Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Launched in 1987, the International Fine Print Dealers Association has continually set the bar for quality and ethics while promoting prints as original works of art to generations of collectors, curators and art lovers. With over 160 members in 13 countries, the IFPDA is a worldwide community of leading dealers and editions publishers who represent the full spectrum of printmaking. Each year, the IFPDA hosts the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, the only major fair dedicated to fine-art prints.
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The Infant Christ and St. John Playing with the Lamb, after Peter Paul Rubens
By Christoffel Jegher
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Infant Christ and St. John Playing with the Lamb,
after Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Woodcut, trimmed and tipped to support
Initialed in the block bottom ...
Category
1630s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
The Mill, Amsterdam, 1889
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Mill, 1889, etching and drypoint, signed in pencil with the butterfly on the tab and inscribed “imp”, and inscribed “first state” (twice) and annotated “Wunderlich” and signed again with the butterfly verso. Reference: Kennedy 413, first state (of 5). Glasgow 457, second state (of 6; see discussion below) (cf. Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2011)
On laid paper, in very good condition, trimmed just outside of the platemark all around except for the tab by the artist, 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches.
A very fine impression of this great rarity, printed in black/brown ink with a slight veil of plate tone.
provenance:
H. Wunderlich & Co., New York
Louis B. Dailey, New York (Lugt 4500)
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, October 31, 2003, lot 69
literature;
Neue Lagerliste 122: James McNeill Whistler – Etchings...
Category
1880s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Soleil Recerclé
By Hans Arp
Located in New York, NY
ARP, Jean. Soleil Recerclé 61 pp. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts plus a signed colour woodcut frontispiece on Rives. 1966. Large folio, 18 1/2 x 14 3/8"( 475 x 380 mm,) loose as iss...
Category
1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
PROVINCETOWN HOUSES
Located in Portland, ME
Cadmus, Egbert (American, 1868-1939). PROVINCETOWN HOUSES. Watercolor on heavy paper. Signed in watercolor, lower left. The scene depicts a dune with a group of houses beyond, and then, further away, the water. 18 x 22 1/8. inches (sheet). A small loss to the paper at the left edge, else in excellent condition.
Egbert Cadmus is remembered as the father of Paul Cadmus, though he had a distinguished career in his own right. There is a portrait of Paul by Egbert dated 1926, and we've seen other Provincetown drawings dated 1927, so apparently the family summered there for several seasons. In 1931 Egbert Cadmus moved to Lyme Connecticut...
Category
Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
"Life at the Border of Language"
By Enrique Chagoya
Located in Lyons, CO
The artist describes this project:
“In this print, a geographic/physical border, such as the US/Mexico border wall, is a symbol of many other walls that exist between people. These ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Du, du liegst mir im Herzen. [Musicians of Bremen]
Located in New York, NY
Du, du liegst mir im Herzen. [Musicians of Bremen.]
This brightly colored large-scale color lithograph was published by C. Burckardt, Deponirt "Druck u.Verlag v. C. Burckardt's Na...
Category
1880s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
![Du, du liegst mir im Herzen. [Musicians of Bremen]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/unknown-prints-works-on-paper-du-du-liegst-mir-im-herzen-musicians-of-bremen-for-sale/a_3312/1730224651341/Bremen_Town_Musicans_85011_master.jpg?width=240 "Du, du liegst mir im Herzen. [Musicians of Bremen]")
WOUNDED DARKNESS
By Gabor F. Peterdi
Located in Portland, ME
Peterdi, Gabor. American, 1915-2001.
WOUNDED DARKNESS. P.132.
Etching, engraving and aquatint on zinc, with four stenciled colors, 1956.
Edition of 35. Signed in pencil and numbere...
Category
1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Place (Series) #665
By Bill Jacobson
Located in Houston, TX
Bill Jacobson
Place (Series) #665, 2012
Pigment print mounted to museum board
37 3/4 x 31 3/4 inches, framed
Ed. 7
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pigment
Green Column/Figure
By Robert Mangold
Located in New York, NY
Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, Mangold developed a reductive vocabulary based on geometric forms, monochromatic color, and an emphasis on the flatness of t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Woodcut
Travelers Boat at Ibrim
By Francis Frith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Travelers Boat at Ibrim
Original gold toned albumin photograph, c. 1862
From: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, c. 1862, Vol 3, (36 plates)
Published by William Mackenzie, London, Glasgow & ...
Category
1860s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ruckus Tugboat
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color 3-D lithograph in Plexiglas box, Ed. 45.
Grooms, who has devoted much of his distinguished career to portraying his New York City home, turns his eye to New York’s harbor and its hardworking tugboats in this three-dimensional lithograph. This tug, the ”Lysiane”, steams through rolling waves…with smoke billowing from the smokestack. Sailing past a buoy with a seagull perched on top….the deck hand prepares to throw a lifesaver to a man overboard. Hidden in the waters are a green suited man with concrete...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Sight Lines II : The Green Room
By Peter Milton
Located in New York, NY
SIGHT LINES II : THE GREEN ROOM. This archival digital print was created in 2010. This original print was directly drawn into the computer by Peter Milto...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Digital
Earth Tie (Stoned Moon Series)
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Houston, TX
Robert Rauschenberg
Earth Tie (Stoned Moon Series), 1969
Color lithograph
48 x 34 inches
Edition of 48
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
House of Levy
By Kate Shepherd
Located in Houston, TX
Kate Shepherd
House of Levy, 2022
Oil and enamel on panel
20 x 14 1/2 in (50.8 x 36.8 cm)
JPHB 5184
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Enamel
Elegy for a Forgotten Day
By Marc Balakjian
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is an artist proof and is annotated VIII / VIII The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Divided Arc
By Robert Mangold
Located in New York, NY
Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, Mangold developed a reductive vocabulary based on geometric forms, monochromatic color, and an emphasis on the flatness of t...
Category
2010s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
CAT
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Portland, ME
Nevelson, Louise. CAT. Baro 80. Etching and drypoint, 1965/6. Edition of 40 (There were also three Trial Proofs and four Artist's Proofs). Signed and numbered in pencil. 17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (plate), (sheet). The edition was printed at the Hollander Graphic...
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Playing with Lives (First Responder)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Playing with Lives (First Responder)
Watercolor on Arches paper, 2020
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed with the artist's embossed "Yummy" blindstamp lower right
One of several works with a Covid inspired composition.
A masterpiece of American watercolor.
Condition: Excellent
Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic
Image size: 26 1/16 x 19 1/8 inches
Frame size: 33 x 25 inches
“First Responder” is a piece that celebrates the hard working doctors and nurses that are working around the clock, risking their lives for others. My daughter dresses up in her doctor custom everyday. Doc McStuffins is her favorite cartoon to watch, she carries her doctor kit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Trivium MMV
By Francisco Souto
Located in New Orleans, LA
In medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects that were taught first: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The word is a Latin term meaning "the three ways" or "the thr...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint, Lithograph, Screen
Post Office, New York
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Post Office, New York
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate stamp lower left (see photo)
Illustrated: Marbella Gallery, Robert Hallowell (1886-1939), No. 64
Provenance:...
Category
1930s Abstract Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Allen Ladd as Shane
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Allen Ladd as Shane
Colored and metallic paper collage. c. 1960's
Signed in ink lower right; Signed in pencil on reverse; (see photo)
Titled in pencil upper left recto (see photo)
C...
Category
1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bömmels belonged to the co-founders of the Cologne artist group Mülheimer Freiheit , which also included Hans Peter Adamski , Walter Dahn , Jiří Georg Dokoupil , Gerard Kever and Ger...
Category
1980s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Graphite
Untitled
By Fannie Hillsmith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Collage and crayon drawing, 1967
Signed and dated lower center (see photo)
Condition: Small imperfections from the creative process
Small tear on the left sheet edge (repai...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Crayon
Pylon (Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan side of East River near South St. Seaport)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
A "Pylon" of the Brooklyn Bridge with the Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge visible in the background is captured in this powerful image by Frederick Mershimer. It is #77 in t...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Untitled, 1941
By Myron Kozman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled
Color serigraph, 1941
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Very small edition (less than 10)
(Looks like a red brick building with white windows, probably in Chicago whe...
Category
1940s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
Three Head Portraits of a Young Girl
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hippolyte Roques (active 1838-1864)
Three Head Portraits of a Young Girl
Oil on grey wove paper, c. 1850
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Shepherd Galle...
Category
1850s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
Times Square I (the neon signs in Manhattan's Times Square)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Times Square I is a montage of large neon signs that dominate Manhattan's Times Square. This impression is pencil signed, titled and dated and is #40 ...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Livre (An opening to the book of knowledge)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image seems to capture the opening of knowledge through books. At the top of the imagemoors are opening revealing a sliver of light providing entree to yer massive book at the ...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Abstraction
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated in ink lower center
Provenance:
Charlotte Bergman, noted collector and patron of Walkowitz. See photo for additional information.
Category
1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink, Pen
Making Leaves (a sexy still life where 2 rakes and some leaves turn up the heat)
By Arthur Tress
Located in New Orleans, LA
Tress uses a bed, the juxtaposition of two rakes and a scattering of fallen leaves to enter a sexy anthropomorphic world. Often men are called "rakes" to suggest amoral activity. In...
Category
1970s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Russian Orthodox Church, Middle 19th Century
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Russian Artist
Russian Orthodox Church, Middle 19th century
Unsigned
Illuminated in red, yellow blue and green pigments and gold leaf on paper
...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pigment
Lagoon: Noon
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James McNeill Whistler (1830-1903), Lagoon: Noon, etching and drypoint, 1879-1880, signed with the butterfly and inscribed “imp” on the tab [also signed with the butterfly in the plate lower left]. Reference: Glasgow 209, third state (of 3), Kennedy 216, third state (of 3); Lochnan 231, 4 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches.
A fine impression with very little plate tone, and printed with extraordinary attention to the etching and drypoint details. The printed butterfly, usually only barely visible, is clearly defined in this impression (see detail below). Kennedy mades special note that an impression like this, with the clearly visible butterfly, was in the collection of John H. Wrenn.
On a commission from the Fine Arts Society, Whistler created the plates of his Venice series...
Category
1870s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Place Le Soir (The Square at Evening)
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Place Le Soir (The Square at Evening)
Color lithograph on wove paper, 1899
Unsigned (as issued)
From: Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris (Some Aspects of Parisian Life), 1899, Plate...
Category
1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Missing Link
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #12 from an edition of only 75,
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after...
Category
2010s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
UNTITLED (TWO MEN)
By Pablo O'Higgins
Located in Portland, ME
O'Higgins, Paul or Pablo (Mexican, born USA, 1904-1983). UNTITLED DRAWING (TWO MEN).
Watercolor on paper, not dated. Signed "Paul O'Higgins," lower right, so ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
The Loop VI (the artist's memories of days at Chicago's Art Institute)
By Richard Gilbert
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Loop VI was created in a small edition of 15. The Loop is a vibrant area featuring eclectic eateries, shops, theaters and parks. Comprised mostly of high-rises, it’s also home to the 108-story Willis Tower. The iconic “Cloud Gate...
Category
1990s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
The Dead Tiger
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Dead Tiger
Ink and watercolor on paper, 1955
Signed and dated in ink (see photo)
Condition: Aging to the entire sheet (it's 78 years old)
Image/Sheet size: 18 1/4 x 23 inches
On...
Category
1950s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
D is for Dish (A fine whimsical work by a pioneer in the English Pop Art scene)
By Harvey Daniels
Located in New Orleans, LA
British Pop artist Harvey Daniels created this image in 1970 in a small edition of 20. This impression is #2 His work has described by art historian Norbert Lynton as a “visual carni...
Category
1970s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Three Leaves
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ravaux used the rule of threes to show 3 pieces of Christmas ivy floating below three sources of light. Christine Ravaux is a Belgian artist who uses nature in much of her work whic...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Lady with a Bike (atmospheric photograph of Vietnamese woman on her bike)
By Benno Thoma
Located in New Orleans, LA
Benno Thoma's color image of a Vietnamese woman on her bike was taken in Hanoi. It is a painterly image created through photographic technique. This impression is #1 of an edition of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Branche Horizontale (horizontal branch lying on patterns of grass and leaves)
By Christine Ravaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shades of blacks and grays on a fallen branch create a pleasing pattern contrasted with grasses and ferns that lie beneath. Christine Ravaux is a Belgian artist who uses nature in m...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
To the Sea
By Jack Coughlin 1
Located in New Orleans, LA
Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, Jack Coughlin studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and the Art Students League of New York. He is b...
Category
1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
Barns in the Helderberg, New York (rural 1930s American scene with vintage car)
By Martin Lewis
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Barns in the Helderberg, New York" by Martin Lewis shows neighbors (one in a Model T car) visiting outside a series of barns with a tree in the background...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Untitled (Double sided watercolor) Recto: Figures seated at a table
By Ben Shahn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on paper
Most probably related to the artist's creation of images surrounding Haggadah (Passover) which he started in 1930 and finished with the publication of his book in...
Category
1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
A Jersey Vraic Cart
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A Jersey Vraic Cart
Etching, 1939
Signed lower center margin (see photo)
Signed and dated in the plate (see photo)
Edition 250 plus 10 on J. Whatman laid paper
Printed by David Stran...
Category
1930s English School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
The Old Uppsala Church (Sweden)
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Old Uppsala Church" was done in small edition of 15. This impression is #3.
Gamla Uppsala (Swedish: Old Uppsala) is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden.
As early as the 3rd century AD and the 4th century AD and onwards, it was an important religious, economic and political centre. Early written sources claim that already during pre-history, Gamla Uppsala was well known in Northern Europe as the residence of Swedish kings of the legendary Yngling dynasty In fact, the oldest Scandinavian sources, such as Ynglingatal, the Westrogothic law and the Gutasaga talk of the King of the Swedes (Suiones) as the "King at Uppsala".
During the Middle Ages, it was the largest village of Uppland, the eastern part of which probably originally formed the core of the complex of properties belonging to the Swedish Crown, the so-called Uppsala öd, of which the western part consisted of the royal estate...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Symbiosis
By Paolo Ciampini
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is signed and numbered in an edition of 50
Paolo Ciampini was born in Montopoli in Val d'Arno in 1941. After graduating from the Art Institute of Cascina (Pisa) in ...
Category
1990s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
421 Nights: Reach (Silos on Highway 421)
By Donald Furst
Located in New Orleans, LA
Donald Furst has created a series of 10 mezzotints based on Highway 421. U.S. Route 421 is a spur route of U.S. 21. It runs for 941 miles from Fort Fisher, North Carolina south of Wilmington to Michigan City, Indiana at U.S. 20. This image, "421 Nights: Reach", shows the reach of some storage tanks. This impression is #10 from an edition of just 30.
A member of the faculty since 1985, Donald Furst is Professor of Art and former chair (2002-2009) of the UNCW Department of Art and Art History. He has received the following recognitions for teaching: University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1999; University Distinguished Professorship, UNCW, 1996-98; Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award, UNCW, 1996; College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching, UNCW, 1992.
Furst currently operates Ars Longa...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Rest
By Joseph Havel
Located in Houston, TX
Joseph Havel
Rest, 2004
Double woven silk taffeta labels in an acrylic construction
13 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Fabric
One of Twelve XI (etchings of one of 12 heads based on monumental sculpture)
By Seyed M. S. Edalatpour
Located in New Orleans, LA
"One of Twelve XI" is an etching, 1995, 4 3/4 x 4 3/4, edition: 24, signed in pencil. The print has an embossed chop in the lower right corner, a capital P in a circle indicating th...
Category
1990s Post-Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Beauty on a Veranda with Fan and Mirror
By Suzuki (Hozumi) Harunobu
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed: Harunobu ga
Series: Series: Eight Fashionable Parlor Views (Furyu zashiki hakkei)?
Format Japanese: chuban
Provenance:
Private Collection, Philadelphia
Collection of McCleaf
...
Category
Mid-18th Century Edo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Chute I (the fall of ethereal creatures wandering in a hellish landscape)
By Maurice Pasternak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maurice Pasternak has created a surreal landscape that includes several spirit-like creatures seeming to wander in an unknown landscape He moves images around on the paper to create ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Statue of Young Boy in Fountain on the Plaza
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
This very early original red conte drawing is signed "Jack L. Nesbitt, 4/21/34". On the back of the drawing, Nesbitt has written "Quick sketch from fountain on Plaza". Jack was a student of Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Art Institute during this period. The figure on the drawing is of a nude young boy with both arms in the air. A very rare early work by this fine artist.
Jackson Lee Nesbitt, a noted printmaker and painter of the American Scene, dedicated his artistic career to the portrayal of ordinary people going about the business of their lives. A native of Oklahoma, Nesbitt created scenes from the Midwest during the 1930s and 1940s, but in the 1950s, when interest in his work diminished, he moved to Atlanta and established a second career in advertising. Thirty years later, Nesbitt sold his business and resumed his artistic career from Atlanta.
He was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, on June 16, 1913, the only child of LuCena Grant and Howard Nesbitt. The family resided in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where his father owned a commercial printing business. Jack, as Nesbitt was known, helped out in the family business until 1931, when he enrolled at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
Two years later Nesbitt enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. As a first-year student, he learned etching from John deMartelly, attended Ross Braught's painting class, and met his future wife, Elaine Thompson, who was a costume design student. Thomas Hart Benton, who joined the faculty in the fall of 1935, quickly became a close friend and mentor to the younger artist.
In 1937 the management of the Sheffield Steel Corporation contacted deMartelly concerning an etching commission. Because Nesbitt was an outstanding student, his teacher suggested him for the job. When Nesbitt arrived at the plant one afternoon, he was taken to the open-hearth furnace area, where he diligently sketched anonymous workers in that dramatic setting until five o'clock the following morning. On the strength of his sketches, he was commissioned to create a series of etchings illustrating different phases of the steel industry. The commission launched Nesbitt's career as a professional artist.
The commission with Sheffield Steel Corporation provided the financial security that enabled Jack and Elaine Nesbitt to marry on June 1, 1938. He graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute about the same time. Working as a freelance artist, Nesbitt augmented his commissioned work with genre scenes of the Midwest, and he routinely went with Benton on sketching trips to rural Arkansas.
Beginning in 1939 Nesbitt's work gained widespread recognition. Open Hearth Door, a Sheffield Steel Corporation painting, was chosen to represent Missouri in the American Art Today exhibition at the New York World's Fair. Associated American Artists selected one of his etchings, Watering Place, for an edition of 250 prints that were sold through subscription. Having a print published by the association ensured national distribution, and four more of Nesbitt's works, all of rural southern genre scenes, were later selected by the print publisher.
Over the next decade Nesbitt's work was exhibited in California, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, New York, and Oklahoma. He was awarded the Eames Prize by the Society of American Etchers in 1946, and his work was included in the book American Prize Prints of the Twentieth Century, by Albert Reese. Major corporations with operations in the Midwest, including Brown and Bigelow, Butler Manufacturing Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company, Omaha Steel Works, Pratt and Whitney...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Conté
Roberta Kimmel Cohn (1937-2015)
By Naomi Savage
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Roberta Kimmel Cohn (1937-2015)
Toned sliver gelatin print, c. 1981
Unsigned (Signed and dedicated on the sketchbook page) see photo
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 1/4 x 10 5/8 ...
Category
1980s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Silver Gelatin
In Memory of an Historic Phrase
By Marc Balakjian
Located in New Orleans, LA
Marc Balakjian was enigmatic in his subject matter creating images that are disturbing in their ambiguity. Is this image just striped fabric tied with ropes on a platform or is this is a flag-draped coffin symbolizing those who passed "in memory of an historic phrase"? Politicians may turn the phrase but a price must be paid. This small edition mezzotint was created in 1975 in an edition of only 5.
Armenian by descent, Marc Balakjian was raised in Lebanon. He spent his early years in the small town of Rayak, before moving to Beirut at the age of 10. He came to England in 1966, initially to study architecture with a firm in Oxford. He then decided to study art at Hammersmith College of Art and took up a postgraduate degree in printmaking at the Slade School of Art in 1971. After graduating he began working at Studio Prints in 1973, just as it was establishing itself in Queen’s Crescent. By 1976 he had become a full time partner, collaborating with other artists as well as continuing his own work, much of which is inspired by his Armenian and Lebanese culture and heritage.
By the 1980s work was falling off, so Balakjian and Studio Prints introduced in-house plate-making to serve painters and sculptors who had little experience with printmaking. Artists such as Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Ken Kiff...
Category
1970s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Kreuzende Segelschiffe 2 (Cruising Sailing Ships 2)
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in New York, NY
Lyonel Feininger, “Kreuzende Segelschiffe 2 (Cruising Sailing Ships 2)”
1919, Woodcut.
Prasse W175. Edition 275 unsigned for portfolio Die tunlte Jahresgabe des Kreises graphischer ...
Category
1910s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Intérieur, la lecture
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Chine paper, Edition of 50
Paper size: 39 x 31 cms (15.4 x 12.2 ins)
Image size: 27.2 x 19 cms (11 5/8 x 7 1/2 ins)
Category
1920s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Fir Play
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
A series of prints was commissioned by the Met Museum in NY in a regular edition of 40 This impression is from an edition of 5 artist proofs. This impression is #4/5
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting.
In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
Category
2010s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Intaglio
Abschied (Parting)
By Emil Nolde
Located in New York, NY
Emil Nolde (1876-1956), Abschied (Parting), etching and aquatint (tonal effects), 1906, signed in pencil lower right. Reference: Schiefler/Mosel 20, third state (of 3). One of only...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Mommy Why?
By Joan Snyder
Located in New York, NY
Joan Snyder has been called an autobiographical, even confessional artist, who draws from her experiences and surroundings to create her paintings. While her subjects vary widely, Sn...
Category
1980s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
