Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
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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MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY DOCUMENT, 1754 Signed by Wm. Shirley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY, (Boston - September 10, 1754)
William Shirley (Captain General and Governor in Chief)
Printed and manuscript Document signed. 13 x 17" Complete with official seal...
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1750s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
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Ink
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...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
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Mixed Media
Variation 4, Vol. I
By Katherine Sophie Dreier
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Katherine S. Dreier, 'Variation 4, Vol. I' from '1 to 40 Variations', lithograph with pochoir and hand-coloring, 1934, edition 65. Stenciled signature and date, lower right. Annotate...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph, Stencil
Design 102 Fabric Sample Colorways
By Frank Lloyd Wright
Located in New York, NY
Original page from the folio sized salesman samplebook, "Schumacher's Taliesin Line of Decorative Fabrics and Wallpapers Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright." New York, F. Schumacher & Co...
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1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Linen, Paper
Untitled (Abstract Animal)
By Ulfert Wilke
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Abstract Animal)
Collage with watercolor, 1981
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Condition: excellent
Image size: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Frame size: 16 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches
Archival framing with Conservation Clear glass
Provenance: Distinguished Private Midwest Collection
Ulfert Wilke (1907–1987) was an internationally recognized painter, calligrapher and art collector connected to the abstract expressionism movement. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1938. He is best known for his large canvas paintings...
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1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
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Watercolor
untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Collage made of foil, golf leaf and marbled book papers, c. 2004
Unsigned, from the Estate of the artist.
Image size: 8 5/8 x 10 inches
Sheet size: 14 x 17 inches
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A lifetime New Yorker, Marks graduated from the High School of Music and Art in 1952 and Amherst College in 1956.
After a brief stint as a graphic designer in publishing, Marks became a private art dealer and opened his gallery Peter Marks Works of Art, Inc. in 1960. During this time he specialized in the sale of Southeast Asian and Islamic antiquities and made many contributions to the field both as a dealer and an advocate of his profession. Above all, Marks was motivated by a strong desire to find great art and make it available to large audiences.
After retiring from art dealing in 2002, Marks transformed his Manhattan gallery space into a studio where he drew prolifically and painted large non-objective canvasses. This time in his studio was a happy one for Marks, who viewed this period of his life not as retirement, but rather fulfillment, a fact that is confirmed by passionate artistic output in the years leading up to his passing in 2010.
In 2012, Thomas French...
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Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Jazz Singer
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jazz Singer
Mixed media 3 dimensional collage sculpture, 1975
Although dated 1975, this work may well have been done in the 1980s. Longstreet dated his works for the period they represented, not necessarily the date of actual execution.
Dimensions: 41 x 18 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches
Signed on the reverse (see photo)
Artist's address sticker on reverse (see photo)
Provenance: Acquired from the artist by his friend and patron, Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland
Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002)
At the website, the artist’s own grandchildren attempt to fathom the real life and nature of Stephen Longstreet, prolific author, artist, screenplay writer, and jazz aficionado.
Born Chauncy Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener) in New York City in 1907, Longstreet reinvented himself on a regular basis. Changing his name first to “Henry,” then “Henri,” he started his career as a commercial artist for a department store. In various public biographies he claimed to have studied in New York, London, and Paris, and said he was a student of cartoonist Ralph Barton (1891-1931). Facts that can be documented are that he was art editor for Golfer and Sportsman magazines, and was a contributor to various other magazines including The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Life, and Hooey, among others. He wrote sketches for NBC radio and the Rudy Vallee Show.
In the 1930s, Longstreet worked and wrote under the names Thomas Burton, David Ormsbee, and Paul Haggard...
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1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Miles Davis Plays Cool Jazz
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Miles Davis Plays Cool Jazz
Collage, c. 1970
Unsigned
Titled by the artist lower left margin (see photo)
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by his friend and patron Joseph...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Magazine Paper
On the Wing
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
46.75 x 30.5 ins (118.7 x 77.5 cms)
Edition of 70
Signed in pencil lower right.
Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop number "RM83-718" in pe...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Color, Lithograph
Irish Book
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas mounted on board
50.8 x 40.6 cms (20 x 16 ins)
This collage includes a fragment of a 1985 print, Burning Sun. Although Motherwell signed...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
29.88 x 22.36 ins (75.9 x 56.8 cms)
Edition of 96
Signature:Signed "R. Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's chop mark lower right
...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
'Variation 5, Vol. I' — from the series '1 to 40 Variations'
By Katherine Sophie Dreier
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Katherine S. Dreier, 'Variation 5, Vol. I' from '1 to 40 Variations', lithograph with pochoir and hand-coloring, 1934, edition 65. Stenciled signature and date, lower right. Annotate...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph, Stencil
Fleur (Flower)
By Paul Guiramand
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed lower right.
Paul Guiramand, painter, sculptor and lithographer, was born in 1926 in Saint-Quentin in northern France. In 1943, Guiramand entered the École des Beaux-Arts. ...
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1970s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Spray Paint, 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...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Title Unreadable “_______ _______ No. 102”
By Juan Velasquez Diaz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Title Unreadable " _______ _______ No. 102"
Mixed media
Signed and dated lower right
Manuscript notes on black paper backing
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 6 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches
Bo...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
SURREALIST LANDSCAPE
By Edward Hagedorn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EDWARD HAGEDORN (AMERICAN 1902 – 1982)
SURREAL LANDSCAPE 1931 mixed media on paper, Graphite, ink and watercolor. Unsigned. Dtaed 2/26/31, in ink lower left margin. Image 13 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches. On a large sheet 20 x 25 inches.
Provenance: Hagedorn estate, Around the mid 1980's The Hagedorn estate was dispersed in Berkeley by a local dealer. This drawing was part of a group of Hagedorn works on paper that I acquired from that dispersal. Much of the balance was later acquired the Struart Denenberg Fine Art.
Denenberg published a very fine book on the artist's work.
EDWARD HAGEDORN: CALIFORNIA MODERNIST, RESTLESSNESS AND RESTRAINT Hardcover – January 1, 2009
Subsequently Hagedorn's works on paper have been acquired by many museums and some accompanying exhibitions.
ALL OF THE COMMENTS BELOW ARE FROM THE FOLLOWING EXHIBITION
EDWARD HAGEDORN (1902-1982)
American Modernist
A New Traveling Exhibition
“VOLCANOS, WRECKS, RIOTS, & NUDES”, EDWARD HAGEDORN (1902-1982)
premiere at the Danforth Museum. Framingham, MA, in March 2016. The exhibition includes 75 works of art in various mediums and is accompanied by the first monograph devoted to the artist’s work with essays by leading curators, critics, and art historians.
Edward Hagedorn was a true Modernist who created a trove of powerful works on paper--drawings, watercolors, oils, and original graphics that reveal the hand of a master draftsman and the mind of an astute political observer. He rejected the general trend in early 20th century California of local landscapes and coastal views, becoming virtually the single voice of Expressionism. He conveyed the darkness and upheaval that gripped the country in the depression years between the two World Wars, 1925- 1935, more forcefully than any of his contemporaries, influenced by German art of the time, engaging in modernist styles of Expressionism and Surrealism.
Hagedorn’s skeletons are ferocious yet somehow endearing; printed in deep black ink on off-white paper, they march across Lilliputian landscapes of grim disorder and destruction. Comets and volcanoes explode in fauvist colors, their other-worldly fluorescent temperas framed in black, while nude female figures, executed in exquisitely refined pen and ink, or graphite line drawings, are as economical in their means as Matisse, and can be compared with the neo-classical drawings of Picasso. Among his most lyrical works of the 1920s is a series of rhythmically abstracted watercolor and ink views of Golden Gate Park, evoking the sensual demi-geometries of Balthus, Derain , and early Mondrian.
American Modernist Edward Hagedorn (1902-1982) was born in San Francisco of German descent; his mother (née Kafka) died in childbirth, and he was legally adopted and raised by his grandmother and aunt. After attendance at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts in the early 1920s, by age 22 he had a studio in the famed "100" block of Montgomery Street ("the Monkey Block,") then a haven for bohemians.
In 1926, a year of tremendous importance in California artists' embrace of modern art, the Oakland Art Gallery, with the guidance and inspiration of their European representative Emmy (Galka) Scheyer, was the first museum in the United States to show the art of the "Blue Four," among the leading artists of International Modernism--Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Alexei Jawlensky...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
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Watercolor
untitled (Color collage)
By Edward Landon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Printed paper collage elements on cardboard, 1960
Signed in pencil lower right
Condition: Excellent
Board size: 13 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Virginia Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Mixed media on paper mounted on paper, c. 1990's
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 8 5/8 x 10 1/4 inches
Support Sheet size: 11 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Dehn Heirs
Virginia Dehn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Dehn
Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe
Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Life
Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.
Early career
Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia and Adolf Dehn
The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work.
The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India.
Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies.
Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
CLE Series: Under and Beyond
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
"Under and Behind"
Contemporary artist Thomas Roese, inspired by the industrial landscape of steel mills, rail yards, architectural details, and urban neighborhoods surrounding him,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Untitled (Seascape at night)
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Seascape at night)
Tissue paper collage on Fabriano wove paper, 1964
Signed in ink lower left
Annotated 42 in pencil on verso
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 10 x 13 7/8 inches
Part of a suite of collages created during the artist's sabatical leave from teaching, spent in Florence, Italy, studying at the Accademia D'Arte Firenze in 1963-1964.
Ray H. French: The Evolution of an Artistic Innovator
Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H. French was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on May 16, 1919. Terre Haute was a cultural wasteland before the opening of the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in 1942. Thus, with a father as a coal miner and carpenter, art remained a luxury for Ray. Nevertheless, local art teachers Mabel Mikel Williams and Nola E. Williams helped to foster his creativity and unshakable drive to create things of beauty.
After high school, Ray attended the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. His studies there were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, during which he developed surveillance photographs for the Army Air Force. After the war, Ray transferred to the University of Iowa on the G.I. Bill, where he received both his BFA and MFA degrees. The University of Iowa during the 1940s was a cultural mecca with many major art historians and artists. While in Iowa, Ray played an important role in this culture by becoming a founding member of the Iowa Print Group under Mauricio Lasansky.
Following his graduation in 1948, Ray experienced firsthand the rapid rise in creative printmaking in America. By 1949, he had exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art Center, and MOMA New York. Ray’s early style of printmaking is characterized by pure line engraving on copper plates, a technique suited perfectly to his study of the beauty of animals. This charming and whimsical subject ran counter to the concurrent trends of Lasansky’s horrors of war and Hayter’s non-objectivity, but was equally effective in capturing the public’s attention. Walruses was purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum, exhibited at MOMA New York and received the Arthur D. Allen Memorial Purchase Prize for its “skillful and economic use of line.” Shortly thereafter, Ray’s treatment of animals developed further into larger format mixed intaglio prints utilizing hard ground, soft ground, etching, and engraving, as exemplified in The Swan.
By the late 1950s, Ray’s style evolved into organic non-objectivity, in which he incorporated personal autobiographical vignettes and symbolism. His work during this time was further characterized by a departure from the traditional squared compositional format to his cutting and rounding of the plate to accentuate organic shapes. Ray’s 1959 Enchantment remains particularly illustrative of his use of etching and soft ground intaglio. Enchantment was successfully exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art for the 12th National Print Exhibition of The American Federation of the Arts and received the Pennell Purchase Prize from the Library of Congress in 1960.
In the 1960s, Ray also started to focus on blind embossing, which he had first experimented with at the University of Iowa. He was extremely prolific and successful with this medium, selling hundreds of prints in small editions of 10 through the Associated American Artist Gallery in New York. In 1966, Ray built upon his mastery of embossing and began developing a shadow box presentation called a graphic construction that combined color, blind embossing, and multi-layered cutouts to revel intaglio compositions. Noted curator William Lieberman purchased Ray’s masterpiece graphic construction, Moon Rays...
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1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Tissue Paper
Cle Series: Three Rows in the Yard.
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
702 CLE Series: Three Rows in the Yard.
Contemporary artist Thomas Roese, inspired by the industrial landscape of steel mills, rail yards, architectural details, and the urban neigh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Untitled III XII
By Roberto Caracciolo
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled III XII
Charcoal, ink and paper collage, 1987
Initialed "R. C." and dated '87 verso in pencil
From: Libor II Mono Logo
Provenance:
Janie C. Lee Master Drawings, New York (partial label)
From: Libor II Mono Logo
Exhibited: Collages and Drawings by Roberto Caracciolo and Chuck Dugan...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Ink
833 CLE Series: Red Bridge w/Car.
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
833 CLE Series: Red Bridge w/Car.
Contemporary artist Thomas Roese, inspired by the industrial landscape of steel mills, rail yards, architectural details, and the urban neighborhoo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
872 BRU Series: Steep/Stepped Parade. [Bruges, Belgium].
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
872 BRU Series: Steep/Stepped Parade. [Bruges, Belgium].
Contemporary artist Thomas Roese, inspired by the industrial landscape of steel mills, rail yards, architectural details, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
![872 BRU Series: Steep/Stepped Parade. [Bruges, Belgium].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_3312/1730822226471/Roese_Steeped_Stepped_96837_master.jpg?width=240 "Thomas R. Roese - 872 BRU Series: Steep/Stepped Parade. [Bruges, Belgium].")
Untitled
By Virginia Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Mixed media with collage elements on paper, c. 1990's
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 7 1/16 x 6 inches
Support sheet size: 10 9/16 x 8 3/8 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Dehn Heirs
Virginia Dehn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Dehn
Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe
Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Life
Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.
Early career
Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia and Adolf Dehn
The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work.
The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India.
Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies.
Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Other Medium
Taos Series
By Harry Nadler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Taos Series
Mixed media on handmade paper
Signed and dated by the artist lower right
Archival framing with Conversation Glass
Frame size: 29 3/4 x 34 inches
Image size: 19 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Provenance: Peter Marciniak, New Hampshire
Distinguished Midwest Private Collection
Regarding the artist:
Select Exhibition:
1991 Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1980 Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1974 Bertha Schaefer Gallery; New York, NY (solo)
1972 Childe Hassam Purchase Show, National Institute of the Arts and Letters
1971 "The Turkish Bath of Ingres,” Louvre Museum, Paris, France
1971 Guest Artist, Tamarind Institute; Albuquerque, NM
1970 “American Drawings of the Sixties,” New School Art Center; New York, NY
1966 Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1962 Dwan Gallery...
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled (Tuscan Landscape)
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Tuscan Landscape)
Tissue paper collage on Fabriano support
Signed and dated lower right in ink
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Martha A. French Trust
Created while the art...
Category
1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Navajo Thunderbird Silversmith
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Navajo Thunderbird Silversmith
Signed in ink, titled in pencil
Dimensions: 42 1/4 x 23 inches
Mixed media on paper
Provenance: Acquired from the art...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Ragtime Piano
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ragtime Piano
Collage, 1969
Signed and dated '69 lower right
Address stamp verso
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist
Joseph M. Erdelac, friend and patron of the artist
Stephen Longs...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
ERNST, Max. Rêve d'une Petite Fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel.
By Max Ernst
Located in New York, NY
ERNST, Max. Rêve d'une Petite Fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel. 176 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of 79 collages by Max Ernst. 8vo., 265 x 200 mm, bound in original illustrated wrappers, slightly faded in a new light blue cloth folding box, gilt black leather spine label. Paris: Éditions du Carrefour, 1930.
Ernst's rare second collage novel about an adolescent girl who loses her virginity on the day of her first communion and so commits herself to a religious vocation as a Carmelite nun. Ernst includes a line of ironically pretentious text with each image. This is number 232 of the edition of 1000 copies on Velin, inscribed by Paul...
Category
1920s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Paper
Urban Series: Promised
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary artist Thomas Roese, inspired by the industrial landscape of steel mills, rail yards, architectural details, and urban neighborhoods surrounding him, created a series of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Graphite
SALLE, David. Light Sleeper. By Paul Schrader
By David Salle
Located in New York, NY
SALLE, David. Light Sleeper. By Paul Schrader. Illustrated with 12 lithographs by David Salle. Folio, bound in linen with an inset photograph in orginal ...
Category
1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Untitled
By Virginia Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Mixed media with collage elements on paper, c. 1990's
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 7 x 6 1/2 inches
Support sheet size: 10 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Dehn Heirs
Virginia Dehn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Dehn
Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe
Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Life
Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.
Early career
Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia and Adolf Dehn
The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work.
The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India.
Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies.
Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
Category
1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Viva, Warhol and Ultra Violet
By Jack Roth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Viva, Warhol and Ultra Violet
Collage on board, 1973
Signed with estate stamp on reverse (see photo)
The original photograph used in this collage depicts Viva (Susan Hoffman, born 19...
Category
1970s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Other Medium
Fraction Series (4522) 12/21/98
By Larry Bell
Located in London, GB
Larry Bell
Fraction Series (LB 4522)
1998
Mixed media and collage on paper
25.4 x 25.4 cms (10 x 10 ins)
LB 4368
Category
1990s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
untitled (Nude)
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Photograph, gold leaf and magazine mixed media collage
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Sheet: 16 x 14"
Peter Marks (1935 -2010) was born in New York City on January 18...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled (The Number with Rainbow lines)
By James Spencer Russell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Colored paper collage, c. 1960
Signed lower right.
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Distinguished Private Collection, Indianapolis, Indiana
Sight dimension...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled (Abstraction with musical notes)
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Musical notes abstraction)
Mixed media on paper, 1991
Signed lower right center
Condition: Very good
Archival framing with conservation glass
Provenance: ...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Tapestry
By Freeman Baldridge
Located in Storrs, CT
Freeman Baldridge's depiction of "Tapestry," mixed media comprised of paint with fabric. Sight size measures 11 1/2 x 8 1/2; board measures 17 1/8 x...
Category
20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Great Buffalo Medicine Man
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Great Buffalo Medicine Man
Mixed media collage
Signed in pencil lower right
Title on reverse
Sheet size: 47 x 34 inches
Condition: Tear in paper along right edge
Color fresh
Usual wrinkles for a paper collage
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, friend, patron and noted collector of Longstreet
Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002)
The artist’s own grandchildren attempt to fathom the real life and nature of Stephen Longstreet, prolific author, artist, screenplay writer, and jazz aficionado.
Born Chauncy Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener) in New York City in 1907, Longstreet reinvented himself on a regular basis. Changing his name first to “Henry,” then “Henri,” he started his career as a commercial artist for a department store. In various public biographies he claimed to have studied in New York, London, and Paris, and said he was a student of cartoonist Ralph Barton...
Category
20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Thelonius Monk- Little Rootie Tootie
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Thelonius Monk- Little Rootie Tootie
Collage, 1989
Signed and dated lower right: "Longstreet 89"
Titled by artist lower left
Excellent, with usual imperfections associated with the collage medium
Image/Sheet size: 17 1/8 x 23 1/16 inches
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland
Noted art collector and friend and aptron of
Longstreet.
Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002)
At the website, the artist’s own grandchildren attempt to fathom the real life and nature of Stephen Longstreet, prolific author, artist, screenplay writer, and jazz aficionado.
Born Chauncy Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener) in New York City in 1907, Longstreet reinvented himself on a regular basis. Changing his name first to “Henry,” then “Henri,” he started his career as a commercial artist for a department store. In various public biographies he claimed to have studied in New York, London, and Paris, and said he was a student of cartoonist Ralph Barton (1891-1931). Facts that can be documented are that he was art editor for Golfer and Sportsman magazines, and was a contributor to various other magazines including The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Life, and Hooey, among others. He wrote sketches for NBC radio and the Rudy Vallee Show.
In the 1930s, Longstreet worked and wrote under the names Thomas Burton, David Ormsbee, and Paul Haggard...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction
Unsigned
Mixed media, c. 2003-2004
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A life...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Photo collage, c. 2005
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 15 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches
Sheet size: 19 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A lifetime New Yorker, Marks graduated from the High School of Music and Art in 1952 and Amherst College in 1956.
After a brief stint as a graphic designer in publishing, Marks became a private art dealer and opened his gallery Peter Marks Works of Art, Inc. in 1960. During this time he specialized in the sale of Southeast Asian and Islamic antiquities and made many contributions to the field both as a dealer and an advocate of his profession. Above all, Marks was motivated by a strong desire to find great art and make it available to large audiences.
After retiring from art dealing in 2002, Marks transformed his Manhattan gallery space into a studio where he drew prolifically and painted large non-objective canvasses. This time in his studio was a happy one for Marks, who viewed this period of his life not as retirement, but rather fulfillment, a fact that is confirmed by passionate artistic output in the years leading up to his passing in 2010.
In 2012, Thomas French...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sunday Morning
By Bram Bogart
Located in London, GB
Bram Bogart
Sunday Morning
2007
Mixed Media
140 x 137 cms (55 x 54 ins)
BB10401
Provenance
The artist
Bernard Jacobson Gallery London
Jason Martin, Lond...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Cle Series: Lift w/Ladders.
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by the geometric landscape of his hometown Thomas Roese has created a photorealist series using acrylic, graphite, and colored pencil.
Since graduating from the Cleveland...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Ballet Dancer, untitled drawing.
By Charles Maurin
Located in New York, NY
CHEZ SAGOT EXPOSITION CH. MAURIN 39 BIS RUE DE CHATEAUDUN.
Signed pencil drawing with the artist's owl head' stamp circa 1899. Paper size 9 7/8 x 12 3/4" (25 x 32.6 cm).
This orig...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
India Ink, Pencil
untitled
By Remo Michael Farruggio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pastel, colored pencil with collage elements
Unsigned
Condition: Repaired tear in the area of the moon, only visible from verso
Pin holes in the corners and in the ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Color Pencil
725 CLE Series: Tank, Hopper w/Yellow Ladder.
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by the geometric landscape of his hometown Thomas Roese has created a photorealist series using acrylic, graphite, and colored pencil.
Since graduating from the Cleveland...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Forrest Hill
By Emma Lane Payne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Note: Dr. Marianne Berardi has pointed out that the house depicted is in fact Forest Hill, the Cleveland home of John D. Rockefelle...
Category
Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
725 CLE Series: Edge.
By Thomas R. Roese
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by the geometric landscape of his hometown Thomas Roese has created a photorealist series using acrylic, graphite and colored pencil.
Since graduating from the Cleveland ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
50th anniversary commemorating the consolidation of the five Burroughs of New Yo
By Norbert Lenz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From Lenz's House of Farnam "First Day" Cover Series
Mixed media collage
Signed in image lower left
Label verso #174
A cachet is a printed design on an envelope that comm...
Category
20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated lower left
Created in 1964 while the artist was living in Florence, Italy
Collage with tissue paper and printed images and text
From the Estate of the Artist
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Collage of fragments of commercial printing
Sheet: 14 x 17"
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Peter Marks was born ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Green Gauloises
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Acrylic, graphite and printed paper collage on board
42.6 x 36.8 cms (16 3/4 x 14 1/2 ins)
This is the only collage in which Motherwell used a green package from Gauloises Caporal D...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Easy Rider Blues
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Easy Rider Blues
Paper collage, post 1969
Inspired by the Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper movie of the same title
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Condition...
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Magazine Paper
Seascape at Sunset
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seascape at Sunset
Collage with tissue paper and gold foil on Fabriano paper, 1964
Signed and dated in ink, lower right (see photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Martha A. French...
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction
Collage with 22K gold leaf
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Metal foil collage on paper
Sheet: 14 x 17" (35.56 x 43.18 cm), Image: 8 x 10" (20.32 x 25.4...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Collage of small oil on canvas fragments, c. 2006
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Image size: 15 x 9 7/16 inches
Sheet size:: 17 x 14 inches
Peter Marks (1935 -2...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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