John Sell Cotman Art

Color spitbite aquatint and aquatint with drypoint. Edition of 35

Hand colored, Copperplate Etching on Paper Image size: 9.5 x 9 in Frame size: 23.25 x 22.25 in. Date: 1935 An illustrative view of Saint Michael's, a Late Romanesque, early Gothic e...

Vicky Oldfield artist and printmaker, ‘Cardoon’ is a hand coloured collagraph print, the print is taken from a plate which has been collaged with a variety of textured materials. The...

Beth Ganz, 'Mount Taranaki, New Zealand', copperplate photogravure etching, edition 10, 2020. Signed, titled, and numbered 6/10 in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression in warm black ink, on cream, wove, cotton rag paper; the full sheet in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches; sheet size 16 x 15 1/2 inches. From the artist's series of 64 photogravure etchings 'Axis Mundi'. Additional works from the series are available; please inquire. Exhibited: 'Photography in Ink, A Look at Contemporary Copper-Plate Photogravure,' Curated by Leandro Villaro, Penumbra Exhibition Space Gallery, Nov 30, 2022 - March 15, 2023. ABOUT THE IMAGE Mount Taranaki (Māori: Taranaki Maunga) is a dormant stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. At 2,518 meters (8,261 ft), it is the second-highest mountain on the North Island after Mount Ruapehu. It has a secondary cone, Fanthams Peak (Māori: Panitahi), 1,966 meters (6,450 ft), on its south side. Taranaki is geologically young, having commenced activity approximately 135,000 years ago. The most recent volcanic activity was the production of a lava dome in the crater and its collapse down the side of the mountain in the 1850s or 1860s. The last major eruption occurred around 1655. Recent research has shown that over the last 9,000 years, minor eruptions have occurred roughly every 90 years on average, with major eruptions every 500 years. The name Taranaki is from the Māori language. The mountain was named after Rua Taranaki, the first ancestor of the iwi (tribe) called Taranaki, one of several iwi in the region. The Māori word tara means mountain peak, and naki may come from ngaki, meaning ‘clear of vegetation.’ It was also named Pukehaupapa (’ice mountain’) and Pukeonaki (’hill of Naki’) by iwi who lived in the region in "ancient times". Captain Cook named it Mount Egmont on 11 January 1770 after John...

Artist: David Smith-Harrison– American (1959-) Title: Orchard Year: circa 1988 Medium: Multiple Plate Intaglio etching Plate size: 19.75 x 27.5 inches. Sheet size: 26.5 x 35.5 inches. On Arches Cover White paper Matted size: 28.75 x 37.25 inches Framed Size: 31.25 x 38.75 inches Signature: Signed lower right Edition: 2nd state. Edition of 85. This one: 5/85 Condition: Very good This large etching is by the noted American artist David Smith-Harrison (1959-). It is framed with a light olive green linen mat. It is signed in the lower right and titled and numbered in the lower left margin, all in pencil. The print is in excellent condition, not examined out of the frame. The frame is in very good condition with a few very tiny, virtually invisible nicks. David Smith-Harrison’s approach to printmaking relies on drawing and alludes to past renaissance style architecture. He was awarded the Utah State Sterling Scholarship, before going on to be educated at the South Glamorgan Institute in Cardiff, Wales and at the University of Utah. He has participated in numerous shows, nationally and internationally. Juried exhibitions include Ashland University Printmaking Invitational Exhibition in Ohio, National Printmaking College of New Jersey, Trenton, Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial, Japan, Society of American Graphic Artists at Federal Plaza, New York and US-UK Print Connection, Barbican Centre in London. COLLECTIONS (partial list) The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Ohio EDUCATION 1984 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 1983 South Glamorgan Institute, Cardiff, Wales, U.K. 1977-78, 1981-83 Utah State University, Logan, Utah 1977 Utah State Sterling Scholar SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Old Town Gallery, Park City, Utah 2007 Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA 2006 The Dovetail Collection, Healdsburg, CA 2005 Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Tula Prints, Cordoba, Spain 1999 The Artful Eye, Calistoga, CA 1998 The Artful Eye, Healdsburg, CA Evolving Space, San Francisco, CA Hallside Gallery, Univerity Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT 1997 Evolving Space, San Francisco, CA 1996 Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Evolving Space, San Francisco, CA 1995 Pioneer Memorial Theatre, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA 1994 J.D. Neumann, San Francisco, CA 1993 Sala d'art Josep Bages, Torre Muntadas, El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain LeCelle Gallery, San Anselmo, CA 1990 Loge Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 1988 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA Old Town Gallery, Park City, Utah GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected) 2004 Studio 7 Gallery, Pleasanton, CA 2003 Studio 7 Gallery, Pleasanton, CA Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA The Hayward Arts Council, Hayward, CA 2002 Present Art IX, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1999 Richard Reed Armstrong, Chicago, Illinois Ashland University Printmaking Invitational Exhibition, Ashland University, Ashland, OH University of Dallas National Print Invitational, Waco, TX 1998 Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA Religious and Spiritual Art of Utah, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT Printmaking: People and Process, The California Society of Printmakers, Contra Costa College, CA 1997 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Pacific Edge Print Exhibition, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA Hand-Pulled Prints V, Stonemetal Press Fifth Annual International Exhibition, San Antonio, TX Dakotas International, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD National Printmaking 1997, College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ Survey of American Contemporary Prints, Los Angeles Printmaking Societiy, Los Angeles, CA Beyond Boundaries North American Printmaking Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 1996 Beauty's Plea, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA Art and Architecture, Nortel Northern Telecom, Santa Clara, CA Beyond Boundaries Preview Exhibition, Bank of America Concourse Gallery, San Francisco, CA Printwork /96, Barrett House Galleries, Dutchess County Art Association, Poughkepsie, NY Network General, Architecture in Art Exhibit, Menlo Park, CA 1995 Present Art III, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Synopsys Inc., Architecture in Art Exhibit, Mountain View, CA Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA 1994 Gump's Gallery, San Francisco, CA Bartlett Gallery, Pleasanton, CA 1993 Evergreen Graphic Art Association, Taipei Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China 1990 Gump's Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1989 Intaglio, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 1988 Contemporary Works on Paper, William Gallery, St. Helena, CA Ornamentation in Architecture, American Institute of Architects San Francisco Chapter, San Francisco, CA 1987 Intaglio, Lawson Galleries, San Francisco, CA Fine Print Exhibition, Convergence Gallery, San Francisco, CA JURIED EXHIBITIONS (selected) 2005 Impressions: Matrix and Image, Alameda Art Center, Alameda, CA 2004 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Arkansas State University 2003 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Arkansas State University 1999 Ashland University Printmaking Invitational Exhibition, Ashland, OH 1998 74th Utah Spring Solan, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT 1997 The 15th University of Dallas National Print Invitational, University of Dallas, Irving, TX From Coast to Coast, Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA Janet Turner National Print Competition, Janet Turner Print Gallery and CA State University, Chico, CA The Fantastic Image, the Art of Intaglio, CA Society of Printmakers, Vallejo Community Arts Foundation, Vallejo, CA 73rd Utah Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT Pacific Edge Print Competition, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA Hand-Pulled Prints V, Stonemetal Press Fifth Annual International Exhibition, San Antonio, TX Dakotas International, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD National Printmaking 1997, College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ Survey of American Contemporary Prints, Los Angeles Printmaking Societiy, Los Angeles, CA Beyond Boundaries North American Printmaking Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 1996 Beyond Boundaries, North America Printmaking Exhibition, San Francisco, CA Printwork 96, Barrett House Galleries, Dutchess County Art Association, Poughkeepsie, NY 72nd Utah Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT Pacific Prints 1996, 8th Biennial Print Competition and Exhibition, Palo Alto, CA 1995 Janet Turner National Print Competition, Janet Turner Print Gallery and CSU Chico, CA Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial '95, Tokyo, Japan Impressions: The Medium Extended, ProArts, Oakland, CA 71st Utah Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT Print & Draw: Biennial, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA 1994 10th Annual Exhibition, Part II, Berkeley Art Center Association, Berkeley, CA 1st Internet Art...

Beth Ganz, 'Machu Picchu, Peru', copperplate photogravure etching, edition 10, 2021. Signed, titled, and numbered 6/10 in pencil. A superb, richly-inked i...

"Facade" - Intaglio Etching of a Brick Building with Trees This etching by Ron Blumberg (b. 1908 d. 2002), features the outside facade of a brick building which is obscured by tree ...

Color spitbite aquatint and sugarlift aquatint. Edition of 35

Beth Ganz, 'Mount St. Elias, Yukon, Alaska', copperplate photogravure etching, edition 10, 2021. Signed, titled, and numbered 6/10 in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression in warm black ink, on cream, wove, cotton rag paper; the full sheet in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches; sheet size 16 x 15 1/2 inches. From the artist's series of 64 photogravure etchings 'Axis Mundi'. Additional works from the series are available; please inquire. Exhibited: 'Photography in Ink, A Look at Contemporary Copper-Plate Photogravure,' Curated by Leandro Villaro, Penumbra Exhibition Space Gallery, Nov 30, 2022 - March 15, 2023. ABOUT THE IMAGE Mount Saint Elias, the second-highest mountain in Canada and the United States stands on the Yukon and Alaska border about 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada. The Canadian side of Mount Saint Elias forms part of Kluane National Park and Reserve, while the U.S. side is within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Mount Saint Elias is notable for its immense vertical relief. Its summit rises 18,008 feet (5,489 m) vertically in just 10 miles (16 km) horizontal distance from the head of Taan Fjord, off of Icy Bay. The name of the mountain in Tlingit (indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America), Yasʼéitʼaa Shaa, means "mountain behind Icy Bay"; the Yakutat Tlingit occasionally call it Shaa Tlein "Big Mountain". It is one of the most important crests of the Kwaashkʼiḵwáan clan, who used it as a guide during their journey down the Copper River. Mount Fairweather, at the apex of the British Columbia and Alaska borders at the head of the Alaska Panhandle, is known as Tsalx̱aan; legend states that this mountain and Yasʼéitʼaa Shaa (Mt. St. Elias) originally stood next to each other, but had an argument and separated. Their children, the mountains between the two peaks, are called Tsalx̱aan Yátxʼi ("Children of Tsalxaan"). European explorers first sighted the mountain on July 16, 1741, with the arrival of the expedition commanded by Vitus Bering, a Danish explorer in service of Russia. While some historians contend that Bering named the mountain, others believe that eighteenth-century mapmakers named it after Cape Saint Elias when Bering left the peak unnamed. Mt. St. Elias was first climbed on July 31, 1897, by an Italian expedition led by famed explorer Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (who also reconnoitered the current standard route on K2 in 1909) and included noted mountain photographer Vittorio Sella. In 2007 Gerald Salmina directed an Austrian documentary film, Mount St. Elias, about a team of skiers/mountaineers determined to make "the planet's longest skiing descent" by ascending the mountain and then skiing nearly all 18,000 feet down to the Gulf of Alaska; the movie finished editing and underwent limited release in 2009. The climbers ended up summiting on the second attempt and skiing down to 13,000 ft (3,960 m). ABOUT THE SERIES 'AXIS MUNDI' "This body of work focuses on satellite images of sacred mountains around the world—places where heaven and earth are thought to meet. The phenomenon of revering mountains as holy sites is an archetype found in many cultures. "This shared experience finds a visual echo in the ubiquity of images of the earth that are now available to any person with a computer and an Internet connection. What does the specificity of place mean when we can move across the surface of the earth in seconds and reduce everything to a series of pixels? To me, this process recalls abstract painting, which transforms the specific into gesture and form. Rather than treat digital technology as necessarily destructive to human meaning and experience, my work offers new ways of seeing that are reconcilable with the old. To this end, I combine 19th Century Photogravure technique with 21st Century surveillance captures. "Axis Mundi consists of 64 copperplate photogravures. The work is laid out in a grid, which is an arbitrary conversion of the visual world into a flat space that happens both on the picture plane and in the data processing. The title refers to the belief in a 'world center,' often conceived of as a mountain: a place where communication between higher and lower realms is possible. This project is a search for such a center in a world of decentralization and fragmentation." —Beth Ganz ABOUT THE ARTIST Beth Ganz is a contemporary American multidisciplinary visual artist, who lives and works in New York City. She graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA (honors) in Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking. The focus of her work is the intersection of landscape, digital technology, and abstraction. Ganz works in paint, brush, and ink drawing, both independently and alongside digital and analog printing techniques, including photogravure and intaglio printing. Ganz’s work has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including 'Atlas Project' at Cynthia-Reeves Gallery, 'Up Close and Far Away, Grids and Toiles: Beth Ganz at Wave Hill House,' Wave Hill, and 'Geothermal Topographies' at Reeves Contemporary. She has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, and her work is represented in many public and private collections, including the 9-11 Memorial Museum, the Library of Congress, the New York Historical Society, and the New York Public Library Prints...

Beth Ganz, 'Mount Vesuvius, Italy', copperplate photogravure etching, edition 10, 2020. Signed, titled, and numbered 6/10 in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression in warm black ink, on cream, wove, cotton rag paper; the full sheet in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches; sheet size 16 x 15 1/2 inches. From the artist's series of 64 photogravure etchings 'Axis Mundi'. Additional works from the series are available; please inquire. Exhibited: 'Photography in Ink, A Look at Contemporary Copper-Plate Photogravure,' Curated by Leandro Villaro, Penumbra Exhibition Space Gallery, Nov 30, 2022 - March 15, 2023. ABOUT THE IMAGE Mount Vesuvius (Italian: Vesuvio) is a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about 9 km (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of several volcanoes forming the Campanian volcanic arc. Vesuvius consists of a large cone partially encircled by the steep rim of a summit caldera, resulting from the collapse of an earlier, much higher structure. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, one of the most catastrophic eruptions of all time, destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Stabiae, and several other settlements. The eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ashes and volcanic gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi). More than 1,000 people are thought to have died in the eruption. Vesuvius has erupted about three dozen times since. It is the only volcano on Europe's mainland to have erupted in the last hundred years (1929 and 1944). It is regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world—3,000,000 people live near enough to be affected by an eruption, with at least 600,000 in the danger zone, the most densely populated volcanic region in the world. Eruptions tend to be violent and explosive; these are known as Plinian eruptions. Vesuvius has a long historical and literary tradition. It was considered a divinity of the Genius type (a divine nature much like a guardian angel) at the time of the eruption of AD 79: it appears under the inscribed name Vesuvius as a serpent in the decorative frescos of many household shrines, surviving from Pompeii. The Romans regarded Mount Vesuvius as being devoted to Hercules. The historian Diodorus Siculus relates a tradition that Hercules, in the performance of his labors, passed through the country of nearby Cumae on his way to Sicily and found there a place called 'the Phlegraean Plain' ('plain of fire') 'from a hill which anciently vomited out fire ... now called Vesuvius.' It was inhabited by giant bandits, 'the sons of the Earth'. With the gods' assistance, he pacified the region and continued his journey. The area around Vesuvius was officially declared a national park on June 5, 1995. The summit of Vesuvius is open to visitors, and the park authorities maintain a small network of paths around the volcano. There is access by road to within 200 meters (660 ft) of the summit and a spiral walkway around the volcano from the road to the crater. ABOUT THE SERIES 'AXIS MUNDI' "This body of work focuses on satellite images of sacred mountains around the world—places where heaven and earth are thought to meet. The phenomenon of revering mountains as holy sites is an archetype found in many cultures. "This shared experience finds a visual echo in the ubiquity of images of the earth that are now available to any person with a computer and an Internet connection. What does the specificity of place mean when we can move across the surface of the earth in seconds and reduce everything to a series of pixels? To me, this process recalls abstract painting, which transforms the specific into gesture and form. Rather than treat digital technology as necessarily destructive to human meaning and experience, my work offers new ways of seeing that are reconcilable with the old. To this end, I combine 19th Century Photogravure technique with 21st Century surveillance captures. "Axis Mundi consists of 64 copperplate photogravures. The work is laid out in a grid, which is an arbitrary conversion of the visual world into a flat space that happens both on the picture plane and in the data processing. The title refers to the belief in a 'world center,' often conceived of as a mountain: a place where communication between higher and lower realms is possible. This project is a search for such a center in a world of decentralization and fragmentation." —Beth Ganz ABOUT THE ARTIST Beth Ganz is a contemporary American multidisciplinary visual artist, who lives and works in New York City. She graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA (honors) in Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking. The focus of her work is the intersection of landscape, digital technology, and abstraction. Ganz works in paint, brush, and ink drawing, both independently and alongside digital and analog printing techniques, including photogravure and intaglio printing. Ganz’s work has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including 'Atlas Project' at Cynthia-Reeves Gallery, 'Up Close and Far Away, Grids and Toiles: Beth Ganz at Wave Hill House,' Wave Hill, and 'Geothermal Topographies' at Reeves Contemporary. She has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, and her work is represented in many public and private collections, including the 9-11 Memorial Museum, the Library of Congress, the New York Historical Society, and the New York Public Library Prints...

Beth Ganz, 'Mount Fuji, Japan', copperplate photogravure etching, edition 10, 2019. Signed, titled, and numbered 6/10 in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression in warm black ink, on cream, wove, cotton rag paper; the full sheet in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches; sheet size 16 x 15 1/2 inches. From the artist's series of 64 photogravure etchings, 'Axis Mundi...

Color spitbite aquatint and aquatint with drypoint. Edition of 35