Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

American, 1920-2019

Frances Ynez Johnston (May 12, 1920 – 2019) was an American painter, sculptor, printmaker and educator. Her artwork is modernist and abstract with a narrative of imaginative lands or creatures, and often featuring collage. Johnston was born on May 12, 1920, in Berkeley, California. She attended University of California, Berkeley to study with Worth Ryder and received her bachelor of fine arts in 1941. She traveled to Mexico in the early 1940s to continue her studies, returning to Berkeley in 1943, earning her Masters of Fine Arts in 1946. In 1960 she married novelist and poet John Berry. In the years following she produced prints through the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. Johnston started teaching art classes at various universities and colleges in 1950 and ended teaching in 1980.[8] She began at University of California, Berkeley (1950–1951) and then continued her teaching career at Colorado Springs Fine Art Center (1954–1955), Chouinard Art Institute (1956), California State College (1966–1967, 1969, 1973), the University of Jerusalem (1967), and Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design (1978–1980). Her work is featured in various permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Spencer Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, Fullerton College, the McNay Art Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and others. Johnston was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952 for fine art, which allowed her travel to Italy. In 1955–1956 she was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant for painting and printmaking, and was awarded the National Endowment for the Art (NEA) grant in 1976 and 1986. In addition to her intricate prints and paintings, Johnston also created three dimensional pieces in collaboration with her husband and with ceramic sculptor Adam Mekler. Her watercolors, oils and etchings of the 1950s and 1960s were rich with complex imagery, and displayed a disciplined, restrained use of color. In later mixed-media pieces, she examined the tactile qualities of surface. Her paintings incorporated soil, acrylic, dyes, encaustic on cloth, canvas, and raw silk. Composite forms suggest ambiguous architectural, human, animal and plant shapes. Johnston cited Persian and Indian miniatures as influences but also drew inspiration from European abstract artists Matisse, Miro, Klee and Picasso. Ynez Johnston died in 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

Artist: Ynez Johnston

Ynez Johnston'Tribal Coast', Expressionist Woman artist, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim, 1964

$2,250

'Tribal Coast', Expressionist Woman artist, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim

By Ynez Johnston

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Signed lower right, 'Ynez Johnston' (American, b. 1920) and dated 1964; additionally inscribed 'imp' lower right, titled lower center 'Tribal Coast' with number and limitation, 198/2...

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1960s Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Ynez JohnstonUNTITLED

$1,400

UNTITLED

By Ynez Johnston

Located in Portland, ME

Johnston, Ynez. UNTITLED. Etching, not dated (but likely 1950s). Edition of 20, signed in pencil and numbered 4/20. 6 7/8 x 9 inches (plate), 8 x 10 5/8 inches (sheet). In excellent ...

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1950s Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ynez JohnstonDYNASTIC SCENE

$1,800

DYNASTIC SCENE

By Ynez Johnston

Located in Portland, ME

Johnston, Ynez (American, 1920-2019). DYNASTIC SCENE. Colored etching, not dated. Edition of 50, numbered, titled, and signed in pencil. 11 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches (Plate), 16 1/2 x 12 3/...

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Mid-20th Century Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Julia LanAbstract Black and Grey Etching, 1980

$310

H 20 in W 16 in D 0.1 in

Abstract Black and Grey Etching

By Julia Lan

Located in Houston, TX

Dynamic French abstract etching in black and grey by artist Julia Lan, circa 1980. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat f...

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1980s Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Ink, Etching

Salvador DalíTéléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), 1975

$22,800Sale Price|20% Off

H 28.5 in W 21 in

Téléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)

By Salvador Dalí

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Téléphone-homard cybernétique (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Cybernetic lobster phone, Imaginatio...

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1970s Surrealist Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen

Joan MiróJoan Miró “L’Oiseau du Forgeron” 1963 Signed Etching and Aquatint with Debossing, 1963

$14,500

H 33.375 in W 28.5 in D 1.25 in

Joan Miró “L’Oiseau du Forgeron” 1963 Signed Etching and Aquatint with Debossing

By Joan Miró

Located in Miami, FL

JOAN MIRÓ (1893–1983) – “L’OISEAU DU FORGERON” Etching and Aquatint in Colors with Debossing on Arches Paper ⚜ Hand Signed and Numbered ⚜ Custom Conservation Frame A POETIC DIALOGUE BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL MATTER AND THE LIFE OF THE BIRD “L’Oiseau du Forgeron”, or “The Blacksmith’s Bird,” is a 1963 etching and aquatint with debossing by Joan Miró, hand signed in pencil lower right and numbered 48 from the limited edition of 75. The work belongs to Miró’s celebrated Forgeron series, in which the artist used aggressive plate biting and physical debossing of the paper to summon the world of the blacksmith’s forge directly onto the printed sheet. Printed in colors on heavy Arches wove paper with the watermark present, the impression was published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris, the central printmaking publisher of Miró’s mature career, and is documented in Jacques Dupin’s Miró Engraver, Vol. II: 1961–1973 (Daniel Lelong Éditeur, Paris, 1989) as plate 363. The composition is built around a bold visual pairing. At its center sits a heavy gray geometric form, rendered through the combined effect of etching, aquatint, and debossing, the latter pressing the contours of the deeply etched plate physically into the paper to create a tactile, sculptural relief that mimics forged industrial iron. The form is perforated with a constellation of small circles that read as rivet holes and is edged with the irregular notches of a blacksmith’s tool...

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1960s Surrealist Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Intaglio, Aquatint

Salvador DalíThe beloved feeds among the lilies (Field 71-17J; M&L 477), Dalí, 1971

$2,800Sale Price|20% Off

H 26.5 in W 19.75 in

The beloved feeds among the lilies (Field 71-17J; M&L 477), Dalí

By Salvador Dalí

Located in Fairfield, CT

Title: The beloved feeds among the lilies (Field 71-17J; M&L 477), from the portfolio, The song of songs of King Solomon Year: 1971 Medium: Etching printed in colours with gilding on...

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1970s Surrealist Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Glenn BrownIncredible framed artwork by contemporary artist (after Rembrandt) monochrome, 2017

$8,633

H 35.12 in W 26.82 in D 1.58 in

Incredible framed artwork by contemporary artist (after Rembrandt) monochrome

By Glenn Brown

Located in London, GB

This is a truly stunning work by contemporary great, Glenn Brown. This work is an Artist Proof, one of only 12 created. The frame is handmade by famous London framers, Darbyshire. I...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

Mary Lee BendolphFields, 2014

$5,000

H 30.75 in W 29.5 in

Fields

By Mary Lee Bendolph

Located in Berkeley, CA

Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint. Edition of 50

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2010s Contemporary Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Intaglio

Salvador DalíLocomotion paradisiaque intra-utérine (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), 1975

$4,400Sale Price|20% Off

H 28.5 in W 21 in

Locomotion paradisiaque intra-utérine (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)

By Salvador Dalí

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Locomotion paradisiaque intra-utérine (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Paradise intrauterine locomo...

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1970s Surrealist Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen

Mary Lee BendolphLonnie's Flag, 2014

$4,500

H 30.75 in W 29.5 in

Lonnie's Flag

By Mary Lee Bendolph

Located in Berkeley, CA

Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint. Edition 50

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2010s Contemporary Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Intaglio

Salvador DalíEspace-temps en fusion (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), 1975

$19,600Sale Price|20% Off

H 28.5 in W 21 in

Espace-temps en fusion (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13)

By Salvador Dalí

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Espace-temps en fusion (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Fusing space-time, Imaginations and Objects...

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1970s Surrealist Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen

Mary Lee BendolphSnaggletooth, 2020

$6,500

H 38.25 in W 39.75 in

Snaggletooth

By Mary Lee Bendolph

Located in Berkeley, CA

Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint. Edition of 50

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2010s Contemporary Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Intaglio

Salvador DalíLunettes à hologrammes et ordinateurs pour voir les objets imaginés (F 75-13), 1975

$8,400Sale Price|20% Off

H 28.5 in W 21 in

Lunettes à hologrammes et ordinateurs pour voir les objets imaginés (F 75-13)

By Salvador Dalí

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Baignoire à tornade liquide (Michler/Löpsinger 822-831; Field 75-13), Imaginations et Objets du Futur (Hologram glasses and computers to see ...

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1970s Surrealist Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Drypoint, Lithograph, Screen

Abstract Aquatint Etching - Testigos, 2009

$325

H 24 in W 0.1 in D 18 in

Abstract Aquatint Etching - Testigos

Located in Houston, TX

Delightful and bright aquatint etching of a sweet faced sun rising over a red terrain by Mexican artist Lidoyne, 2009. Signed and dated lower right, titled lower center, numbered 1 o...

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21st Century and Contemporary Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching, Ink, Paper

Previously Available Items

Ynez JohnstonTHE COSMIC MOUNTAIN, 1981

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H 28 in W 22 in

THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN

By Ynez Johnston

Located in Portland, ME

Johnston, Ynez. THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN. Etching in colors printed from two plates, 1981. Edition of 100, numbered 64/100, titled, signed, and dated, all in pencil. 18 x 11 3/4 inches (o...

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1980s Abstract Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ynez JohnstonUNTITLED

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H 10 in W 25 in D 1 in

UNTITLED

By Ynez Johnston

Located in Portland, ME

Johnston, Ynez (American, 1920-2019). UNTITLED. Color woodcut, not dated. Edition size, if any, not known. Inscriibed "Trial Proof" in the left margin, and signed in pencil in the lo...

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Mid-20th Century Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ynez JohnstonTHE TROJAN WAR, about 1954

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H 12.5 in D 17.75 in

THE TROJAN WAR

By Ynez Johnston

Located in Santa Monica, CA

YNEZ JOHNSTON (b. 1920 - ) THE TROJAN WAR c. 1954 Color etching, Signed, titled and numbered 15/35 in pencil. 12 1/2 x 17 3/4, sheet ...

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1950s Abstract Expressionist Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Intaglio

Ynez JohnstonTHE SPANISH MAIN, 1963

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H 24 in W 18 in

THE SPANISH MAIN

By Ynez Johnston

Located in Portland, ME

Johnston, Ynez (American, born 1920). THE SPANISH MAIN. Etching and aquatint in colors, 1963. Edition of 35, signed, titled, numbered 1/35 and dated, all in pencil. Printed on laid p...

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1960s Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Ynez JohnstonTHE COSMIC MOUNTAIN, 1981

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H 28 in W 22 in

THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN

By Ynez Johnston

Located in Portland, ME

Johnston, Ynez. THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN. Etching in colors printed from two plates, 1981. Edition of 100, numbered 64/100, titled, signed, and dated, all in pencil. 18 x 11 3/4 inches (o...

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1980s Abstract Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ynez JohnstonTHE TROJAN WAR

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H 16 in W 24 in

THE TROJAN WAR

By Ynez Johnston

Located in Portland, ME

Johnston, Ynez. THE TROJAN WAR. Etching, aquatint in colors, not dated. Edition of 35, numbered 1/35, and titled and signed, all in pencil. 12 1/2 in x 17 ...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Ynez JohnstonSTORM at SEA, 1955

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H 19.75 in W 13.25 in

STORM at SEA

By Ynez Johnston

Located in Santa Monica, CA

YNEZ JOHNSTON (b.1920- ) STORM AT SEA c. 1955 mixed deep intaglio, signed and numbered edition 55. 19 ¾ x 13 ¼”. Image good, color...

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1950s Abstract Geometric Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Intaglio

Ynez JohnstonUNTITLED, c. 1950

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H 5.875 in W 7.875 in

UNTITLED

By Ynez Johnston

Located in Santa Monica, CA

YNEZ JOHNSTON (b. 1920) UNTITLED Etching with plate tone. Signed in pencil no. 3/10? in pencil. 5 7/8 x 7 7/8. Very rare early work by Johnston, possibly as e...

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1950s Surrealist Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ynez JohnstonUNTITLED, c.1950

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H 6.875 in W 9 in

UNTITLED

By Ynez Johnston

Located in Santa Monica, CA

YNEZ JOHNSTON (b. 1920) UNTITLED c. 1950. Etching with plate tone. 6 7/8 x 9. Signed and numbered in pencil 4/20. Rare early work by Johnston. $800 ...

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1950s Surrealist Ynez Johnston Prints and Multiples

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