Josef Zenk Art

For over thirty years, Nozkowski has practiced his own form of idiosyncratic abstraction, foregoing a signature style or subject matter in favor of seemingly limitless variations in ...

Artist: Jack Brusca, American (1939 - 1993) Title: Metallurgy Year: 1968 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, dated and titled verso Size: 20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm)

Roman ruins is an original old master artwork realized realized by a follower of the artist Giovanni Paolo Panini and attributed to Francis Harding (1730-1766). Mixed colored oil on canvas. Includes frame. The work is a replica of Panini's canvas made around 1740, made known by Ferdinando Arisi in his 1986 monograph (Cat.456) as belonging to the Galleria Taccani in Milan and recently reappeared on the London market...

Woodcut and screenprint in colours, 1987, on Arches wove paper, signed and dated in pencil from the edition of 75, published by Parasol Press, Ltd., New York, from The Brooklyn Acade...

A Vibrant, Mid-Century Modern 1960s Studio Interior Scene of a Standing Female Nude by Notable Chicago Woman Artist, Vivian Kinsley Chapin (Am. 1909-1984). Very "Mod" in style and a...

Toshi Yoshida, 'Woman In Bagdad', color woodblock print, 1954, edition not stated. Signed, dated, and titled, in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on cream-wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1/2 to 7/8 inch); minor toning in the margins, otherwise in excellent condition. Self-carved, self-printed. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 14 13/16 x 9 7/8 inches; sheet size 16 1/4 x 11 inches (oban tate-e). Exhibited: 'Color in Relief: Wood Block Prints from Origins to Abstraction', Georgetown University Library, 2016. Literature: Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn, 1959, pp.168-169; Eugene M. Skibbe, Yoshida Toshi 1911-1999: Diversity, Change, and Continuity in the Yoshida Art Tradition, Andon 53, Society for Japanese Arts, 1996, pp. 5-14; Kendall H. Brown, Yoshida Toshi: The Nature of Tranquility, in, A Japanese Legacy: Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002, pp. 72-80; p. 91, no. 55 Exhibition: Japan & Beyond: The Yoshida Family Legacy in Japanese Woodblock Prints, curated by Kendall Brown and Quyen Le, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford, CA. February 3, 2004 - March 27, 2004. Collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, Minneapolis Institute of Art, University of California Merced, University of Oregon (The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints). ABOUT THE ARTIST Yoshida Toshi (1911-1995) began training at the age of 14 under his father, Yoshida Hiroshi, one of the most acclaimed artists of the Japanese 20th-century printmaking revival movement shin-hanga (’new prints’ created in the traditional collaborative system of Japanese printmaking). He studied from 1932 to 1935 at the Taiheiyo-Gakai (Pacific Painting Association), co-founded by his father. Before the Pacific War, Toshi traveled widely with his father in Asia, Europe, Egypt, and the United States. Later he continued his worldwide travels, especially in Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Africa. Following his father’s death in 1950, Toshi began his very personal exploration of abstraction, joining the sôsaku-hanga movement (’creative prints’ wherein the artist is creator, carver, and printer). During this richly creative period (1954 to 1973), Toshi created over three hundred nonobjective designs. In the early 1960s, Toshi returned to large-scale figurative work, concentrating on scenes of African wildlife in its natural habitat, and in 1984 he published the first of many illustrated children's books on African wildlife (Dobutsu Ehon Shirizu), which he continued to produce until the early 1990s. In 1966 he published a book with the artist Yuki Rei...

An Exceptional Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting of a Reclining Nude Female Model by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. This alluring studio scene, painted in the 1960s, exemplifi...

Female nude figure at the beach by listed artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Jon Blanchette" verso. Image size, 24"H x 18"W. Jon Blan...

A Striking Surrealist Abstract 1950s Mid-Century Modern Interior Scene "Seated Nude with Mirror" by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Oil on Masonite, dating fr...

A captivating, 1940s Modern painting of a seated nude on a garden bench by famed Chicago artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A sensitive, skilled portrait of a young female mode...

Posing Nude by Mikhail Turovsky, Russian (1933) Date: 2001 Oil on Masonite, signed lower left Size: 48 x 30.5 in. (121.92 x 77.47 cm)

Nude Figure In Pink Interior by Jacqueline Boisselot (French, late 20th century) oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 9 x 10.75 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: ver...