1950s Prints

Signed woodblock print by Edgar Dorsey Taylor (American 1904-1978) Original boxed frame with off white linen matte. Number 2 of 50, titled "Avocets and Range Hill, Colorado River." Artist signature bottom right. Edgar Dorsey Taylor, painter, printmaker, mosaic muralist, and teacher, was born in Grass Valley, California on July 15, 1904. He worked in mines and sawmills to pay for his art studies and he graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1928. After graduation, he worked for a year in the commercial art field before traveling to France, Italy, and Germany where he studied with Hans Hoffman. Taylor returned to the San Francisco Bay Area and earned his MA from the University of California in 1932 and taught at the summer session. He was awarded the Tauffig Traveling Fellowship and traveled for a year studying in Germany, Italy, Sicily, Greece, Crete, and the Anatolian peninsula. Upon returning in 1933, Taylor taught for one year at UC Berkeley. He also taught briefly at the University of Texas and, after his move to Los Angeles, at the University of Southern California. During the Depression Taylor worked for the WPA Federal Art Project and was on the Lithography Project. In 1940, he was among the group of twenty artists who produced lithographs for the Contemporary Graphics series published by the San Francisco Chronicle. He worked in oil, watercolor, lithography, conté crayon, mosaic, and stained glass until 1959 after which he concentrated entirely on woodcut. In 1969, the Plantin Press of Los Angeles published his book, Baja California Woodcuts...

"Configuration" color lithograph on paper. Signature and edition "XX/LX" (20/60) in pencil with embossed "GUILDE DE LA GRAVURE" press marking. Model: Arntz 237.

"Composition with Five Forms" color lithograph on rives wove paper, signed in pencil. 23/25.

Portrait of a young woman, ink, lithograph by Leonor Fini. Leonor Fini (1907–1996) was an artist of the 20th century who is now considered one of the most important and misunderst...

Unusually large silver gelatin photographic print of the yacht Right Royal by Beken of Cowes.

Yacht Figaro, early silver photographic print by Beken of Cowes. Exceptionally large.

Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973. Title: Chevaux de minuit : épopée/Roch Grey; by Iliazd and Pablo Picasso. Publisher: Cannes Paris : aux bons soins du Degré quarante et un, 1956. Drypoint ...

Colour lithography by Bengt Orup. Edition 33 / 55.

A charming linocut in brown, on watermarked Registres-Torpes paper, by Pablo Picasso, for the Vallauris 1951 Exposition. This edition was unsigned, except as in the linocut, printed ...

A striking custom framed seven color lithograph after Braque's "Profil à la palette" for an exhibition at Galerie Maeght. Retains a "Certificate of Authenticity" on the back from the...

A stunning and vibrantly colored lithograph by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) that was created for a feast at the Pavillon de Marsan. It reads "Madame de Pompadour...

circa: 1950s. Hand screened textile by American designer Angelo Testa. Know for his abstract modern printed and woven textile designs, Testa's work was a perfect fit for modern archi...