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Oscar Weissbuchm Westchester Hills (NY), WPA-era wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
New York City native Oscar Weissbuch (1904-1948), attended the Yale University School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League, NY. He participated in the NYC-WPA printmaking project...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ted Witonski, NYC (Chelsea) skyline intaglio
Located in New York, NY
An Ohio native Witonski made his home in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and this subject may well be a Chelsea scene. But mostly it is a homage to intaglio printmaking. It...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Intaglio
David Feinstein, Visitors' Day, WPA lithograph of NYC Public School
Located in New York, NY
David Feintstein is a master draughtsman working in the genre of everyday life in New York City. His style is highly original, especially in this work. Here he's used Visitors' Day (...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ethel Katz, Fur Sources, New Deal-era lithograph of sweatshop
Located in New York, NY
This is a classic New-Deal image: claustrophobic sweatshop with a row of hunched tailors. The windows and lamps offer light at least. But there is a major difference between this and...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Edward Laning, Sketch for Sheraton East Hotel Mid-Century Mural of Ancient Myths
By Edward Laning
Located in New York, NY
This mural depicting ancient myths was designed for the Hotel Ambassador, a skyscraper at 345 Park Avenue, NYC; the building was converted to the Sheraton East in 1958. It was demolished in 1966. It could only be mid-century American!
Signed, titled, and annotated, 'Scale 2" = 1' in ink.
Edward Laning is largely known as a mural artist. His series The History of the Printed Word is installed at the New York Public Library at 42nd Street, New York City, and Building of the Transcontinental Railroad Mural, is in the Railroad Museum, Ogden, Utah. Laning was briefly a student of Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League, New York. They were lifelong colleagues and had studios on Union Square near friends Isabel Bishop, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, and Raphael Soyer. As a group they were the Fourteenth Street School...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Minna Citron, Lambs' Creel
By Minna Citron
Located in New York, NY
This serene subject, the Lambs' Creel relates to Minna Citron's mural project focusing on the Tennessee Valley Authority. It was such a new ...
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ted Davies, El Station (New York City), woodcut
By Ted Davies
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s woodcuts were getting bigger and bigger. This one isn't gigantic, but at an image size of 17 x 11 inches it is substantial. And of course NYC's El Trains and their stati...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
J.B. Dolitro? Bedtime Story. Male French WWII Soldiers w. Kepis, Drinks, Cigars
Located in New York, NY
Clearly an ironic title, 'Bedtime Story,' conjures up homey childhood experiences -- not over-sized, cigar-smoking, and alcohol-abusing, French soldiers.
The artist who made Bedti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
J.B. Dolitro? Company Party. Male French WWII Soldiers w. Kepis and Dancing
Located in New York, NY
The artist who made Company Party. (Male French WWII Soldiers with Kepis and Dancing), about 1939, is unknown. It could be J. B. Dolitro, but that's just a guess and a deep Google se...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Clinton Hill, Paris, July, 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, Paris, Oct., 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, Firenze (Florence, Italy), 1952, drawing, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images. This abstraction references Florence, Italy, where he studied in the early 1950s.
He lived in SoHo, New York, a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, Paris, Oct., 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Edward Laning, Joe Jones Asleep
By Edward Laning
Located in New York, NY
This is a World War II drawing of the Missouri artist Joe Jones (1909-1963) by the New York artist Edward Laning (1906-1981). A typed note reads “Drawn in th...
Category
1940s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Jack Henderson, Circus
By Jack Henderson
Located in New York, NY
This painting is signed at the lower right. The frame adds a few inches to the size and was selected by the artist.
Jack Henderson (1931-1998) taught at the Art Students League for many years and had a studio in at 30 East 14th Street, New York City. In that building were many other artists including Henderson's teacher and long-time collaborator, Edward Laning. A Kansas City native, Henderson was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He continued the Miller/Laning tradition of travel to Italy to study the masters of the Renaissance and the goal of fine figure painting as the ultimate artistic achievement. A version of his monumental triptych, New York in Ruin, 1967, is in the collection of the New York Landmarks Commission. Work by Jack Henderson was shown at the Susan Teller Gallery...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jack Henderson, Exit
By Jack Henderson
Located in New York, NY
The frame adds a few inches to the size and was selected by the artist.
Jack Henderson (1931-1998) taught at the Art Students League for many years and had a studio in at 30 East 14th Street, New York City. In that building were many other artists including Henderson's teacher and long-time collaborator, Edward Laning. A Kansas City native, Henderson was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He continued the Miller/Laning tradition of travel to Italy to study the masters of the Renaissance and the goal of fine figure painting as the ultimate artistic achievement. A version of his monumental triptych, New York in Ruin, 1967, is in the collection of the New York Landmarks Commission. Work by Jack Henderson was shown at the Susan Teller Gallery...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Clinton Hill, (Nude #2), 1950, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. From 1949 to 1951 he attended the Brooklyn...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, (Nude #8), 1952, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. In 1951 Hill studied at the Academie de la...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, (Nude #1), 1951, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. In 1951 Hill studied at the Academie de la...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, (Nude #5), 1951, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. From 1949 to 1951 Hill attended the Brookl...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, Ocotillo (Cactus), 1962, woodcut, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor. Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, he joined the US Navy during World War II and beca...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Clinton Hill, Title Page II, 1956, woodcut, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor. Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, he joined the US Navy during World War II and beca...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Clinton Hill, Arroyo, 1962, woodcut, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor. Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, he joined the US Navy during World War II and beca...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Clinton Hill, (Vertical Landscape), 1960, woodcut, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor. Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, he joined the US Navy during World War II and beca...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Clinton Hill, FL (Florence, Italy), 1952, gouache drawing, an abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill, who lived in SoHo, New York, was a frequent Gallery visitor. Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, he joined the US Navy during World War II and became a command...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Millard Sheets, Family Flats, 1935 (Los Angeles, CA, Depression-era tenements
By Millard Sheets
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and numbered, in pencil. The proposed edition was 100 although it is very unlikely that these were printed.
This large and intensely urban lithograph, Family Flats, by Millard Sheets, portrays the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles. Now drastically changed, it's still home to the Angels Flight funicular railway built in 1901.
Sheets (1907-1989) was a painter, watercolorist, printmaker, mosaic artist, and teacher, who worked in Southern California. He attended the Chouinard Art institute and studied with F. Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harry R. Rein, Competition, 1936-39, WPA linocut
Located in New York, NY
If ever there was an image that fit the description of 'Ashcan,' Harry Rein's Competition, made for the NYC WPA, is clearly it!
Some impressions have the WPA sstamp, including the o...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Linocut
David Feinstein, Negro District, Brooklyn, 1936-39, WPA lithograph
Located in New York, NY
David Feinstein's Negro District, Brooklyn, a lithograph of 1936-39, is a marvel. It's a construction of every detail the artist could think of to show the nature of the locale: The ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hyman J. Warsager, Canarsie Meadows, 1936-39, WPA lithograph
Located in New York, NY
An amazing New York City subject, Canarsie Meadows, is a lithograph by New York native Hyman J. Warsager (1909-1974). He was a painter and printmaker, technical innovator, and song w...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bernard Sanders, Young Girl (With Arms Crossed), about 1930
Located in New York, NY
Young Girl by Bernard Sanders (1906-1967) is a classic example of his masterful portraiture.
This is a drypoint. It is signed in pencil, titled in the lower left margin, and initial...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Bernard Sanders, (Two Young Girls), about 1925
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Sanders (1906-1967) was a master at suggesting layers of meaning. Here, at first glance, this is study of sisters, posed to show subtle differences in height and profile. But...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Bernard Sanders, Portrait of Woman (with Bun), about 1925
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Sanders (1906-1967) was an extremely gifted portrait artist. and a master at showing us the sitter's age.
This is clearly not a young woman. She's, well, early middle age? ...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Bernard Sanders, (Shaping the Coiffe, France), about 1925
Located in New York, NY
Clearly a scene in France, the Bernard Sanders is showing us a seamstress/lacemaker. She seems to be shaping a traditional coiffe (sometimes 'coif') -- an elaborate headpiece worn b...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Rudolf Häsler, The El, 1981, stipple engraving
Located in New York, NY
The Swiss-born Rudolf Häsler (1927-1999) lead a varied and busy artistic life, living and working in his native Switzerland, the United States, Spain, where he died, and for an exten...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Edward Laning, (Male Figures)
By Edward Laning
Located in New York, NY
This pencil drawing by master draughtsman Edward Laning has religious over tones. Perhaps it's a study for a deposition. There are male figures, both nude...
Category
1970s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Paul Klee, Garten Der Leidenschaft (Garden of Passion)
By Paul Klee
Located in New York, NY
Kornfeld 56. 50 published with the book Expressionismus Die Kunstwende, 1918, in addition to 54 earlier impressions. Signed and titled in pencil in bottom margin under image.
Category
1910s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Saul Raskin, The Cry of Union Square, about 1935
By Saul Raskin
Located in New York, NY
Saul Raskin's Cry of Union Square, has all my favorite things: a view of Union Square with S. Klein's department store on the right and a Chop Suey restaurant on the left. There's a ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Boris Margo, Holiday Card (Peace and Joy), 1962
By Boris Margo
Located in New York, NY
Boris Margo is one of the artists whose work is instantly identified with 'Mid-century American Modernism.' Usually abstract with a spiky surrealist edge, it speaks to extensive inno...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
Helen Greene Blumenschein, Snow Storm (New Mexico), 1932-36, lithograph
By Helen Greene Blumenschein
Located in New York, NY
Helen Greene Blumenschein was born in Brooklyn into a parents who were already professional artists. The family moved to Taos when Blumenschein was ten and they became part of the a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Luke Gwilliam (1911-1989), Compote and Fruit, 1950, woodcut
Located in New York, NY
Luke Gilliam has a highly unusual woodcut technique. Here it is used to contain a fruit plate in an impressionistically-inspired environment made up of earth tones. It's a fascinatin...
Category
1950s American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Luke Gwilliam (1911-1989), Mnemonic Form, 1974, woodcut
Located in New York, NY
Luke Gilliam has an unusual woodcut technique that he pairs with a complex object of his own creation. He uses technique to create a technical tour-de-force with the intriguing title...
Category
1970s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Sid Gotcliffe, Tompkins Square Park, about 1940
By Sid Gotcliffe
Located in New York, NY
British-born Sid Gotcliffe has made a powerfully poignant image in the lithograph Tompkins Square Park.
At the center sit three men dressed in black. Their clothes suggest they bel...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Christo, Wrapped Armchair, 1977, lithograph
By Christo
Located in New York, NY
It's wonderful for us to have work by Christo (1935-2020). He and Jeanne-Claude were the most international of artists while NYC based. In particular this lithograph, Wrapped Armchai...
Category
1970s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Grace Martin Taylor (Frame), (Town View), 1930, pastel, signed
Located in New York, NY
West Virginia native Grace Martin Taylor, artist for the brightly colored pastel (TownView), attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art S...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Dennis Corrigan, Brahms Amusing Himself, 1983, etching
Located in New York, NY
Really I have to believe that if you are as accomplished a composer as Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), you would have taken to driving without any problems at all. So perhaps this is a ...
Category
1980s American Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Dennis Corrigan, Nathaniel Hawthorne Posing with a Formally Dressed Gopher, 1978
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Corrigan gives us a fresh, admittedly whimsical, interpretation of the important nineteenth-century American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Known to most of us for the 'dark rom...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marsha Feigin, Slam, 1977, photo-etching of tennis player
Located in New York, NY
Marsha Feigin's print Slam, brings home the drama we all love about tennis. She GETS IT!
There's something about the energy and maybe torque of the body here that makes us think "I ...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Romare Bearden, Dreams of Exile (Green Snake), 1971, by African-American, signed
By Romare Bearden
Located in New York, NY
A North Carolina native, the African-American Romare Bearden spent most of his career in New York City. For several decades he was a social worker in Harlem. But of course he traveled widely, read and studied with great care, and created a phenomenal body of work.
This 1971 lithograph is a good example of his oeuvre -- far reaching though it may be. It speaks to his skill and knowledge of contemporary printmaking while featuring a complex subject representative of his interests.
A lush jungles is packed with flora and fauna. 'Green Snake' is part of the title and there is a particularly winsome reptile showing up so well on the sand-colored border between the dense forest and the aquamarine water. There are of course many other land and sea animals showing themselves -- even a curious ginger cat...
Category
1970s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Morris Graves, Abandon Nest, 1950, drawing
By Morris Graves
Located in New York, NY
This is a complicated drawing, even for Morris Graves (1910-2001), known as the Mystical Painter of Nature.
Graves tried to be sensitive to the slightest tremor or breeze that a sma...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Michael Knigin, Golden Eagle, 1979, lithograph
By Michael Knigin
Located in New York, NY
Michael Knigin, an extremely skilled draftsman, rides a fine line between realism and surrealism. Here he has conceived of an elegant and emotional eagle, a national symbol. In stark...
Category
1970s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Root, The Arrival, 1982
Located in New York, NY
This exact subject is in the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum (OR). Root also has works in the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, and the Smithsonian Museum American Art M...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Herbert Fink, Beach, 1976, stipple engraving
Located in New York, NY
Providence, Rhode Island, native Herbert Fink is known for his prints, drawings and paintings of the figure.
This particular image is in a labor-intensive stipple engraving techniqu...
Category
1970s American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
David Driesbach, Lucky Mashed Potatoes, 1972
Located in New York, NY
David Driesbach studied at the University of Illinois in 1940 and 41. In 1942 he enlisted in the Marines and served until 1945. His artistic education ...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
Werner Drewes, Winter, 1933, modernist woodcut
By Werner Drewes
Located in New York, NY
A modernist fantasy winter scene created by Werner Drewes, this print brings key aspects of the period together. His cubist-inspired woodcut technique is utilized here to bring the s...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Tobias Musicant, Gates to the City
By Tobias Musicant
Located in New York, NY
Any work by Tobias Musicant is terrific. These New Jersey-made, mid-century near abstractions are generally scarce. The pieces I know are master works of American Modernism. Cubist c...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
Maurice Robert Dey, Rainbow on the Hudson
Located in New York, NY
Biographical information on Maurice Robert Dey is hard to find. He was born on 1899 (or maybe 1900), in Switzerland. As an adult he lived and worked in Woodstock, the NY artists' c...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Linocut
Bernard Sanders, (Abstraction with Sun)
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Sanders (1906-1967) was a master of minimalist prints. In several I've posted the subject is really atmosphere and tension.
This could be r...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Bernard Sanders, (Lovers)
Located in New York, NY
Clearly Sanders (1906-1967) was a master at these minimalist figurative prints. It's all about atmosphere and tension.
Perhaps reflecting the print here, (Lovers), he, in fact, w...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Bernard Sanders, (Mesopotamian Figure)
Located in New York, NY
Clearly Sanders was looking at ancient Mesopotamian figures. Even the elaborate feathered wings can be found there -- made about 5000 years ago!
There's an initial 'S' in the plate...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Bernard Sanders, (Nude Woman with Orb)
Located in New York, NY
Sander's figures are captivating. Here a women stands facing right, just touching, and holding still, a globe shape, on a flat surface.
It was difficult getting the color to show p...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
