Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

American, b. 1940

Born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 24, 1940, Arthur Tress began his first camera work as a teenager in the surreal neighborhood of Coney Island where he spent hours exploring the decaying amusement parks. Later, during five years of world travel, mostly in Asia and Africa, he developed an interest in ethnographical photography that eventually led him to his first professional assignment as a U.S. government photographer recording the endangered folk cultures of Appalachia. Seeing the destructive results of corporate resource extraction, Tress began to use his camera to raise environmental awareness about the economic and human costs of pollution. Focusing on New York City, he began to photograph the neglected fringes of the urban waterfront with a straight documentary approach. This gradually evolved into a more personal mode of “magic realism” combining improvised elements of actual life with stage fantasy that became his hallmark style of directorial fabrication. In the late 1960s Tress was inspired to do a series based upon children’s dreams that combined his interests in ritual ceremony, Jungian archetypes, and social allegory. Later bodies of work dealing with the hidden dramas of adult relationships and the reenactments of male homosexual desire evolved from this primarily theatrical approach. Beginning in the early 1980s, Tress began shooting in color, creating room-sized painted sculptural installations out of found medical equipment in an abandoned hospital on New York’s Welfare Island. This led to a smaller scale exploration of narrative still life within a children’s toy theater and a portable nineteenth-century aquarium. Around 2002, Tress returned to gelatin silver, exploring more formalist themes in the style of mid- century modernism, often combining a spontaneous shooting style with a constructivist’s sense of architectural composition and abstract shape. In addition to images of California skateboard parks, his recent work includes the round images of the series Planets and the diamond-shaped images of Pointers. Selected Arthur Tress Books and Publications Open Space in the Inner City: Ecology and the Urban Environment. New York: New York State Council on the Arts, 1971. Arthur Tress: The Dream Collector. Text by John Minahan. Richmond: Westover, 1972, New York: Avon, 1974. Shadow. A Novel in Photographs. New York: Avon, 1975 Theater of the Mind. Text by Duane Michaels, Michel Tournier and A.D. Coleman. Dobbs Ferry: Morgan and Morgan, 1976. Reves. Text by Michel Tournier. Brussels: Complexe, 1979. Talisman. Edited by Marco Livingstone. Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1986. The Teapot Opera. Photographs and text by Arthur Tress. Goro International, 1986, Abbeville, 1988. Male of the Species: Four Decades of Photography by Arthur Tress. Text by Michale Tournier. Fotofactory, 1999. Fish Tank Sonata. Bulfinch, 2000. Arthur Tress: Fantastic Voyage: Photographs 1956-2000. Bulfinch, 2001. Memories. Photographs by Arthur Tress, Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire. 21st,

Artist: Arthur Tress

Arthur TressGroom with Arabian Stallion, 1999

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Groom with Arabian Stallion

By Arthur Tress

Located in New York, NY

Signed, l.r. Edition of 50 Contact gallery for price This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

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1990s Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Sally GallCanoe, 2000

$760Sale Price|20% Off

H 27 in W 25.5 in

Canoe

By Sally Gall

Located in New York, NY

Sally Gall has spent her career exploring the intricacies of the natural world in delicate black-and-white photos of dew on spider webs, reflections on water, formal gardens, insects...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Zbrodnia Pod Blekitna Gwiazda - Vintage Poster - 1975, 1975

$405

H 31.89 in W 22.45 in D 0.04 in

Zbrodnia Pod Blekitna Gwiazda - Vintage Poster - 1975

Located in Roma, IT

Zbrodnia Pod Blekitna Gwiazda - Vintage Poster is a vintage poster realized by Unknown Artist, in 1975s. Mixed colored offset print. The artwork represented a poster of a Czechosl...

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1970s Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Szalenstwo Milosci - Vintage Poster - 1979, 1979

$200

H 32.68 in W 23.04 in D 0.04 in

Szalenstwo Milosci - Vintage Poster - 1979

Located in Roma, IT

Szalenstwo Milosci - Vintage Poster is a vintage poster realized by Unknow Artist, in 1979s. Mixed colored offset print. Dimension: 83 x 58.5 cm The artwork represents the poster...

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1970s Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Juan Carlos AlomCuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n1, 2004

$1,500

H 29.9 in W 22 in

Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n1

By Juan Carlos Alom

Located in Miami, FL

Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964) 'Sólo tu cabes en la palma de mi mano', 2004 photoengraving on paper 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.) Edition of 106 ID: ALO1...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Sally GallPond, 2000

$760Sale Price|20% Off

H 27 in W 25.5 in

Pond

By Sally Gall

Located in New York, NY

Sally Gall has spent her career exploring the intricacies of the natural world in delicate black-and-white photos of dew on spider webs, reflections on water, formal gardens, insects...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Liliana PorterLulú, 2009

$2,000

H 22.64 in W 30.71 in

Lulú

By Liliana Porter

Located in Mexico City, MX

Artist's statement: In the last years, parallel to photography and video, I have been making works on canvas, prints, drawings, collages, and small installations. Many of these piece...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Juan Carlos AlomCuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n4, 2004

$1,500

H 29.9 in W 22 in

Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n4

By Juan Carlos Alom

Located in Miami, FL

Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964) 'El cielo protector', 2004 photoengraving on paper 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.) Edition of 106 ID: ALO1534-004-106 Hand-s...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Photogravure

Juan Carlos AlomCuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n3, 2004

$1,500

H 29.9 in W 22 in

Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n3

By Juan Carlos Alom

Located in Miami, FL

Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964) 'Esta obra no tiene título es sólo el silencio de mi veneración', 2004 photoengraving on paper 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Photogravure

Liliana PorterBrahms / Sombrero de fieltro, 2009

$2,000

H 22.64 in W 30.71 in

Brahms / Sombrero de fieltro

By Liliana Porter

Located in Mexico City, MX

Artist's statement: In the last years, parallel to photography and video, I have been making works on canvas, prints, drawings, collages, and small installations. Many of these piece...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

David GeorgeHartlepool Power Station with Greyhounds, England, Photogravure Print (unframed), 2018

$533Sale Price|47% Off

H 5.62 in W 8.27 in

Hartlepool Power Station with Greyhounds, England, Photogravure Print (unframed)

By David George

Located in London, GB

"It was very strange and magical for my dogs to suddenly and instinctively to become an integral part of the landscape. I suppose that’s what hunting dogs do." - David George David George's interest in British landscape began under the tutelage of John Blakemore at Derby University and continues to be a major part of his practice, now mainly concerned with ideas of classical and romantic visual semantics in the contemporary British landscape. His work looks at the decline of traditional industries, incorporating his interest in 19th century European landscape painting...

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2010s Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...

Bugs and Leaves - Print - Late 20th Century, Late 20th Century

$324

H 14.97 in W 10.63 in D 0.04 in

Bugs and Leaves - Print - Late 20th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Bugs and leaves is a phototype print on paper realized in early 20th Century by a Unknown Chinese Master. Monogrammed on plate on the right margin.

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Late 20th Century Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

The Rice Ear - Print - Early 20th Century, Early 20th Century

$324

H 14.97 in W 10.63 in D 0.04 in

The Rice Ear - Print - Early 20th Century

Located in Roma, IT

The Rice Ear is a phototype print on paper realized in the late 20th Century by a Unknown Chinese Master. Monogrammed on plate on the left margin The artist want to define a well-...

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Early 20th Century Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

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Arthur TressRoad Kill (a nude male lies in the deep ruts of a muddy curved trail), 1996

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H 14 in W 11 in

Road Kill (a nude male lies in the deep ruts of a muddy curved trail)

By Arthur Tress

Located in New Orleans, LA

This vintage silver gelatin photograph acquired directly from the artist, Arthur Tress is #1 from an edition of 50. It is signed, numbered and titled "Road Kill" , San Luis Obispo, ...

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1990s Contemporary Arthur Tress Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

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