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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MORNING IN YOSEMITE
By Harold Lukens Doolittle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD L. DOOLITTLE (1883 - 1974)
MORNING IN YOSEMITE c 1938
Aquatint, signed and titled in pencil by the artist. Plate size 13 3/8 x 9 3/4". Sheet 16 x 11 1/8" with deckle edges.
Doolittle was a renaissance man. His day job was as an engineer for the Edison Electric Co. But he produced an outstanding body of prints for 5 decades as well as photographs. His very rare arts and crafts furniture is highly sought after. He was a long time member and officer in the California Print...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
Cloud
By William Wegman
Located in New York, NY
William Wegman is a renowned photographer famous for his unique and artistic photographs of Weimaraner puppies. His approach to is far from conventional, avoiding the typical "cuddly...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pigment
THE MAKING OF TORTILLAS - Mural Size 47 1/2 inches Long
By Leopoldo Méndez
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEOPOLDO MENDEZ (1902 – 1969)
THE MAKING OF TORTILLAS 1954
Linocut. Edition unknown. This example signed in pencil and dated 1957. 14” x 47 3/8” ...
Category
1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Linocut
Study for the Mural "Westward Movement"
By John Steuart Curry
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study for the Mural "Westward Movement"
Graphite, watercolor, gouache and paint on paper, 1936
Signed in pencil lower center (see photo)
A study leading up to his mural Justice of th...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Gouache
'Dancers' — 1930s American Modernism
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'Dancers', 1939, wood engraving, edition 100. Signed, titled, and numbered 72/100 in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white Japan paper, with full marg...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
RECLINING FIGURE (GREGORY EVANS)
By David Hockney
Located in Portland, ME
Hockney, David. RECLINING FIGURE. Etching and sugarlift aquatint in black, 1974. Edition of 75 published by Petersburg Press, London and printed on Inveresk paper. Signed, dated and ...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Portraits: Yvonne
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 chalk or charcoal on brown paper, th...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Stones
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
1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Aries-The Ram
By Eugène Grasset
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the artist's initials lower left
From: Les Douze Mois de 1889
As published in Vol. 9, No. 425 of Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui.
Published by Sagot, Paris
Proof before letters...
Category
1880s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Connais-tu le Pays (Primavera) apres J. Rolshoven (Do you Know the Country)
By Theophile Narcisse Chauvel
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Connais-tu le Pays (Primavera) apres J. Rolshoven
(Do you Know the Country -Spring)
Etching, 1889
Signed "Julius Rolshoven...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Seattle Building Design w/Space Needle &Pacific Science Center in Background
Located in New York, NY
Possibly a rendering for the renovation of Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Downtown Seattle.
Original gouache on artist board.
American, circa 1962, artist unknown.
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Gouache
NATIVE AMERICANS HUNTING - TWO DRAWINGS.
By Cassilly Adams
Located in Portland, ME
Adams, Cassilly (American 1843-1921). NATIVE AMERICANS HUNTING -
TWO DRAWINGS. Charcoal and watercolor, not dated. One signed
within the matrix of the drawing, lower right. Each about 7 x 10
inches. Both with a tack hole top and and bottom, center, and
with residue from an old mount, verso. One wih a 1/2 x 1/2 inch
loss at the top right corner. The images fresh. One shows two
hunters with grass head-dress disguises, crouched behind low
grasses,each with a rifle, a killed deer between them, and a herd
moving across the field on the far side of the grasses. The other
depicts two hunters wearing animal-skin disguises, each with a
rifle, crouched behind grasses, beyond which a small herd of
bison grazes. The Pair: $1750.00
The following is from American Western Art...
Category
Late 19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
International DADA Exhibition 1916-1923.
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
DUCHAMP, Marcel. International DADA Exhibition 1916-1923. Large Poster printed in black and orange, designed by Duchamp. Single sheet, 965 x 635 mm, (38" x 25"). New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953. Folded.
A fine copy of this extremely rare Duchamp poster...
Category
1950s Dada Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
untitled
By Garo Zareh Antreasian
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated in pencil lower right; Annotated: Artist's Proof in pencil lower left; printer's chop mark lower right
Edition: 18 impressions and 2 ar...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
The Venetian Mast
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Venetian Mast. 1879-80. Etching and drypoint. Kennedy catalog 195 state .vi; Glasgow catalog 219 state x/xii. 13 3/8 x 6 3/8. Glasgow records 53 impressions. A fine, atmospheric...
Category
1870s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Vision Antique
By Paul Berthon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Vision Antique
Color lithograph, 1899
Signed in the stone upper left (see photo)
Titled in the stone lower right (see photo)
Edition: unsigned edition about 200 (per Arwas)
Published...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape with Window and Chair
By Robert Kipniss
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with Window and Chair
Mezzotint on wove paper, 2000
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: 150 (93/150) (see photo)
Special Presentation Print for the Print Club...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
FARMHOUSE WITH YELLOW FIELDS
By Junichiro Sekino
Located in Portland, ME
Sekino, Junchiro (Jaoanese, 1914-1988), FARMHOUSE WITH YELLOW FIELDS. Color Woodblock, not dated. Signed, Lower right. 13 3/8 x 19 inches, framed to 20 x 25 inches. In excellent cond...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Chrysler Building (Chrysler Building in Construction)
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in New York, NY
Howard Cook (1901-1980), Chrysler Building (Chrysler Building in Construction) – –1930, Wood Engraving.
Duffy 122. Edition 75, only 50 printed. 19...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
LEAFLESS TREE
By Jacques Hnizdovsky
Located in Portland, ME
Hnizdovsky, Jacques. LEAFLESS TREE. Tahir 65. Woodcut, 1965. Signed, titled dated and inscribed "Trial Proof" in pencil. 24 x 19 1/4 inches, framed to 34...
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
'The Wolf and the Little Kids' — Graphic Modernism
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fritz Eichenberg, 'The Wolf and the Little Kids' from the suite 'Fables with a Twist', wood engraving, 1975-76, artist's proof apart from the edition of c. 50. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Artist’s Proof' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/8 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Complete with vellum folder with descriptive text in red and black linotype. Printed by master printer Harold McGrath at The Gehenna Press, Northampton, MA. Image size 13 15/16 x 12 1/8 inches (354 x 308 mm); sheet size 16 1/2 x 14 inches (419 x 356 mm). Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Collection: Harvard Museums.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990) was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion, social justice, and nonviolence.
Eichenberg was born to a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany, where the destruction of World War I helped to shape his anti-war sentiments. He worked as a printer's apprentice and studied at the Municipal School of Applied Arts in Cologne and the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, where he studied under Hugo Steiner-Prag. In 1923 he moved to Berlin to begin his career as an artist, producing illustrations for books and newspapers. In his newspaper and magazine work, Eichenberg was politically outspoken and sometimes wrote and illustrated his reporting.
In 1933, the rise of Adolf Hitler drove Eichenberg, who was a public critic of the Nazis, to emigrate with his wife and children to the United States. He settled in New York City, where he lived most of his life. He worked in the WPA Federal Arts Project and was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists.
In his prolific career as a book illustrator, Eichenberg portrayed many forms of literature but specialized in works with elements of extreme spiritual and emotional conflict, fantasy, or social satire. Over his long career, Eichenberg was commissioned to illustrate more than 100 classics by publishers in the United States and abroad, including works by renowned authors Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Poe, Swift, and Grimmelshausen. He also wrote and illustrated books of folklore and children's stories.
Eichenberg was a long-time contributor to the progressive magazine The Nation, his illustrations appearing between 1930 and 1980. Eichenberg’s work has been featured by such esteemed publishers as The Heritage Club, Random House, Book of the Month Club, The Limited Editions Club, Kingsport Press, Aquarius Press, and Doubleday.
Raised in a non-religious family, Eichenberg had been attracted to Taoism as a child. Following his wife's unexpected death in 1937, he turned briefly to Zen Buddhist meditation, then joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1940. Though he remained a Quaker until his death, Eichenberg was also associated with Catholic charity work through his friendship with Dorothy Day...
Category
1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Conversation
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Conversation
Lithograph, 1893-1894
Signed and numbered in pencil lower left (see photo)
Edition: (57/100) 100
Printed on wove paper
Published by Edouard Kleinmann
An early Nabi schoo...
Category
1890s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Sweet Pea II
By Robert Kushner
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with metallic leaf, Edition 30
Kushner's use of rich color harmonies and bold, fluid drawing, mark his belief in the importance of beauty in our lives. Kushner ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
San Marco [Venice].
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in Storrs, CT
William Walcot. R.E., R.I.B.A. San Marco. Etching with drypoint and aquatint. Dickins 66, Harvey-Lee 91. 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 9 1/4 x 12 1/8). Venice set, # 2. Edition 415. A rich impression printed on cream wove paper. Fold in the margin, well outside the image; otherwise good condition. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat.
Soon after Walcot's arrival in England, the Fine Art Society sponsored a trip sent to Italy. This scene is one of four small drypoints that resulted from the artist’s stay in Venice.
When he was seventeen, he began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel Metropole...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
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Portrait of a resting young lady (Marjorie Organ)
By Robert Henri
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of a resting young lady (Marjorie Organ)
Black chalk on paper. c. 1907
signed in ink by Henri's nephew, John C. LeClair, the executor of the Henri estate
"Robert Henri JLC"
Note: The sitter for this portrait is depicted in two drawings of similar size, illustrated in Chapellier Galleries Inc., Robert Henri 1865-1929, 1976, nos. 15 & 16.
Please see the attached photo of Marjorie Organ, Henri's second wife
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 10 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
John C. LeClair, Estate Adminitrator
Private Collection, Pawling, New York
Biography
Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 24, 1865, the son of a professional gambler and real estate developer. The family lived in Nebraska and Colorado, but fled east when the father shot and killed a rancher over a land dispute and was indicted for manslaughter. They changed their last name because of the ensuing scandal and eventually settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the early 1880s.
In 1886 Henri enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz, Thomas Hovenden...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Graphite
'Girl with Hands to Face' — Mid-century Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Girl with Hands to Face', two-color lithograph, 1940, edition 30, Fine and Looney 180. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 30' in pencil. A superb impression, on cr...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
SELF-PORTRAIT.
By Jim Dine
Located in Portland, ME
Dine, Jim (Americn, born 1935). SELF-PORTRAIT. Etching, 1975. Edition of 25, signed, numbered 15/25, and dated, all in pencil. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (plate), 20 x 16 inches (sheet). P...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Nahan's Forty Winks
By Jiha Moon
Located in New York, NY
In her image- and color-saturated paintings and prints, Jiha Moon mashes up materials, motifs, and techniques to create dreamlike compositions, stuffed with Eastern and Western art historical and pop cultural references that challenge fixed notions of cultural identity and represent our information-overloaded world. Everything is fair game for Moon—she draws from sources high and low, real and virtual, ancient and contemporary, including 13th-century Taoist painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Atlas Cornice Drawings 2 —Vienna Secessionist
By Heinrich Brad Schmidt
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Two early 20th-century Vienna Secessionist, male nude cornice drawings. Graphite on pale blue/grey wove drawing paper, spot glued by the artist to ...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pencil
UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor, Color Pencil
Spring Night, Greenwich Village
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
Spring Night, Greenwich Village. 1930. Drypoint and sand ground. McCarron 85. 10 x 12 3/8 (sheet 13 1/4 x 15 5/8)). Edition 92. A rich, tonal impress...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Mexican Orchestra (joy of the people is captured in this celebratory festival)
By George Overbury Hart
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Mexican Orchestra" is one of the George Overbury Hart's largest pieces. It is #14 from a limited edition of 50. The image captures a festive event with hanging lanterns, an orches...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'A Visit to the King of the Waters' — Graphic Modernism
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fritz Eichenberg, 'A Visit to the King of the Waters' from the suite 'The Adventurous Simplicissimus', wood engraving, 1977, artist's proof apart from the edition of 50. Signed in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 14 x 12 inches (356 x 305 mm); sheet size 17 1/2 x 15 inches (445 x 381 mm). Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
ABOUT THIS WORK
'Simplicius Simplicissimus' (German: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch) is a picaresque novel of the lower Baroque style, written in five books by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen published in 1668, with the sequel Continuatio appearing in 1669.
The novel is told from the perspective of its protagonist Simplicius, a rogue or picaro typical of the picaresque novel, as he traverses the tumultuous world of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. Raised by a peasant family, he is separated from his home by foraging dragoons. He is adopted by a hermit living in the forest, who teaches him to read and introduces him to religion. The hermit also gives Simplicius his name because he is so simple that he does not know his own name. After the death of the hermit, Simplicius must fend for himself. He is conscripted at a young age into service and, from there, embarks on years of foraging, military triumph, wealth, prostitution, disease, bourgeois domestic life, and travels to Russia, France, and an alternate world inhabited by mermen. The novel ends with Simplicius turning to a life of hermitage, denouncing the world as corrupt.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990) was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion, social justice, and nonviolence.
Eichenberg was born to a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany, where the destruction of World War I helped to shape his anti-war sentiments. He worked as a printer's apprentice and studied at the Municipal School of Applied Arts in Cologne and the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, where he studied under Hugo Steiner-Prag. In 1923 he moved to Berlin to begin his career as an artist, producing illustrations for books and newspapers. In his newspaper and magazine work, Eichenberg was politically outspoken and sometimes wrote and illustrated his reporting.
In 1933, the rise of Adolf Hitler drove Eichenberg, who was a public critic of the Nazis, to emigrate with his wife and children to the United States. He settled in New York City, where he lived most of his life. He worked in the WPA Federal Arts Project and was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists.
In his prolific career as a book illustrator, Eichenberg portrayed many forms of literature but specialized in works with elements of extreme spiritual and emotional conflict, fantasy, or social satire. Over his long career, Eichenberg was commissioned to illustrate more than 100 classics by publishers in the United States and abroad, including works by renowned authors Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Poe, Swift, and Grimmelshausen. He also wrote and illustrated books of folklore and children's stories.
Eichenberg was a long-time contributor to the progressive magazine The Nation, his illustrations appearing between 1930 and 1980. Eichenberg’s work has been featured by such esteemed publishers as The Heritage Club, Random House, Book of the Month Club, The Limited Editions Club, Kingsport Press, Aquarius Press, and Doubleday.
Raised in a non-religious family, Eichenberg had been attracted to Taoism as a child. Following his wife's unexpected death in 1937, he turned briefly to Zen Buddhist meditation, then joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1940. Though he remained a Quaker until his death, Eichenberg was also associated with Catholic charity work through his friendship with Dorothy Day...
Category
1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Canadian Geese in Flight
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Canadian Geese in Flight
Drypoint printed with plate tone in the sky
c. 1940's
Signed in pencil lower right
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches
Provenanc...
Category
1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
Limehouse
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Limehouse, etching, 1859. References: Glasgow 48, fifth state (of 6), Kennedy 40, third state (of 3), signed with the butterfly in pencil in the lower margin. [Also signed and dated in the plate.]With margins, 5 x 7 7/8 inches, the sheet 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Published as no. 12 in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects, otherwise known as the Thames Set. In good condition apart from a soft diagonal fold in the sky.
A very fine impression, in black ink on a thin Japan paper.
Provenance: Dr. John W. Randall (cf. Lugt 2130), without his mark, annotated on the mat.
Limehouse, the entrance to the West Indies Docks, lies opposite the Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe, along the lower Thames.
It’s unusual to find the signed butterfly (or any pencil signature) on the early London etchings, but it is known that Whistler signed...
Category
1850s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Etching for Stephen Spender “Fraternity”
By Wassily Kandinsky
Located in New York, NY
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Etching for Stephen Spender “Fraternity”, etching and drypoint, 1939, signed in pencil lower right. Reference: Roethel 2...
Category
1930s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Nude drawing (Nude on her haunches draws )
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in New Orleans, LA
A nude woman squats on her haunches as she draws an image on a sheet of paper. Joseph Hirsch created this lithograph in 1963 in an edition of 50. It was printed by Lucien Dutruit i...
Category
1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Heads)
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracu...
Category
1980s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Besancon La Mouillere PLM
By Lucien Pillot
Located in New York, NY
Besancon La Mouillere PLM. Ca 1930. printed by Gerin Paris
Color lithograph. On Linen
Lucien Pillot registered as a member of the Société des Artistes Français. He had previo...
Category
1930s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1
Pochoir, 1934
Unsigned as issued in Cahier's edition
Published in Cahier's d'art, 1934
Unsigned Edition of 1200
There was also a pencil signed...
Category
1930s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Stencil
Wheelbarrow Race
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
1925-26. Drypoint. Appleby 114. 8 9/16 x 12 (sheet 12 x 17). Edition 100, #10. An excellent impression with burr, printed with plate tone on the full sheet of 'VGI' laid paper with ...
Category
1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Le Couple
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Le Couple, 1951, drypoint on chine volant, signed lower right margin and numbered (5/XI) lower left margin. References: Bloch 690,...
Category
1950s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
'Sundown, Stonington, Maine' — Artist-printed Exhibition Proof
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Nelson Wilbur (1897-1988), 'Sundown, Stonington, Maine', wood engraving, artist's proof, edition not stated but small, 1969. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the block...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled (Kneeling Male Nude)
By David Smith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Kneeling Male Nude)
Graphite on paper, c. 1930
Unsigned
Annotated in pencil verso:
"This drawing was made by David Smith in the Matulka class at A. S. L. 1931
Signed
Doroth...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper, Pencil
'Mountain Climber' — American Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'Mountain Climber', wood engraving, 1933, edition 250, Burne Jones 93. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 9/16 to 3 5/8 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge verso, where previously hinged; otherwise, in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (200 x 149 mm); sheet size 14 x 11 1/8 inches (356 x 283 mm).
Printed by Pynson Printers, New York. Distributed by The Print Club of Cleveland, Publication No. 11, 1933.
Literature: 'Rockwellkentiana,' Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1933. '101 of The World’s Greatest Books', edited by Spencer Armstrong, 1950.
Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Akron Art Institute, Burne Jones Collection, IL; Cincinnati Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Davis Museum at Wellesley College; Fine Art Museums of San Francisco; H. M. de Young Museum; Hermitage Museum; Kent Collection, NY; Library of Congress; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester; Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection, NY; SUNY, Plattsburg.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock. In 1905 Kent moved from New York to Monhegan Island in Maine, home to a summer art colony, where he continued to find inspiration in nature. Kent soon found success exhibiting and selling his paintings in New York, and in 1907, he was given his first solo show at Claussen Galleries. The following year he married his first wife, Kathleen Whiting (Thayer’s niece), with whom he had five children. The couple divorced in 1924, and Kent married Frances Lee the following year. They divorced after 15 years of marriage, and the artist married Sally Johnstone.
For the next several decades, Kent lived a peripatetic lifestyle, settling in several locations in Connecticut, Maine, and New York. During this time he took several extended voyages to remote, often ice-filled, corners of the globe, including Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland, to which he made three separate trips. For Kent, exploration and artistic production were twinned endeavors, and his travels to these rugged, elemental locations inspired his visual art and his writings. He developed a stark, realist landscape style in his paintings and drawings that revealed both nature’s harshness and its sublimity. Kent’s human figures, which appear sparingly in his work, often allude to the mythic themes of isolation, individualism, heroism, and the quest for self-connection. Important exhibitions of works from these travels include the Knoedler Gallery’s shows in 1919 and 1920, featuring Kent’s Alaska drawings...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Tweeter's Recovery
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Ed. 30
Hardy states: “A follow-up to a painting done in 1992 after the L.A. riots which was titled “Bad News (Tweeter is Sick)”. The tattoo bird skirts over the wa...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Wishlist
By Matt Magee
Located in Houston, TX
Matt Magee
Wishlist, 2016
Lithograph
35 1/2 x 29 in (90.2 x 73.7 cm)
Edition of 14
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
A Bit of New England
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A Bit of New England
Oil on canvas,, 1908
Signed lower left corner: L. O. Griffith
Condition: Excellent
Canvas size: 26 x 38 inches
Frame size: 33 3/8 x 45 1/4 inches Note: origi...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil
Rio del Santi Apostoli, Venice.
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Storrs, CT
Rio del Santi Apostoli, Venice. 1930. Etching. Fletcher catalog 22 state .ii. 8 x 6 (sheet 11 x 7 3/16). Italian series #4. Illustrated: Dorothy Noyes Arms, Hill Towns and Cities of...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
The Traghetto
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Traghetto, etching and drypoint, 1879-80, signed with the butterfly on the tab and inscribed “imp”. Reference: Kennedy 19...
Category
1870s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Chrysanthemums
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chrysanthemums
Color woodcut, c. 1950's
Signed lower right (see photo)
Publisher: Uchida (see photo of red seal)
Note: Chrysanthemums, a symbol of the sun, the Japanese consider the ...
Category
1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Don Pullen Quartet Willisau 1978
By Niklaus Troxler
Located in New York, NY
Niklaus Troxler. Silkscreen
Don Pullen Quartet
Willisau 1978
Schweizer Plakat des Jahres.
The pianist’s powerful play changes the colors of the American Flag.
Award: Swiss Poster of...
Category
1970s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
Broadway Parade
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Broadway Parade
Lithograph, 1934-1935
Signed, titled and editoned in pencil (see photos)
Printer: George Miller, New York
Edition: 100, plus trial proofs
Printed on cine collee
Creat...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'Dancing' — 'les années folles' Paris Masterwork, 1928
By Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 'Dancing', lithograph, 1928, edition 30, Davis L-29. Signed, dated, and numbered '8/30' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, printed on cream chine appliqué on heavy off-white wove backing; the full sheet with wide margins (1 3/8 to 4 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by Desjobert, Paris. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Impressions of this work are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi Museum (Japan).
ABOUT THIS WORK
The French economy boomed from 1921 until the Great Depression reached Paris in 1931. This period called 'Les années folles' or the 'Crazy Years', saw Paris reestablished as a capital of art, music, literature, and cinema. Paris in the 1920s and 1930s was the home and meeting place of some of the world's most prominent painters, sculptors, composers, dancers, poets, and writers. For those in the arts, it was, as Ernest Hemingway described it, "A moveable feast". Paris was home to an exceptional number of galleries, art dealers, and a network of wealthy patrons who offered commissions and held salons.
Pablo Picasso, perhaps the most famous artist in Paris, shared renown with a remarkable group of others, including the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, the Belgian René Magritte, the Italian Amedeo Modigliani, the Russian émigré Marc Chagall, the Catalan and Spanish artists Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Juan Gris, and the German surrealist...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
MIGRANT
By Robert Gwathmey
Located in Portland, ME
Gwathmey, Robert (American 1903-1988). MIGRANT. Screenprint, 1978. An Artist's Proof aside from the edition of 100. Signed in pencil and inscribed "A/P.". 27 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches (ima...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
'Carp and Water Chestnut' — Showa lifetime impression
By Ohara Koson
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ohara Koson (1877-1945), 'Carp and Water Chestnut', color woodblock print, 1926. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream Japan paper; the full sheet, in excellent condition.
Signed 'Koson' with the artist’s red seal 'Koson'. Published by Watanabe Shozaburo. With the Watanabe 'C' seal in the lower right margin, indicating a lifetime impression printed between 1929-1942.
Image size 13 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (343 x 184 mm); sheet size 14 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (368 x 191 mm). Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Literature: 'Crows, Cranes, and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson', Newland, Amy R.: Jan Perree & Robert Schaap, Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2001. S39.1, pl 169.
Collections: National Museum of Asian Art (Smithsonian), Smart Museum of Chicago (University of Chicago).
In Japanese art, the carp represents good luck and good fortune.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Koson Ohara...
Category
1920s Showa Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Whaling – Vintage Monumental Zoology Lithograph
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Joseph Fleischmann, 'Whaling' (Hartingers Wandtafeln: Zoologie T. XXXII), monumental vintage color lithograph, 1900. Signed in the matrix, lower right. A superb, beautifully nuanced impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/16 inches), in very good condition. Sheet size 28 x 38 1/2 inches (711 x 978 mm). The full sheet, unmounted and unmatted—shipped carefully rolled and protected.
Rendering by A. Berger after Joseph Fleischmann. Published by Carl Gerold’s Son, Vienna, 1900.
This Artic whaling scene depicts a Greenland whale in the foreground pursued by whalers. A whaling ship is seen in the background and at right, another whale among icebergs with seagulls overhead. The print by Albert Berger...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'The Bather' — American Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'The Bather', wood engraving, 1931, edition 120, Burne Jones 63. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches (137 x 200 mm); sheet size 11 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (283 x 368 mm).
Impressions of this work are held in the following public collections: Burne Jones Collection (Illinois), Chazen Museum of Art, Chegodaev Collection (Moscow), Kent Collection (New York), National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; SUNY Plattsburg Art Museum, Princeton University Library, Pushkin Museum (Moscow), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection (New York), University of Illinois.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Racamadour (French Church Series #10) — Lyrical Realism
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Rocamadour' (French Church Series # 10), etching, 1927, edition 50, Fletcher 186. Signed, dated, and annotated 'First State' in pencil. Titled and dated 'Rocamadour 1926' in the plate, bottom right. A superb, finely detailed impression, in dark brown ink, on buff laid Japan paper, with full margins (1 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition.
Image size 13 3/4 x 10 inches (349 x 254 mm); sheet size 15 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches (400 x 346 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Literature: illustrated in Dorothy Noyes Arms, 'Churches of France', The Macmillan Company, 1929.
Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Davis Museum (Wellesley), McNay Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and the Whitney Museum of Art.
ABOUT THE SUBJECT
Rocamadour is a small clifftop village in south-central France. It is known for the Cité Réligieuse complex of religious buildings, accessed via the Grand Escalier staircase. It includes the Chapelle Notre-Dame, with its Black Madonna statue, and the Romanesque-Gothic Basilica of St-Sauveur.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“John Taylor Arms will live on and on and future generations centuries from now will marvel at his work... . As a friend and as a man, he fully matched his superb work.” —John Winkler, printmaker
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1887, John Taylor Arms attended the Lawrenceville School and began the study of law at Princeton University. In 1907, he transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and took up the study of architecture. Arms evolved his unique drafting style, with its highly realistic, precise detail and exquisitely rendered effects of light, from his experience and practice as an architectural student. He graduated in 1911 and completed a master’s degree the following year. He then worked as a draftsman with the well-known Carrere and Hastings Company in New York.
In 1913 Arms was given a hobbyist’s etching set, and he began to dabble with copperplate and acid. In 1915, after copying a handful of prints by Jongkind and other Etching Revivalists, Arms created his first original etching. His early experiments were picturesque views of European villages, reflecting the influence of Whistler. He inked and printed several of these plates in color in the manner of Charles Mielatz...
Category
1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
XXe Siecle, No. 34, Mai 1970
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
XXe Siecle, No. 34, Mai 1970
Color lithograph, 1970
Unsigned (as usual for XXeme Siecle edition)
From: XXe Siecle, Volume 34, 1970
Published by G. di San Lazzaro for A. Maeght, Paris...
Category
1970s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
