Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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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'La Danse' (Dance) — French Cubist Woodcut
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Raoul Dufy, 'La Danse' (Dance), woodcut, 1910. A proof impression before the second edition of 220 in 1953; with the estate stamp 'ATELIER RAOUL DUFY' in the lower right margin; the blind stamp 'GG' in the lower left sheet corner. Annotated 'E/Z' in pencil, beneath the estate stamp; and 'bois original' in the margin, lower left. Titled in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper; the full sheet with wide margins (3 1/2 to 6 3/4 inches); slight toning at the bottom and right sheet edges, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 12 5/16 x 12 1/2 inches (313 x 318 mm); sheet size 19 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches (502 x 654 mm).
Collections: Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nasher Museum of Art (Duke University), Toledo Art Museum.
From the suite of four woodcuts entitled 'Les Plaisirs de la Paix' (The Pleasures of Peace), published by Éditions de La Sirène, Paris in 1926. The other three works in the series are 'La Peche' (Fishing), 'La Chase' (The Hunt), and 'L'amore' (Love). See our other listings for 'La Peche' and 'L'amore'.
Collections: Brooklyn Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Cleveland Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Minneapolis Art...
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1910s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch)
By Kurt Seligmann
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KURT SELIGMANN (1900–1962 American, born in Switzerland,)
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch) 1934
Etching and aquatint, unsigned ? possibly a proof aside from The ...
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1930s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
WITHOUT A NET
By George Scribner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GEORGE SCHREIBER (1904 – 1977)
WITHOUT A NET c. 1944
Lithograph, signed in pencil lower right. Image 8 7/8 x 13 5/8 inches, sheet 10 5/8 x 15 ½ inches.Edition approximately 250 as p...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Confident (profile of sensual young woman with wisps of hair on her neck)
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mikio Watanabe created "Confident", a side view of a sensuous female nude, exclusively for Stone and Press Gallery. The 2004 black and white mezzotint was issued in an edition of on...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Au Japon
By Victor Max Ninon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Au Japon
Pochoir (Stencil Print), 1925
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Signed in the image lower left (see photo)
Stamped verso: Made in France
Note: The artis...
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1920s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Stoops in Snow
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
Stoops in Snow. 1930. Drypoint and sandpaper ground. McCarron catalog 89.state ii. 9 x 14 7/8 (sheet 13 1/4 x 18 7/16 ). Edition 115 recorded impressio...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Old Brownstones -- New York
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Storrs, CT
Old Brownstones-- New York. c. 1985. Etching and drypoint. 8 7/ 8 x 12 1/3 (sheet 16 5/8 x 16 1/4). Fourth state. Printed on cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. A rich impression in pristine condition, housed in an archival folder. This etching has never been matted. Provenance: the artist's estate. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Fourth state -- wheel changed to left' and 'Steves' in pencil. A dramatic view of a Manhattan neighborhood.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson Wilbur...
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20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Manhattan Mountains
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Storrs, CT
Manhattan Mountains. 1938. Etching and drypoint. 14 3/4 x 12 3/8 (sheet 17 1/4 x 14 3/4). Artist proof, previous to the edition of 40. An atmospheric impression printed on buff-colored laid paper. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Final state' and 'Jones Proof'in pencil. Housed in an archival sleeve.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson...
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20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'Bacchus Cumampelo' — 18th Century Classical Italian Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Bacchus Cumampelo', engraving, 1734, edition unknown. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the plate, lower left. Engraving by Gabbugiani, after the original...
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1730s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
VILLAGE SCENE / TOWN FESTIVAL
By Herbert Gurschner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HERBERT GURSCHNER (Austrian / English (1901-1975)
VILLAGE SCENE / TOWN FESTIVAL ca.1924
Color woodcut 4 ¾ x 5 3/8” Signed in pencil. Good strong colors. On thin paper. Faint darkeni...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut, Linocut
'Coenties Slip' — Lower Manhattan, Financial District
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Luigi Kasimir, 'Coenties Slip', color etching with aquatint, 1927, edition 100. Signed in pencil. Dated in the plate, lower right. Annotated 'NEW YORK HANOVER SQUARE (COENTIES SLIP)'...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
'Weeping Cherry 16 A' — Sosaku Hanga Contemporary Japanese Printmaker
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hajime Namiki, 'Weeping Cherry 16 A', color woodblock print, 2012, edition 200. Signed in pencil with the artist’s red seal. Titled, dated, and numbered ...
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2010s Showa Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
WOMAN DRAWING
Located in Portland, ME
Packard, Emmy Lou (American, 1914 - 1998). WOMAN DRAWING. Color Woodcut, not dated. Edition size not known. Signed in pencil. 18 1/16" x 14 1/8" inches (...
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1940s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Kirill / Boy with Crossed Legs (peekaboo)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A signed Certificate of Authority will be included with all photographs. A nude boy faces the viewer siting in front of an open window.
This impression is printed on Hahnemuhle arc...
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2010s Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital
Open Air School (iconic image of indigenous teacher by Mexican muralist)
By Diego Rivera
Located in New Orleans, LA
An indigenous teacher, surrounded by her multi-generational students, sits at the edge of a field, open book in hand. In the distance, we see campesinos working the fields with their horses. A lone, armed horseman watches over the class, locating the lithograph in its historical setting, the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Phrosine and Mélidore
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Phrosine and Mélidore
Etching, 1879
Signed in the polate lower left of image
This etching is after the Dantan painting, a copy after the Pierre-Paul Prud’hom painting
Published by Vv...
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1870s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
XXe Siecle-Hommage a Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
XXe Siecle-Hommage a Marc Chagall
Color lithograph, 1969
Unsigned as issued by XXe Siecle
From: XXe Siecle, Volume, Special Issue Marc Chagall
Published by G. di San Lazzaro for A. M...
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1960s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha
By Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha
after the painting by his father, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (see photo)
Etching, c. 1780
Signature: unsigned
Watermark: Letter A (similar to Bromberg 4...
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1780s Baroque Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Claude Renoir, la Tete Baisee (Claude Renoir, Head Lowered)
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Claude Renoir, la Tete Baisee
(Claude Renoir, Head Lowered)
Lithograph, 1904
Edition 1,000, this one of 950 on wove paper with the stamp signature (there were also 50 impressions pri...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Grand Tier and the Met
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Grand Tier at the Met
Etching, 1939
From: Reginald Marsh, Thirty Etchings and Engravings
Published by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edit...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Vachère au Bord de l'Eau
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO (French 1830-1903)
VACHERE au BORD de l’EAU 1890 (Delteil 93 viii/viii)
Etching, unsigned as published in “Gazette des Beaux Arts”, Paris, 1890. On laid paper
Very...
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1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
'Tree, Manhattan' — Classic American Realism
By Martin Lewis
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Martin Lewis, 'Tree, Manhattan', drypoint, 1930, edition 91 (including 10 trial proofs), McCarron 87. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression, in warm black ink, on cream...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Untitled (Horses)
By Laura Owens
Located in New York, NY
Los Angeles-based artist, Laura Owens' horse prints often incorporate her characteristic style, which challenges traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction . Her work f...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
A Base Ball Game
By Henry Sandham
Located in New York, NY
Goupilgravure (photogravure) was printed in Paris and published April 1, 1896, by Boussod Valadon & Co. Successors to Goupil & Co. Painted by Henry Sandham, 1894. "A BASEBALL GAME" depicts the 1894 "Temple Cup" game between the Baltimore Orioles and the New York Giants...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Profile of an African Woman —1920s Modernism
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Profile of an African Woman), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 15 in pencil. Number 15 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publish...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Dans les Cendres (In the embers)
By Albert Besnard
Located in Storrs, CT
Dans les Cendres (In the embers). 1887. Delteil catalog 67 state iii. State after the plate was cut down and a second figure eliminated (the two earlier states are of the greatest rarity). Etching, drypoint and roulette. 16 3/4 x 12 1/8 (sheet 19 1/2 x 14). Edition 50. Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarterly 9 (1921): 254. A very rich impression with plate tone and drypoint burr, printed on simili-japon. Provenance: Frederick Keppel & Co. This is one of the artist's most striking images. Signed in pencil. Housed in 25 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
Paul Albert Besnard, was an impressionist painter. In 1866, the seventeen-year-old son of artist parents began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts Paris. In 1874, Besnard won the important Prix de Rome, with which the academy distinguished young talent. A portion of the scholarship is a stay of several years in Rome. Besnard married Charlotte Dubray, a sculptress, during this time in Rome. The couple lived in England, where Besnard exhibited at the Royal Academy London, between 1881 and 1884. He became involved with English portrait painting during this period, which had a lasting influence on his work.
In the years that followed, Besnard broke with the academic tradition. In 1886, he presented the portrait of Madame Roger Jourdain...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'The Steps' — WPA Era Graphic Modernism
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fritz Eichenberg, 'The Steps', wood engraving, 1933, edition 200. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 200' in pencil. Initialed in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impr...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Priests' from 'In Praise of Folly' — Mid-Century Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Priests' from the series 'Moriae Encomium (The Praise of Folly)', mezzotint, 1943, no edition, proofs only. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/4 to 2 inches) in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Image size 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (197 x 121 mm); sheet size 10 11/16 x 8 1/16 inches (271 x 204 mm).
Created by the artist for 'Erasmus's Moriae Encomium,' or 'In Praise of Folly,' published by the Limited Editions Club, 1943. A rare, signed, proof impression apart from the Limited Editions Club publication.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lynd Ward is acknowledged as one of America’s foremost wood engravers and book illustrators of the first half of the twentieth century. His innovative use of narrative printmaking as a stand-alone storytelling vehicle was uniquely successful in reaching a broad audience. The powerful psychological intensity of his work, celebrated for its dynamic design, technical precision, and compelling dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers, Ward was concerned with the themes of man’s inner struggles and the role of the subconscious in determining his destiny. An artist of social conscience during the Great Depression and World War II, he infused his graphic images with his unique brand of social realism, deftly portraying the problems that challenged the ideals of American society.
The son of a Methodist preacher, Lynd Ward, moved from Chicago to Massachusetts at an early age. He graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University, New York, in 1926, where he studied illustration and graphic arts. He married May Yonge McNeer in 1936 and left for Europe for their honeymoon in Eastern Europe. After four months, they settled in Leipzig, where Ward studied at the National Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookmaking. Inspired by Belgian expressionist artist Frans Masereel's graphic novel ‘The Sun,’ and another graphic novel by the German artist Otto Nückel, ‘Destiny,’ he determined to create his own "wordless" novel. Upon his return to America, Ward completed his first book, ‘God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts,’ published in 1929. ‘Gods’ Man’ was a great success for its author and publisher and was reprinted four times in 1930, including a British edition. This book and several which followed it, ‘Madman’s Drum,’ 1930, ‘Wild Pilgrimage,’ 1932, ‘Prelude to a Million Years,’ 1933, ‘Song Without Words,' 1936, ‘Vertigo,’ 1937; and ‘Last Unfinished Wordless Novel’ (created in the 1960s and published in 2001) were comprised solely of Ward's wood engravings. Ward designed each graphic image to occupy an entire page, the sequence of which conveys the story's narrative.
In 1937, Ward was named Director of the Graphic Arts Division of the Federal Art Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In the following years, Ward went on to illustrate more than one hundred books (some of which he wrote), including classics for the Limited Editions Club Goethe’s ‘Faust,’ Faulkner’s ‘A Green Bough,’ and Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ and several children’s books. He also produced single-subject wood engravings, paintings, and drawings. His print ‘Sanctuary,’ 1939, was shown at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, and ‘Clouded Over,’ 1948, received the 1948 Library of Congress Award and was included in ‘American Prize Prints of the 20th Century’ by Albert Reese. He received the National Academy of Design Print Award (1949), the New York Times Best Illustrated Award (1973), and the Regina Award (Catholic Library Association, 1975). ‘The Biggest Bear,’ a children’s book with illustrations by Ward, was the recipient of the esteemed 1952 Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Ward was a member and board member of the National Academy of Design and the Artists’ League of America. He served several terms as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists and was a member of the American Artists Congress and the Society of Illustrators. Ward exhibited at the American Artists Congress; the National Academy of Design; the John Herron Art Institute; and the Library of Congress. He had a one-person show at Associated American Artists, NY, on the publication of his monograph 'Storyteller Without Words,' 1974; AAA mounted a memorial exhibition in 1986. The May 1976 issue of 'Bibliognost,' a book collector’s publication, was dedicated to Ward. ‘Lynd Ward, His Bookplate Designs,’ an article by Dan Burne Jones, was published in the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers Yearbook, 1981/82.
In 2001, sixteen years after his death, Rutgers University Libraries published ’Lynd Ward’s Last Unfinished Wordless Novel.’ The blocks were intended to be part of a novel in woodcuts, the first since Vertigo, but Ward did not live to complete the project. Master printer and book designer Barbara Henry collated and printed the twenty-six finished blocks out of the forty-four initially planned for the still unnamed narrative.
In 2010 the Library of America honored Ward’s achievements with the meticulous production of a collection of Ward’s woodcut novels—the first time the Library had gone wordless. The publication replicated his original editions with a single full-size image printed on the right page of each double-page spread. In his introduction to the books, renowned cartoonist/illustrator Art...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
A FANCY LADY
By Jim Dine
Located in Portland, ME
Dine, Jim. A FANCY LADY. Williams College 206. Etching with hand-coloring, 1976. Edition of 30 (there were a further 16 proofs for the artist and othe...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Judges' from 'In Praise of Folly' — Mid-Century Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Judges' from the series 'Moriae Encomium (In Praise of Folly),' mezzotint, 1943, no edition, proofs only. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/4 to 2 inches) in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 7 13/16 x 4 7/8 inches (198 x 124 mm); sheet size 10 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches (273 x 206 mm).
Created by the artist for 'Erasmus's Moriae Encomium,' or 'In Praise of Folly,' published by the Limited Editions Club, 1943. A rare, signed, proof impression apart from the Limited Editions Club publication.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lynd Ward is acknowledged as one of America’s foremost wood engravers and book illustrators of the first half of the twentieth century. His innovative use of narrative printmaking as a stand-alone storytelling vehicle was uniquely successful in reaching a broad audience. The powerful psychological intensity of his work, celebrated for its dynamic design, technical precision, and compelling dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers, Ward was concerned with the themes of man’s inner struggles and the role of the subconscious in determining his destiny. An artist of social conscience during the Great Depression and World War II, he infused his graphic images with his unique brand of social realism, deftly portraying the problems that challenged the ideals of American society.
The son of a Methodist preacher, Lynd Ward, moved from Chicago to Massachusetts at an early age. He graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University, New York, in 1926, where he studied illustration and graphic arts. He married May Yonge McNeer in 1936 and left for Europe for their honeymoon in Eastern Europe. After four months, they settled in Leipzig, where Ward studied at the National Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookmaking. Inspired by Belgian expressionist artist Frans Masereel's graphic novel ‘The Sun,’ and another graphic novel by the German artist Otto Nückel, ‘Destiny,’ he determined to create his own "wordless" novel. Upon his return to America, Ward completed his first book, ‘God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts,’ published in 1929. ‘Gods’ Man’ was a great success for its author and publisher and was reprinted four times in 1930, including a British edition. This book and several which followed it, ‘Madman’s Drum,’ 1930, ‘Wild Pilgrimage,’ 1932, ‘Prelude to a Million Years,’ 1933, ‘Song Without Words,' 1936, ‘Vertigo,’ 1937; and ‘Last Unfinished Wordless Novel’ (created in the 1960s and published in 2001) were comprised solely of Ward's wood engravings. Ward designed each graphic image to occupy an entire page, the sequence of which conveys the story's narrative.
In 1937, Ward was named Director of the Graphic Arts Division of the Federal Art Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In the following years, Ward went on to illustrate more than one hundred books (some of which he wrote), including classics for the Limited Editions Club Goethe’s ‘Faust,’ Faulkner’s ‘A Green Bough,’ and Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ and several children’s books. He also produced single-subject wood engravings, paintings, and drawings. His print ‘Sanctuary,’ 1939, was shown at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, and ‘Clouded Over,’ 1948, received the 1948 Library of Congress Award and was included in ‘American Prize Prints of the 20th Century’ by Albert Reese. He received the National Academy of Design Print Award (1949), the New York Times Best Illustrated Award (1973), and the Regina Award (Catholic Library Association, 1975). ‘The Biggest Bear,’ a children’s book with illustrations by Ward, was the recipient of the esteemed 1952 Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Ward was a member and board member of the National Academy of Design and the Artists’ League of America. He served several terms as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists and was a member of the American Artists Congress and the Society of Illustrators. Ward exhibited at the American Artists Congress; the National Academy of Design; the John Herron Art Institute; and the Library of Congress. He had a one-person show at Associated American Artists, NY, on the publication of his monograph 'Storyteller Without Words,' 1974; AAA mounted a memorial exhibition in 1986. The May 1976 issue of 'Bibliognost,' a book collector’s publication, was dedicated to Ward. ‘Lynd Ward, His Bookplate Designs,’ an article by Dan Burne Jones, was published in the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers Yearbook, 1981/82.
In 2001, sixteen years after his death, Rutgers University Libraries published ’Lynd Ward’s Last Unfinished Wordless Novel.’ The blocks were intended to be part of a novel in woodcuts, the first since Vertigo, but Ward did not live to complete the project. Master printer and book designer Barbara Henry collated and printed the twenty-six finished blocks out of the forty-four initially planned for the still unnamed narrative.
In 2010 the Library of America honored Ward’s achievements with the meticulous production of a collection of Ward’s woodcut novels—the first time the Library had gone wordless. The publication replicated his original editions with a single full-size image printed on the right page of each double-page spread. In his introduction to the books, renowned cartoonist/illustrator Art...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Jonah
By Sadao Watanabe
Located in Santa Monica, CA
SADAO WATANABE (Japanese 1913-1996)
JONAH, 1959
Color stencil, signed, numbered and dated in white ink. Sheet, 25 5/8 x 22 5/8 inches. Edition: 44/50. Good color and generally good ...
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1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil, Woodcut
Invocation
By Max Weber
Located in New York, NY
M a x W e b e r – – 1 8 8 1 – 1 9 6 1
Invocation- – 1919-20, Color Woodcut.
Rubenstein 27. Proofs only. Signed in pencil.
Image size 3 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches (124 x 54 mm); sheet size ...
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1910s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Under the Bridge
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Storrs, CT
Under the Bridge. 1985. Etching and drypoint. 9 1/2 x 12 1/8 (sheet 20 1/16 x 22). Edition 27, #13. Printed on cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. A rich impression in excellent condition, housed in an archival folder. The etching has never been matted. Titled and numbered in pencil. by the artist; signed and initialed in pencil by the artist's estate. Provenance: the artist's estate A dramatic view of the lower East Side in New York. Housed in an archival folder awaiting your choice of mat and frame.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson Wilbur...
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20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
"The Caissons Go Rolling Along".
By Kerr Eby
Located in Storrs, CT
"The Caissons Go Rolling Along". 1929. Etching and sandpaper ground. Giardina 145. 17 3/8 x 9 1/2 (sheet 18 3/4 x 11 1/2). Edition 90. Slight mat line, otherwise find condition. A ri...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'Soaring New York' — 1930s American Modernism, New York City
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Soaring New York', aquatint, soft-ground etching, roulette, 1931-32, edition 25, Duffy 165. Signed, dated, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmosp...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Rowboat
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Although best known for his portraits, Katz has depicted landscapes both inside the studio and out of doors since the beginning of his career. This print of a boat on the water feat...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
'Taxco Market' — American Modernist Scene of Mexico
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Taxco Market', aquatint and etching, 1932-33, edition 30, Duffy 181. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full shee...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
FOR MY PEOPLE
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Portland, ME
(Catlett, Elizabeth)illus. FOR MY PEOPLE by Margaret Walker. Linited Editions Club, NY, 1992. Edition of 400 signed by Walker and Catlett, and numbered 204 on the Justification page....
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1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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 ...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
'Mazeppa' — 19th-Century French Romanticism
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault and Eugène Lami, 'Mazeppa' from the series 'Oeuvres de Lord Byron', lithograph, 1823, 2nd state of 3, Delteil 94. Rendered by Thé...
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1820s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Cheval (The Horse) — Mid-Century Cubism
By Léopold Survage
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Léopold Survage, 'Le Cheval' (The Horse), color etching, edition 60, 1953. Signed and numbered '46/60' in pencil. Initialed in the plate, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impressi...
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1950s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
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1880s Barbizon School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'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...
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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” ...
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1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
DAMA NEGRA
By David Alfaro Siqueiros
Located in Santa Monica, CA
DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS (1896 – 1974)
DAMA NEGRA 1937-1945 (Williams 8)
Transfer lithograph, signed and no. 38-EE/50 and dated 1945. 13 5/8 x 19
3/16”. Very large full margins,, sheet 29 x 21 ½”. Stamped lower sheet
edge “Original Lithograph” It is difficult to determine the various editions
of Siqueiros’ prints. He would often reprint small editions of his early
prints over time. Some of these were transfer lithographs in reverse and
slightly smaller. These are sometimes numbered E/E “Edicion Especial”.
Reba Williams discusses the problems with identifying editions in her
catalog “Mexican Prints...
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1940s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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...
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1890s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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...
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1870s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'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...
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1970s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
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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...
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1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
'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...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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 ...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, 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...
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1970s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
