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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Period: 20th Century
Looking Up Broadway, Again
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph in 6 colors on Rives BFK paper
edition of 75
Category
1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
UNTITLED
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in Portland, ME
Arnoldi, Charles (American, born 1946). UNTITLED. Etching and aquatint in colors, 1982. Edition of 5, printed at Teaberry Press, San Francisco, with their blindstamps, lower left and...
Category
1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Suite Catalana, plate 2
By Antoni Tàpies
Located in London, GB
Aquatint in colours, 1972, on Guarro paper, signed and inscribed in pencil aside from the edition of 75, published by Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 75.7 x 100.5 cm. (29.8 x 39.6...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
En Pension.
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Storrs, CT
En Pension. 1929-30. Drypoint. Appleby 142. 8 1/2 x 12 1/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 18 5/16). Edition 100. A rich impression printed on cream wove paper with wide margins. Signed in ink. H...
Category
1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
SCHOOLGIRLS
By F. Luis Mora
Located in Portland, ME
Mora, F. Luis (Amwericn, born Uruguay, 1874-1940). UNTITLED (SCHOOLGIRLS). Drawing, pencil on paper. Not dated, but circa 1890-1910. Signed in pencil. 5 x 4 7/8 inches. Framed to 10 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pencil
'Signes' — Mid-Century Modernist Abstraction
By Jean (Hans) Arp
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jean Arp, Signes, woodcut, edition 50, 1949. A fine, black impression, with all the fine lines printing clearly, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with wide margins (1 5/8 to 6 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Signed and numbered '8/50' in pencil. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jean Arp was born Hans Arp on September 16, 1886, in Strassburg. In 1904, after leaving the Ecole des Arts et Métiers, Strasbourg, he visited Paris and published his poetry for the first time. From 1905 to 1907, Arp studied at the Kunstschule, Weimar, and in 1908 went to Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian. In 1909, he moved to Switzerland and in 1911 was a founder of the Moderner Bund group there. The following year, he met Robert and Sonia Delaunay in Paris and Vasily Kandinsky in Munich. Arp participated in the Erste deutsche Herbstsalon in 1913 at the gallery Der Sturm, Berlin. After returning to Paris in 1914, he became acquainted with Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Amadeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso. In 1915, he moved to Zurich, where he executed collages and tapestries, often in collaboration with his future wife Sophie Taeuber (who became known as Sophie Taeuber-Arp after they married in 1922).
In 1916, Hugo Ball...
Category
1940s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Jazz Festival Willisau/Willisau 1989
By Niklaus Troxler
Located in New York, NY
Jazz Festival Willisau 1989
Troxker's posters are represented in the most renowned design collections
worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of M...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
'Foul Rope (Left)' — early American rodeo
By William Robinson Leigh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Robinson Leigh, 'Foul Rope (Left)', etching, c. 1920, edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove Umbria paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 14 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (378 x 303 mm); sheet size 20 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (518 x 391 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) became one of the foremost painters of the American West. His career spanning some seventy-five years, Leigh created some of the most iconic depictions of the western landscape, admirers referring to him as ‘The Sagebrush Rembrandt’.
The son of impoverished Southern aristocrats, Leigh took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as the best student in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama.
In 1896, Leigh began working as a magazine illustrator in New York City for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine, and he also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes.
Leigh's trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he made an agreement with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, to paint the Grand Canyon in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting, which led to more commissions and an extensive painting trip through Arizona and New Mexico. These travels inspired him to paint western subjects for the next 50 years, his primary interest being the Hopi and Navajo Indians.
In 1910, he traveled to Wyoming, where he painted in Yellowstone Park and created sketches, many of which he later converted into large canvases such as ‘Lower Falls of the Yellowstone’ (1915) and ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ (1911).
In 1926 he traveled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience wrote and illustrated 'Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa'. In 1933, he wrote and illustrated 'The Western Pony'. His adventures were chronicled in a number of popular magazines including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers.
For many years, his work was handled exclusively in New York by Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel. In 1953 Leigh was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, becoming a full Academician in 1955.
In March 1999, the Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, held an exhibition of his field sketches and finished works depicting his experiences near Cody in the early part of the century. These years, between 1910 and 1921, when he often painted in the Carter Mountain vicinity, were considered pivotal to his artistic development and his devotion to the western landscape.
Leigh's work is held in many museum collections of American western art...
Category
1920s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
William Tell And His Son In Front Of The Hat
By Lovis Corinth
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LOVIS CORINTH (German 1858 -1925)
TELL AND HIS SON IN FRONT OF THE HAT "(Wilhelm) Tell Und Sein Sohn Vor Dem Hut" 1923 -5, (Muller 781) Lithograph with coloring, signed in pencil. This is one of 25, signed, on Japan paper Total edition 200. Image 9 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches. Full Sheet 15 x 11 1/2 inches with deckle edge. In good condition.
From the portfolio "William Tell". A portfolio of 13 signed lithographs including the title page. Published in 1925. Publisher Karl Nierendorf, Berlin, Printer:A. Rogall, Berlin. (Müller 775-787 - this is the 7th one. There are 25, signed, on Japan paper as offered, Total edition 200, including 75, signed, on "Bütten" paper and 100, signed, on copperplate printing paper)
Below is from the Museum of Modern Art:
Heather Hess, German Expressionist Digital Archive Project, German Expressionism: Works from the Collection. 2011.
Lovis Corinth often cloaked allusions to contemporary politics in historical dress. In these thirteen lithographs for an illustrated edition of Friedrich Schiller...
Category
1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
PENNY ARCADE - MISERIA
Located in Portland, ME
Penny Arcade (American, born 1950).
LA MISERIA POSTER.
Photo offset poster, circa 1991.
22 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches, mounted to paper and backed with cloth ...
Category
1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Offset
'Hill' — 1930s American Modernism
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Hill', wood engraving, 1936, edition 60 (only 54 printed); only 2 impressions printed in a second edition of 150. Signed, titled, and numbered '49/60' in pencil. Wien...
Category
1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Benches. [Central Park.]
By Harold Altman
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Inscribed "21/285.." Edition 285. Very good condition.
Category
1980s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
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Gran Cairo
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, 1972, on J. Green mould-made paper signed in pencil, dated and inscribed an AP aside from the edition of 100, published by Petersburg Press Ltd., London, sheet: 40.6 x 55...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Fire Dance (Flambeaux carriers light the path of Endymion parade in New Orleans)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is #109
Mershimer created a color mezzotint of the Mardi Gras scene in mid-city New Orleans. The parade was the Endymion crew marching on Canal Street near Jefferson ...
Category
1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Horizon (Beige, blue, green)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 75, Set of 6
33 x 71 cms (13 x 28 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
UNTITLED
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in Portland, ME
Arnoldi, Charles (American, born 1946). UNTITLED. Etching and aquatint in colors, 1982. Edition of 5, printed at Teaberry Press, San Francisco, with their blindstamps, lower left and...
Category
1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Ifafa I
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Lithograph with varnish, 1968, with LC Varnish on Lowell paper, signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 100, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles., sheet: 41.3 x 56.8 cm. (...
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
Harbor with Sailboats — Early 20th-Century Modernism
By George Josimovich
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Josimovich, Untitled (Harbor with Sailboats) ', linocut, 1923, edition 35. Signed, dated, and annotated '4/35' in pencil. Initialed 'G J' in ...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Linocut
QUEEN MARY, LONG BEACH, CA - ORIGINAL ARTIST DESIGN CONCEPT FOR PLACEMENT
Located in Santa Monica, CA
QUEEN MARY, LONG BEACH, CA - ORIGINAL ARTIST DESIGN FOR THE PLACEMENT OF THE SHIP
Watercolor and gouache on board, 20 x 36 inches. Signed and dated by the artist - Segroves, 1969. The original artist concept for the placement in Long Beach Harbor in 1969. Subsequently revised several times.
The Queen after extensive renovation has just reopened to the public on December 14, 2022
Much larger than the Titanic, At 1,019 feet long and 81,000 tons (310 meters and 73,500 metric tons), the Queen Mary was one of the largest and most elegant ships of the early 20th century.
From Wikipedia:
The RMS Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard-White Star Line and built by John...
Category
1960s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
William Penn Silhouette
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph displayed in a giltwood frame with red accent. Unsigned. Light wear to frame.
Category
20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Amanda (Marguèrite), No. 1
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Amanda No. 1 (Marguèrite). 1920. Etching. Fletcher 18. 3 1/2 x 2 3/8 (sheet 9 x 7 1/4). Edition 55. . A rich proof printed with plate tone on cream laid paper with full margins. Sign...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
CALLE EX CONVENTO, TASCO.
Located in Portland, ME
Pappe, Carl. CALLE EX CONVENTO, TASCO. Woodcut, c.1940s-60s. Edition unstated. This print is one of a series of 16 images, all of scenes in Taxco, distinguished by the strength of the carving and the richness of the blacks. 12 x 14 1/4 inches (image), 13 1/2 x 15 3/4 (sheet). Titled and signed in pencil. In excellent condition.
Carl Pappe...
Category
1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
UNTITLED - DECANTER AND TWO GLASSES
By Asa Cheffetz
Located in Portland, ME
Cheffetz, Asa. UNTITLED - DECANTER AND TWO GLASSES. Not in Springfield. Wood engraving, undated, but likely 1935-1945. Signed in pencil. 7 x 6 1/8 inches (image) plus margins. A tiny...
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Mint Boy
By Mary Heilmann
Located in Houston, TX
Mary Heilmann
Mint Boy, 1998
Etching
38 x 29 1/2 inches
Edition of 40
Category
20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
VI Rose Nose Cat
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
VI Rose Nose Cat
Colored chalks on black paper, 1977
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Part of a series entit...
Category
1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Chalk
Original Drawing for the NEW MASSES - 19.5" x 15"
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ADOLF DEHN (1895 – 1968)
ORIGINAL ART FOR THE COVER OF THE NEW MASSES, c.1930. Original ink drawing. Signed in ink lower right. Sheet and image 19 1/2 x 15...
Category
1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
India Ink
Women at Prayer
By Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S.
Located in Storrs, CT
10 15/16 x 8 7/16 (sheet 13 13/16 x 10 13/16). Subsequent to Dodgson. Edition 40 published by the Twenty-One Gallery for 7 guineas. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1936. A rich...
Category
1930s Renaissance Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving
London Underground - Zoo
By Betty Swanwick
Located in New York, NY
Swanwick, Betty. London Underground - Wild and Savage - Zoo
. Color lithograph, On linen 39 1/2 x 25”. Excellent condition
Betty Swanwick was a ...
Category
1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN
By Ynez Johnston
Located in Portland, ME
Johnston, Ynez. THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN. Etching in colors printed from two plates, 1981. Edition of 100, numbered 64/100, titled, signed, and dated, all in pencil. 18 x 11 3/4 inches (o...
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Fire Island Behavior-Will It Spread to the Mainland?
By Jack Roth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Fire Island Behavior-Will It Spread to the Mainland?
Collage and oil paint on luan board, n.d., c. 1970's
Signed in ink lower center edge (see photo)
Signed with the estate stamp ver...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mixed Media
Map of Chatham, Cape Cod
Located in New York, NY
Original map of Chatham, Cape Cod, with recent hand-coloring, 1938. Light toning to edges; has original holes punched in left edge. From "Massachusetts Cit...
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
STUDY FOR "DAVID AND GOLIATH"
By Paul Cadmus
Located in Portland, ME
Cadmus, Paul (American, 1904-1999). STUDY FOR "DAVID AND GOLIATH," colored crayons on tan paper, circa 1971. Signed in pink crayon, lower right. 12 1...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Crayon
'Woolworth Building Under Construction' — Early 20th Century Modernism
By Earl Horter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Earl Horter, 'The Woolworth Building Under Construction', etching, c. 1912, edition not stated. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, in warm black ink, with selectively...
Category
1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Tsillag
By Victor Vasarely
Located in London, GB
Hand-painted acrylic on wood three-dimensional multiple, 1990, signed and numbered from the edition of 175 in ink, 52.7 x 61 x 7.9 cm. (20 3/4 x 24 x 3 1/8 in.)
Category
1990s Op Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Alessandro's Room
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut/lithograph triptych with chine collé and collage, Edition 30
Since 1985, Woodman has collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark to produce monotypes, woodcuts and l...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Nashville in Winter
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nashville in Winter
Etching, c. 1928
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Very small edition
A rare image of early Nashville, Indiana
Excellent impression with plate tone in the sky
First state before the aquatint depicting a winter nocturne...
Category
1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
For John Constable
By John Hoyland
Located in London, GB
John Hoyland
For John Constable
1976
Lithograph with acrylic
70 x 96.5 cms (27 1/2 x 38 ins)
JHE017
The ‘For John Constable’ series was commissioned and published by Bernard Jacobson in 1976 to celebrate the bicentenary of John Constable’s birth. It comprised individual works by nineteen artists including Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, Howard Hodgkin, Richard Smith, Duncan Grant, David Hockney, Michael Sandle, Ivor Abrahams, Bill Brandt, Robyn Denny, Barry Flannagan, Anthony Gross...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Acrylic, Lithograph
Big Top
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph. Trial Proof.
Hardy states: “The crawling black panther is one of the most elegant traditional American tattoo designs. It was first adapted by Milwaukee artist...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
JONAH AND THE WHALE
By Ruth Starr Rose
Located in Portland, ME
Rose, Ruth Starr (American, 1887-1965). JONAH AND THE WHALE. Lithograph, 1936.
Edition size not known.
Titled, signed and dated in pencil. Printe...
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
The World and Its Surroundings, from the Global Editions Series
By Ed Ruscha
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, torn and deckle edges
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'African Idol' — Mid-Century African-American artist
By Charles Elmer Harris
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (African Idol), watercolor, c. 1950s. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '570' in ink. A fine, spontaneous wat...
Category
1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Mallard Duck after John James Audubon, Amsterdam Edition
By John James Audubon
Located in New York, NY
Plate CCXXI, Mallard Duck, posthumous reproduction after John James Audubon from The Birds of America, the Amsterdam Edition, printed in Amsterdam, 1971-73. Original multicolored pho...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Schutzt Das Kind! Automobil-Club der Schweiz
By Muller-Brockmann, Josef.
Located in New York, NY
Muller-Brockmann, Josef. Schutzt Das Kind! Automobil-Club der Schweiz 1953. On linen
Offset. Minor imperfection otherwise in good condition
50 x 35 7/8".
Pioneer of Swiss Graphic...
Category
1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Offset
SEATED WOMAN
Located in Portland, ME
Wilson, John W. SEATED WOMAN. Etching and aquatint, 1973. A Proof aside from the edition of 75. Inscribed "Guide Proof" and signed in pencil. 18 x 12 1/2 inches, 457 x 315 mm. (plat...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Allen Street El —mid-century modern
By Bernard Brussel-Smith
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Brussel-Smith, 'Allen Street El', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1941, edition 140. Signed, titled, and numbered '84/140' in pencil. Signed and dated in the block, upper right. ...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
T is for The Beatles, from Alphabet Series
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category
1990s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
Time After Time.
By Ann Chernow
Located in Storrs, CT
Lithograph with watercolor. 22 3/8 x 30 5/8. Edition 56 (plus 5 artist's proofs). A bright impression printed on the full sheet of Arches paper. Signed and numbered 4/56 in pencil.
...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor, Color, Lithograph
Surrealism between two wars, International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in London, GB
The complete set of eleven engravings by Jean Arp, Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Paul Delvaux, Marcel Duchamp, Wilhelm Freddie, Wifredo Lam, René Magritte, André Masson, Roberto Matt...
Category
1960s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving
Mlle. Celine and Escort (Celine is a dancer former mistress of Mister Rochester)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Eichenberg did some original wood engravings for "Jane Eyre." Céline Varens was Adèle's mother and Mr. Rochester's former mistress. A French opera dancer, Céline pretended to ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Wood, Engraving
Underwater — Mid-century Modern
By Charles Quest
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Underwater', 1948, chiaroscuro wood engraving, edition 12. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '3/12' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, in dark brown and warm black, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/2 inch), in excellent condition. Scarce.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929 and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters.
After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter, to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium, which he learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’
In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later, Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’, were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’, and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’ was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’
At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951.
Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’.
An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Mere
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mere
Etching and soft ground, 1970
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil
Printed in colors by Hector Saunier on BFK Rives paper
Published by Georgetown Graphics, Washington, D...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Blossom Time in Tokyo
By Helen Hyde
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed by the artist in pencil on the image
Reference:
Tim Mason and Lynn Mason, Helen Hyde (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), 115, reproduced in color p. 68.
Category
1910s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Ballerine (Ballerina)
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ballerine (Ballerina)
Lift ground aquatint over heliogravure, printed in color, 1930
Unsigned (as issued)
From: Andre Suares, Cirque (Livre d’Artiste with 8 plates), 1930
Published ...
Category
1930s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
THE MOST FORMAL GARDEN
By Leonard Edmondson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEONARD EDMONDSON (1916 – 2002)
THE MOST FORMAL GARDEN, c. 1965
Color intaglio signed titled and annotated “Artist’s Proof"
Irregular platemark 10 ¼ x14...
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1960s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Intaglio
'Tropical Wash Day' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Tropical Wash Day', aquatint, edition 100, 1946. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy cream wove paper, with full...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Aquatint
STEHENDE KNABE UND ZWEI MADCHEN
By Otto Mueller
Located in Portland, ME
Mueller, Otto. STEHENDE KNABE UND ZWEI MADCHEN. Karsch 67. Lithograph, 1917. 12 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 323 x 250 mm. Monogrammed in the stone. Edition of about 300. In excellent conditi...
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1910s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Tunnel /Target
By June Wayne
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JUNE WAYNE (1918 - 2011)
THE TUNNEL II, 1951 (B.69; G.14; Conway 67)
Lithograph, signed, numbered, dated July 1951 and titled incorrectly The Target.
Edition 35. 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inc...
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1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
PKZ- Man in Bowler Hat - Reprint 1981
By Niklaus Stoecklin
Located in New York, NY
PKZ Reprint - 1981 - Official 1981 reprint for Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich Printer: JE Wolfensberger
Niklaus Stoecklin – PKZ – 1935
PKZ Burger-Kehl & Co. AG, Zurich, C
Switerland
Lit...
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1980s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Lithograph
UNTITLED
By Ynez Johnston
Located in Portland, ME
Johnston, Ynez (American, 1920-2019). UNTITLED. Color woodcut, not dated. Edition size, if any, not known. Inscriibed "Trial Proof" in the left margin, and signed in pencil in the lo...
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Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Lithograph
Oyster Bay Sloops.
By Reynolds Beal
Located in New York, NY
This watercolor entitled “Oyster Bay Sloops“ is by Reynolds Beal (1867-1951). The watercolor paper size is 5 x 7 11/16" and the card size is 7 11/16 x 9 3/...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
