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Boston Public Library
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boston Public Library
55.4 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
66.5 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
77.6 x
Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Boston Public Library
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boston Public Library
55.4 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
66.5 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
77.6 x
Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Boston Public Library
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boston Public Library
55.4 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
66.5 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
77.6 x
Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Los Angeles Public Library (R78.33H, Handel)
By Xiaoze Xie
Located in New York, NY
Los Angeles Public Library (R78.33H, Handel)
2009
Signed and dated, verso
Oil on canvas
40 x 67
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NY Public Library
By Marc Yankus
Located in New York, NY
Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and ClampArt, New York City. Yankus’ artwork has graced the covers of
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
NY Public Library
By Richard Silver
Located in New York, NY
Richard’s love for travel has afforded him many opportunities to shoot different cities and cultures. He loves iconic architecture, whether it’s ancient or modern, and is always foc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library): Private Offer
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rose Main Reading Room, 2014
Public Library
New York
Signed and numbered
Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Reinhard Görner: Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Rose Main Reading Room, 2014
New York Public Library
New York, NY
50 x 63.5 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Reinhard Görner: Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Rose Main Reading Room, 2014
New York Public Library
New York, NY
50 x 63.5 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Carnegie Library/ Atlanta-Fulton county public library. Small
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Carnegie Library/ Atlanta-Fulton county public library, 2019 by Ying Chen
From the series "Lost In
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
H 24 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
1977 David Lance Goines "Berkeley Public Library" Lithograph
By David Lance Goines
Located in San Carlos, CA
Beautiful lithograph created in 1974 by David Lance Goines for the Berkeley, CA public library
Category
Vintage 1970s American Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Reima Pietilä Table Lamps Produced for Public Library Metso in Tampere, Finland
Located in Limhamn, Skåne län
Rare pair of table lamps designed by Reima Pietilä. Produced for Public Library Metso Tampere
Category
Vintage 1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
H 29.93 in W 10.63 in D 9.45 in
Mid Century Modern Lexington Public Library Geometric Steel Art Wall Panel 36"
Located in Dayton, OH
Mid century modern geometric industrial steel artwork panel purchased from the Lexington Public
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Steel
H 36 in W 34 in D 2 in
1974 original poster by David Lance Goines for the Berkeley Public Library
By David Lance Goines
Located in PARIS, FR
In 1974, David Lance Goines crafted an original poster for the Berkeley Public Library, marking a
Category
1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rose Main Reading Room, 2014
Public Library
New York
70 x 88.9 inches
Ed. of 5
60 x 76.2 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rose Main Reading Room, 2014
Public Library
New York
70 x 88.9 inches
Ed. of 5
$11,000
60 x 76.2
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Carnegie Library/ Atlanta-Fulton county public library. Landscape abstract photo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Carnegie Library/ Atlanta-Fulton county public library, 2019 by Ying Chen
From the series "Lost In
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
H 80 in W 60 in D 0.1 in
New York Public Library Picture Collection Photo-Copies: Eclipses, 2015
By Penelope Umbrico
Located in Orange, CA
New York Public Library Picture Collection Photo-Copies: Eclipses (with Graphite), 2015 / photocopy
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Graphite
Wm. F. and Pat Buckley at The New York Public Library, 19 May 1988
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Wm. F. and Pat Buckley at The New York Public Library, 19 May 1988
"Pinnacles of New York society
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Staff of New York Public Library, Main Reading Room, New York City
By Neal Slavin
Located in New York, NY
24 x 24 inch digital chromogenic print
Edition 15 +3AP
Signed, titled, dated and editioned on frame label provided
Neal Slavin, a native New Yorker, began photographing groups i...
Category
1970s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital
A view of the New York Public Library, looking uptown along 5th Avenue.
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: c 1920.
Etching with aquatint printed in brownish black ink on cream wove paper, 8 3/4 x 12 inches (220 x 304 mm), full margins. Signed and titled in pencil in the lower ma...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Antique Print of the Library at Sebastopol 'Crimean War' by W. Simpson, 1855
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Public Library & Temple of the winds'. Destruction of the public library and
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
H 14.57 in W 22.05 in D 0.02 in
Folio from Communion of Saints, Reading from the Book of St. Matthew.
Located in Fairlawn, OH
are in the following rare book libraries:
Case Western Reserve University
Cincinnati Public Library
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Vellum
Rare Set of 6 Metal Windsor Chairs
Located in East Hampton, NY
A rare and interesting set of 6 chairs from the Philadelphia Public Library reading rooms circa
Category
Early 20th Century Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Metal
QUEENSBRIDGE
Located in Portland, ME
printmaker and assemblage artist. His work is in the collections of the NY Public Library, Boston Public
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Color, Woodcut
1977 Mary Cassatt In the Omnibus New York Library Art Gallery Poster, Framed
By Mary Cassatt
Located in Van Nuys, CA
for the benefit of the New York Public Library. The poster reflects Cassatt's unique Impressionist
Category
Vintage 1970s American Late Victorian Posters
Materials
Brass
'Public Building' — American Modernism, WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, University of Massachusetts Library
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Coming of the Cocklicranes, No. 4 (Winter)
By David Avery
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Public Library, the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, the Stanford University Library among
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Coming of the Cocklicranes, No. 1 (Spring)
By David Avery
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Public Library, the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, the Stanford University Library among
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Coming of the Cocklicranes, No. 3 (Autumn)
By David Avery
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Public Library, New York, NY
San Francisco Public Library, Book Arts and Special Collections Center
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Coming of the Cocklicranes, No. 2 (Summer)
By David Avery
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Public Library, the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, the Stanford University Library among
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Maurice Campbell-Taylor Bedford Library 1955 Cecil Higgins Art Gallery
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Maurice Campbell Taylor (b.1900) : Bedford Public Library 1955
Oil on artist's board
Signed lower
Category
20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Hardwood
H 20.08 in W 27.17 in D 0.79 in
The Long Road to War (27/35)
By David Avery
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Harvard University, the New York Public Library, the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, the
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Seascape at Sunset
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, Midwest Museum of American Art, and the Syracuse
Category
1960s Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Library View, Cambridge engraving Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
By Pieter Van Der Aa
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659 - 1733), after David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
The Auditoriums & Public Library
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Safe, Clean, Cheap
By David Avery
Located in Palm Springs, CA
, the New York Public Library, the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, the Stanford University
Category
2010s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Soldier Marionettes" Surrealist Figurative Lithograph
By Donald Sexauer
Located in Houston, TX
the New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, Smith College and the Butler Institute
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"York: The Gateway to History, " Original British Lithograph Poster by EH Spencer
By E.H. Spencer
Located in Milwaukee, WI
guide to the city from the Information Centre Public Library to advertise the British Railways. It
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Framed Madame Pauline Knip Engraving of a Green Pigeon, Colombe Vlouvlou
Located in Downingtown, PA
York Public Library in the Rare Book Division-
Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library. "[Les
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Regency Prints
Materials
Paper
H 28.75 in W 21.75 in D 1.25 in
Runner (Mom, Death and the Devil)
By David Avery
Located in Palm Springs, CA
included in the collections of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the New York Public Library, the
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La Paire Amarette by Judith Rothchild - 2001
By Judith Rothchild
Located in New York, NY
, Smith College, The New York Public Library, The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, The public libraries
Category
Early 2000s Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
Chinese Lanterns by Judith Rothchild
By Judith Rothchild
Located in New York, NY
, Smith College, The New York Public Library, The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, The public libraries
Category
1990s Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
Chrysanthemums by Judith Rothchild
By Judith Rothchild
Located in New York, NY
, Smith College, The New York Public Library, The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, The public libraries
Category
1990s Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
Black Berries by Judith Rothchild
By Judith Rothchild
Located in New York, NY
, Smith College, The New York Public Library, The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, The public libraries
Category
1990s Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
Sevillian Bowl by Judith Rothchild
By Judith Rothchild
Located in New York, NY
, Smith College, The New York Public Library, The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, The public libraries
Category
Early 2000s Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
Rencontres
By Judith Rothchild
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Hospitals in Scotland and London
Harvard University
Smith College
The New York Public Library
The
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
"Process: An Exhibition and Sale of International Prints"
By James Rosenquist
Located in New York, NY
Committee to the Art Gallery & The London Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario, Canada, 1973
Category
1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Two Models on a Bed
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
); since several impressions are in public institutions (such as the Boston Public Library, Yale University
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Painting by Laura Elston Glenn '1880-1952', USA, 1950s
By Laura Elston Glenn
Located in New York, NY
: Calif. Art Club, 1929; Hollywood Public Library, 1932.
- Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Nicolas Briganti Oil on Canvas
Located in Pasadena, TX
Bedford Free Public Library. He taught drawing at the New Bedford Business University.
Category
Early 20th Century American Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paint
Modernist Hillside Painting by Marion Maas
Located in New York, NY
); 380Gallery, New York, NY, 1978 (solo), 1979 (solo), 1981 (solo), 1985 (solo); Hicksville Public Library
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marion Maas Modernist Painting of Two Women
Located in New York, NY
); Hicksville Public Library, Hicksville, NY, 1979, 1986 (solo); Farmingdale Public Library, Farmingdale, NY
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of A Lady by NY Artist Marion Maas
Located in New York, NY
York, NY, 1978 (solo), 1979 (solo), 1981 (solo), 1985 (solo); Hicksville Public Library, Hicksville, NY
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Cubist Figure on Canvas by John Ross (1921-2017)
By John Ross
Located in Santa Monica, CA
work is in the collections of the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA; British Library, London, UK
Category
20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
Desert Foothills Under a Blue Sky - Landscape in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
, Santa Barbara
1985 - Studio 10, Santa Barbara, CA
1984 - (Award) Goleta Public Library, Goleta, CA
1980
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
H 30.25 in W 34.25 in D 1.25 in
Vintage Italian Children's Efebino Stools by Stacy Dukes for Artemide, 1960s
By Stacy Dukes, Artemide
Located in Renens, CH
These children’s stools were designed by Stacy Dukes for use in the Los Angeles public library
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Stools
Materials
Plastic
H 13 in W 13.39 in D 16.54 in
'Sheila Antoine with Afro', Sir John Cass, Otis Art Institute, California
By Pearl Took
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Letters, Pasadena Chapter, 1977
Pasadena Star News,1977
Glendale YWCA
Altadena Public Library, for opening
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 24 in W 20 in D 0.75 in
'Dance Class', Modernist Figural, Sir John Cass, Otis Art Institute, Parson's
By Pearl Took
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Letters, Pasadena Chapter, 1977
Pasadena Star News,1977
Glendale YWCA
Altadena Public Library, for opening
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Portrait of Gene Harrison', Pasadena, Parsons School of Design
By Pearl Took
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Letters, Pasadena Chapter, 1977
Pasadena Star News,1977
Glendale YWCA
Altadena Public Library, for opening
Category
1970s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 35.75 in W 23.75 in D 0.75 in
Barbara Rosiak Signed Aquatint Etching 8/30 Art Nouveau Inspired Nude Framed
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
well as in the Public Library of Nancy and at the Boston Public Library. The artist has also done
Category
20th Century Drawings
Materials
Paper
H 31 in W 24.75 in D 1.25 in
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