Lawrence Wilbur Art
American, 1897-1988
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson Wilbur was born in Whitman, Massachusetts. He moved to Boston where he began his training as a photoengraver. He moved to Los Angeles in 1921, where he worked in the engraving department of the Los Angeles Times. Relocating to New York in 1925, Wilbur was employed as a finisher by several of New York's finest engraving shops and by several of the leading magazines of the era.
Wilbur enrolled at the Grand Central Art School, where he studied under N. C. Wyeth and Harvey Dunn.a number of Lawrence Nelson Wilbur traveled to Boston and Los Angeles before settling in New York. In 1925, he enrolled in the Grand Central Art School where he studied under Harvey Dunn, N.C. Wyeth, and Pruett Carter. As a photo-engraving finisher, he worked for the finest engraving shops in New York, and a number of major magazine publishers headquartered there. The combination of his graphic arts skills and his serious pursuit of training in the fine arts formed the basis for his career as a talented draftsman, printmaker, and painter.
His works have been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and many other institutions. Wilbur received numerous awards for his art, including the Audubon Artist's medal of honor for a self-portrait in oil in 1957. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club of New York, the Painters and Sculptors Society of New Jersey, and the Society of America Graphic Artists. He died in New York City.
to
3
9
4
2
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
1
14
1
3
3
1
8
8
7
11
5
5
4
4
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
6
6
6
6
5
15
7,858
5,193
2,504
1,651
1
15
Artist: Lawrence Wilbur
The Spire -- New York
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Storrs, CT
The Spire -- New York. 1985. Etching and drypoint. 14 1/2 x 11 (sheet 22 1/2 x 18). Trial proof of the second third, prior to the edition of 100. Printed on Rives cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. A rich impression in pristine condition, housed in an archival sleeve. This etching has never been matted. Provenance: the artist's estate. Titled, annotated 'third state - trial proof' and signed in pencil. A dramatic view of the Chrysler Building.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson...
Category
20th Century American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Old Brownstones -- New York
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Storrs, CT
Old Brownstones-- New York. c. 1985. Etching and drypoint. 8 7/ 8 x 12 1/3 (sheet 16 5/8 x 16 1/4). Fourth state. Printed on cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. A rich impression in pristine condition, housed in an archival folder. This etching has never been matted. Provenance: the artist's estate. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Fourth state -- wheel changed to left' and 'Steves' in pencil. A dramatic view of a Manhattan neighborhood.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson Wilbur...
Category
20th Century American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Manhattan Mountains
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Storrs, CT
Manhattan Mountains. 1938. Etching and drypoint. 14 3/4 x 12 3/8 (sheet 17 1/4 x 14 3/4). Artist proof, previous to the edition of 40. An atmospheric impression printed on buff-colored laid paper. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Final state' and 'Jones Proof'in pencil. Housed in an archival sleeve.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson...
Category
20th Century American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'Sundown, Stonington, Maine' — Artist-printed Exhibition Proof
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Nelson Wilbur (1897-1988), 'Sundown, Stonington, Maine', wood engraving, artist's proof, edition not stated but small, 1969. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the block...
Category
1940s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Woodcut
Street in Marblehead, Massachussets
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching on white, buff laid paper with deckle edges, 8 13/16 x 12 inches (224 x 305 mm), full margins. One of only 25 proof impressions. In superb condition with excellent i...
Category
1930s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Tranquil Harbor (Gloucester, Massachusetts) — 1950s Cape Ann Regionalism
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Nelson Wilbur (1897-1988), 'Tranquil Harbor' (Gloucester, Massachusetts), wood engraving, edition 55, 1958. Signed in pencil, and signe...
Category
1950s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Woodcut
Under the Bridge
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Storrs, CT
Under the Bridge. 1985. Etching and drypoint. 9 1/2 x 12 1/8 (sheet 20 1/16 x 22). Edition 27, #13. Printed on cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. A rich impression in excellent condition, housed in an archival folder. The etching has never been matted. Titled and numbered in pencil. by the artist; signed and initialed in pencil by the artist's estate. Provenance: the artist's estate A dramatic view of the lower East Side in New York. Housed in an archival folder awaiting your choice of mat and frame.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson Wilbur...
Category
20th Century American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
1930s Vintage Oil Painting Girl, Puppy Dog, American Illustrator Lawrence Wilbur
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Surfside, FL
A girl and her dog
This was possibly used as an advertisement. It is in a great illustrator style.
22 x 18. framed. 19.5 x 15.5 canvas.
Lawrence Wilbur (1897 - 1960) was active/l...
Category
1930s American Realist Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The East River', Brooklyn Bridge — Mid-Century Realism, New York City
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Nelson Wilbur (1897-1988), 'The East River', drypoint, edition 65, 1946. Signed, titled, and annotated 'A. Jones Proof 1946' in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower ...
Category
1940s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Drypoint
The Artist, This Week Magazine Cover, 1937
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 36.00" x 28.25;" Framed 42.50" x 34.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This Week magazine cover, May 1937
An early 20th-cen...
Category
1930s Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arrest the Murderer - 1853 Broadside, Harris County, Texas
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Middletown, NY
A 1853 Broadside advertising a large reward for the apprehension of accused murderer John Hide of Harrison County, Texas.
Broadside poster printed in black ink on cream-colored wove...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Realist Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Printer's Ink
Calling Farmhands for Pie
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1942
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 18.50" x 15.70"
Signature: Signed
Image of woman holding pie and a man calling out to farmhands.
An early 20th-century illustrator work...
Category
1940s Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Girl Baking Biscuits
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas, Mounted
Dimensions: 22.70" x 17.70"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Advertisement, image of girl baking biscuits as boy and mother look on.
An early 20th-cent...
Category
20th Century Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Military Hero
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration is a portrait of a military man in front of the Statue of Liberty.
Signed Lower Left.
An early 20th-century illustrator working in New York City, Lawrence L Wil...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fresh Buns - Baking Advertisement
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration shows a grandmother and daughter baking together.
Baking Advertisement
An early 20th-century illustrator working in New York City, Lawrence L Wilbur should not b...
Category
1920s Other Art Style Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Related Items
THE THAW
By William Seltzer Rice
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM SELTZER RICE (1873 - 1963)
THE THAW c 1915-20
Color woodcut, signed and titled in pencil. Image 8 7/8 x 12 inches, sheet 10 3/4 x 14 3/8 inches. On textured fibrous paper. V...
Category
1910s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Color, Woodcut
Chicago Skyline
By Paul Schumann
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful turn-of-the-century lake view of Chicago by an American artist known for his Texas landscapes.
Etching with drypoint on watermarked Umbria laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (182 x 275 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/25 in pencil, lower margin. In good condition with adhesive residue at the sheet edges on the verso, does not show through to the recto. A lovely Lake Michigan landscape...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Steps to the Grand Canal, St. Mark's in the distance, Venice.
By Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely view of Venice from the water.
Etching with drypoint on antique cream laid paper with a large figural watermark, signed in pencil, lower right. 14 1/4 x 11 inches (362 x 280...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
"The Caissons Go Rolling Along".
By Kerr Eby
Located in Storrs, CT
"The Caissons Go Rolling Along". 1929. Etching and sandpaper ground. Giardina 145. 17 3/8 x 9 1/2 (sheet 18 3/4 x 11 1/2). Edition 90. Slight mat line, otherwise find condition. A ri...
Category
1920s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
A Handsome Woodcut on Paper of the Univ. of Chicago Chapel by Siegfried Weng
Located in Chicago, IL
A handsome woodcut on paper of the University of Chicago Chapel by artist Siegfried Weng. A perfect gift for your U of C grad! Arwork size:
9 3/4" x 7 1/2". Archivally matted to...
Category
1920s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Ship Rock
By Norma Bassett Hall
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NORMA BASSETT HALL (1889 - 1957)
SHIP ROCK, c. 1940
Color woodcut signed and numbered in pencil, edition 40 on stiff fibrous paper.
10 x 14 inches, Sheet size 11 1/8 x 15 inches...
Category
1940s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Woodcut
Sanctuary (St. Anthony's Garden at rear of St. Louis Cathedral on Royal Street)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This French Quarter garden is a serene haven with a lighted statue of Christ that exists not very far from the raucous revelry of New Orleans' Bourbon S...
Category
1990s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
River Reflections
By Arthur Wesley Dow
Located in Fairlawn, OH
River Reflections
Color woodcut, c. 1910
Unsigned
Provenance: Dow Family Album, Cincinnati
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 2 1/2 x 4 inches
Sheet size: 3 1/8 x 4 7/8”
A color varian...
Category
1910s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Woodcut
Low Country (South Carolina)
By Elizabeth Verner
Located in Middletown, NY
An enchanting Southern landscape by the mother of the Charleston Renaissance.
A native of Charleston, South Carolina, and educated under the tutelage of Thomas Anshutz at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, O'Neill Verner was a teacher, a mother, an artist, an ardent preservationist, and a skilled autodidact. Having previously focused on painting, in the early 1920s she found herself deeply moved by printmaking as a media, and especially so by the simple, peaceful themes and tableaus she discovered in Japanese art. She embarked on a effort to teach herself Japanese printmaking techniques, and in the process, produced the charming images of every day life in Charleston and its environs that earned her recognition as a cultural icon in her day, and in more modern times, as the mother of the Charleston Renaissance, which flourished well into the 1930s. In 1923 she opened a studio in Charleston where she focused on documenting the local color and the architecture and landscape that distinguishes Charleston as one of the South's most beautiful cities, all the while applying the gentle and poetic thematic sensibilities of Japanese printmaking. O'Neill Verner soon found herself in high demand when municipalities and institutions throughout the country sought commissions from her to document the beauty of their grounds and historic buildings. She worked as far north as the campuses of Harvard and Princeton, and extensively across the South, including in Savannah, Georgia, where through sweeping commissions she was able to marry her love of southern preservation and art. O'Neill Verner was a lifelong learner, and continued a path of edification that led her to study etching at the Central School of Art in London, to travel extensively through Europe, and to visit Japan in 1937, where she studied sumi (brush and ink) painting. She was a founding member of the Charleston Etchers Club, and the Southern States Art League. Her works are represented in the permanent collections of leading museums across the American south, and in major national institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston's Museum of Fine Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. O'Neil Verner...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Joseph Zirker, Playhouse
By Joseph Zirker
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s woodcuts started to get bigger and bigger as they competed with paintings for a space on the wall. This California print by Joseph Zirke...
Category
1950s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Gargoyle and His Quarry
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gargoyle and His Quarry, Notre Dame. 1920. Etching.Fletcher 90. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 (sheet 10 1/2 x 9 1/16). Gargoyle series #1. Edition 75. A rich impression printed on 'FJHead&Co' c...
Category
1920s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
An Eagle Ceremony at Tesuque Pueblo
By Gustave Baumann
Located in Fairlawn, OH
An Eagle Ceremony at Tesuque Pueblo
Woodcut printed in two colors, 1932
Unsigned as usual; initialed in the plate lower left (see photo)
As published by Elmer Adler in "The Colophon:...
Category
1930s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Woodcut
Previously Available Items
Peck's Slip, N.Y.C. - A superb and scarce proof impression printed by the artist
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: 1934.
Etching with drypoint printed in brownish black ink on white, buff wove paper, 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (170 x 221 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and inscribed "Arti...
Category
1930s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching, Drypoint
The Spire -- New York
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Storrs, CT
The Spire -- New York. 1985. Etching and drypoint. 14 1/2 x 11 (sheet 22 5/8 x 18 5/8) . Edition 100, #19. Printed on cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. A rich impression in pristine condition, housed in an archival folder. This etching has never been matted—provenance: the artist's estate. Signed, numbered, and titled in pencil. A dramatic view of the Chrysler Building.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson Wilbur...
Category
20th Century American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
1930s Vintage Oil Painting Girl, Puppy Dog, American Illustrator Lawrence Wilbur
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Surfside, FL
A girl and her dog
This was possibly used as an advertisement. It is in a great illustrator style.
22 x 18. framed. 19.5 x 15.5 canvas.
Lawrence Wilbur (1897 - 1960) was active/l...
Category
1930s American Realist Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Spire -- New York
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Storrs, CT
The Spire -- New York. 1985. Etching and drypoint. 14 1/2 x 11 (sheet 22 5/8 x 18 1/8) . Edition 100, #19. Printed on cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. A rich impression in pristine condition, housed in an archival folder. This etching has never been matted. Provenance: the artist's estate. Signed, numbered and titled in pencil. Housed in an archival folder. A dramatic view of the Chrysler Building.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson Wilbur...
Category
20th Century American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Spire -- New York
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Storrs, CT
The Spire -- New York. 1985. Etching and drypoint. 14 1/2 x 11 (sheet 22 5/8 x 18 5/8) . Edition 100, #5. Printed on cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. A rich impression in pristine condition, housed in an archival folder. This etching has never been matted. Provenance: the artist's estate. Signed, numbered and titled in pencil. A dramatic view of the Chrysler Building.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson Wilbur...
Category
20th Century American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Tranquil Harbor (Gloucester, Massachusetts)
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Nelson Wilbur (1897-1988), 'Tranquil Harbor' (Gloucester, Massachusetts), wood engraving, edition 55, 1958. Signed in pencil and signed...
Category
1950s American Modern Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Woodcut
Flirting
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American illustration painting from the 1940s.
Category
1940s Lawrence Wilbur Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Lawrence Wilbur art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Lawrence Wilbur art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Lawrence Wilbur in oil paint, paint, canvas and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large Lawrence Wilbur art, so small editions measuring 11 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Paul Landacre, Kerr Eby, and Arnold Ronnebeck. Lawrence Wilbur art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $350 and tops out at $12,500, while the average work can sell for $1,750.