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Walter DuBois Richards, The Lobster Float
By Walter DuBois Richards
Located in New York, NY
Ohio-born Walter DuBois Richards (1907-2006) was educated at the Cleveland School of Art. He re-located to New York around 1933 where he had a successful career as a commercial artis...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Owen Weiri (also Wiiri), The Coal Miner
Located in New York, NY
Owen Weiri (also Wiiri, 1916-1974) was a Finnish-American who served in the Spanish Civil War and then, during World War ll, in the American armed forces as a marine.
Industrial sub...
Category
1940s Ashcan School Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Aubervilliers (France)
Located in New York, NY
Trying my best to decipher the name I get Leo Tanenbaum. Well, (Sergeant) Sgt. Leo Tanenbaum. Sorry that I haven't been able to find a mid-century artist with this name. It's such an...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Kevin B. O'Callahan, Butler Fish (also known as Frog Fish)
By Kevin B. O'Callahan
Located in New York, NY
The title appears in pencil at the left bottom margin, in another hand. The print is monogrammed in the plate at the lower right.
A Buffalo native, Kevin O'Callahan studied at the C...
Category
1930s Aesthetic Movement Landscape Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Kevin B. O'Callahan, (Street Scene) (Buffalo, NY?)
By Kevin B. O'Callahan
Located in New York, NY
This (Street Scene) is undoubtedly O'Callahan's hometown of Buffalo, NY, where he lived and spent most of his career. The artist's name appears in pencil at the bottom edge on the re...
Category
1930s Aesthetic Movement Landscape Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Kevin B. O'Callahan, (Exotic Temple)
By Kevin B. O'Callahan
Located in New York, NY
This (Exotic Temple) is monogrammed in the plate at the lower right.
A Buffalo, New York native, Kevin O'Callahan studied at the Carnegie Institute and worked on the WPA. He is kno...
Category
1920s Aesthetic Movement Landscape Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Fred Nagler, (Road to Calvary)
By Fred Nagler
Located in New York, NY
The etching (Road to Calvary) is signed in pencil.
It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Nagler did use occasionally. Here it emphasizes the meagerness of the scene. T...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Fred Nagler, (Sheep under a Tree)
By Fred Nagler
Located in New York, NY
The etching (Sheep under a Tree) is signed in pencil and annotated (in lower margin) '3rd State, 4 proofs, JN imp.' in pencil.
It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Na...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Fred Nagler, (Crucifixion)
By Fred Nagler
Located in New York, NY
The etching (Crucifixion) is signed and titled in pencil. Signed 'Fred' and possibly dated '27' in the image at lower left.
It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Nagl...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Fred Nagler, Harlem River (New York City)
By Fred Nagler
Located in New York, NY
Massachusetts-born Fred Nagler studied at the Art Students League from 1914 to 1917, with George Bridgeman and Robert Henri, and eventually became a member of the Board of Control. ...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Carolyn McArthur, (New York City Park)
Located in New York, NY
This is a modernist view of a New York City park. It's interesting because we're given so much detail and yet it's drawing style also keep things hidden. Really I think it's about Cu...
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Lucile Haynes, (Two Women with Child in Baby Carriage)
Located in New York, NY
It's clear to me that that baby carriage is so beautifully drawn that it could be re-constructed from here if necessary.
Without really knowing anything about Lucile Haynes I'm sure...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Dorothy Morton, Marianne
Located in New York, NY
Dorothy Morton was born in New Zealand. The date is usually listed as 1905, but it also appears at 1890. She died there in 1983.
It's hard to look at an mid-twentieth century intagl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Irving Guyer, Sleepers
By Irving Guyer
Located in New York, NY
Classic American Depression-Era subject meets the French landscape? Clearly the Guyer was looking at both Jean-Francois Millet and Vincent Van Gogh, who together informed this image....
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Alicia Wiencek Fiene, Jewish Student
By Alicia Wiencek Fiene
Located in New York, NY
Work by Alicia Wiencek (Mrs. Edward Fiene) is generally extremely scarce. This print comes up from time to time and was made an actual edition (of 8) at a time when many artists didn...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alfred Bendiner, (Baseball Hitter and Pitcher -- The Philadelphia Phillies?)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Of course it's possible that these baseball players aren't from a Philadelphia team, but I doubt it. There was so much drama and intrigue with both the Philadelphia Phillies...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Alfred Bendiner, (Supper at the Oak Room, Plaza Hotel, NYC)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Bendiner always took drawing materials with him when he traveled. And a beautiful piece of 'found' paper was never wasted. (Once in Greece on a bus trip he had to acquire paper from ...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Alfred Bendiner, ...And So..., 1948, Republican Convention nominating Dewey
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
The full title really should be ...And So I Give Your The Next President of the United States. The scene is the Republican Convention, in Philadelphia, in 1948. There are so many fas...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alfred Bendiner, Johnny Hodges (Johnny Hodges, Bass Fiddle & Traps)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Did Bendiner ever miss a performance, show, concert, play? Was there anyone he didn't know?
This double-side drawing in blue crayon shows Johnny Hodges (jazz saxophonist extraordina...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Alfred Bendiner, La Alsacienne (pair)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Leave it to the Bendiners to find an Alsatian restaurant in Paris (La Taverne Alsacienne) and use it's stationary to such a great end! And thank goodness that the paper required two ...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Alfred Bendiner, Place St. Andre des Arts (Paris)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
The Place St. Andre des Arts, on the Left Bank in Paris, would have been a natural environment for Bendiner. It was the Latin Quarter, just south of the Louvre and near everything im...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alfred Bendiner, Flic et Bonne (Gendarme and Nursemaid)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
The world was Bendiner's oyster, but here he shows us a all we need in a small corner of Paris. It's charming and safe: the 'Flic et Bonne' (gendarme and nursemaid) are together, goi...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alfred Bendiner, Rue des Matrys (Paris)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
World traveler that he was, Bendiner was clearly at home in Paris. He found everyone fascinating and has made this print a compendium of local characters and types. Nothing escapes h...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Blanche Grambs, (Cooking Still Life: Bread, Olives, Potato, Mushrooms)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions. This drawing was probably for a magazine, perhaps House and Garden or House Beautiful. It is signed and dated in pencil on the...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Blanche Grambs, (Study for a Souffle)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions.
The symmetrical nature of the drawing suggests it was for a book or magazine project with facing pages -- possibly a cookboo...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Blanche Grambs, (Shell Fish: Lobster, Crab, and Shrimp)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions.
This ink drawing with a lobster, crab, and a shrimp, was probably for a cookbook; the sheet is cut in a free-form, modernist...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Blanche Grambs, (Lazy Susan)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions. This was probably for a cookbook.
The dimensions are for the drawing. The sheet is somewhat larger, 7 x 6 1/2 inches.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Ann Nooney, (New York City Scene)
By Ann Nooney
Located in New York, NY
The dimensions are for the image; there are large margins. This lithograph is signed in pencil.
A native New Yorker, Ann Nooney (1900-1970) recorded the urban scene while on the Works Progress...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Henry Ernst Schnakenberg, (Still Life with Scull)
By Henry Ernst Schnakenberg
Located in New York, NY
Henry Schnakenberg is mostly known for New York City scenes. This is clearly a departure.
It is signed at the lower left and dated '4-53' on the r...
Category
1950s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
James Penney, Police Station, Lawrence, Kansas
By James Penney
Located in New York, NY
James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints.
Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NYC at the Art Students League. Th...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
James Penney, Test Stone, Touche
By James Penney
Located in New York, NY
James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints.
Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NYC at the Art Students League. The New-York Historical Society and the Library of Congress both have collections of his work.
Signed, titled, and dated, and annotated 'Test #1' in pencil.
Note entirely sure what's going on here...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
James Penney, Point of Order
By James Penney
Located in New York, NY
James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints.
Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NYC at the Art Students League. The New-York Historical Society and the Library of Congress both have collections of his work.
Signed, titled, and dated.
Especially like the test marks at the lower right and the way the lawyer is leaning/relaxing on the judge...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
James Penney, Corridor
By James Penney
Located in New York, NY
James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints.
Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NY...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Kachinsky, Cloudy Day
Located in New York, NY
Russian-born and European-educated Alexander Kachinsky was a designer of stage sets (for the Ballet Russe), furniture, and commercial interiors. His prints are in the collection of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian American Art museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. He came to this country in the 1920s.
An impression of this subject in the Smithsonian.
"Cloudy Day," about 1940, is an idyllic country scene, possibly the artist's White Plains...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Alexander Kachinsky, Graphite Factory
Located in New York, NY
Russian-born and European-educated Alexander Kachinsky was a designer of stage sets (for the Ballet Russe), furniture, and commercial interiors. His prints are in the collection of t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Alexander Kachinsky, Uptown, NYC
Located in New York, NY
Russian-born and European-educated Alexander Kachinsky was a designer of stage sets (for the Ballet Russe), furniture, and commercial interiors. His prints are in the collection of t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Alice Earl Lyall, (Abstraction -- with Figure)
Located in New York, NY
This print was made for the American Abstract Artists Portfolio, 1937. All the images were lithographs made on zinc plates. Usually they were signed or initialed in the image -- on t...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
John W. Gregory, North End Street Scene (Boston)
By John W. Gregory
Located in New York, NY
Boston's North End is a charming Italian neighborhood with small buildings and twisting streets. The artist, John W. Gregory, captures the feeling of a pleasant afternoon visiting th...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ray Kaiser, (Abstracted Seated Woman)
Located in New York, NY
This print was made for the American Abstract Artists Portfolio, 1937. All the images were lithographs made on zinc plates. Usually they were signed or initialed in the image -- on the plate, as this one is. As a group they explored abstraction in the 1930s, while maintaining their individual styles. The plan was to make an edition of 500 portfolios although it seems highly unlikely that this was accomplished. The Whitney Museum of American Art has a set.
The dimensions, 12 x 9 1/4 inches, are for the sheet; this work signed and dated in the plate.
Ray Kaiser...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
M. Kennedy, (Interior)
Located in New York, NY
This print was made for the American Abstract Artists Portfolio, 1937. All the images were lithographs made on zinc plates. Usually they were signed or initialed in the image -- on t...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harry Wickey, Stallion and Mare
By Harry Wickey
Located in New York, NY
Also a sculptor, Harry Wickey was a master printmaker and Art Students League teacher.
This rural scene pre-dates the much better known, very close subject, John Steuart Curry's li...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adja Yunkers, (Small Abstraction)
By Adja Yunkers
Located in New York, NY
The Adja Yunkers abstraction is a lithograph made in the first year of the iconic printmaking workshop Tamarind, founded by the great June Wayne (with Clinton Adams and Garo Antreasi...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, A Tuscan Farm
By Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Located in New York, NY
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan's small, even 'miniaturist' etching, 'A Tuscan Farm,' features an idyllic view of a scene he would have encountered on his European...
Category
Early 1900s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
A, Felip, Desolation
Located in New York, NY
the artist, A. Felip is a mystery. The title, Desolation, says it all. Further, this very compelling, post-war subject is so well drawn it has be be by an experienced artist. And th...
Category
1950s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Don Freeman, (At the Booking Desk)
By Don Freeman
Located in New York, NY
Don Freeman is best known for his paintings and works on paper of New York City's theatre industry: the signage, the stages and sets, the actors, the costumers and ushers, anything a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Charles Locke, McCosh Walk, Princeton University
By Charles Locke
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph is signed in pencil under the image at the lower right. Just above that, in the image, are the artist's initials and the date, 1942.
This well-known walkway on the P...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Norman Barr, Farm, North Bronx (NYC)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, India Ink
Norman Barr, Coney Island (large), 1940
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, India Ink
Norman Barr, Delancey Street (NYC)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, India Ink
Norman Barr, Fulton St. Fish Market (NYC)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
Although Barr was on the Mural Project of the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Messick, (The Newspaper Story)
By Ben Messick
Located in New York, NY
Ben Messick perfectly captures the world of the 'Ashcan' period: Everyday life, local characters, people we could still meet today. He could draw like a son-of-a-gun! And this is a v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Messick, Coffee and Donuts (Sinkers & Java)
By Ben Messick
Located in New York, NY
Ben Messick perfectly captures the world of the 'Ashcan' period: Everyday life, local characters, people we could still meet today. He could draw like a son-of-a-gun! The date of 194...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harry Shokler, Island Harbor
By Harry Shokler
Located in New York, NY
Harry Shokler used serigraphy to great advantage in this landscape. It's colorful and detailed.
It is signed in the image at the lower left. When printmakers began making serigraphs...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Emil Ganso, (Reclining Nude)
By Emil Ganso
Located in New York, NY
A classic Emil Ganso nude. Quite large, the sheet is 14 1/8 x 21 inches and the image goes all the way across the sheet from left to right. Very delicately drawn - especially for Ganso.
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Harry Sternberg, Girlfriends, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography.
The deluxe editions of...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Harry Sternberg, (Chasing) Girlfriends, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography.
The deluxe editions of...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Harry Sternberg, Mount Zion Cemetery, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography.
The deluxe editions of...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Harry Sternberg, Whitney and ACA, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography.
The deluxe editions of...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Harry Sternberg, Commercial High School from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography.
The deluxe editions of...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ann Nooney, (Loading the Lumber Barge, NYC)
By Ann Nooney
Located in New York, NY
The dimensions are for the image. There are large margins. Signed in pencil.
A native New Yorker, Ann Nooney (1900-1970), recorded the urban scene while on the Works Progress Admini...
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
