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Okuhara Seiko, 'Tree Sparrows and Nandina', color woodblock print, c. 1900. Signed in Black ink with the artist’s red seal beneath, lower right. A fine impression on thin Japanese pa...

Naoko Matsubara, 'Winter Serenity' for the portfolio 'Solitude', woodcut, 1971, edition 100. An artist's proof apart from the numbered edition signed and annotated 'for dearest Kash...

John J. Guthrie, 'Mass for the Dead (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)', 1934, lithograph, edition 12. Signed, dated, titled, numbered 'III – XII', and annotated 'The Bridge of San Luis Re...

Ohara Koson, 'Flycatchers on snow-covered Nandina', color woodblock, 1929. Signed Shoson in the image, lower left with the artist’s red seal Shoson beneath the signature. A superb, r...

Ohara Koson, 'Egrets in Rain' also 'White Herons and Willow in Rain', color woodblock, 1926. Signed 'Shoson' with the artist's, red seal 'Shoson', lower right. A fine, early impress...

Ohara Koson, 'Cockatoo and Pomegranate', color woodblock print, 1927. Signed 'Shoson' with the artist's, red seal 'Shoson'. A fine, posthumous impression, with fresh colors and with...

Barbara Latham, 'Our Mexican Kitchen', wood engraving, edition not stated but small, 1932. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine richly-inked impression, on tan wove paper, with full m...

Barbara Latham, 'Bear Family', wood engraving, edition not stated, 1937. Signed in the block, lower left. Dated in the block, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream w...

Dorothy Bowman, Venetian Night No 1, serigraph, edition 65, 1960. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 65' in pencil. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on cream...

Martin Lewis, 'Little Penthouse,' drypoint, edition 84 (including 9 proofs), 1931. McCarron 91. Signed in pencil 'Martin Lewis imp.' Annotated, 'proof on Dard Hunter paper: “Peter Mu...

Louis Lozowick, 'Bridges', lithograph, edition 10 (10 printed in 1972, 1929, Flint 21. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 1/X in pencil; the artist’s monogram in the stone, lower le...

Konishi Hirosada, 'Kurofune' (Kabuki scene), color woodblock print, Kamigata chūban triptych, 1851. Signed in black ink in each panel. A fine impression with fresh colors, on Japanes...

Beulah Stevenson, 'Flowers in Light', lithograph, c. 1935, edition 14. Signed and titled in pencil. Annotated 'Edition of 14 – print #3' in the bottom center margin, in pencil. A fin...

Erté, Romain de Tirtoff, 'Spider Web', serigraph, edition 300, 1980. Signed and numbered 65/300, in pencil. A superb impression, with fresh, rich colors and silver and gold metallic ...

Rudolph Ruzicka, 'Brooklyn Bridge, N. Y.', 1915, wood engraving, edition 35. Signed and annotated 'd. Sc. imp.' (designed, engraved, printed by the artist) in pencil. Numbered 14/35 ...

J. Jay McVicker, Dark Figure, color serigraph, edition 20, 1954. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 9/20 in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, painterly impression, with fresh colors, ...

Katsushika Hokusai (after), 'Mt. Fuji in a Thunderstorm', recarved from 'Fugaku Hyakker' (100 Views of Mt. Fuji), Vol. II. Signed Hokusai in black ink, lower right with the artist’s ...

Edouard Benedictus, 'Variations, plate 20' from the portfolio 'Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches', color pochoir, edition not stated, 1923. Signed in th...

Edouard Benedictus, 'Variations, plate 19' from the portfolio 'Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches', color pochoir, edition not stated, 1923. Signed in th...

Edouard Benedictus, 'Variations, plate 18' from the portfolio 'Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches', color pochoir, edition not stated, 1923. Signed in th...

Edouard Benedictus, 'Variations, plate 17' from the portfolio 'Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches', color pochoir, edition not stated, 1923. Signed in th...

Edouard Benedictus, 'Variations, plate 15' from the portfolio 'Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches', color pochoir, edition not stated, 1923. Signed in th...

Edouard Benedictus, 'Variations, plate 14' from the portfolio 'Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches', color pochoir, edition not stated, 1923. Signed in th...

Edouard Benedictus, 'Variations, plate 1' from the portfolio 'Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches', color pochoir, edition not stated, 1923. Signed in the...

Edouard Benedictus, 'Variations, plate 9' from the portfolio 'Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches', color pochoir, edition not stated, 1923. Signed in the...

Edouard Benedictus, 'Variations, plate 8' from the portfolio 'Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches', color pochoir, edition not stated, 1923. Signed in the...

Edouard Benedictus, 'Variations, plate 5' from the portfolio 'Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches', color pochoir, edition not stated, 1923. Signed in the...

Edouard Benedictus, 'Variations, plate 1' from the portfolio 'Variations Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches', color pochoir, edition not stated, 1923. Signed in the...

Clare Leighton, 'Washing Clothes, Corsica, 1934, wood engraving, edition 60, Boston Public Library 258. Signed, titled, and numbered '20/60' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impress...

Mori Sōsen, 'Deer Beneath Falling Maple Leaves', color woodblock print after the artist's watercolor, 1899. Signed Sosen in black ink with the artist's seal in red, lower right. A su...

Kamei Tobei, 'First Snow of the Year at Kitano (Kitano Hatsu Yuki)', color woodblock print, c. 1930s. Signed Kamei Tobei in black ink, with the artist red seal Eiichi (the artist’s g...

Ohara Koson, 'Pair of Mallard Ducks', color woodblock, c. 1920s. Signed 'Koson' in black ink with the artist’s red seal beneath, lower right. A superb, skillfully-inked impression, w...

Jacques La Grange, 'The Magic Is Ahead, 1870', color woodcut, edition 500, 1934. Signed and numbered '21/500' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper, wi...

Jacques La Grange, 'Columbia Passes Shamrock II', color woodcut, edition 500, 1934. Signed and numbered '25/500' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper,...

Jacques La Grange, 'Sappho Passes Livonia, 1871', color woodcut, edition 500, 1934. Signed and numbered '25/500' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper,...

Jacques La Grange, 'The Yankee', color woodcut, edition 500, 1934. Signed and numbered '25/500' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 ...

Jacques La Grange, 'The Magic Is Ahead, 1870', color woodcut, edition 500, 1934. Signed and numbered '25/500' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper, wi...

Jacques La Grange, 'Racing in a Storm, 1885', color woodcut, edition 500, 1934. Signed and numbered '25/500' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper, wit...

Jacques La Grange, 'The Start of the Race, 1899', color woodcut, edition 500, 1934. Signed and numbered '21/500' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper,...

Toshi Yoshida, 'Woman In Bagdad', color woodblock print, 1954, edition not stated. Signed, dated, and titled, in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on cream-wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1/2 to 7/8 inch); minor toning in the margins, otherwise in excellent condition. Self-carved, self-printed. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 14 13/16 x 9 7/8 inches; sheet size 16 1/4 x 11 inches (oban tate-e). Exhibited: 'Color in Relief: Wood Block Prints from Origins to Abstraction', Georgetown University Library, 2016. Literature: Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn, 1959, pp.168-169; Eugene M. Skibbe, Yoshida Toshi 1911-1999: Diversity, Change, and Continuity in the Yoshida Art Tradition, Andon 53, Society for Japanese Arts, 1996, pp. 5-14; Kendall H. Brown, Yoshida Toshi: The Nature of Tranquility, in, A Japanese Legacy: Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002, pp. 72-80; p. 91, no. 55 Exhibition: Japan & Beyond: The Yoshida Family Legacy in Japanese Woodblock Prints, curated by Kendall Brown and Quyen Le, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford, CA. February 3, 2004 - March 27, 2004. Collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, Minneapolis Institute of Art, University of California Merced, University of Oregon (The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints). ABOUT THE ARTIST Yoshida Toshi (1911-1995) began training at the age of 14 under his father, Yoshida Hiroshi, one of the most acclaimed artists of the Japanese 20th-century printmaking revival movement shin-hanga (’new prints’ created in the traditional collaborative system of Japanese printmaking). He studied from 1932 to 1935 at the Taiheiyo-Gakai (Pacific Painting Association), co-founded by his father. Before the Pacific War, Toshi traveled widely with his father in Asia, Europe, Egypt, and the United States. Later he continued his worldwide travels, especially in Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Africa. Following his father’s death in 1950, Toshi began his very personal exploration of abstraction, joining the sôsaku-hanga movement (’creative prints’ wherein the artist is creator, carver, and printer). During this richly creative period (1954 to 1973), Toshi created over three hundred nonobjective designs. In the early 1960s, Toshi returned to large-scale figurative work, concentrating on scenes of African wildlife in its natural habitat, and in 1984 he published the first of many illustrated children's books on African wildlife (Dobutsu Ehon Shirizu), which he continued to produce until the early 1990s. In 1966 he published a book with the artist Yuki Rei...

Hailey Lever 'Storm Clouds Over Douarnenez, Brittany, France', watercolor, 1904. Signed 'HL' in pencil, lower left. Titled and dated in pencil, on the original mat backing. A fine sp...

Hailey Lever 'Hyde Park, London, England, 1904', watercolor, 1904. Signed 'HL' in pencil, lower right. Titled and dated in pencil, on the original mat backing. A fine spontaneous wor...

John Marin, 'Bridge, Venice', etching, 1907, Zigrosser 59. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated 'Marin 07' in the plate, lower center; titled 'Le Pont Venezia' in the plate lower right. A superb, delicately inked impression, on antique cream laid paper, the full sheet with margins (5/8 to 3/4 inches); slight lightening to the paper within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. Printed by George Haskell, New York. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 5 x 7 1/16 inches; sheet size 6 5/8 x 8 11/16 inches. Literature: 'John Marin: Peintre Graveur', Charles Saunier, L' Art Décoratif, Paris, January, 1908 (illustrated). 'The Complete Etchings of John Marin', Carl Zigrosser, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969 (illustrated). Impressions of this work are in the following museum collections: Art Institute of Chicago (Stieglitz Collection), Cleveland Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST "How to paint the landscape: First, you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape." —John Marin “I would say to a person who thinks he wants to paint, go and look at the way a bird flies, a man walks, the sea moves. There are certain laws, certain formulae. You have to know them. They are nature's laws and you have to follow them just as nature follows them... You don't create the formulae... You see them." —John Marin, conversation with Dorothy Norman...

Lyonel Feininger, 'Die Architektur' (Architecture), also 'Stadtbild' (Cityscape), woodcut, edition – proofs only in 1920; 50 in 1921. Prasse W 232. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white Japan paper, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 6 x 8 7/8 inches (152 x 229 mm); sheet size 9 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches (241 x 302 mm). No. 11 of the portfolio 'Zwolf Holzschnitte von Lyonel Feininger', 1921. Provenance: Peter Deitsch collection; exhibited Weimar Museum, 1968. Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of: the Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, Mass.), Bauhaus-Archiv (Germany), Hamburger Kunsthalie (Germany), Pfaizische Landesgewerbeanstalt (Germany), Kaiser Wilhelm Museum (Germany), Staatliche Graphische Sammlung (Germany), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Lyonel Feininger was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892. After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin. One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral...

Louis Lozowick, 'Steel Valley', lithograph, 1936; edition 15; edition 250 AAA (1942); Flint 141. Signed in pencil, with the artist's monogram in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly...

Hajime Namiki, 'Tree Scene 159', color woodcut, edition 200, 2022. Signed in pencil and with the artist’s red seal. Titled, numbered '37/200' and dated, in pencil. A very fine impres...

Werner Drewes, 'Shimmering Waters', color woodcut, 1960, edition 16 in 1960, and 210 in 1962, Rose III.209. Signed, dated, and numbered I2/210 in pencil. Annotated 415 (the artist's ...

Théodore Géricault, 'Garçon donnant l'avoine à un cheval dételé' (Boy Giving Oats to a Hitched Horse), lithograph, 1822, 2nd state of 2, Delteil 89...

Ohtsu Kazuyuki, 'Kyo no Aki - Komyō-ji' (Komyō-ji temple at Autumn in Kyoto), large-scale color woodblock print, ed. 100, 2012. Signed, titled in Japanese, numbered 78/100, and date...

Ira Moskowitz, 'Preparing the Sand Painting', lithograph, 1946, edition 30, Czestochowski 205. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the stone...

John DePol, 'Some Garden Accessories', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1979, proofs only from the block created in 1979, edition 200, 1983. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Signed in...

Charles Turzak, 'The Workers (No. 1)', woodcut, edition c. 50, c. 1935. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove...

Charles Turzak, 'The Workers (No. 2)', woodcut, edition 50, c. 1935. Signed and numbered 2/50 in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margin...

Charles Turzak, 'Under the Bridge', color woodcut, edition c. 50, 1934. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove Japan paper; th...

James Lesesne Wells, 'Sisters', linocut, edition not stated but small, 1928. Signed, titled, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A fine impression on off-white wove Japan paper, with wide margins (1 7/8 to 3 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by the artist. Very scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 8 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches (208 x 171 mm); sheet size 13 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (343 x 273 mm). Exhibition and Literature: 'Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection,' The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, extensive touring exhibition, 1998-2000. Collections: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (Anacostia Community Museum). ABOUT THE ARTIST “Wells is more than an artist with a deep concern for his fellow man. He carries many of his themes a step further into an apocalyptic world, a world of revelation and shifting lights. … He works on large blocks in a bold free style. … His work has a vigor, therefore, that is not often used in the medium today.” —Jacob Kainen (painter, critic, and collector) from Richard J. Powell’s 1986 essay Phoenix Ascending: The Art of James Lesesne Wells. James Lesesne Wells was an American painter, printmaker, educator, and pioneering figure of the Harlem Renaissance, whose work established a vital connection between African heritage, modernist form, and African American cultural identity. Known for his innovative use of linoleum and woodblock printing, Wells played a key role in shaping 20th-century African American art and inspired countless students throughout his lengthy career as a teacher at Howard University. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Wells' early exposure to the arts came through church and community, where African American cultural traditions were central. He pursued formal artistic training at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania (earning a B.A. in 1924), followed by studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Barnes Foundation, where he encountered European modernists as well as traditional African sculpture, which profoundly influenced his style. Wells moved to New York in the late 1920s, swiftly immersing himself in the lively artistic and intellectual scene of Harlem. There, he became associated with artists, writers, and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, contributing to the growth of Black cultural identity. Considered a mentor to many famed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Wells served as director of a summer art workshop in Harlem where his assistants included Charles Alston, Jacob Lawrence, and Palmer Hayden...

Edward Landon 'River View, color serigraph, 1942, edition 50, Ryan 159. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled, dated, and annotated '9 COLORS – 50 PRINTS' in the screen,...

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, ...

'Riders at Sundown', aquatint and drypoint, edition 75, 1953, Kloss 451. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Artist's Proof' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmospheric impression, in ...

Clinton Adams, 'September Still Life', lithograph, 1956, edition 20. A superb impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 3 1/8 inches);...

Benton Spruance, 'A Wind is Rising and the Rivers Flow', color lithograph, 1945, edition 40, Fine and Looney 242. Signed, dated, and titled, and annotated 'Ed 40' in pencil. A fine ...