Leo Meissner was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists, Boston Printmakers, the Prairie Print Makers, Audubon Artists, the Philadelphia Print Club and a full Academician of the National Academy of Design. His graphic art received awards from the Southern Printmakers (1937 and 1938), the Detroit Institute of Art (1943 and 1945) and the Library of Congress (1943 and 1945). Today his original wood engravings and woodcuts are included in the following collections; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, Baltimore Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the University of Maine Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Leo Meissner, Let's Dance, Shall We?
By Leo Meissner
Located in New York, NY
Detroit-born Leo Meissner lived in New York and was respected as a painter, draftsman, and illustrator, but is most known for his wood engravings. His ski...
Woodcut
FOOTBRIDGE, PERKINS COVE
By Leo Meissner
Located in Portland, ME
Meissner, Leo. FOOTBRIDGE - PERKINS COVE. Wood-engraving, not dated. Edition of 60. Numbered 40/60, titled and signed, all in pencil. 9 x 6 inches, 229 x 152 mm. Framed to 16 3/4 x ...
Woodcut
$774
H 6.93 in W 9.61 in D 0.04 in
Takanawa no Kihan - Woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige - 1843-1847
By Utagawa Hiroshige
Located in Roma, IT
Takanawa no kihan is a modern artwork realized between 1843 and 1847 after Utagawa Hiroshige. Ukiyo-e color woodblock print from the Touto hakkei (The Eight Famous Views of the Capital of the East) series. Mounted under passepartout. The artwork depicts the port of Takanawa, a suburb of Minato in southern Tokyo, and is one of the very rare sheets by Utagawa Ando Hiroshige...
Woodcut
$536
H 14.38 in W 9.85 in D 0.04 in
Parade - Woodblock Print by Utagawa Kunisada - Mid-19th Century
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Roma, IT
Celebratory Parade is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19th century after Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print. This wonderful modern a...
Woodcut
$2,200
H 14.25 in W 9.57 in
Zentsuji Temple in the Rain — Collected Views of Japan II, 1937 Woodblock Print
By Kawase Hasui
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Kawase Hasui, 'Zentsuji Temple in the Rain' from the seres 'Collected Views of Japan II', color woodblock print, 1937. Signed Hasui in black ink, with the artist’s red seal Kawase, ...
Woodcut
'Hill' — American Modernism, California
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Hill', wood engraving, 1936, edition 60 (only 54 printed); only 2 impressions printed in a second edition of 150. Signed, titled, and numbered '49/60' in pencil. Wien...
Woodcut
$1,500
H 19.5 in W 15 in
"Dawn Inside the Yoshiwara" Utagawa Hiroshige, Japanese Landscape, Ukiyo-e
By Utagawa Hiroshige
Located in New York, NY
Utagawa Hiroshige Dawn Inside the Yoshiwara, circa 1857 Woodblock print 11 x 7 inches Utagawa Hiroshige is recognized as a master of the ukiyo-e woodblock printing tradition, havin...
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
"Nara" Japanese Townscape
By Kiyoshi Saitō
Located in Houston, TX
Landscape print of small Japanese city, Nara (A). Signature and seal lower right. Mat board covers the margins which may have date, title and edition. Non-glare glass makes inspection and photography difficult. Visible Area: H 15 in. x W 20.5 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...
Woodcut
$850
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.25 in
Sumiyoshi: Dengaku dance performed during an Onda ceremony - Woodblock Print
By Utagawa Hiroshige
Located in Soquel, CA
Sumiyoshi: Dengaku dance performed during an Onda ceremony - Woodblock Print Bright woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858). In this scene, two dancers with swords and fans are facing each other, in the center of a courtyard. There are spectators surrounding them, including nobles in black clothing on a balcony. Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing. Mat size: 16"H x 20"W Paper size: 9.63"H x 14.5W" Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858, sometimes called Ando Hiroshige) was the second of the two great masters of the Japanese landscape woodblock print...
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
$600
H 9.13 in W 7 in
Elwood W. Bartlett, Turtle Creek (Wisconsin), about 1945, mid-century wood eng.
By Elwood Warren Bartlett
Located in New York, NY
Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana. Turtle Creek (named of course for its many turtles,) is in the southeastern part of the Wisconsin. It is now ...
Woodcut
$600
H 10 in W 7 in
Elwood W. Bartlett, Water's Edge (Wisconsin), about 1945, mid-century wood eng.
By Elwood Warren Bartlett
Located in New York, NY
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...
Woodcut
SNOW SCENE - Large Modern Japanese woodcut - Artist Proof
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KITAOKA FUMIO (Japanese 1918 – 2007) SNOW SCENE (Sekkei) 1969 Color woodcut, signed, titled and annotated “artist proof”. Image 21 ½ x 15 3/8”, sheet 25 x 18 3/4”. Good condition s...
Color, Woodcut
$548
H 14.18 in W 9.65 in D 0.04 in
Matsubaya - Woodblock Print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi - Mid-19th Cent.
By Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Located in Roma, IT
Yosooi of the Matsubaya is an Original Woodcut Print, Oban Format, realized by Kitagawa Tsukimaro. Good condition but many folds in the paper. No signature. Kitagawa Tsukimaro ( 1...
Woodcut
M. Karstens - 20th Century Woodcut, Holstein Countryside
Located in Corsham, GB
Holstein Countryside, original woodcut. Pencil signed, titled and dated to the lower margin. On Japanese paper.
Woodcut
Hannah
By Leo Meissner
Located in New York, NY
Detroit-born Leo Meissner lived in New York and summered for half a century on the island of Monehgan, off the Maine coast. Respected as a painter, draft...
Woodcut
Assembly Line
By Leo Meissner
Located in New Orleans, LA
Assembly Line is a signed wood engraving of a still life focused on certain sartorial tools. It is an edition of 50 Born into a poor family in Michigan in 1895, Leo Meissner...
Wood, Engraving
CIVILIZATION AD 1935
By Leo Meissner
Located in Portland, ME
Meissner, Leo. CIVILIZATION AD 1935. Wood Engraving, 1935. Edition of 50. Titled, numbered 14/50, and signed in pencil. 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (image), 16 1/2 x 12 1/8 inches (sheet)....
Woodcut
WAR BULLETINS
By Leo Meissner
Located in Portland, ME
Meissner, Leo. WAR BULLETINS. Wood Engraving, 1942. Ediiton of 50. Titled, Numbered 40/50 and signed in pencil. 8 x 9 1/4 inches (image), 10 x 11 1/2 inches (sheet). In excellent con...
Woodcut