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WO RO SI IA ZIN Russian Soldier with His Family
Located in Fairlawn, OH
WO RO SI IA ZIN Russian Soldier with His Family
Color woodcut, 1861 2nd month
Signed upper left (see photo)
Titled upper right in black cartouche (see photo)
Format: oban
Style: Yokohama-e
Publisherr: Sagamiya Tokichi (Marks #435) active 1955-1866
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has an impression of this image
RARE
Condition: with usual aging
Image size: 13 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches
Rebecca Salter in her Japanese Popular Prints... on page 18 gives a different take on the situation that Yoshifuji found himself in.
"A giant of the period, however, was Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-861). Although best known for warrior prints which reflected the militaristic undercurrents of the time, he was also responsible for some of the most light-heartend and humorous works in this book. His followers in the Utagawa school, Utagawa Yoshitsuya...
Category
1860s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Lobsterman's Cove, Winter Harbor, Maine
By Stow Wengenroth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lobsterman's Cove, Winter Harbor, Maine
Lithograph, 1941
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition 50
Impressions are in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Walasse Ting
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Color lithograph, 1972
Unsigned
Edition: From: Fresh Air School, Exhibition of Paintings Large Edition (2000?)
Published by the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, 1973
Printe...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Backyard II
By Robert Kipniss
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Backyard II
Lithograph, 1972
Signed lower right
Signed lower right
Annotated: Printer's Proof
Reference: Karl Lunde 58
An impression is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chic...
Category
1970s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
Retour (Homecoming)
By Georges De Feure
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Retour
Color lithograph, 1897
Signed in the stone lower left edge of the image (see photo)
As published in "L'Estampe Moderne"
L'Estampe Moderne appeared each month as a portfolio of...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ontario St. Grading and Temporary Ramps
By Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ontario St. Grading and Temporary Ramps
Drypoint, August 1929
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
From: The Cleveland Set (23 plates), this being No. 13
Edition: Small
A brilliant example of American industrial art. A wonderful, rich impression, with lots of burr and contrasts.
Louis Conrad Rosenberg
1890-1983
An American architectural etcher and engraver of the 1920's and 1930's era, Louis Conrad Rosenberg first studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then enrolled at the Royal College of Art, London, to study etching techniques under Malcolm Osborne...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
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, Paris
Bougival is located west of Paris, on the left bank of the River Seine.
This woodcut was inspired by Vlaminck's 1905 Fauvist masterpiece of the same title in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Art.
An impression of this image is in the Yale Univeristy Art Gallery,
Condition: Very slight sun staining, otherrwise very good
Image/block size: 13 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches
Sheet size: 19 1/8 x 22 1/8 inches
Reference: Walterskirchen 11b
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 – 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour.] Vlaminck was one of the Fauves at the controversial Salon d'Automne exhibition of 1905.
Life
Maurice de Vlaminck was born on Rue Pierre Lescot in Paris. His father Edmond Julien was Flemish and taught violin and his mother Joséphine Caroline Grillet came from Lorraine and taught piano His father taught him to play the violin.[3] He began painting in his late teens. In 1893, he studied with a painter named Henri Rigalon on the Île de Chatou In 1894 he married Suzanne Berly. The turning point in his life was a chance meeting on the train to Paris towards the end of his stint in the army. Vlaminck, then 23 and already active in anarchist circles in Paris, met an aspiring artist, André Derain, with whom he struck up a lifelong friendship.] When Vlaminck completed his army service in 1900, the two rented a studio together, the Maison Levanneur, which now houses the Cneai,[6] for a year before Derain left to do his own military service. In 1902 and 1903 he wrote several mildly pornographic novels illustrated by Derain. He painted during the day and earned his livelihood by giving violin lessons and performing with musical bands at night.
Vlaminck participated in the controversial 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition. After viewing the boldly colored canvases of Vlaminck, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Kees van Dongen, Charles Camoin, and Jean Puy, the art critic Louis Vauxcelles disparaged the painters as "fauves" (wild beasts), thus giving their movement the name by which it became known, Fauvism.
In 1911, Vlaminck traveled to London and painted by the Thames. In 1913, he painted again with Derain in Marseille and Martigues. In World War I he was stationed in Paris, and began writing poetry. Eventually he settled in Rueil-la-Gadelière, a small village south-west of Paris. He married his second wife, Berthe Combes, with whom he had two daughters. From 1925 he traveled throughout France, but continued to paint primarily along the Seine, near Paris. Resentful that Fauvism had been overtaken by Cubism as an art movement Vlaminck blamed Picasso "for dragging French painting into a wretched dead end and state of confusion". During the Second World War, Vlaminck visited Germany and on his return published a tirade against Picasso and Cubism in the periodical Comoedia in June 1942. Vlaminck wrote many autobiographies.
Vlaminck died in Rueil-la-Gadelière on 11 October 1958.
Artistic career
Two of Vlaminck's groundbreaking paintings, Sur le zinc (At the Bar) and L'homme a la pipe (Man Smoking a Pipe) were painted in 1900.
For the next few years Vlaminck lived in or near Chatou (the inspiration for his painting houses at Chatou), painting and exhibiting alongside Derain, Matisse, and other Fauvist painters. At this time his exuberant paint application and vibrant use of colour displayed the influence of Vincent van Gogh. Sur le zinc called to mind the work of Toulouse-Lautrec and his portrayals of prostitutes and solitary drinkers, but does not attempt to probe the sitter's psychology—a break with the century-old European tradition of individualized portraiture. According to art critic Souren Melikian, it is "the impersonal cartoon of a type. In his landscape paintings, his approach was similar. He ignored the details, with the landscape becoming a vehicle through which he could express mood through violent colour and brushwork. An example is Sous bois, painted in 1904. The following year, he began to experiment with "deconstruction," turning the physical world into dabs and streaks of colour that convey a sense of motion. His paintings Le Pont de Chatou (The Chatou Bridge), Les Ramasseurs de pommes de terre (The Potato Pickers...
Category
1910s Fauvist Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Rainy Night in Rome
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Rainy Night in Rome
Drypoint, 1913
Signed in pencil and titled in the lower margin by the artist
(see photo)
Provenance:
Kennedy Galleries, Stock # A6538
Reference; Doddgson 299 _/X
Total edition in 10 states 125 printed
Note: The scene depicts the Church of San Rocco on the right at the intersection of via Schiavoria and via di Ripetta. Guichard considers this image to be among the artist's most desirable.
Condition: Exceptional, rich impressions, printing with extensive burr. Printed on a medium weight Japanese paper.
Image/Plate size: 12 x 9 inches
Sheet size: 15 7/8 x 11 inches
Sir Muirhead Bone (23 March 1876 – 21 October 1953) was a Scottish etcher and watercolourist who became known for his depiction of industrial and architectural subjects and his work as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars.
A figure in the last generation of the Etching Revival, Bone's early large and heavily-worked architectural subjects fetched extremely high prices before the Wall Street Crash of 1929 deflated the collectors' market. He was well known, if not notorious, for publishing large numbers of different states of etchings, encouraging collectors to buy several impressions.
Bone was an active member of both the British War Memorials Committee in the First World War and the War Artists' Advisory Committee in the Second World War He promoted the work of many young artists and served as a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, the National Gallery, and the Imperial War Museum.
Early life
Muirhead Bone was born in Partick, Glasgow. His parents were journalist David Drummond Bone (1841–1911 and Elizabeth Millar Crawford (1847–1886).
The Bone and his siblings attended the local Board school and were placed in apprenticeships from the age of fourteen. James Bone...
Category
1910s English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Rue Caulaincourt
By Louis Marcoussis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Rue Caulaincourt
Etching and engraving, 1931
Initialed in the plate (see photo)
Edition: 77
Plate 10 from "Plaches de Salut"
Published by Aux Editions Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Rue Caulai...
Category
1930s Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Moon Rays
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Moon Rays
Graphic Construction (three sheets layered in a shadow box presentation), 1967
Signed lower right. Editioned lower left. (see photos)
Edition: 60 from the second printing c...
Category
1960s Op Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Other Medium
The Art of Conversation (Three characters on...)
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Art of Conversation (Three characters on...)
Etching, 1958
Signed in pencil lower right: “Gromaire” (see photo)
Edition: 110 (18/110) see photo
Printed on RIVES paper
Publisher: ...
Category
1950s Cubist Interior Prints
Materials
Etching
Terres de Grand Feu, (Land of Great Fire)
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derriere le miroir, no. 87-88-89. Pages 6-7
Terres de Grand Feu, (Land of Great Fire)
Color lithograph, 1956
From: Derriere le Miroir, Volume 87-8...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Poem 71-25 (Me)
By Haku Maki
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Poem 71-25 (Me)
Color woodcut with cement mold embossing, 1971
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition 100 (55/100) (see photo)
Signed with the artist's stamp lower right of image (see photo)
COVER IMAGE, The Life and Works of Haku Maki, Daniel Tretiak, 2007, hence an imnportant print by the artist
Conditon: Excellent
Never framed
Colors very fresh and vibrant
Soft folds in the small upper margin (usual)
Image size: 30 x 19 1/4 inches
Reference: Haku Maki No. 942
Haku Maki (1924-2000)
Born in Asomachi, Ibaraki prefecture, in 1924, Haku Maki 巻 白 served in the WWII before becoming a high school teacher in 1950. Around this time he began to produce his mixed media-prints. While his process began with carving a woodblock, he would the add cement around the carved areas. Once the cement had dried, he would carve over his original lines. This process produced the deep embossing so characteristic of his works. In terms of subject matter, Maki explored abstracted Chinese characters, though also ceramics and persimmons later in life. After 1960, he began to add spots of color to his compositions. A master of modern Japanese abstract printmaking, Maki's work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the British Museum.
“The artist was born with the name Maejima Tadaaki in 1924 in the small town Asomachi in the Ibaraki Prefecture of Japan. He graduated at Ibaraki Teachers' College and became vice-principal of an elementary school there. In 1945 he was in a special squadron of kamikaze pilots and his life was to be ended. However, with the surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945 his life was spared, and he became a teacher at a high school. He studied printmaking at the Modern Print Research Society with Koshiro Onchi andi, in 1950 he changed his name to Haku Maki. His work has a few characteristic design elements for which he became famous - deep embossing and the use of distorted Chinese characters.
Maki developed his own process of relief printmaking, applying mixed media printing techniques. The artist first carved a conventional woodblock. Then he put cement around the carved areas. When the cement had dried out, Haku Maki carved and chiseled the cement into the shape he wanted to have. Then a wet, double-layered paper was used for the printing. Thus prints made in this technique show strong embossing. Haku Maki's works look nearly three-dimensional. In 1969, Maki designed 21 block prints to accompany the book Festive Wine, ancient poetic songs from the 5th to the 9th century and published by John Weatherhill, Inc. His later works are composed of a broad range of variations on the use of calligraphic shapes.
In later life health problems made it often difficult for him to create his art works and he was assisted by his wife in the printing of the editions. Haku Maki died of cancer in 2000.”
Courtesy Annex Galleries
References:
James A. Michener, The Modern Japanese Print...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Basilica of Madeleine, Vezelay
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Basilica of Madeleine, Vezelay
Etching, 1929
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Annotated: "Third State" lower left
Printed on a sheet of old book paper
From: French Church Ser...
Category
1920s American Realist 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 ...
Category
1750s Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Calligraphy
By Ulfert Wilke
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Calligraphy
Lithograph, 1969
Edition: 260
Signed in script by the artist (see photo)
Signed with initials and dated by the artist (see photo)
Publication for the Print Club of Cleveland, No. 47 for 1969
Printer: Hollander Workshop, New York, with their chopstamp (see photo)
Ulfert Wilke (1907–1987) was an internationally recognized painter, calligrapher and art collector connected to the abstract expressionism movement. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1938. He is best known for his large canvas paintings...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Summer in Venice
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Summer in Venice
Lithograph printed in colors from five stones on Italian "Pascia" paper, 1966
Signed and dated lower left in pencil (see photo)
The Print Club of Cleveland Publicati...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Echo in Grey
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Echo in Grey
Mixed media intaglio with embossing, c. 1980's
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photo)
Edition: 25 (24/25)
Condition: Soft handling issues in top and bottom margin.
Do...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Mixed Media
Light Struck
By Sandro Chia
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Light Struck
Etching & Drypoint, 1984
Signed, dated and numbered in red pencil (see photos0
The artist's chop stamp (CS) lower right corner
Edition: 25 (18/25), 5 artist's proofs, B....
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Passage du Mont Saint-Bernard
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Theodore Gericault (1791-1824)
Passage du Mont Saint-Bernard
Lithograph, 1822
Signed and titled in the stone
As published in Arnault "Vie politique et militair...
Category
1820s Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bloques (Road Block)
By Georges Meunier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bloques (Road Block)
Color lithograph, 1905
Signed and numbered in pencil lower right; signed and dated in the stone lower right (see photo)
Edition: 100, first edition (33/100)
Published by Edmund Sagot, Paris
Printed by Atelier Chaix, Paris
Deluxe edition with artist's signature and penciled edition, as well as Sagot blindstamp
There is an unlimited edition with title and publisher, printer text below the image. (state ii/II)
Condition: Excellent, never matted or framed
Image size: 13 x 19 5/8 inches
Sheet size: 18 x 24 3/4 inches
Provenance: Edmund Sagot (1857-1917) publisher
Sagot Heirs
Georges Meunier (1869-1934)
Meunier was born in Saint-Cloud, France in 1869. He moved to Paris as a young man and studied at the National School of Fine Arts; there, he was a student of artist Joseph-Robert Fleury. Following this training, Meunier attended The School for the Decorative Arts where he was trained in both classical and modern design, these skills would later influence his poster graphics. Subsequent to his education, Meunier's posters were exhibited in salons throughout Paris, giving his work notoriety. George Meunier was a prolific artist at the turn-of-the-century influenced greatly by Cheret, the founder of the advertising poster movement. Meunier succeeded Cheret at the Chaix printing house as principal artist and director. He worked as a poster artist for only a short time, making a career change to a book illustrator, which he pursued until the end of his life.
Regarding the publisher Edmund Sagot (1857-1917)
Edmond-Honoré Sagot , born in 1857 and died on April 6 , 1917, is a bookseller , art dealer , publisher of prints and original posters . In 1881 he founded the house “Ed. Sagot” in Paris. This establishment still exists under the name “ Sagot - Le Garrec ” and is one of the oldest art galleries still in operation.
Edmond Sagot is the first contemporary art dealer...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Groupe
By Alexander Archipenko
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Groupe
Lithograph, 1963
Signed and numbered in pencil, lower right
Edition: 75 (68/75) see photo
Publisher: Erker Presse, St. Gallen blindstamp lower left. see photo
From the suit...
Category
1960s Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Moto-Flirt
By Georges Meunier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Moto-Flirt
Color lithograph, c. 1902
Signed in the stone lower right (see photo)
Published by Edmund Sagot (1857-1917), Paris
Printed by Atelier Chaix, Paris
Large edition with title and text
Part of a series of two humorous auto related images depicting Brass Era French
automobiles.
Titled center lower margin (see photo)
Lower left in margin: "Imp. CHAIX, Paris" (see photo)
Lower right in margin: "Ed. Sagot, Editeur: (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Never matted or framed
Colors fresh and unfaded
Image size: 19 5/8 x 13 inches
Sheet size: 27 x 18 1/4 inches
Provenance: Edmund Sagot (1857-1917), publisher
Sagot Heirs
Georges Meunier (1869-1934)
Meunier was born in Saint-Cloud, France in 1869. He moved to Paris as a young man and studied at the National School of Fine Arts; there, he was a student of artist Joseph-Robert Fleury. Following this training, Meunier attended The School for the Decorative Arts where he was trained in both classical and modern design, these skills would later influence his poster graphics. Subsequent to his education, Meunier's posters were exhibited in salons throughout Paris, giving his work notoriety. George Meunier was a prolific artist at the turn-of-the-century influenced greatly by Cheret, the founder of the advertising poster movement. Meunier succeeded Cheret at the Chaix printing house as principal artist and director. He worked as a poster artist for only a short time, making a career change to a book illustrator, which he pursued until the end of his life.
Publisher: Edmund Sagot Courtesy of French Wikipedia
Edmond-Honoré Sagot , born in 1857 and died on April 6 , 1917, is a bookseller , art dealer , publisher of prints and original posters . In 1881 he founded the house “Ed. Sagot” in Paris. This establishment still exists under the name “ Sagot - Le Garrec ” and is one of the oldest art galleries still in operation.
Edmond Sagot is the first contemporary art dealer...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Moto-Fuite
By Georges Meunier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Moto-Fuite
Color lithograph, c. 1902
Signed in the stone lower right (see photo)
Published by Edmund Sagot (1857-1917), Paris
Printed by Atelier Chaix, Paris
Large edition with title and text
Part of a series of two humorous auto related images depicting Brass Era French automibiles
Provenance: Edmund Sagot (1857-1917), publisher
Sagot Heirs
Condition: Excellent
Never matted or framed
Colors fresh and unfaded
Image eize: 19 5/8 x 13 inches
Sheet size: 27 x 18 1/4 inches
Georges Meunier (1869-1934)
Meunier was born in Saint-Cloud, France in 1869. He moved to Paris as a young man and studied at the National School of Fine Arts; there, he was a student of artist Joseph-Robert Fleury. Following this training, Meunier attended The School for the Decorative Arts where he was trained in both classical and modern design, these skills would later influence his poster graphics. Subsequent to his education, Meunier's posters were exhibited in salons throughout Paris, giving his work notoriety. George Meunier was a prolific artist at the turn-of-the-century influenced greatly by Cheret, the founder of the advertising poster movement. Meunier succeeded Cheret at the Chaix printing house as principal artist and director. He worked as a poster artist for only a short time, making a career change to a book illustrator, which he pursued until the end of his life.
Publisher: Edmund Sagot Courtesy of French Wikipedia
Edmond-Honoré Sagot , born in 1857 and died on April 6 , 1917, is a bookseller , art dealer , publisher of prints and original posters . In 1881 he founded the house “Ed. Sagot” in Paris. This establishment still exists under the name “ Sagot - Le Garrec ” and is one of the oldest art galleries still in operation.
Edmond Sagot is the first contemporary art dealer...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nightfear
By Karel Appel
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nightfear
Color lithograph, 1958
From: Rhapsodie de ma nuit, (seven plates)
Signed, dated and numbered in pecnil lower left (see photos)
Edition: E.A. edition of 25, (there were also 75 impressions numbered)
Condition: Excellent, fresh colors and condition
Thin spots on reverse from previous hinges
Provenance: Martha Jackson Gallery
David Anderson Gallery
David Anderson granndchildren Trust
References And Exhibitions:
This portfolio is considered to be one of the greatest-and rarest-illustrated book of the Cobra movement. A copy of this livre d’artiste is in the collection of MOMA. This lithograph is one of four works in color in the portfolio. The book was authored by Emmanuel Looten and published by S.I. (Paris).
VERY IMPORTANT EARLY COBRA WORK OF ART
Karel Appel
B. 1921, AMSTERDAM; D. 2006, ZURICH
Karel Appel was born on April 25, 1921, in Amsterdam. From 1940 to 1943 he studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. In 1946 his first solo show was held at Het Beerenhuis, Groningen, Netherlands, and he participated in Jonge Schilders (Young painters) at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. About this time, Appel was influenced first by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, then by Jean Dubuffet. He was a member of the Nederlandse Experimentele Groep (Dutch Experimental Group, 1948) and established the Cobra group (1948–51) with Constant (Constant Nieuwenhuys), Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis Beverloo), and other painters from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam. The style distinguished itself through bold, expressive compositions inspired by folk and children's art, as well as by the work of Paul Klee and Joan Miró. In 1949 Appel completed a fresco for the cafeteria of the city hall in Amsterdam, which created such controversy that it was covered for ten years.
In 1950 the artist moved to Paris; there the writer Hugo Claus...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Animal Kingdom (Magnificent Jungle Cats)
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Animal Kingdom (Magnificent Jungle Cats)
Etching, 1953-1955
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Annotated: "First Proof" (see photo)
Estate stamp verso (see photo)...
Category
1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Glowing Tree
By Gabor F. Peterdi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Glowing Tree
Etching, engraving & lift ground, 1958
Signed, titled and annotated in pencil (see photos)
Edition: Artist Proof (there was a published addition of 30 with five stencil ...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
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...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
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
Published by Ambrose Vollard, Paris
Printer: Auguste Clot, Paris
Edition: 100
Numbered: No. 68
Reference: Una Johnson, Vollard, No. 188, reproduced pale 35
Kornfeld & Wick, No. 19 b/b
Condition: Very fresh colors
One tiny spot in the upper margin above the image (see photo)
Image size: 17 1/8 x 13 inches
Frame size: 32 3/4 x 27 1/4 inches
Archival framing by Galerie Maximilian, Aspen, CO
Museum glass
22K Gold leaf hand carved frame...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Western Hills Viaduct Under Construction
By Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Western Hills Viaduct Under Construction
Drypoint, June 1931
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Initialed and dated in the plate lower right above pencil signature (see photo)
From: Cincinnati Series, 1930-1931, 8 plates, this No. 5
Small edition, not specified
From Greenfield Hill
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 8 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches
Sheet size: 11 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches
Louis Conrad Rosenberg
1890-1983
An American architectural etcher...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Cincinnati Union Terminal, Perspective From East
By Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cincinnati Union Terminal, Perspective From East
Drypoint, 1930-1931
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Initialed and dated the the plate above the pencil signature
From: Cincinnati Series (8 Plates), this No. 2
Edition: 155, completed May 4, 1931
Delivered to Fellheimer & Wagner, 1931
Louis Conrad Rosenberg
1890-1983
An American architectural etcher and engraver of the 1920's and 1930's era, Louis Conrad Rosenberg first studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Keresan Dancers
By Gene Kloss
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Keresan Dancers
Etching & drypoint, 1962
Signed lower right (see photo)
Inscribed lower left: "Artist's Proof Keresan Dancers"
Depicts Keresan speaking peoples at Sam Felipe Pue...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Skid-Row Self Portrait
By Robert Indiana
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Skid Row-Self Portrait
Color lithograph, 1973
Unsigned (as usual)
From: XXe Siecle, Volume XXVV, December 1973
Published by G. di San Lazzaro for A. Maeght, P...
Category
1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Early Speed
By Clarence W. Anderson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Early Speed
Lithograph, 1953
Signed lower right
Edition 250
Published by Associated American Artists
Illustrated: AAA catalog 1953-03
Reference: AAA Index 1187
Condition: The sheet i...
Category
1950s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Woods
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woods
Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1985
Signed, titled & numbered in pencil
Edition: 15 (12/15)
Printed on BFK RIVES paper
Provenance: GE Art Program, (label included), se...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Undertow Variant)
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Undertow Variant)
Etching and aquatint printed in colors
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 30 (9/30) see photo
Condition: Excellent
Image: 7 7/8 x 7"
She...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Birthday 3-7-65
By Jim Dine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Birthday 3-7-65
Lithograph, 1965
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 23
Published by ULAE, their chop stamp lower left (see photo)
Printed by Ben Berns...
Category
1960s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Iron Point
By Mel Bochner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Iron Point
Aquatint, 1985
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Annotated: AP 4/6 lower center (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Annotated: AP 4/6 (There was also a regula...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Matsu (Pine)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Matsu (Pine)
Woodcut, 1968
Signed: "'Matsu' Naoko Matsubara" in pencil by the artist (see photo)
Annotated in pencil "Ed 25" (see photo)
Edition: 25
Condition: 7" long waterstain at bottom edge of sheet starting ca. 6" in from lower left corner. Does not effect image. Light foxing throughout, especially in margins. Matting covers the foxing up.
Image size: 22 x 43 1/4 inches
Naoko Matsubara (1937 - )
Matsubara Naoko (松原直子) was born in 1937 on Shikoku Island into an old Shinto family, and grew up in Kyoto, where her father was a senior priest. She was educated at the Kyoto Academy of Fine Art (BFA, 1960); and was a Fulbright Scholar at what is now Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (MFA, 1962). She was also a Special Invited Student at the Royal College of Art in London (1962).
After travelling extensively in Europe and Asia, Naoko Matsubara returned to Japan for two years, before being lured back to the United States. There she worked as personal assistant to the late Prof. Fritz Eichenberg, and also taught at the Pratt Institute of Graphic Art in New York, as well as at the University of Rhode Island. Subsequently she lived in Cambridge, Mass.
In 1972 Naoko Matsubara moved to Canada, and now lives in Oakville, Ontario. She has continued to be extremely active as an artist: locally, nationally and internationally. Since 1960 she has had some 75 solo exhibitions, in the USA, Canada, Japan, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Mexico. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions.
Public collections owning work by Naoko Matsubara include: Albertina, Vienna; Art Institute of Chicago; British Museum; Carnegie Institute; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; Detroit Institute of Art; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Haifa Museum, Israel; Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art; Royal Ontario Museum; The White House, Washington DC; Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art; Yale University Art Gallery.
Naoko Matsubara has published some 20 books and portfolios of her work, including most recently Tibetan Sky (Calgary: Bayeux Arts Publishers, 1997; Preface by the Dalai Lama); Tokonoma (Bath, England: Old School Press, 1999); and Konjaku monogatari (Tokyo: ALIS, 2002). Her work also includes a large mural and donor pillar for the new YMCA building in Oakville, Ontario (2003); mixed-media screens; and paintings. In 2005, the Royal Ontario Museum commissioned two large works from Naoko Matsubara for the Museum's Bloor Street window case. The artist generously donated a third work, Emerald Summer (2006). The three works (each 195 cm. high by 95 cm. wide) will be rotated at regular intervals into the outside window. This is the first commissioned artwork to be displayed on the Museum’s Bloor Street Plaza.
Recent major exhibitions have been in Tokyo, Kyoto, Indiana, and Toronto (Royal Ontario Museum). Further exhibitions are currently being planned in Seattle and Tokyo; new books in process include In Praise of Hands. She also continues to travel widely; is frequently invited to speak about her work; and also publishes essays, in both English and Japanese.
Naoko Matsubara’s work has been the subject of countless articles and reviews; documentary films (including two from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation); and several book-length publications: notably Mokuhan: The Woodcuts of Munakata and Matsubara (text by Joan Stanley-Baker; Victoria, BC: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1976); Naoko Matsubara: Development of Artistic Style and Technique (text by Barbara Woodworth; MFA thesis, Harvard University, 1985);.and Tree Spirit...
Category
1960s Abstract Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Xylon 21 Naoko Matsubara USA
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Xylon 21 Naoko Matsubara USA
Woodcuts, two which are printed in color, 1970
2 of the 5 woodcuts signed in pencil (see photos)
Five original woodcuts, two of which are signed in pencil
With introduction entitled Honest Pinetree by Frizt Eichenberg
The images are:
The Quaker’s Meeting, double page woodcut cover on grey/green paper, signed in pencil, with usual centerfold
Publisher: Sekton Schweiz de Xylon, Zurich
Date: August 1970
Edition: 500
Sylvan Snow, double page woodcut (with usual centerfold), signed in pencil, dedicated and dated, depicting a forest
Verso: Dragon, double page woodcut, with usual centerfold, depicting a dragon
Indian Dancer, double page woodcut in black and green (with usual centerfold), depicting dancer
Verso: Chinese Dancer. woodcut in red, depicting a dancer
Condition: Very good, usual handling issues for paper portfolio
Centerfolds as issued
Signle filio: 19 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches
Double folio: 19 3/8 x 27 inches
Publisher: Sekton Schweiz de Xylon, Zurich
Date: August 1970
Edition: 500
Provenance: Amity Art Foundation, Inc.
A rare dedicated example with a dedication in pencil “For Frank” and dated 1970
Note: Matsubara graduated from the Kyoto University of Applied Arts in 1960. She then pursued an MFA in the School of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on a Fulbright Travel Grant, and since then has traveled extensively and taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn—a rare distinction for a Japanese woman. She also studied one year at the Royal College of Art, London. Currently she lives and works in Oakville, Canada.
Naoko Matsubara’s style is influenced by her teacher Munakata Shiko (1903–1975), who worked in the mingei (folk art) tradition. Her works are part of the collections of many museums around the world such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Albertina in Vienna, the British Museum in London, the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress in Washington, the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts, the Haifa Museum in Israel and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. She was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
(Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Naoko Matsubara (1937 - )
Matsubara Naoko (松原直子) was born in 1937 on Shikoku Island into an old Shinto family, and grew up in Kyoto, where her father was a senior priest. She was educated at the Kyoto Academy of Fine Art (BFA, 1960); and was a Fulbright Scholar at what is now Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (MFA, 1962). She was also a Special Invited Student at the Royal College of Art in London (1962).
After travelling extensively in Europe and Asia, Naoko Matsubara returned to Japan for two years, before being lured back to the United States. There she worked as personal assistant to the late Prof. Fritz Eichenberg, and also taught at the Pratt Institute of Graphic Art in New York, as well as at the University of Rhode Island. Subsequently she lived in Cambridge, Mass.
In 1972 Naoko Matsubara moved to Canada, and now lives in Oakville, Ontario. She has continued to be extremely active as an artist: locally, nationally and internationally. Since 1960 she has had some 75 solo exhibitions, in the USA, Canada, Japan, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Mexico. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions.
Public collections owning work by Naoko Matsubara include: Albertina, Vienna; Art Institute of Chicago; British Museum; Carnegie Institute; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; Detroit Institute of Art; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Haifa Museum, Israel; Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art; Royal Ontario Museum; The White House, Washington DC; Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art; Yale University Art Gallery.
Naoko Matsubara has published some 20 books and portfolios of her work, including most recently Tibetan Sky (Calgary: Bayeux Arts Publishers, 1997; Preface by the Dalai Lama); Tokonoma (Bath, England: Old School Press, 1999); and Konjaku monogatari (Tokyo: ALIS, 2002). Her work also includes a large mural and donor pillar for the new YMCA building in Oakville, Ontario (2003); mixed-media screens; and paintings. In 2005, the Royal Ontario Museum commissioned two large works from Naoko Matsubara for the Museum's Bloor Street window case. The artist generously donated a third work, Emerald Summer (2006). The three works (each 195 cm. high by 95 cm. wide) will be rotated at regular intervals into the outside window. This is the first commissioned artwork to be displayed on the Museum’s Bloor Street Plaza.
Recent major exhibitions have been in Tokyo, Kyoto, Indiana, and Toronto (Royal Ontario Museum). Further exhibitions are currently being planned in Seattle and Tokyo; new books in process include In Praise of Hands. She also continues to travel widely; is frequently invited to speak about her work; and also publishes essays, in both English and Japanese.
Naoko Matsubara’s work has been the subject of countless articles and reviews; documentary films (including two from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation); and several book-length publications: notably Mokuhan: The Woodcuts of Munakata and Matsubara (text by Joan Stanley-Baker; Victoria, BC: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1976); Naoko Matsubara: Development of Artistic Style and Technique (text by Barbara Woodworth; MFA thesis, Harvard University, 1985);.and Tree Spirit...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Columns of Herakles
By Ossip Zadkine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Columns of Herakles
Lithograph in Grey printed Zerkall-Vellum paper, 1960
Signed in pencil by the artist 'O. Zadkine' at the lower right corner (see photo)
Numbered in pencil 102...
Category
1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marble relief of a trireme from the Temple of Fortuna, Praeneste, from Vasi
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Marble relief of a trireme from the Temple of Fortuna, Praeneste, from Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal Cav. Gio. Ba...
Category
1770s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Noon Time Lull
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Noon Time Lull
Etching, c. 1930
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Note: An image done in South Carolina.
An impression of this image is in the permanent collecti...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Desolation, S.C. or Deserted Cabins, Beauford, S.C.
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Desolation, S.C. or Deserted Cabins, Beauford, S.C.
Etching & Aquatint, c. 1930
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Annotated "Trial Proof" in pencil lower left co...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Brittany Landscape with Figure
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Brittany Landscape with Figure
Etching & color aquatint, c. 1920
Signed lower right (see photo)
Numbered lower left: "No. 21" (see photo)
An early ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Sunbathing
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sunbathing
Etching and color aquatint on watermarked Umbria Italy paper, c. 1915
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Annotated: "No. 6" in pencil lower left (see p...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Burst of Sound
By Misako Shimizu
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Burst of Sound
Lithograph printed in colors
Signed and titled in pencil in Japanese (see photos)
Edition: 30 (5/30)
Provenance:
Ralph Drake, Cleveland, OH, noted collector of decorat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Impression B
By Toshi Yoshida 1
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Impression B
Color woodcut, 1959
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
A trial proof, prior to the edition of 100, signed and numbered
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 14 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
by decent to his heirs
"Printmaker and painter Toshi Yoshida was born on July 25, 1911, into the respected Yoshida family of artists of Tokyo, Japan. Father Hiroshi was a celebrated landscape painter and printmaker, and mother Fujio established herself as the first female Yoshida artist as well as an Abstract artist later in her career. Younger brother Hodaka was an Abstract printmaker whose style, completely separate from his family's historic traditional bent, later influenced Toshi. Hodaka's wife Chizuko would become a pioneering female Japanese artist whose own exploration of Surrealism and Abstraction challenged the status quo. Toshi, however, as the eldest sibling, was expected to follow in his father's footsteps, and from an early age he was trained by Hiroshi in his studio.
Unable to attend formal schooling due to the polio-induced paralyzation of his leg, Toshi would instead help with his family's printmaking studio and go on sketching trips with Hiroshi. As he got older, these trips would include India and Southeast Asia, working from morning to night taking night trains to get from one destination to another. Among Toshi's favorite subjects were the animals he discovered along the way. However, these trips ended as Japan entered military dictatorship in the mid 1930s, and artists whose work showed signs of Western influence were barred from exhibiting. At this time, Toshi left Japan for China and Korea, where he would remain for the duration of the war. He stuck to patriotic themes to remain in business, and after the end of World War II, as Japan struggled to recover from wartime economic depression, he earned his living creating traditional Japanese woodcut landscapes...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Dona Ascensione
By Kenneth M. Adams
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dona Ascensione
Off set lithograph, 1932/published 1950
Signed in pencil by the artist lower right (see photo)
Titled in the stone, lower left
From: New Mexico Artist...
Category
1930s American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
Morning Paper
By Alessandro Mastro-Valerio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Morning Paper
Mezzotint, 1941
Signed in pencil lower right
Publisher: 32nd Presentation Print of the Chicago Society of Etchers
Edition: 350
Illustrated in GREAT AMERICAN PRINTS 1900-1950 by Norman and June Kraeft
Reference: Old Print Shop No. 86
Condition: Excellent
Original brown paper hinges in the upper corners recto
Plate/Image size: 8 7/8 x 5 15/16 inches
Impressions of this image can be found in the permanent collection of:
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Wichita Art Museum
Hope College, Kruizenga Art Museum
University of Connecticut, Benton Art Museum
Amherst College, Mead Art Museum
"Mastro-Valerio was educated at the Salvador Rosa Institute in Naples, Italy (1906-1912), and came to the U.S. in 1913. He settled in Chicago, and after a brief period as a commerical artist, established a portrait studio near the Loop. Among his patrons were the industrialists Harvey S...
Category
1940s American Realist Nude Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Blue Wing
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blue Wing
Etching, c. 1940
Signed in the lower right (see photo)
Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis, after his tenure o...
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Action Plus
By Clarence W. Anderson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Action Plus
Lithograph, 1950
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Edition 250
Published by Associated American Artists, New York
Illustrated: AAA catalogs 1950-01 and 1950-02
Reference: AAA Index No. 1072
Condition: Excellent
Slight aging to paper
Image size: 9 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches
Sheet size: 12 x 15 7/8 inches
Clarence William Anderson
Clarence William Anderson (1891–1971), born in Wahoo, Nebraska, and known professionally as C.W. Anderson, was a writer and illustrator of children's books. Anderson had an interest in horses and drawing. When he wasn't out riding horses, he was drawing them, taking great interest in their bone structure and conformation. Anderson started his career by illustrating for other authors, but eventually began developing texts to accompany his realistic and lively black and white drawings. He is best known for his "Billy and Blaze" book series.
The adventures of Billy and Blaze revolve around proper care of the horse, while teaching a lesson. Anderson would go to great lengths to give accurate information. He would even go on to write Heads Up, Heels Down as a training tool for young horse lovers. All of the stories Anderson wrote would be based on true stories or people that he knew-only the plots were fictitious.
By the end of Anderson's life, he had written and illustrated over thirty-five horse books, and had also created covers for the Saturday Evening Post. Anderson is the namesake for Andy's Summer Playhouse, a youth theater in Wilton, New Hampshire.[1] Anderson also was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists.
Artwork portfolios
• All Thoroughbreds, Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1948 – 20 illustrations
• Post Parade, Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1949 – 15 illustrations
• Turf and Bluegrass, Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1950 and 1952 – 15 illustrations
• Grey, Bay, and Chestnut, Harper and Brothers Publishers 1952 and 1955 – 10 illustrations
• Colts and Champions, Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1955 and 1956 – 10 illustrations
• Accent on Youth, 1958 – 10 illustrations
• Bred to Run, 1960 – 12 illustrations
• The Look of a Thoroughbred, 1963 – 8 illustrations
• Before the Bugle, 1965 - 9 illustrations
• The World of Horses, 1965 – 8 illustrations
• Fillies and Colts, year unknown – 5 illustrations
• Man O'War, Horse of the Century, 1970 – 8 illustrations
Works
As author and illustrator
• And So to Bed...
Category
1950s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
City Park, Winter
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
City Park, Winter
Lithograph, c. 1947
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Published by Associated American Artists
Printed by George C. Miller, New York
Edition: c. 250
In the Bohrod papers at Syracuse University, the artist states that it is a view of Pittsburgh. It depicts the George Washington Monument in Allegheny Commons Park, dedicated in 1891. The sculptor f the monument is Edward Ludwig Albert Pausch (1856-1931).
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 9 1/4 x 13 7/16 inches
Frame size: 19 x 23 inches
Provenance: Estate of Adolf Dehn
Reference: AAA Index No. 848
Aaron Bohrod (21 November 1907 – 3 April 1992) was an American artist best known for his trompe-l'œil still-life paintings.
Education
Bohrod was born in Chicago in 1907, the son of an emigree Bessarabian-Jewish grocer. Bohrod studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York between 1926 and 1930. While at the Art Students League, Bohrod was influenced by John Sloan and chose themes that involved his own surroundings.
Career
He returned to Chicago in 1930 where he painted views of the city and its working class. He eventually earned Guggenheim Fellowships which permitted him to travel throughout the country, painting and recording the American scene. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York. Bohrod completed three commissioned murals for the Treasury Departments Section of Fine Arts in Illinois; Vandalia in 1935, Galesburg in 1938 and Clinton in 1939. During World War II, Bohrod worked as an artist; first in the Pacific for the United States Army Corps of Engineers' Army War Art Unit...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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)
Reference: Sorlier, Buffet Lithographs, No. 166
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 26 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches
Sheet size: 28 1/4 x 20 inches
Provenance: Robert Henry Adams, Chicago
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard Buffet
Born 10 July 1928
Paris, France
Died 4 October 1999 (aged 71)
Nationality French
Education École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Marie-Thérèse Auffray
Known for Painting, Drawing, Printmaking
Movement Expressionism
Awards Member of the Salon d'Automne, 1947
Member of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, 1947
Prix de la Critique, 1948
Prix Puvis de Chavannes, 1950
Officer of the Légion d'Honneur,1973
Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, 1974
Bernard Buffet (French: [byfɛ]; 10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
He produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative. The artist enjoyed worldwide popularity early in his career but was shunned by art pundits later on.
Today, there is a renewed interest in Bernard Buffet's oeuvre. His works can be seen in the collections of the world's leading museums, including the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the Tate, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Biography
Bernard Buffet was born in 1928. He hailed from a middle-class family with roots in Northern and Western France. His spent his childhood in Paris. His mother often took him to the Louvre Museum, where he got familiar with the works of Realist painters, such as Gustave Courbet. This is likely to have influenced his style. In 1955, he painted a work that paid tribute to Courbet's Le Sommeil.
Bernard Buffet was a student at the Lycée Carnot during the Nazi occupation of Paris. He travelled to drawings courses in the evenings despite the curfew imposed by the Nazi authorities. He then studied art at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (National School of the Fine Arts) and worked in the studio of the painter Eugène Narbonne. Among his classmates were Maurice Boitel and Louis Vuillermoz. He met the French painter Marie-Thérèse Auffray and was influenced by her work.
Buffet's mother, Blanche, died from breast cancer in 1945. Seventeen-year-old Buffet...
Category
1960s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Trout Fishing on the Gunnison (Colorado)
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trout Fishing on the Gunnison (Colorado)
Lithograph, 1941
Signed and dated '42 in pencil lower right
Annotated lower left:
"40 Prints-The Gunnison River, Colorado-For Anne & Jack"
Ed...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
As We Were
By Art Werger
Located in Fairlawn, OH
As We Were
Mezzotint printed on Hannemuelle Copperplate paper, 2014
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Chop stamp of the publisher, The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Deneb
By William T. Wiley
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Deneb
Color lithograph on BFK Rives, 1996
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Titled and inscribed "Ed 265" lower left
Publishers chop stamp l;ower left
Printed by Shark's Ink,
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Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Early Morning Rain
By Norman Ackroyd
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Early Morning Rain
Etching & color aquatint, 1977
Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition: 40 (39/40)
Published by Associated American Artists, New York
Condition: Mint
Image/Plate size: 16 1/2 x 15 3/8 inches
Sheet size: 25 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches
Reference: AAA Index No. 2486
"Norman Ackroyd (RA) is one of Britain’s most celebrated living landscape artists. He is renowned for his evocative and atmospheric visions of the British Isles. Working in both etching and watercolour, he is equally as adept at capturing the calm of a Summer’s daybreak as he is the ferocity of a winter sea.
Born in 1938 in Leeds, he studied at Leeds College of Art (1957-61) and the Royal College of Art in London...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint