "Head in Hand" UC Berkeley
By John Ayres
Located in Arp, TX
John Ayres
Head in Hand
May 1, 1937
Charcoal on Paper
25"x19", unframed $1250
Signed and dated in charcoal top right
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect fr...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, India Ink
Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon, ca. 1930's. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, panel measures 19 x 15 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink
PROLETARIANS
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO (1893 - 1949)
PROLETARIANS (aka Basurero, Scavengers ) 1935 (Orozco 27)
lithograph, One of 88 signed and numbered of a total edition of 133, (+ 42 unnumbered a...
Category
1930s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hard Margins - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Hard Margins - Hell Plate 19, is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Not signed, as issued.
G...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
