John Murray Barton Art

Chrysanthemums Color woodcut, c. 1950's Signed lower right (see photo) Publisher: Uchida (see photo of red seal) Note: Chrysanthemums, a symbol of the sun, the Japanese consider the ...

Cosmos Color woodcut with gauffage (embossing), January 1940 Unsigned (as usual) Publisher: Takemura Hideo (active Yokohama 1926-1940) Condition: excellent Image size: 14 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches Provenance: Robert O. Muller Estate Biography Hodo Nishimura...

This is a signed woodcut engraving entitled "Mine Shaft" created by Albert Abramovitz in 1935, after a trip to the Soviet Union. It depicts two Russian workers constructing a mine sh...

Color woodcut with pochoir embellishments on fine silver mica ground By Kano Shuho, or Yamakawa Shuho, 20th century Japanese Artist

Flower in Vase (Summer) Color woodblock, c. 1950 Signed "B. Ohno" lower right (see photo) Sealed lower right (see photo) Series: Flowers of the Four Se...

Woodcut on vellum, 1918. Typographic Inscription on the back: Campendonk: Tiere. Holzschnitt. Framed. Image dimensions: 3.03 x 9.17 in ( 7,7 x 23,3 cm ), Sheet dimensions: 9.06 x 12.6 in ( 24,4 x 32 cm ) Catalog raisonné: Engels-Söhn 33a Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk ( born 1889 in Krefeld, Germany – died...

Maurice de VLAMINCK Wild Red and White flowers Woodcut and embossing (Atelier Raymond Jacquet) Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 15 x 11" (38 x 28 cm) INFORMATION : W...

Dan Burne Jones is widely know as the author of the Rockwell Kent print catalogue raisonne. It's so interesting to see that he is a gifted wood engraver as well. Jones's own prints a...

Still life woodcut and lithograph on Rives Creme paper. Although best known for his portraits, Katz has depicted landscapes both inside the studio and out of doors since the beginn...

Seibutsu (Still Life) A Vase and Apples Color woodcut, 1925 Signed on the mount (support sheet) From: Dojin zasshi, Hanga Magazine, Volume 8, No. 8 Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet ...

This Winslow Homer woodcut engraving entitled "Skating on the Ladies' Skating-Pond in Central Park, New York", was published in Harper's Weekly in the January 28, 1860 edition. It depicts a large number of men, women and children skating on a recently opened pond in Central Park. At the time of publication of this engraving, Central Park was in the early stages of construction. This engraving documents the very early appearance of Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux's masterpiece of landscape design. According to Olmsted, the park was "of great importance as the first real Park made in this century – a democratic development of the highest significance". The people of New York were very proud of the plans for their park. It was stated at the time: "Our Park, which is progressing very satisfactorily under the management of the Commissioners, will undoubtedly be, one of these days, one of the finest place of the kind in the world...Those who saw the Park before the engineers went to work on it are amazed at the beautiful sites which have been contrived with such unpromising materials; all fair persons believe that the enterprise is managed with honesty and good taste." Skating was rapidly rising in national popularity in part due to the opening of Central Park’s lake to skaters on a Sunday in December 1858 with 300 participants. The following Sunday it attracted ten thousand skaters. By Christmas Day, a reported 50,000 people came to the park, most of them to skate. There were rules governing who could use the skating pond. “The Ladies’ Pond...

Sidney Chafetz was known for his clever compositions and his many portraits, all made in the most 'difficult to control' medium of woodcut.. This charmi...