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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
Ann Nooney, (Demolition with Windows, NYC)
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 Wo...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ann Nooney, (Carnival Workers Resting, NYC)
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 Wo...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harry Wickey, Snug Harbor (Riverside Drive, NYC)
By Harry Wickey
Located in New York, NY
The sailors are still in uniform in this post-World War I print of young people meeting at a semi-secluded park setting, Snug Harbor, along Riverside Drive...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Mary Lightfoot, Street Scene in Taos
Located in New York, NY
Mary Lightfoot was born in Ravenna, Texas. She studied at the College of Industrial Arts in Denton and the North Texas State Teachers College prior to receiving a master of arts degree from Columbia University. Her entire teaching career was with the Dallas Public School system; she summered in Europe...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ann Michalov, A View of the Park
Located in New York, NY
Originally from Illinois, Ann Michalov worked in Spokane, Seattle and Portland, where she finally settled. This lithograph however really looks very like ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rockwell Kent, Four Bookplates (on one sheet)
By Rockwell Kent
Located in New York, NY
Proof sheet with four wood engraved book plates by Rockwell Kent. Possibly for a book on this subject published in 1937. There are pencil numbers under each image that probably indic...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Joseph Hirsch, (Cutting the Beard)
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
A man with lots of whiskers is trimming his facial hair while looking in a mirror. The male figure and his beard are carefully drawn but Hirsch has cleverly just briefly sketched in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harold E. Keeler, Water Fall
Located in New York, NY
Harold E. Keeler worked in Hollywood as a set designer. That seems especially important here because the Water Fall looks a little as though it could be a w...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Linocut
Alfred Bendiner, Sweet Innocence
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
No matter the seriousness of the subject, everything is always beautifully drawn on the lithographic stone by Bendiner, but in this instance the negative space is exploited amazingly.
This courtroom...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Norman Kent, The Bentley-Kent House, 1831
Located in New York, NY
Signed titled, and dated, in pencil, and annotated in lower margin "My great-great grandfather's house, built in Bentleyville, Ohio in 1831; torn down in 1956."
The wood engraving i...
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Thomas Dembovsky (sp?), (Cubist Musician)
Located in New York, NY
This full-on view of a musician and his bass (also known as an upright bass or string bass), has an air of calm befitting the lowest-pitched bowed instrum...
Category
1930s Cubist Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pamela Bianco, Fruit Piece
Located in New York, NY
Pamela Bianco achieve success as an artist in Britain while still a child. This accomplishment resulted in the family coming to the United States where ...
Category
1920s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alfred Bendiner, Avalon (New Jersey)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Apparently Bendiner never went a day without drawing. He was amazing! From Bendiner's Philadelphia the New Jersey beaches were an easy drive. Avalon is st...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Alfred Bendiner, Santa Fe Cowhands (New Mexico)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Apparently Bendiner never went a day without drawing. He was amazing!
In this scene of a young 'cowgirl' is working a lasso while an 'old cowhand' looks on -- clutching a cigaret of...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bernard Schardt, Appeal Denied (NYC Courtroom)
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Schardt worked on the the WPA in NYC during the Depression. (During this period, off and on, he lived with friend and colleague Jackson Pollock...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Clayton Knight, Stinson Liaison Observation Monoplane
Located in New York, NY
Clayton Knight drew a careful rendering of the plane -- even showing how it would look in the air as it banked.
Edward Stinson was an accomplished, eve...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sidney Chafetz, The Stroller (Wallace Stevens)
Located in New York, NY
Sidney Chafetz was known for his clever compositions and his many portraits, all made in the most 'difficult to control' medium of woodcut.. This charmi...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Daniel Serra-Badue, Solitude
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Serra-Badue was a Cuban artist working in New York City. His work is notable not only for the surrealist subject matter (a single egg in a wire basket in deep space) but for t...
Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lawrence Beall Smith, Solitude
By Lawrence Beall Smith
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Beall Smith draws four men in a park, each with his back to a giant, strong tree. The year is 1938 and the country is coming out of the Depression but World War II is alread...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lawrence Beall Smith, Seaside Nomads
By Lawrence Beall Smith
Located in New York, NY
A perfect summer day. A young mother, little boy, and even smaller girl have their luncheon under a make shift 'fly' -- a stripped cloth canopy fixed up with poles. Although it is titled 'Seaside Nomads,' to me it has the look of a bay or inlet. It's relatively flat and there are all sorts of grasses, old...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
William Sanderson, Fascists
By William Sanderson
Located in New York, NY
Latvia-born William Sanderson became a contributor to the New Yorker and New Masses magazines during the 1930s. He was drafted into the Army during World Wa...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Charles Pont, Splicing
Located in New York, NY
An old sailor is shown at work on a what must be a huge sailing vessel. He's splicing, or joining ropes together -- probably still a useful skill in the mi...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Stevan Dohanos, Backyard
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in New York, NY
Stevan Dohanos was an accomplished draftsman who work was widely known through the Saturday Evening Post. This print 'Backyard,' however, leaves aside the illustrative magazine work ...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Moses Oley, Quarry
Located in New York, NY
Moses Oley drew an industrial scene, but one very much in isolation. The quarry equipment looks both imposing and busy. There appears to be smoke coming fro...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joseph LeBoit, Derby Winner
Located in New York, NY
Joseph (Joe) Leboit made this extremely intense image of a supposedly happy recipient of a 'Derby Winner.' (Probably refers to the Irish Derby.) In fact the couple and seventeen chil...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
John E. Billmyer, Flower Piece, WPA wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
'Flower Piece' shows the artist, John Billmyer, to be a highly accomplished wood engraver. There are endless patterns and created details -- all executed flawlessly. Mostly made up o...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
George Constant, When We Were Very Young
Located in New York, NY
The Greek-American artist George Constant is known for his modernist approach to traditional subject matter. This portrait of a young woman holding a book titled "When We Were Very Young...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
D. Sidwell Feigin, Rain, Snow, and Time
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph shows the Obelisk (Cleopatra’s Needle), 1425 BCE, in Central Park, New York City, just behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Greywacke Knoll. (This makes it a double example of ‘art about art.’) Carved from a single piece of granite from Aswan, it was gifted to this country by the Khedive Ismail Pasha...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Victor DeWilde, The Anchor (San Francisco), 1930s
Located in New York, NY
Born in Tamines, Belgium, Victor DeWilde (1903-1977) settled in San Francisco around 1925. He studied at the California School of Fine Arts, SF, and California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland. During the 1930s he taught at Commerce Evening High School and then worked on the WPA Art Education Program. His colleagues included Robert McChesney, Otis Oldfield, George Post...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Joseph Zirker, Playhouse
By Joseph Zirker
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s woodcuts started to get bigger and bigger as they competed with paintings for a space on the wall. This California print by Joseph Zirke...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
George Drittler, (Still Life)
Located in New York, NY
British-born, New Jersey-based, George Drittler was primarily know for landscapes. In this still life that expansive approach serves him well. Richly drawn, with pottery, books and a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
(Wounded Soldiers)
Located in New York, NY
While this is a World War II drawing, the barbed wire recalls the tranches of the First World War. A menacing tank at the upper left dominates the scene.
There is a black border and...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$1,200
John Muench, The Road to Stow
Located in New York, NY
John Muench was a master at drawing on a lithographic stone. He was a New Englander and this is a classic subject both for him and for the area. The...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jack McClain, (Evening in the City) (NYC)
Located in New York, NY
A moody evening in New York City. The buildings capture the quiet that New York sometimes achieves.
Signed and dated in pencil.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Edward Sacks, Seated Figure
Located in New York, NY
Little is known about the artist, Edward (Ed) Sacks, although this print may have been made at the Art Students League in NYC.
it is a cross between, as the title suggests, a Seated ...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alice Harold Murphy, The Wave
Located in New York, NY
The title, The Wave, lends itself to suggesting that the woman (with her long, flowing hair) is personifying the wave. Or is she one with the wave? Is she push...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alice Harold Murphy, The Wave and the Rock
Located in New York, NY
This is an enigmatic image. Between the two center/left trees there appears to be a figure, possibly a woman. At the right, seated on a rock, is a man, in robes. Religious images are...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harry Bowden, (Seated Figure)
By Harry Bowden
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
Ibram Lassaw, (Abstraction)
By Ibram Lassaw
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 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.
Ibram Lassaw (1913-2003) was primarily known for his sculpture. Born in Egypt to a Russian family...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Byron Browne, (Abstraction)
By Byron Browne
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 in the image -- on the plate, as ...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
S. L Margolies, Silent Symphony
Located in New York, NY
S. L Margolies (Samuel L.) made dynamic urban views and calm country scenes. This peaceful subject, with snow-covered hills and tidy cabin, Silent Symphony, 1946, marks an end to the...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Armin Landeck, Tenement Walls
By Armin Landeck
Located in New York, NY
The reference number on this work is Kraeft 88. It's from an edition of 100 and is signed, dated, and numbered, in pencil.
Always an intaglio printmaker, Landeck switched from a mor...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Curlee Raven Holton, Three Views of a Dancer
Located in New York, NY
A painter, draftsman, printmaker and master printer, Curlee Raven Holton (born 1951) taught for twenty years at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, a...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
John Winkler, View from Colby Meadows
Located in New York, NY
Winker is pulling out all the stops to make as stunning a Western Landscape as possible. The sky in this impression is open. There are also impressions with clouds in the sky.
Sign...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Samuel Chamberlain, The Public Gaol, Williamsburg (Virginia)
By Samuel Chamberlain
Located in New York, NY
Samuel Chamberlain was a superb draftsman and his architectural images are often very complex. This image is, by contrast, quiet and understated: serene to the point of lonely. It's ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
William P. Hicks, Circus
Located in New York, NY
William P. Hicks has drawn everything about the circus that will fit in the plate. The main figure is an aerial act with a woman balancing on rope held by a figure on the floor. Ther...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Frank Kleinholz, World Premier
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in New York, NY
Frank Kleinholz was a lawyer-turned-modernist-artist. This work may have been printed in France in the late 1940s when he went there to learn lithography. He returned to the states i...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
William Gropper, (Choral Group)
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
An early serigraph (screen print) by William Gropper. There's a harpist to provide the music and a choir master conducting. The seated members of the group are individually drawn as ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
