Frans Masereel Prints and Multiples

Kiyoshi Saitō (1907 – 1997) Maiko Kyoto (B) 1959, portrait of a girl facing left, with black and white obi; strong woodgrain texture background. Signature and artist’s seal lower left. Margins are covered with mat board possibly concealing title, date and edition. Visible Area: H 20.75 in. x W 15 in. Artist Biography: Kiyoshi Saito was born in Fukushima prefecture in 1907. At the age of five he moved to Otaru in Hokkaido, where he would come to serve as an apprentice to a sign painter. Saito became infatuated with art after studying drawing with Gyokusen Narita and moved to Tokyo in 1932 to study Western-style painting at the Hongo Painting Institute. He began experimenting with woodblock prints and exhibiting his works with Nihon Hanga Kyokai in 1936. Saito mainly worked in oil painting until his invitation from Tadashige Ono...

"Untitled (Girl Reading)" is an original wood engraving by the artist Stella Emma Harlos. A young girl rests on a large armchair, head resting on one hand as she reads a book. Image: 4" x 5" Frame: 12.12" x 13.18" Stella Harlos...

Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana. Largely self taught as a printmaker, Bartlett worked in a style that once identified as his, immediately t...

Stevan Dohanos was an accomplished draftsman who work was widely known through the Saturday Evening Post. This print 'Backyard,' however, leaves aside the illustrative magazine work ...

A modernist fantasy winter scene created by Werner Drewes, this print brings key aspects of the period together. His cubist-inspired woodcut technique is utilized here to bring the s...

A 1928 woodcut on paper of a self-portrait of Notable Chicago Modernist artist Emil Armin. artowrk size: 10 1/2" x 8". Archivally matted to: 12 1/2" x 14 1/2. Edition 7/30. Emil Armin was born in Radautz, Austria in 1883. By the age of 10, Armin was orphaned and was raised by his older siblings. He supported himself by working in restaurants and drew in his spare time. In 1905, at the age of 21, Armin immigrated to Chicago. He began studying at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1907, but financial difficulties forced him to start and stop a number of times, finally graduating in 1920. He studied with George Bellows and Randall Davey. Armin was an integral part of Chicago’s 57th Street Art Colony and exhibited in both the more avant-garde Chicago No-Jury Society Shows, as well as the more formal and conventional Chicago Society of Artists Exhibitions, the Chicago Renaissance Society and Art Institute of Chicago (1922-1949) exhibitions. He taught at Hull House...

Bold woodblock print of a woman by J. Duffy (American, 20th Century). The subject is staring directly at the viewer, creating a compelling yet delicate composition. The ink appears t...

Louis BOUQUET (1885-1952) Mythology : Leda and the Swann, 1929 Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /160 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of ...

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German (1884 -1976) - Kopf, Year: 1915, Medium: Woodcut on wove paper, Image Size: 6.75 x 9.5 inches, Size: 10.25 x 13.75 in. (26.04 x 34.93 cm), Descripti...

An original woodblock print dated 1965, titled "Our Town" but signed illegibly.

Paul Landacre, 'Verdi', wood engraving, 1936, edition 60, (only 14 printed), Wien 188. Signed, titled, and numbered '10/60' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream, laid Japan paper, ...

Gerald Coles - Original 1958 Woodcut. Signed and dated in pencil lower left corner. On Japan paper. Numbered 1/30. In fine condition. Gerald Anthony Co...