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Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun)
Graphite on paper, 2005
Signed: "Sedrick Huckaby III" lower right (see photo)
In April 2008, Huckaby was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
America's Son II (Sonny)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
America's Son II (Sonny)
Lithograph, 2016
Signed and numbered in pencil
From: America's Family II
Printer: James Reed at Milestone Graphics
Printed on Arches paper
Edition: 40, of wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
America's Mom II (Small Leticia)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
America's Mom II (Small Leticia)
Lithograph, 2016
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist
Series: America's Family II (Four images)
Edition: 40, of which 20 were retained by the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Ponte and Castel S. Angelo (Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant' Angelo)
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Ponte and Castel S. Angelo
Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant' Angelo
Etching, 1754
Signed in the plate lower right above the caption
From: Vedute di Roma
A proper Roman printing w...
Category
1750s Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
View of the Ancient Structure built by Tarquinius Superbus called the Bel Lido
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
View of the Ancient Structure built by Tarquinius Superbus called the Bel Lido, and like others built by Marcus Agrippa in the time of Augustus when he cleaned all the sewers leading...
Category
1750s Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Bougival
By Maurice de Vlaminck
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bougival
Woodcut, 1914
Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition 30, this numberd 22
Printed on laid Van Gelder Zonen paper
Published by Henri Kanweiler, Paris
Printed by Paul Birault, P...
Category
1910s Fauvist Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Mayan Trio
By Francisco Dosamantes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mayan Trio
Lithograph, 1950
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition 250 for Associated American Artists
Publsihed 1950
Reference: AAA Cat.: 1950‑05; 1958‑01
AAA Index 1087
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 x 9 1/2 inches
Francisco Dosamantes (b. October 4, 1911 - d. July 18.1986) was a Mexican artist and educator who is best known for is educational illustrations and graphic work against fascism. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Life
Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. He was not registered into the civil registry until he was about twenty years old on March 6, 1939. His mother’s name is not listed on the certificate. As a child, he demonstrated a strong interest in drawing and color, influenced by his father and his uncle Juan. The Mexican Revolution occurred while he was a young child and he stated that he remembered events such as soldiers on horses charging as well as the execution of rural farm workers.
He attended primary and high school in Mexico City but stated that his education was irregular and deficient. He then entered the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, where he studied for five years. Initially, however, he was disappointed with the inexperience of the young professors and he left for a short time to study on his own. During this time, some of the dissatisfied professors organized the 30 30 group against the academic system of the school and which whom he sympathized. The effort gained the attention of established artists such as Diego Rivera who intervened.
He died on Mexico City on July 18, 1986
Career
After he graduated, he worked with the cultural missions of the Secretaría de Educación Pública in Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Colima, Coahuila and Chihuahua (state) from 1932 to 1937 then again from 1941 to 1945. He stated that this experience was vital to his conscience as he worked with rural farm workers and others he stated were worthy of dignity and respect, but victims of deceit and exploitation. When he returned to Mexico City, he gave classes in high schools from 1937 to 1941. In 1945 he founded and directed the Taller Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura “Joaquín Claussell” in Campeche, Campeche.
Dosamantes was a politically and culturally active artist with most of his work and affiliations related to such. He was a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios from 1934 to 1938. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, serving as administrator in 1940 and remaining a member until his death except for one short hiatus. He created posters for conferences about fascism and Nazism such as Alemania bajo bayonetas (Germany under bayonets) in 1938. In 1940 he became the secretary general of the Sindicato de Maestros de Artes Plásticas. He was also a member of the Sociedad para el Impulso de las Artes Plásticas en 1948, a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1949 and a member of the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas from 1952.
He painted a number of murals in rural areas of Mexico generally when he was there on cultural missions. His main mural is at the former home of José María Morelos in Carácuaro, Michoacán, but there are a number at various rural schools. These were all painted between 1941 and 1946.
As a book illustrator he mostly worked for the Secretaría de Educación Pública working on books for literacy campaigns.
He exhibited his works, which included engravings, oils, tempuras and lithographs in Mexico and abroad. His first individual exhibition was in 1930 at the Galeria de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. His major exhibitions include the Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1932, various exhibitions in New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in 1937; the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Missouri in late 1947, and the Gallery of Mexican Art in...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Dead Tiger
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Dead Tiger
Ink and watercolor on paper, 1955
Signed and dated in ink (see photo)
Condition: Aging to the entire sheet (it's 78 years old)
Image/Sheet size: 18 1/4 x 23 inches
On...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Saint-Tropez-Le Port
By Paul Signac
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Saint-Tropez-Le Port
Color lithograph, 1897-1898
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Numbered in pencil lower right: No. 68 (see photo)
From: Album des Peintres-Gravures, 1898
...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Storms (At Sea)
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Storm (At Sea)
Oil on board, c. 1908
Signed: L. O. Griffith lower left (see photo)
Titled on label verso
Image: 6 5/8 x 8 3/4"
Frame: 10 x 12 x 1 1/2"
Provenance: Estate of the Arti...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Model
By William C. Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Model
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
signed lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
A few bits of adhesive residue verso
Colors fresh and unfaded
Housed in a Marin style meta...
Category
1930s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Oil Study of Two Horses
By Frederic A. Bridgeman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Oil Study of Two Horses
Oil on canvas, c. 1880
Unsigned
Estate stamp verso of canvas and on stretcher (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
New gilt frame aptterned afte...
Category
1880s American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shunga: Twelve Signs of the Zodiac - Goat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Shunga: Twelve Signs of the Zodiac - Goat
Color woodcut with gauffrage (embossing)
Unsigned (as usual)
Format: Shikishiban
Publisher: Privately produced
Unusually well preserved with the fugitive blue still intact
Image size: 5-1/8 x 5-3/4"
Sheet size: 5 3/8 x 6 1/4"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this Japanese name, the surname is Isoda.
Isoda Koryūsai (礒田 湖龍斎, 1735–1790) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer and painter active from 1769 to 1790.
Life and career
Koryūsai was born in 1735 and worked as a samurai in the service of the Tsuchiya clan. He became a masterless rōnin after the death of the head of the clan and moved to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he settled near Ryōgoku Bridge in the Yagenbori area. He became a print designer there under the art name Haruhiro in 1769, at first making samurai-themed designs. The ukiyo-e print master Harunobu died in 1770, and about that time Koryūsai began making prints in a similar style of life in the pleasure districts.
Koryūsai was a prolific designer of individual prints and print series,[1] most of which appeared between 1769 and 1881.
In 1782, Koryūsai applied for and received the Buddhist honour hokkyō ("Bridge of the Law") from the imperial court and thereafter used the title as part of his signature. His output slowed from this time, though he continued to design prints until his death in 1790.
Works
Koryūsai created a total of 2,500 known designs, or an average of four a week. According to art historian Allen Hockley, "Koryūsai may ... have been the most productive artist of the eighteenth century".
The series Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsumoyō, 1776–1781) ran for 140 prints, the longest known ukiyo-e print series of beauties. He designed at least 350 hashira-e pillar prints, numerous kachō-e bird-and-flower prints, a great number of shunga erotic prints, and others. Ninety of his nikuhitsu-ga paintings are known, making him one of the most productive painters of the period.
Legacy
Despite Koryūsai's productivity and popularity—both in his time and amongst later collectors—his work has attracted little scholarship. The first ukiyo-e histories written in the West in the 19th century elevated certain artists as exemplars; Koryūsai's work came to be seen as too indebted to Harunobu, who died in 1770, and inferior to that of Kiyonaga, whose peak period came in the 1880s. An example is Woldemar von Seidlitz's Geschichte des japanischen Farbenholzschnittes ("History of Japanese colour prints", 1897), the most popular of the early ukiyo-e histories, which paints Koryūsai as a successor to Harunobu and a rival of Kiyonaga in the 1770s who slipped into mediocrity and imitation of his rival by the end of the decade.[5] Interest lay mainly in the details of Koryūsai's life—a samurai who received court honours was unusual in the proletarian world of ukiyo-e. In 2021, contemporary woodblock printmaker David Bull...
Category
1770s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Taos Pueblo
By Anna Barry
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Taos Pueblo
Screen print in colors, c. 1945
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist
Printed in Taos
Taos is the oldest continually inhabited city/village in North America.
How old ...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Mariko Station, a Mad Caricature (Mariko shukuba no kyoga)
By Kawanabe Kyosai
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mariko Station, a Mad Caricature (Mariko shukuba no kyoga)
Color woodcut, 1872
Signed in cartouche lower left corner (see photo)
From the series: "53 Stations by Calligraphy and Pain...
Category
1870s Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Man with Mask
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Man with Mask
Lithograph, 1969
Signed in pencil by the artist
95/100
Printed by Lucien Detruit, Paris
Published by AAA, New York
Reference: AAA Index No. 60
Condition: Mint
Image siz...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Au Bois De Boulogne (illustrating the congregation of French nobility outside
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Au Bois De Boulogne (illustrating the congregation of French nobility outside the Chalets du Cycle
Chromolithograph, 1897
Signed in the plate lower right corner
From the Special Supp...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Elephant
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Elephant
Engraing, 1957, printed 1988
Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by the artist
Dedicated: "For Jon From Ray"
Edition: 100 in two printings
This is an artist's proof from th...
Category
1950s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Baby, Baby
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Baby, Baby
Etching & aquatint printed in colors, 1991
Signed, dated, titled & numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 35 (4/35) plus 10 AP
Condition: Excellent, colors fresh
Image/...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Minneapolis at Dusk
By Richard Haas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Minneapolis at Dusk
Etching & aquatint printed in colors, 1993
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 65 (19/65)
Condition: Excellent
This image depicts the Wells Fargo Cente...
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate I
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate I
Color lithograph, 1976
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 99 (6/99)
From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buq...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life No. 5
By William H. Bailey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Still Life No. 5
Lithograph, 1978
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 50 (24/50)
Published by Solo Press, New York, 1978
Printer: Judith Solodkin, first femal ...
Category
1970s American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Les Pelerins d'Emmaus (The Pilgrims of Emmaus)
By Maurice Denis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Pelerins d'Emmaus (The Pilgrims of Emmaus)
After a 1894 painting by Denis in the Van Gogh Museum (see photo)
Color lithograph, 1895
Signed in pencil ...
Category
1890s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Study of Lucie (Ralph) Belin seated in an interior
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of Lucie (Ralph) Belin seated in an interior
Graphite on paper, 1915
Signed with the estate stamp, Lugt 909b, the stamp faded from blue to brown (see photo)
Provenance:
Neffe-D...
Category
1910s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Madame Carmencita, Plate 9
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Madame Carmencita, Plate 9
From: Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1934-1936 (published 1938)
Signed with the artist's initials and dated, lower right of plat...
Category
1930s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Amberley Boy, No. 2
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Amberley Boy, No. 2
Etching with stipple, 1928
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Signed in the plate in reverse (see photo)
Provenance inscription in pencil verso
A proof outs...
Category
1920s English School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
In the Wood
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Etching, 1920
Signed in pencil
Edition: 110 examples
Very fine condition
Provenance: Colnaghi, London (stock numbers on reverse)
The artist'w widow, Dorette, 19...
Category
1920s Pre-Raphaelite Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
The Whistle
By Leonard Pytlak
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Whistle
Silkscreen printed in colors, c. 1950's
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist
Condition: very good
Image: 23-1/2 x 18-1/2"
Courtesy British Museum:
Biography
Born ...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
The Fan
By Leonard Pytlak
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Fan
Silkscreen printed in colors, 1950's
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Edition: 40 (24/40)
Condition: very good
Image size: 25 1/8 x 19 5/8 inches
Cou...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Man, Wife and Child
By John French Sloan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Man, Wife and Child
Etching, 1905
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist below image (see photo)
Annotated in pencil by the artist "100 proofs"
Signed and dated in the plate lower...
Category
Early 1900s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Three Lilies
By Joseph Goldyne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three Lilies
Monotype on Arches wove paper, 1980
Signed, titled and dated in pencil by the artist
Dimensions: 13 x 18-5/8" (33 x 47.2 cm.): Sheet dimensions are sight size; Plate: 11...
Category
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monoprint
Le monocycle (Performer on a Unicycle)
By Bernard Buffet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le monocycle (Performer on a Unicycle)
Color lithograph, 1968
Signed and numbered in pencil lower left corner
From the portfolio "Mon Cirque" (My Circus)
Edition: 120 (12/120)
Refere...
Category
1960s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Trio
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trio
Color aquatint, 1938
Edition 250 printed on Montval wove paper with Maillol watermark
From: Les Fleurs de Mal III (12 color aquatints)
Published by Ambrose Vollard, 1940, Paris
...
Category
1930s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Deux Antillaise (Deux Négresses)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Deux Antillaise (Deux Négresses)
Edition: Proof on Van Gelder paper
Unsigned (as usual for this image)
Edition: unknown
Published by Ambrose Vollard, Paris (?)
References: Johnson 25...
Category
1920s French School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
A Jersey Vraic Cart
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A Jersey Vraic Cart
Etching, 1939
Signed lower center margin (see photo)
Signed and dated in the plate (see photo)
Edition 250 plus 10 on J. Whatman laid paper
Printed by David Stran...
Category
1930s English School Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Farm Horse Drinking
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Farm Horse Drunking
Charcoal and pastel on artist's board, c. 1920
Signed lower right in pencil (see photo)
Titled in ink lower center, as are all the illustration for At the Farm (s...
Category
1920s English School Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Roberta Kimmel Cohn (1937-2015)
By Naomi Savage
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Roberta Kimmel Cohn (1937-2015)
Toned sliver gelatin print, c. 1981
Unsigned (Signed and dedicated on the sketchbook page) see photo
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 1/4 x 10 5/8 ...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Life's a Beach
By Eric Holch
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Life's a Beach
Screen print, 1980's
Signed lower right (see photo)
Mr. Holch’s formal art training began at Trinity-Pawling School where he won their first annual art award. He conti...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Palazzo, Florence
By Rudy O. Pozzatti
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Palazzo, Florence
Etching, engraving, aquatint, soft ground and lift ground, printed in colors from three copper plates. 1954
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition 250 plis 10 on Rives wove paper, printed by the artist
Published by The Print Club of Cleveland, No. 33 for 1955
REFERENCE: Geske #32
Condition: Mint
Image size: 9 3/16 x 13 1/8 inches
Impressions of this image can be found in the following museums:
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Toledo Museum of Art
Oberlin, Allen Museum of Art
Cornell Univeristy
Cleveland Museum of Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
Georgetown University
Indiana Univeristy, Eskenazi Museum of Art
David Museum of Art at Wellesley College
"Painter and printmaker Rudolph Otto "Rudy" Pozzatti was born in Telluride, Colorado, on January 14, 1925. Upon graduation from high school, he received a scholarship to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder where he enrolled as an art major. In 1943, his studies were interrupted by his induction into the U. S. Army. After his discharge in 1946, he re-enrolled in the University of Colorado where he studied under Wendell...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Black Passion
By Rudy O. Pozzatti
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Black Passion
Aluminum plate lithograph from two plates, 1975
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
Edition 50
Published at Lakeside Studio with the Master printer Jack Lemon
Imagery depicts the Seven deadly Sins three Roman soldiers and Simon of Cyrene, who was forced to help Christ carry the cross
One of Pozzatti's favorite works
Condition: Otherwise very good condition Soft rippling bottom margin
Image size: 20 x 28 inches (50.80 x 71.12cm)
Sheet size: 24 x 32 inches
"Painter and printmaker Rudolph Otto "Rudy" Pozzatti was born in Telluride, Colorado, on January 14, 1925. Upon graduation from high school, he received a scholarship to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder where he enrolled as an art major. In 1943, his studies were interrupted by his induction into the U. S. Army. After his discharge in 1946, he re-enrolled in the University of Colorado where he studied under Wendell...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Turn-about
By Rudy O. Pozzatti
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Turn- about
Color Aluminum plate lithograph from three plates
Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil by the artist
"Bon-a-tirer" impression (BAT)
This is the finished example that the artist approved as the model for the edition.
Published at Lakeside Studio with the master printer Jack Lemon.
Condition: Very good, one ink stain in the large margin, from printing
Image size: 18 3 /4 x 23 1/4" 47.63 x 59.06cm
Sheet size: 22 x 29 7/8"
"Painter and printmaker Rudolph Otto "Rudy" Pozzatti was born in Telluride, Colorado, on January 14, 1925. Upon graduation from high school, he received a scholarship to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder where he enrolled as an art major. In 1943, his studies were interrupted by his induction into the U. S. Army. After his discharge in 1946, he re-enrolled in the University of Colorado where he studied under Wendell Black...
Category
1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Boys Sledding
By John Sloan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Boys Sledding
Etching, 1920
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist below image (see photos)
Annotated in pencil by the artist "100 proofs"
Signed and dated in the plate lower left...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Seascape
By George Adomeit
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seascape (Off Monhegan, Maine)
Oil on canvas, mounted to board by the artist, c. 1940
Signed: George G. Adomeit lower right
A view of the Maine coas...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl with the Golden Curls
By Everett Shinn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Girl with the Golden Curls
Watercolor, c. 1895
Unsigned
Provenance: Davis Galleries, New York (see photo of label on reverse)
Condition: Mounted to support by the artist
...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life with Vase of Flowers
By Konrad Cramer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Still Life with Vase of Flowers
Oil on board with incised scraffito, c. 1929-1930
Unsigned by the artist
Signed and inscribed verso: "Painting by my father, Aileen B. Cramer" verso, ...
Category
1920s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman's Head - Woman's Head in Profile (left) (Havard)
By Elie Nadelman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman's Head - Woman's Head in Profile (left) (Havard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned (as issued)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from th...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Standing Male Nude, Arms Upraised (Kouros)
By Gaston Lachaise
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Male Nude, Arms upraised (Kouros)
Graphite on wove paper, c. 1930
Signed lower right (see photo)
Possibly exhibited in May 8-June 1,1973 at Alan Stone Gallery entitled Erotica, which lists Lachaise as one of the artists exhibited.
Part of small group of drawings of the male nude, done late in the artist's life, many of which are in museums (MMA, FAMSF, Whitney, Yale, Princeton).
Almost identical to the Lachaise drawing in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which is the same size and depicts the same model. (see photo)
Very similar to the smaller Lachaise drawing in the Whitney Museum of American Art (Accession number 32.2).
The Metropolitan Museum has a Lachaise male nude drawing with one arm upraised (Accession Number: 68.91.1)
Provenance: Alan Stone Gallery, New York
Alan Stone Projects, New York (see photo of label)
Condition: excellent
Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic for UV protection
22K gold leaf frame
Image size: 17 3/4 x 12 inches
Frame size: 26 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches
Regarding Alan Stone Gallery:
"Founded in 1960 by visionary connoisseur and dealer Allan Stone (1932 – 2006), the gallery known today as Allan Stone Projects has been admired for over half a century.
Celebrated for his eclectic approach and early advocacy of pivotal artists of the 20th Century, Allan Stone was a leading authority on Abstract Expressionism, the New York dealer for Wayne Thiebaud for over forty years, and a passionate collector of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Joseph Cornell, John Graham and John Chamberlain. He also promoted and collected the work of a younger generation of artists, including Robert Arneson, Jack Whitten, Robert Mallary, Lorraine Shemesh...
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Coolidge Dam, Arizona, printed later
By Edward Weston
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Coolidge Dam, Arizona
Gelatin silver print, (1938), printed later, circa 1980
Unsigned
A lifetime printing by Brett Weston, supervised by his father Edward
Edition of 5 or 6 examples...
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Recling Female Nude, seen from the rear
By Emil Ganso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recling Female Nude, seen from the rear
Conte crayon on paper. c. 1936
Signed "Ganso" right (see photo)
Illustrated: Esquire Magazine, "Emil Ganso, Handy Artist", July 1938, pages 58...
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Night Life at the Moulin Rouge
By Henry Somm
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Night Life at the Moulin Rouge
Pen and ink drawing, c. 1890
Signed lower left (see photo)
A scene of the night life near the Moulin Rouge, Paris. The Moulin Rouge is the famous caba...
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Late 19th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Veillee Sepulchrale; Verso: Study of two figures in a landscape
By Eugene Berman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Veillee Sepulchrale
Verso: Study of two figures in a landscape
Pen and ink on rose colored Canson watermark paper, 1944
Signed in ink with the artist's initials lower center (see photo)
Dated 1944 lower center;
Titled in ink upper left corner (see photo)
Provenance:
Swann Galleries, 2010, realized $900.
John Popplestone (1928-2013), Akron, OH collector, noted psychologist and author
Berman brothers (painters)
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Eugene Berman in Italy in the 1960s
Eugène Berman (Russian: Евгений Густавович Берман; 4 November 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 14 December 1972, Rome) and his brother Leonid Berman...
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1940s Surrealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Grand Tier and the Met
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Grand Tier at the Met
Etching, 1939
From: Reginald Marsh, Thirty Etchings and Engravings
Published by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edit...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled (also known as "1811 THE BACKWOODSMAN'S CHRISTMAS")
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (also known as "1811 THE BACKWOODSMAN'S CHRISTMAS")
Oil on canvas, c. 1875-1925
Unsigned
Provenance: Found in Ohio
A charming American naive nocturn of a hunter and his two ...
Category
1870s Outsider Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Au bord de la mer (At the Sea Side)
By James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Au bord de la mer (At the Sea Side)
Etching and drypoint, 1880
Signed in the plate middle left edge (see photo)
Edition: c. 100
A very rich impression, full of burr and contrasts
Pri...
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1880s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Woman working in the fields)
By Daniel Ridgway Knight
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Woman working in the fields)
Graphite on wove paper
Unsigned
Exhibited: Spanierman Galleries, In Praise of Women, Oct. 21-Nov. 20, 2010
Illustrated: Lisa N. Peters, In Praise of Women, Spanierman Galleries (see catalog entry in photos)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size (sight): 14 1//2 x 10 5/16 inches
Provenance: Spanierman Galleries, New York
The young woman is a known model for Knight. She is depicted in numerous paintings. The striped skirt and wooden shoes she wears also is repeated in Knight's oeuvre.
"Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Philadelphia to a Quaker family and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1858 to 1861, the year he became a founding member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club. He went to Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1861 to 1863 with Charles Gleyre (1808-1874) and Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), and attended the Accademia di San Lucca, then in Venice, in 1863. Knight returned to Philadelphia that year, married, and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He went back to France in 1871 and lived there for the remainder of his long and successful career. He settled in Seine-et-Oise near Poissy to study with the noted academic painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) in 1873, and the two artists became close friends. Influenced by his French contemporaries Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) and Jules- Adolphe-Aimé-Louis Breton...
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1890s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Study of an Indian Model
By Arthur B. Davies
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of an Indian Model
Unsigned
Pastel and chalk on blue paper, mounted to support
Provenance:
Estate of the artist (per Graham and Sons, agent for the estate)
James Graham & Sons,...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Untitled (Seascape at night)
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Seascape at night)
Tissue paper collage on Fabriano wove paper, 1964
Signed in ink lower left
Annotated 42 in pencil on verso
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 10 x 13 7/8 inches
Part of a suite of collages created during the artist's sabatical leave from teaching, spent in Florence, Italy, studying at the Accademia D'Arte Firenze in 1963-1964.
Ray H. French: The Evolution of an Artistic Innovator
Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H. French was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on May 16, 1919. Terre Haute was a cultural wasteland before the opening of the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in 1942. Thus, with a father as a coal miner and carpenter, art remained a luxury for Ray. Nevertheless, local art teachers Mabel Mikel Williams and Nola E. Williams helped to foster his creativity and unshakable drive to create things of beauty.
After high school, Ray attended the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. His studies there were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, during which he developed surveillance photographs for the Army Air Force. After the war, Ray transferred to the University of Iowa on the G.I. Bill, where he received both his BFA and MFA degrees. The University of Iowa during the 1940s was a cultural mecca with many major art historians and artists. While in Iowa, Ray played an important role in this culture by becoming a founding member of the Iowa Print Group under Mauricio Lasansky.
Following his graduation in 1948, Ray experienced firsthand the rapid rise in creative printmaking in America. By 1949, he had exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art Center, and MOMA New York. Ray’s early style of printmaking is characterized by pure line engraving on copper plates, a technique suited perfectly to his study of the beauty of animals. This charming and whimsical subject ran counter to the concurrent trends of Lasansky’s horrors of war and Hayter’s non-objectivity, but was equally effective in capturing the public’s attention. Walruses was purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum, exhibited at MOMA New York and received the Arthur D. Allen Memorial Purchase Prize for its “skillful and economic use of line.” Shortly thereafter, Ray’s treatment of animals developed further into larger format mixed intaglio prints utilizing hard ground, soft ground, etching, and engraving, as exemplified in The Swan.
By the late 1950s, Ray’s style evolved into organic non-objectivity, in which he incorporated personal autobiographical vignettes and symbolism. His work during this time was further characterized by a departure from the traditional squared compositional format to his cutting and rounding of the plate to accentuate organic shapes. Ray’s 1959 Enchantment remains particularly illustrative of his use of etching and soft ground intaglio. Enchantment was successfully exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art for the 12th National Print Exhibition of The American Federation of the Arts and received the Pennell Purchase Prize from the Library of Congress in 1960.
In the 1960s, Ray also started to focus on blind embossing, which he had first experimented with at the University of Iowa. He was extremely prolific and successful with this medium, selling hundreds of prints in small editions of 10 through the Associated American Artist Gallery in New York. In 1966, Ray built upon his mastery of embossing and began developing a shadow box presentation called a graphic construction that combined color, blind embossing, and multi-layered cutouts to revel intaglio compositions. Noted curator William Lieberman purchased Ray’s masterpiece graphic construction, Moon Rays...
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1960s American Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Tissue Paper
Loin du sourire de Reims (Far from the Smile of Rheims)
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Loin du sourire de Reims (Far from the Smile of Rheims)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922
Signed with the initials in the plate and dated (see photo...
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1920s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
My Bicentennial Print
By Herbert L. Fink
Located in Fairlawn, OH
My Bicentennial Print
Photo etching, 1976
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled and numbered in pencil loer left (see photo)
Edition: 21 (16/21) There also appears to be an additon of 100.
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 14 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 22 1/8 X 30 inches
The artist's commentrary on the Bicentennial Year of 1976
In 1965 Fink was awarded a Gugenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Fine Arts.
Herbert Lewis Fink, painter, printmaker, sculptor, and educator, born was in Providence, Rhode Island on September 8, 1921. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1941, he received is B.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1949, his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1956, and he also studied for a year at the Art Students League and with John Frazier...
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1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Muriel (Mad Meg)
By Herbert L. Fink
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Muriel (Mad Meg)
Etching, 1973, printed 1976
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil (see photos)
The image was first created as an illustration for John Gardner's "The King's Indian" in 1973.
An illustration for the book "The King's Indian", a collection of short stories by author John Gardner (1933-1982), published in 1973. "Mad Meg" was most likely inspired by a figure from Flemish folklore, Dulle Griet, who led an army of women to pillage Hell. "Mad Meg" was the subject of a painting by Pieter Bruegal the Elder, done in 1564.
References: Carter 174, page 108
Illustration for "The King's Indian", pages 174-17
Condition: excellent
Image/Plate size: 13 3/8 x 9 13/16 inches
Sheet size: 15 7/16 x 12 1/4 inches
Herbert Lewis Fink, painter, printmaker, sculptor, and educator, born was in Providence, Rhode Island on September 8, 1921. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1941, he received is B.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1949, his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1956, and he also studied for a year at the Art Students League and with John Frazier...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching