International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Launched in 1987, the International Fine Print Dealers Association has continually set the bar for quality and ethics while promoting prints as original works of art to generations of collectors, curators and art lovers. With over 160 members in 13 countries, the IFPDA is a worldwide community of leading dealers and editions publishers who represent the full spectrum of printmaking. Each year, the IFPDA hosts the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, the only major fair dedicated to fine-art prints.
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The Chase Is On
By Gordon Phillips
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Gordon Phillips, 'The Chase Is On', graphite, c. 1980. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, spontaneous rendering, on white, wove bristol, the full she...
Category
20th Century Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Graphite
La Casita Azul
By Emilio Sanchez
Located in New York, NY
“LA CASITA AZUL”
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “La Casita Azul” circa 1970. The image size is 21.50 x 31.25 inches and the paper size 23.13 x 33 inches. Printed in an edition of 100 this impression is inscribed “91/100” - the 54th impression of 100. Pencil signed in the lower right and inscribed in the lower left.
“Best known for his architectural paintings and lithographs, Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) explored the effects of light and shadow to emphasize the abstract geometry of his subjects. His artwork encompasses his Cuban heritage...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Spring — American Modernism
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'Spring', color woodcut, edition 50, c. 1925. Signed, titled and numbered '4/50' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on ...
Category
1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
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 cabaret located in the old wind mill building in the right distance of this image. It was the center of fin de siecle culture in Paris.
Condition: Slight yellowing to the sheet from age.
Sight size: 9 x 5 3/4 inches
Frame size: 14-1/8 x 10-3/4 x 1/2"
Provenance: Eric G. Carlson (1940-2016), art historian and noted art dealer
François Clément Sommier, best known under the pseudonym “Henry Somm,” was born in Rouen in 1844. He attended the local École municipale des beaux-arts and went on in 1867 to Paris, where he studied under Isidore Pils (1813-1875).
“Somm is above all a painter and his watercolors are much sought after; he has the painter’s eye to the highest degree imaginable.” Louis Morin, Somm’s fellow artist revealed in 1893 that while his training as an academic painter forged his draughsmanship and an acute eye for colors, Somm preferred and excelled in the graphic realm. Particularly prolific, he produced a very extensive corpus of 7,500 drawings and prints, many of which were widely reproduced in journals and magazines.
In 1867, Somm’s career reached a turning point with the discovery of Japanese culture through his friendship with French collector and critic Philippe Burty and a visit to the Paris International Exhibition. More generally, Japanese art and especially Japanese woodblock prints exerted a heavy influence on French artists at the time, and especially on the Impressionists, who were particularly inspired by the subject matter, as well as the innovative use of perspective, composition and color. Although technically not an Impressionist by pure definition, Somm’s interest in the effect of atmospheric light on shadow and color prompted Edgar Degas to invite him to participate in their 4th exhibition in 1879. However, Somm did not exhibit again with the Impressionists, and was never considered a member of the group. Rather, his work intersects between Impressionism, Symbolism and Japonism. In fact, while his drypoints and etchings reflect a more literal borrowing of Japanese elements than the work of Whistler or Monet, they also clearly anticipate the future work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Although Somm was 20 years older than Toulouse-Lautrec, both artists developed a friendship, as habitués of the Chat noir, a cabaret founded by Rodolphe Salis and located 84 boulevard de Rochechouart in Montmartre. More than a cabaret, the Chat noir also became an important gathering place for writers, poets, composers, musicians, and artists living in Montmartre. For Somm, a founding member of this artistic circle, it also served as a unique environment, where he could express his limitless imagination as active participant to the events – notably the literary soirées organized by the hydropathic group – and illustrator of the Chat noir journal.
In 1886, Somm, in collaboration with Georges Auriol, initiated the Chat noir’s first puppet show, which subsequently evolved into shadow theater. Somm’s Japonism and sense of humor appealed to Toulouse-Lautrec, and this influence is echoed in Lautrec posters advertising two other Montmartre nightspots, namely Le Mirliton and Le Divan Japonais...
Category
Late 19th Century French School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Ink
'The Bather' — 1930s American Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'The Bather', wood engraving, 1931, edition 120, Burne Jones 63. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Image size 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches (137 x 200 mm); sheet size 11 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (283 x 368 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Impressions of this work are held in the following public collections: Burne Jones Collection, IL; Chegodaev Collection, Moscow; Kent Collection, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library, NJ; Pushkin Museum, Moscow; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection, NY.
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
'Girl with Hands to Face' — Mid-century Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Girl with Hands to Face', two-color lithograph, 1940, edition 30, Fine and Looney 180. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 30' in pencil. A superb impression, on cr...
Category
1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
California Poppies Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor illustration for a series of commercial seed packets. Printed by Stecher-Traung Lithograph Corporation, Rochester, NY, circa 1935. Some staining from tape to edges.
Category
1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor, Board
'Church with Star' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with Star (Kirche mit Stern)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W265. Annotated 'W 265' (Feininger catalogue number) and inventory no. '2808' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 inches; sheet size 10 1/16 x 7 1/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
UNTITLED
By Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARIA HELENA VIEIRA da SILVA (1908 - 1992)
UNTITLED, 1960-70
Intaglio, signed and numbered XVII/XXXXV. 9 1/4 x 6 inches.
Generally good condition, very slight light stain around mat opening, mat burn on verso.
From Wikipedia:
Vieira da Silva was born in Lisbon, Portugal. At the age of eleven she had begun seriously studying drawing and painting at that city's Academia de Belas-Artes. In her teen years she studied painting with Fernand Léger, sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle, and engraving with Stanley William Hayter, all masters in their respective fields. Vieira da Silva also worked with Fauve artist...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
La Receveuse (Bill Collector) —French Cubism
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jean-Emile Laboureur, 'La Receveuse', engraving, 1919, edition 8, first state of two (artist's proof). Laboureur, Godefroy 190.
Signed and numbered '3/8 ép' in pencil. Initialed and...
Category
1910s Cubist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Jazz Festival Willisau/Willisau 1989
By Niklaus Troxler
Located in New York, NY
Jazz Festival Willisau 1989
Troxker's posters are represented in the most renowned design collections
worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of M...
Category
1980s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Aboriginal Child Frightened by Abstraction and Time
By William T. Wiley
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with chine collé, Edition 30.
William Wiley uses current political and social issues to comment on life in our time. His stunning draftsmanship, and freeform lov...
Category
1990s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pompeian Still Life Gouache
Located in New York, NY
Original gouache by an unknown Neapolitan artist, circa 1840. Upper right panel after a fresco in Casa dei Dioscuri, Pompeii.
Category
1840s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Turkish Delight
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Carborundum etching on paper
Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition History: 'Graphics Drawings and Small Works', Bernard Jacobson Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Grand Canal, America (Electrical Buildings at Night)
By Gerald Geerlings
Located in Storrs, CT
Czestochowski 31. 11 3/4 x 8 7/8 (sheet 12 x 18). Edition 100. Presentation print for the Chicago Society of'Chicago Fair 1933. A rich impression with t...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Acrylic, Drypoint
Codex YTREBIL
By Enrique Chagoya
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25.
The artist describes this project:
Codex YTREBIL, (liberty backwards), is based on a series of small books by anonymous Ind...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Shaker Blue
By Barbara Takenaga
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 25.
Barbara Takenaga is a painter who made her first lithograph at Shark's in the summer of 2002. Her abstract works are full of repeated, obsessive mark...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Chelsea Old Church, London
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in Storrs, CT
Chelsea Old Church. 1924. Etching, drypoint, and aquatint. Dickins 94. 5 3/8 x 8 (sheet 8 1/2 x 9 3/4). Edition 100 for The Print Collector's Club. A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream wove paper. Signed and dedicated "W.R. Button from W. Walcot London 1930" in pencil.
Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England. Inside the Grade I listed building, there is seating for 400 people. There is a memorial plaque to the author Henry James (1843–1916) who lived nearby on Cheyne Walk. To the west of the church is a small public garden containing a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein.
When he was seventeen,William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel Metropole...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Woman in a Fur Wrap
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman in a Fur Wrap
Pen and ink heightened with white, c. 1920
Signed in ink lower right (see photo)
Estate stamp verso (see photo)
Provenance: estate of the artist
Borghi & Company, New York
Condition: excellent
Sheet/Image size: 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Rudolph Bauer
1889-1953
"Rudolf Bauer was born in Lindenwald near Bromberg, Silesia, in 1889 but his family moved only a few years later to Berlin. In 1905 Bauer began his studies at the Berlin Academy of Art but left the Academy only a few months later to educate himself. The upshot was paintings, caricatures and comical drawings which were published in 'Berliner Tageblatt', 'Ulk' and 'Le Figaro'.
From 1912 Bauer contributed to the magazine and Gallery 'Der Sturm' founded by Herwarth Walden and pivotal to German Expressionism and the international avant-garde. In 1915 Rudolf Bauer participated for the first time in a group show at Walden's gallery. There he met Hilla von Rebay...
Category
1920s Art Deco International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Ink
The Heavenly Suite (purple)
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Screenprint
Category
1970s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Peter Blake, A is for Alphabet, from Alphabet Series, 1991
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77cm.
Category
1990s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Reflet
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is #8 of 50
Mezzotint artist Mikio Watanabe was born in 1954 in Japan and currently lives in France. He is most known for his elegant, evocative black and white nude...
Category
1980s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
AIDS (Stamps)
By General Idea
Located in New York, NY
Offset lithograph on perforated paper
Edition of 200
Category
1980s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Iris (5)
By Leonard Baskin
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leonard Baskin, 'Iris ( 5 )', etching, 1988, artist proof before the edition of 10, outside the book edition. Signed and annotated 'proof' in pencil. A fine impression, with expertly...
Category
1980s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Pink Mountain
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color spitbite aquatint and aquatint with drypoint.
Edition of 35
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Untitled
By Jesús Rafael Soto
Located in New York, NY
Jesús Rafael Soto
Untitled, 1970
embossing with etching, edition of 95
37 x 37 in.
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Aries-The Ram
By Eugène Grasset
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the artist's initials lower left
From: Les Douze Mois de 1889
As published in Vol. 9, No. 425 of Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui.
Published by Sagot, Paris
Proof before letters...
Category
1880s Art Nouveau International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads: Crooked Made Straight
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
9-color silkscreen print on plexiglass,
5 x 12” (12,5 x 31cm)
Printed by Atelier für Siebdruck,
Lorenz Boegli, Zurich
Ed. 45/XX, signed and numbered certificate
Category
Early 2000s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
New Orleans Sportin House
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
New Orleans Sportin House
Pen and ink on paper, 1951
Signed in ink, titled and dated in pencil (see photos)
Condition: Corners are pasted to support sheet, some staining in image.
Image/sheet size: 15 5/8 x 18 inches
Provenance: Acquired from the artist
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, patron and friend of the artist
Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002)
The artist’s own grandchildren attempt to fathom the real life and nature of Stephen Longstreet, prolific author, artist, screenplay writer, and jazz aficionado.
Born Chauncy Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener) in New York City in 1907, Longstreet reinvented himself on a regular basis. Changing his name first to “Henry,” then “Henri,” he started his career as a commercial artist for a department store. In various public biographies he claimed to have studied in New York, London, and Paris, and said he was a student of cartoonist Ralph Barton...
Category
1950s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Ink
Late Night (Where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Late Night", Frederick Mershimer created a winter scene where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope. This image, the seventh in t...
Category
1990s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Group of Carnations from Temple of Flora
By Dr. Robert John Thornton
Located in New York, NY
"Group of Carnations" by Dr. Robert Thornton from the quarto edition of "Temple of Flora." London, 1812. Mixed media engraving (aquatint, mezzotint, co...
Category
1810s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
The Trawler
By Arthur John Trevor Briscoe
Located in Storrs, CT
The Trawler. 1926. Etching. Hurst 176. 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 (sheet 11 3/8 x 15 3/4). Edition 75, #71. Mat line outside the image; otherwise excellent condition.A fine impression with plate tone, printed on antique cream laid paper. Signed and numbered in ink. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
In 1899 Briscoe acquired a studio in Malden, Essex, and bought a 3 ton cutter which, with his young family, he would spend eight or nine months a year, sailing to Calais, along the Belgian coast and through the Dutch waterways, constantly sketching and painting in both oil and watercolor.
In 1922, after a meeting with the etcher James McBey, Briscoe returned to etching once more producing plates of some of his sea sketches. The two artists sailed together in Briscoe's, forty-ton yacht, the "Golden Vanity...
Category
1920s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Untitled (Nude with Horse)
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Nude with Horse), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 10 in pencil. Number 10 of Volume 1, a series of 10 ...
Category
1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ocelot by Audubon
By John James Audubon
Located in New York, NY
Original stone lithograph with hand-coloring from "The Quadrupeds of North America. Octavo Edition" by John James Audubon. Plate LXXXVI. P...
Category
1850s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Proscenium IV (grid with lines and white patches)
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Edition of 40
77.5 x 58.5 cms (30.5 x 23 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
The Green Sugarbowl — Mid-Century Color Woodcut
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Ross Abrams, 'The Green Sugarbowl', color woodcut, 1949, edition 24. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'Artist’s proof' in pencil. A fin...
Category
1940s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Angel (Little Egypt) State II
By Barbara Takenaga
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with pearlescent powder, Edition 15.
Barbara Takenaga writes: “About the prints, they’re part of a series of recent Angel paintings — which were influenced by seeing a small painting fragment of angel’s wings by Fra Angelico. I liked the way the feather pattern is similar to the Asian motif of fish scales or waves of water. There is a reference to the natural world, as well as the heavenly, but in an abstract, decorative approach. With the scale change of smaller elements in the center and larger dots on the edge, there is the implication of folded space that moves from near to distant — with some sensation of being pulled toward a far off place. The metallic background is dusted with gold or pearlescent powder over deep orange, which gives the surface some shimmer and color change. The title, Angel (Little Egypt), comes from the colors that are reminiscent of ancient Egyptian collars...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Brandenburg 2013
By Daniel Kane
Located in New Orleans, LA
In the famous story of the great 19th century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, it is said she was given her first camera by her daughter as a way to occupy her time while her husband was away. In my case, as with so many others, the beginning of the story was equally fortuitous: Knowing I was about to spend a year abroad as an exchange student, my mother gave me my first camera, saying I would probably want to take pictures while I was away. Neither of us realized how important that little Instamatic camera would turn out to be, and now, 47 years and over a hundred thousand images later, I present the different portfolios shown here as a reflection of the work I have made since back then in 1970.
One by one, my favorite films and papers have been driven from the market by digital media, but I remain loyal to this day to analog photography, and the originals of all of these images were made with real film, either color slides...
Category
2010s Photorealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
From: You Are The Weather
By Roni Horn
Located in New York, NY
Two-color silkscreen on Arches,
20 x 24” (50,7 x 60,4 cm),
in wooden frame, 20 3/4 x 24 3/4” (54,4 x 64,5 cm),
printed by Atelier für Siebdruck, Lorenz Boegli, Zurich,
Ed. 60/XX, sig...
Category
1990s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Chrysanthemums and Bands
Located in Storrs, CT
Chrysanthemums and Bands. c.1900. Dark ground Japanese paper stencil on mulberry paper treated with persimmon juice and smoked. Drill and punch carving. 8 x 13 7/8 (sheet 12 1/2 x 16 1/2). Ex-collection Arthur Wesley Dow. $300. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
Katagami are Japanese stencil patterns that were used for printing kimono patterns...
Category
Early 20th Century Edo International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Stencil
Mappe-Monde Dresse sur les Observations de Mrs. De L'Academie Royale des Science
By Guillaume De L'Isle
Located in New York, NY
Published by J. Covens & C. Mortier, Amsterdam.
Copper plate engraving, 1696, (c.1725).
Image size 19 1/2 x 25" (496 x 636 mm) plus margins.
Good condition save for...
Category
18th Century and Earlier International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Sail I
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
101.6 x 71.1 cms (40 x 28 ins)
Edition of 40
Signed lower left; numbered lower centre, printer's chop lower right.
Publisher: Hollander's Workshop, New ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
'Le Paradis Terrestre' (Paradise on Earth) — 1930s Symbolism
By Edouard Goerg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edouard Goerg, 'Le Paradis Terrestre' (Paradise on Earth), etching, 1931, edition 40. Signed, titled, and numbered '3/40' in pencil. A fine richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream w...
Category
1930s Symbolist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Adele and the Ladies (Rochester's fashion conscious ward in Jane Eyre)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Adele, the 10 year-old girl who may be the daughter of Rochester and Celine in "Jane Eyre" is being scrutinized by three women. One is seated on an ornate sofa...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Wool, Engraving
Georgiana and Eliza (cousins of Jane Eyre)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Eichenberg did some original wood engravings for Jane Eyre. This is an image featuring Georgiana And Eliza. As children, Eliza and Georgiana Reed, alon...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Wood, Engraving
The Gargoyle and His Quarry
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gargoyle and His Quarry, Notre Dame. 1920. Etching.Fletcher 90. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 (sheet 10 1/2 x 9 1/16). Gargoyle series #1. Edition 75. A rich impression printed on 'FJHead&Co' c...
Category
1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
'Little Locomotive' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Little Locomotive (Kleine Lokomotive)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W158. Annotated 'W 158' (Feininger catalogue number) and '1936' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner.
A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 1/4 x 3 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (East Berlin KK).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Toujours Chic Tryptic.
Located in New York, NY
Set of 3 covers to the French fashion journal, "Toujours Chic" illustrated by Germaine Joumard who also sometimes signed her pieces "ZouZou." The three issues are: Les Robes de Soirees...
Category
1920s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
Love Apple (Black background)
By Jane Martin VonBosse
Located in Storrs, CT
Love Apple (Black background). 1967. Linoleum cut printed in brown, red, orange, black and tan. 19 1/2 x 12 1/2 (sheet 22 1/2 x 14 3/16). A vivid impression printed on wove paper pap...
Category
1960s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Linocut, Color
OBSEQUIO á el MAESTRO (‘A gift for the master’)
By Francisco Goya
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCISCO de GOYA y LUCIENTES (1746 -1828)
OBSEQUIO á el MAESTRO (‘A gift for the master’) Plate 47 from the 1st edition of Los Caprichos (Blas, ...
Category
1790s Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province — Lifetime Impression, 1934
By Kawase Hasui
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series Collected Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fûkei shû II Kansai hen), woodblock print, 1934. A very fine, atmospheric impression, with fresh colors; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Signed 'Hasui' with the artist’s seal 'Kawase', lower left. Published by Watanabe Shozaburo with the Watanabe ‘D’ seal indicating an early impression printed between 1931 - 1941. Stamped faintly 'Made in Japan' in the bottom center margin, verso.
Horizontal ôban; image size 9 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (238 x 362 mm); sheet size approximately 10 5/16 x 15 1/2 inches ( 262 x 394 mm).
Collections: Art Institute of Chicago; Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna); Honolulu Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum in Warsaw; University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“I do not paint subjective impressions. My work is based on reality...I can not falsify...(but) I can simplify…I make mental impressions of the light and color at the time of sketching. While coloring the sketch, I am already imagining the effects in a woodblock print.” — Kawase Hasui
Hasui Kawase...
Category
1930s Showa International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, 1940s Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 IV. Annotated 'PW 290 state IV / IV 3669', in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. With the artist's typed address and date adjacent to the letterhead image: 'Falls Village, Connecticut September 26th, 1940'.
A fine impression, on buff, wove letterhead stock; several small losses, and tears, in the sheet edges (not affecting the image area); a crease in the bottom right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Very scarce.
Image size: 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 11 x 8 5/8 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Feininger moved from Germany to New York City in 1938 and began spending his summers in Falls Village in 1940.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch)
By Kurt Seligmann
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KURT SELIGMANN (1900–1962 American, born in Switzerland,)
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch) 1934
Etching and aquatint, unsigned ? possibly a proof aside from The ...
Category
1930s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Hummingbird Lithograph
By John Gould
Located in New York, NY
Gould, John and Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds.
London, 1849-61.
This plate: Orthorhynchus Ornatus.
Original lithographs hand-co...
Category
Mid-19th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Paper
The Great Pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt
By Francis Frith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Great Pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt
Original gold toned albumin photograph, c. 1862
Unsigned as is usual
From: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, c. 1862, Vol 1, ...
Category
1860s Romantic International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Skerikulla (Skerri Girl).
By Anders Zorn
Located in Storrs, CT
Skerikulla.. 1912. Etching. Image 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 (sheet 15 5/8 X 12 5/8). Toned, in the image otherwise good condition. A fine impression printed on cream-colored laid paper on the...
Category
1910s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
'Feast of Passover' — American Expressionism
By Max Weber
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Max Weber, Untitled 'Feast of Passover', woodcut, 1920, edition proofs—this impression from the edition of 25 printed in 1956, Rubenstein 30. Signed in pencil...
Category
1920s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Infinity Field - Olympia III
By Theodoros Stamos
Located in New York, NY
The Greek American artist, Theodoros Stamos, was born in 1922 in New York City into a family of Greek immigrants. He was a member of The Irascibles group which consisted of the first...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
