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Bell Inn, Waltham St Lawrence
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Bell Inn, Waltham St Lawrence" is a chromolithograph by noted British artist Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, 1870-1935. It is hand signed at the lower left corner by the artist. With the blindstamp of the Fine Art Trade Gulid, published and printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode ltd, London. The image size is 15 x 13 inches, sheet size is 17.5 x 14.25 inches. it is in excellent condition. About the artist: Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin RBA (28 April 1870 - 6 January 1935) was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life. Born in Slough, he was educated at Eastbourne College and Solihull Grammar School. He studied anatomy at South Kensington and animal painting under William Frank Calderon. He lived at The Abbots, Sulhamstead Abbots from 1913 to 1914 and was church warden of St Mary's church. Early influences included Randolph Caldecott and John Leech. His drawings first made their way into print in The Building News of 12 September 1890, and began to appear throughout many popular journals and magazines; his work was published in The Graphic in 1891. His illustrations include two of the original 1894 magazine publications of stories from Rudyard Kipling's The Second Jungle Book, the 1910 edition of Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers and The Bunch Book (1932, about Bunch, a Sealyham Terrier) by James Douglas. He also published a short series of fully illustrated books in 1923, Old Manor Houses and Old Inns. His village scenes and rural buildings were executed in chalk, pencil and wash sketching was used for country scenes. Aldin was an enthusiastic sportsman and a Master of Fox Hounds and many of his pictures illustrated hunting. An early work on a tiger in a zoo was studied from life, but found to be a copyright of the ideas in a photograph by Gambier Bolton. A popular book by Aldin was Sleeping Partners, a sequence of pastel drawings of his dogs on a couch. It included his Irish Wolfhound Micky and his favorite model, Cracker, a Bull Terrier with a dark patch over one eye. He also did some work for Cadburys advertising. Born 28 April 1870. He was educated at Eastbourne College then Solihull Grammar School. Cecil Aldin's father was a keen amateur artist so Cecil started drawing at a very young age. He studied art at the studio of Albert Moore and then the National Art Training School which later became The Royal College of Art. After this he spent a summer with the fine animal painter and teacher, Frank Calderon. In 1892 he bombarded the illustrated periodicals with his illustrations and thereby started a long association with The Illustrated London News. He was commissioned by The Pall Mall Budget in 1894 to illustrate "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling. At the invitation of the fine genre painter, Walter Dendy Sadler...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

An Old Friend
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "An Old Friend" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 5...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Up in the Attic
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Up in the Attic" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and numbered...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Corner Drugstore
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Corner Drugstore" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and num...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Curiosity Shop
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The curiosity Shop" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and numbe...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Ashpahdua Habay Ashae-Gyoke
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Ashpahdua Habay Ashae-Gyoke" 1991 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (A...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Sporting Good Store
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Sporting Good Store" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and ...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Fireside Christmas
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Fireside Christmas" c. 1985 is an original color etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 158/250 in pencil by the artist. Published and printed by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 11.5 x 17.65 inches, sheet size is 19.25 x 25.25 inches. it is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist: Scott Fitzgerald received his Master’s Degree in Arts from California State University Fullerton, and went on to teach drawing and printmaking for 2 years at the university. During his college years, he focused his study in contemporary art and photography, creating mixed media works often with social comments. It was not until the sophomore year, he discovered the traditional art of etching in his printmaking class. Immediately, he embraced the complex and difficult technical process of making prints from etching on copper plates. Scott Fitzgerald established himself as a prominent printmaker in the next few years. With a strong interest in history, he accepted a commission to produce a series of etching depicting 15 Orange County historical landmarks. Besides producing very intricate prints in various sizes, he has engaged in many special projects. He worked with renowned English printer John Randle to produce a group of etchings...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Dreamland Toys
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dreamland Touys" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and numbered...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Trumpeteers
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Trumpeteers" 1976 is an original wood engraving by Russian/American artist Leon Gilmour, 1907-1996. It is hand signed, titled, dated ...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Waiting Game
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Waiting Game" 1991 is a color offset lithograph by noted African/American artist Yvonne Cole Meo, 1923-2016. It is hand signed, da...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Happy Sisters
By Ming Wai
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Titled "Happy Sisters" 1977 in a color off set lithograph by renown Chinese/American artist Wai Ming A.K.A Lo Hing Kwok, b.1938. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P (Artist Proof) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 29 x 19 inches, sheet size is 36 x 25 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright, it has never been framed. About the artist: Wai Ming, was born in Canton, South China on November 11, 1938, the son of a school master with nine children. Extremely poor as a child, he was raised in Hong Kong enduring many hardships amidst a chaotic environment of war and refugee settlements. Wai Ming's love for art flourished and he developed his drawing techniques without any art education, just painting what he saw. In the 1960s, Ming found representation in Hong Kong and also took the unusual step of opening his own gallery to display his work in. His primary interest being to capture images of life in fishing villages, or 'fish-folk', who have retained traditional Chinese culture, his work was at home with the sensibilities of many art buyers in Hong Kong. Crossing the ocean in his mid-30s, Wai Ming arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1974. There, he experienced initial resistance from galleries and the official art world for a variety of reasons, but was ultimately embraced by dealer Jack Swanson...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Kreuzenstein Courtyard, Austria
By Robert Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Kreuzenstein Courrtyard, Austria" c. 1960 is a color etching on wove paper by noted Austrian artist Robert Kasimir, 1914-2002. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower center. The image (plate mark) size is 15.75 x 17.35 inches, framed size is 25.25 x 26 inches. Custom framed in a wooden antique silver frame, with decorated matting. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright, the frame has minor restorations, practically invisible. About the artist. Born in Vienna in 1914, Robert Kasimir began drawing at age 4, taught by his grandfather Alois. He made his first etching at age 5. He graduated from Vienna schools and attended the Technological College before switching to the Academy for Graphic Art, where he studied under Professor Hans Frank, a painter and graphic artist. Robert inherited the talent of his famous parents. His technique and subject matter are quite similar to those of his father. He signed his early etchings with the pseudonym "F.O. Robert" until he became established as a successful artist in his own right. Only then did he begin signing his etchings with his own name. In 1936 he came to the United States for a year of study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. During that year he made drawings for his American etchings, including the Capitol in Washington, Yale University, Broad Street, New York, and the University of California in Berkeley. He completed the actual etchings after his return to Vienna. In 1938 he was drafted into the army. He was sent to several fronts (Belgium, Holland, France, Russia) as a war reporter. He did many drawings during the war. In 1945 he returned to Vienna. For the next several years industrial commissions comprised most of his work, though he did several of his Viennese and Austrian scenes such as the Vienna Opera House...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

The Red Capote
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " The Red Capote" 1986 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- ...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Profile of Caroline
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Profile of Caroline" 1983 is a color offset lithograph on Rag-Cote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Agnjnauq Amguut; Iniupiaq (Woman with Her Wolves)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Agnjnauq Amguut; Iniupiaq (Woman with Her Wolves)" 1988 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Dance Apache
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dance Apache" 1988 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- Che...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Dreamer
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " The Dreamer" 1989 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- Ches) b...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Cheh-Ayeh: Prey
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Cheh-Ayeh: Prey" 1989 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We-...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Biachee-Itdah Bah Achbeb
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Biachee-Itdah Bah Achbeb" 1990 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alaw...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

B'Achua Dlubh-Bia Bii; Noskiiah:The Gift Part II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " B'Achua Dlubh-Bia Bii; Noskiiah:The Gift Part II" 1990 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Ach-Hua Dlubh: (Body Two) Half Breed
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Ach-Hua Dlubh: (Body Two) Half Breed" 1989 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross ...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Biagoth Eecuebeh Hehsheesh-Chedah (Red Ridinghood and her Wolves)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Biagoth Eecuebeh Hehsheesh-Chedah (Red Ridinghood and her Wolves)" 1989 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Quilt Makers
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " The Quilt Makers" 1988 is a color offset lithograph on paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- Ches) ...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Ach-Hua Dlubh: Body II Half-Breed III
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Ach-Hua Dlubh: Body II Half-Breed III" 1991 is a color offset lithograph on paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- Ches) 1939-2016....
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Red Capote
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " The Red Capote" c.1990 is a color serigraph on Wove paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- Ches) 1939-2016. It is hand signed, titled, inscribed Epreuve d'Artiste and numbered 17/27 in felt pen. The image size is 28 x 22 inches, sheet size is 36 x 25.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist: Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross, (Alawa-sta-we-ches) was born in Washington state in 1939. She first studied with her portrait-painter mother, before beginning more formal studies in 1968. Her work is commercially oriented, sentimentalizing her paintings of Native Americans...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Screen

"Master Arthur" from the suite "Cirque de l'Etoile Filante" Original aquatint.
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Master Arthur" from the suite "Cirque de l'Etoile Filante" created in 1934, printed in 1938 is an original color aquatint, etching and drypoint by renown French ...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

"Portrait of Phyllis #22" from the suite "41 Etchings and Drypoints"
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in San Francisco, CA
Richard Diebenkorn (American, April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This piece title...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Untitled, Two Women Sitting
By Isaac Maimon
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled, Two Women Sitting" is an original color serigraph on paper by noted Israeli artist Isaac Maimon, b.1955. It hand signed and numbered XXVI/CXXV in pencil by t...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

Unknown
By Mahmoud Farshchian
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" is a color lithograph by acclaimed Iranian artist Mahmoud Farshchian, born 1930. It is hand signed and numbered 217/250 in p...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled II
By Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled II" is an original color lithograph with embossing by noted Spanish artist Alvar Sunol Munoz Ramos, b.1935. It is hand signed and numbered 101/260 in pencil by...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Hana
By Rudolph Carl Gorman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Hana" 1982 Is an original lithograph by renown Navajo artist Rudolph Carl Gorman, 1932-2005. It is signed, dated and numbered 199/250 in pencil by the artist. With the blind stamp of the artist and printer. The image size is 19.5 x 26 inches, the sheet size is 22 x 30 inches, framed size is 33 x 41 inches. Custom framed in a dark wood frame, with fabric matting. the artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition, it has minor restorations, barely visible. About the artist: Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest's best known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man's world with some calling him the "Picasso of Indian artists". Of this kind of attention, he said: "I wish people would quit pushing my being Indian. The only time I was interviewed as If I were a normal person was by the Jewish Press in Tucson. It was the first time I felt international and almost white". (Samuels 222) His parents were Carl Nelson...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Baden Baden, Casino
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Baden Baden, Casino" 1988 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 261/375 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 36 x 42 inches, sheet size is 42 x 48 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, three small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back. About the artist: Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival. Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes. Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions. When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union. In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care. Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out." His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995. LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather. He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess. As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid." After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war. On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s. When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint. While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine. In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician. Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation. In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter. Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world. "Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962. Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him. A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters. Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS. Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Left Bank Cafe, Paris
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Left Bank Cafe, Paris" 1987 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered H.C 166/175 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 26 x 38 inches, sheet size is 32.25 x 44 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, two small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back. About the artist: Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival. Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes. Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions. When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union. In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care. Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out." His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995. LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather. He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess. As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid." After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war. On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s. When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint. While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine. In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician. Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation. In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter. Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world. "Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962. Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him. A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters. Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS. Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

Leopard
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "leopard" c.1990 is an offset lithograph by noted animals wildlife artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is hand signed and numbered 366/750 in...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Racoon
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Racoon" c.1990 is an offset lithograph by noted animals wildlife artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is hand signed and numbered 442/750 in ...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Racoon
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Racoon" c.1990 is an offset lithograph by noted animals wildlife artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is hand signed and numbered 230/750 in ...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Panda
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Panda" c.1990 is an offset lithograph by noted animals wildlife artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is hand signed and numbered 379/750 in p...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Orchid
By Jack Brusca
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled 'Orchid" 1979 is an original color silkscreen on paper by American artist Jack Brusca, 1939-1993. it is hand signed, dated and numbered 6/200 in pencil by the art...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Screen

Danube
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Danube" c.1940 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed by the artist's estate in pencil at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 9.5 x 9 inches, the sheet size is 17.5 x 14.85 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand. Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Unknown
By Mahmoud Farshchian
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" is a color off set lithograph by acclaimed Iranian artist Mahmoud Farshchian, born 1930. It is hand signed and numbered 23/3...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Unknown
By Mahmoud Farshchian
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" is an original color lithograph by acclaimed Iranian artist Mahmoud Farshchian, born 1930. It is hand signed and numbered 20...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Diex, Carinthia, Austria
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Diex, Carinthia, Austria" c.1950 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. Published/printed by Graphics International, Austria. The plate mark (image) size is 13.75 x 10.75 inches, sheet size is 20.5 x 16.15 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist. Josef Eidenberger was born in 1899 in the little town of Goisern, Austria,he began his artistic career as a landscape painter. In 1923 he enrolled in the famed Graphic Academy of Art in Vienna and studied under Professor Alfred Cossman. His recognized talent brought him many commissions from city officials and members of the business communities throughout Europe, especially in Austria and Germany. In 1973 after visiting the United States for the first time he created a series of California etchings...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Vienna, Schoenbrunn Castle
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Vienna, Schoenbrun Castle" c.1960 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil by the artist, inscribed "...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Prinzenstein, Austria
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Prinzenstein, Austria" c.1950 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil by the artist, Published/printed by Graphics International, Austria. The oval plate mark (image) size is 11.5 x 9.75 inches, sheet size is 18.5 x 14.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist. Josef Eidenberger was born in 1899 in the little town of Goisern, Austria,he began his artistic career as a landscape painter. In 1923 he enrolled in the famed Graphic Academy of Art in Vienna and studied under Professor Alfred Cossman. His recognized talent brought him many commissions from city officials and members of the business communities throughout Europe, especially in Austria and Germany. In 1973 after visiting the United States for the first time he created a series of California etchings...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Ulm on the Blau, Germany
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Ulm on the Blau, Germany" c.1950 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil by the artist, inscribed "T...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Saint Florian Monastery, Austria
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Saint Florian Monastery, Austria" c.1950 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Williamsburg
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Williamsburg" c.1974 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. Publishe...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Hamburg, Michael's Church, Germany
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Hamburg, Michael's Church, Germany" c.1950 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. Published/printed by Graphics International, Austria. The plate mark (image) size is 13 x 9.15 inches, sheet size is 18 x 13.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist. Josef Eidenberger was born in 1899 in the little town of Goisern, Austria,he began his artistic career as a landscape painter. In 1923 he enrolled in the famed Graphic Academy of Art in Vienna and studied under Professor Alfred Cossman. His recognized talent brought him many commissions from city officials and members of the business communities throughout Europe, especially in Austria and Germany. In 1973 after visiting the United States for the first time he created a series of California etchings...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Ulm on the Danube
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Ulm on the Danube" c.1950 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Woman With Tulip Bowl
By Rudolph Carl Gorman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, "Woman With Tulip Bowl" 1981 (State I) is an original lithograph on heavy paper by renowned Navajo artist Rudolph Carl (R.C.) Gorman, 1932-20...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Woman From Paris
By Rudolph Carl Gorman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, "Woman From Paris" 1979 (State I) is an original lithograph on creme Arches paper by renowned Navajo artist Rudolph Carl (R.C.) Gorman, 1932-2005. It is signed, dated and numbered 129/150 in pencil by the artist. The sheet size is 21.75 x 29 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed, the colors are fresh and bright. About the artist: Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest's best known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man's world with some calling him the "Picasso of Indian artists". Of this kind of attention, he said: "I wish people would quit pushing my being Indian. The only time I was interviewed as If I were a normal person was by the Jewish Press in Tucson. It was the first time I felt international and almost white". (Samuels 222) His parents were Carl Nelson...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Lila
By Rudolph Carl Gorman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, "Lila" 1981 (State I) is an original lithograph on heavy paper by renowned Navajo artist Rudolph Carl (R.C.) Gorman, 1932-2005. It is signed, dated and numbered 90/150 in pencil by the artist. With the blind stamp of the artist and printer. The sheet size is 17.75 x 22.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed, the colors are fresh and bright. About the artist: Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest's best known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man's world with some calling him the "Picasso of Indian artists". Of this kind of attention, he said: "I wish people would quit pushing my being Indian. The only time I was interviewed as If I were a normal person was by the Jewish Press in Tucson. It was the first time I felt international and almost white". (Samuels 222) His parents were Carl Nelson...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Schermerthorn Windmuhle, Holland
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Schemerthorn Windmuhle, Holland" c.1950 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by th...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Cologne (Koln) Promenade, Germany
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cologne (Koln) Promenade, Germany" c.1950 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil by the artist, ins...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Greetziel, North Sea, Germany
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Greetziel, North Sea, Germany" c.1950 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Mallorca Kuste, Spain
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Mallorca Kuste, Spain" c.1960 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. Published/printed by Graphics International, Austria. The plate mark (image) size is 9.5 x 15.25 inches, sheet size is 16.75 x 21 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist. Josef Eidenberger was born in 1899 in the little town of Goisern, Austria,he began his artistic career as a landscape painter. In 1923 he enrolled in the famed Graphic Academy of Art in Vienna and studied under Professor Alfred Cossman. His recognized talent brought him many commissions from city officials and members of the business communities throughout Europe, especially in Austria and Germany. In 1973 after visiting the United States for the first time he created a series of California etchings...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park" c.1970 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenber...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Rocky Mountain Stage Coach
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Rocky Mountain Stage Coach" 1975 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

San Francisco, Fisherman's Wharf
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "San Francisco, Fisherman's Wharf" c.1975 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil by th...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

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