Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Italian, 1885-1957
Initially trained by his father, a decorator, in Argentina and then from 1899 in Zurich, De Grada attended the academies of Dresden and Karlsruhe during the period 1902–05. Influenced by the Swiss secession movement, he enjoyed success as a landscape painter from 1913.
He moved to San Gimignano after World War I, then to Florence, where he lived until 1929. He joined the Novecento Italiano movement and participated in their two exhibitions in Milan (1926 and 1929) as well as their exhibitions collective in other Italian and European cities. His participation in the Venice Biennale began by invitation with the 13th Venice International Art Exhibition in 1922.
After moving to Milan in 1930, he obtained a professorship at the Monza School of Art in 1931. Particularly known for his beautiful views of the Tuscan countryside, De Grada welcomed different generations of artists into his home, including members of the Corrente movement, with whom he also exhibited works in the collective exhibition of the Society of Fine Arts and the Permanent Exhibition in 1939. He participated in numerous exhibitions after the Second World War.
Died in 1957.to
2
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
6
1,351
969
773
758
2
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
2
Artist: Raffaele De Grada
Landscape - Lithograph by Raffaele De Grada - 1946
By Raffaele De Grada
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original lithograph realized in the 1946 by Raffaele De Grada.
The State of preservation is very good with very small folding along the margi...
Category
1940s Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape - Woodcut by Raffaele De Grada - 1970s
By Raffaele De Grada
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original woodcut realized in the 1970s by Raffaele De Grada
Signed on the lower right.
The State of preservation is very good.
Passepartout...
Category
1970s Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Related Items
PLAYHOUSE (JUDAICA ART)
By Amram Ebgi
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reason...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Original "C'est un Hurricane" vintage bicycle pin-up style poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Hurricane Bicycle vintage poster. Archivally linen backed in mint condition 72-year-old poster, ready to frame.
This is an original mid-century modern vintage Hurricane...
Category
1950s Art Deco Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Museum-Published Lt'd Ed. 60's Litho Set of 'As I Opened Fire'
By (after) Roy Lichtenstein
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a lithographically printed reproduction of a sensationally fun Lichtenstein triptych he painted in 1964, produced by the Stedelijk Museum...
Category
1960s Pop Art Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
3 Turns - Surfing Art - Figurative Print - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Three surfers carving up the Hawaiian waves, having a blast in the tropical surf.
3 Turns - Surfing Art - Figurative Print - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Limited Edition 01/05
...
Category
2010s American Modern Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Inferno Canto 28 from the Divine Comedy, Woodcut Print by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
A surrealist illustration from Salvador Dalí’s (Spanish, 1904-1989) Divine Comedy series based on the Italian writer Dante’s epic poem. Inferno is the first part of the epic, which f...
Category
1960s Surrealist Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Put Fighting Blood in Your Business
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster. Put Fighting Blood in Your Business. Here’s his record! Does he get a Job? Arthur Woods, Assistant to the Secretary of...
Category
1910s American Realist Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
'Goin' Home' — WPA Era American Regionalism
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Hart Benton, 'Goin' Home', lithograph, 1937, edition 250, Fath 14. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white, wove paper, with margins, in excellent condition. Published by Associated American Artists. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 9 7/16 x 11 7/8 inches; sheet size 10 3/4 x 13 5/16 inches.
Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Figge Art Museum, Georgetown University Art Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“Benton’s idiom was essentially political and rhetorical, the painterly equivalent of the country stump speeches that were a Benton family tradition. The artist vividly recalled accompanying his father, Maecenas E. Benton — a four-term U.S. congressman, on campaigns through rural Missouri. Young Tom Benton grew up with an instinct for constituencies that led him to assess art on the basis of its audience appeal. His own art, after the experiments with abstraction, was high-spirited entertainment designed to catch and hold an audience with a political message neatly bracketed between humor and local color.”
—Elizabeth Broun “Thomas Hart Benton: A Politician in Art,” Smithsonian Studies in American Art, Spring 1987.
Born in 1889 in Neosho, Missouri, Thomas Hart Benton spent much of his childhood and adolescence in Washington, D.C., where his father, Maecenas Eason Benton, served as a Democratic member of Congress from 1897 to 1905. Hoping to prepare Benton for a political career, his father sent him to Western Military Academy. After nearly two years at the academy, Benton persuaded his mother to support him in attending the Art Institute of Chicago for two years, followed by two additional years at the Académie Julian in Paris.
In 1912, Benton returned to America and moved to New York to pursue his artistic career. One of his first jobs involved painting sets for silent films, which were being produced in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Benton credits this experience with equipping him with the skills necessary to create his large-scale murals.
When World War I broke out, Benton joined the Navy. Stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, he was assigned to create drawings of camouflaged ships arriving at Norfolk Naval Station. These renderings were used to identify vessels that might be lost in battle. Benton later remarked that being a "camofleur" profoundly impacted his career: "When I came out of the Navy after the First World War," he said, "I made up my mind that I wasn’t going to be just a studio painter, a pattern maker in the fashion then dominating the art world—as it still does. I began to think of returning to the painting of subjects, subjects with meanings, which people, in general, might be interested in."
While developing his Regionalist vision, Benton also taught art, first at a city-supported school and later at The Art Students League from 1926 to 1935. One of his students was a young Jackson Pollock, who regarded Benton as both a mentor and father figure. In 1930, Benton was commissioned to paint a mural for the New School for Social Research. The "America Today" mural, now permanently exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, led to many more commissions as Benton’s work gained wide recognition.
The Regionalist Movement became popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Painters such as Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry rejected modernist European influences, choosing instead to depict realistic images of small-town and rural life—comforting representations of the American heartland during a period of upheaval. Time Magazine referred to Benton as "the most virile of U.S. painters of the U.S. Scene," featuring his self-portrait on the cover of a 1934 issue that included a story titled "The Birth of Regionalism."
In 1935, Benton left New York and returned to Missouri, where he taught at the Kansas City Art Institute. His outspoken criticism of modern art, art critics, and political views alienated him from many influential figures in both political and art circles. Nonetheless, Benton remained true to his beliefs, continuing to create murals, paintings, and prints that captured enduring images of American life. The dramatic and engaging characteristics of Benton’s artwork drawn the attention of Hollywood producers, leading him to create illustrations and posters for films, including his famous lithographs for the film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath," produced by Twentieth Century Fox.
During the 1930s, The Limited Editions Club of New York asked Benton to illustrate special editions of three of Mark Twain’s books...
Category
1930s American Realist Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
EARLY JACOULET - A DOWNPOUR AT METALANIM PONOPE EAST CAROLINAS
By Paul Jacoulet
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EARLY JACOULET
PAUL JACOULET (1896 – 1960)
UNE AVERSEA METALANIM, PONAPE , EST CAROLINES, 1935
A DOWNPOUR AT METALANIM PONOPE EAT CAROLINAS (Miles 29)
Color woodcut, with metallic ...
Category
1930s Modern Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Woodcut
"The Putting Green" - Figurative Landscape
By Douglas Adams
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Putting Green" - Figurative Landscape
20th century lithograph copy (restrike) of an original painting by British artist Douglas Adams (English, 185...
Category
1970s Realist Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
NOCTURNE Signed Lithograph, Black Women Theater Stage Night Sky Balloon Ribbons
By Hughie Lee-Smith
Located in Union City, NJ
Nocturne is an original limited edition lithograph by the African American artist Hughie Lee-Smith printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. Nocturne is a mysterious, surreal stage-like theatrical scene featuring a dramatic deep midnight blue night sky with two young black women each wearing pink clothing...
Category
1990s Contemporary Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Study of Utagawa Hiroshige's "View of Hara-Juku" 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road
By Utagawa Hiroshige
Located in Soquel, CA
Study of Utagawa Hiroshige's "View of Hara-Juku" 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road
Hand painted study of Utagawa Hiroshige's "View of Hara-Juku", (by unknown artist), from "53 Station...
Category
1920s Edo Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
H 11 in W 14 in D 0.25 in
Kiyomizu Temple, Scenes of Famous Places along Tôkaidô Road - Woodblock on Paper
By Utagawa Hiroshige II
Located in Soquel, CA
Kiyomizu Temple, Scenes of Famous Places along Tôkaidô Road - Woodblock on Paper
Full Title:
Kyoto: Kiyomizu Temple (Kyô Kiyomizudera), from the series Scenes of Famous Places along...
Category
1860s Edo Raffaele De Grada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
Raffaele De Grada prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Raffaele De Grada prints and multiples available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Raffaele De Grada in lithograph, woodcut print and more. Not every interior allows for large Raffaele De Grada prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 7 inches across are available. Raffaele De Grada prints and multiples prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $223 and tops out at $223, while the average work can sell for $223.