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Kish-Ke-Kosh, Fox Brave: Original Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Lithograph
Kish-Ke-Kosh, Fox Brave: Original Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Lithograph

Kish-Ke-Kosh, Fox Brave: Original Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Lithograph

By McKenney & Hall

Located in Alamo, CA

This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Kish-Ke-Kosh, Fox Brave", lithographed by J. T. Bowen after a painting by Charles Bird King and published by Rice and Hart & Co. in Philadelphia in 1848. Kish-Ke-Kosh, means 'The Man with One Leg' or 'He with a Cut Hoof'. He had a reputation for being a fierce warrior. He was a representative of the delegation of Sioux and Fox and Sauk chiefs who attended the gathering with the War Department in 1837. The Fox tribe lived in the Great Lakes region of the United States and merged with the Sauk tribe. This original McKenney and Hall hand-colored lithograph is printed on a sheet measuring 10.38" high and 7" wide. There are tiny spots in the lower left margin, another in the right lower margin and mild smudging in the left margin, but the print is otherwise in very good condition. The original descriptive text pages, 119-120, from McKenney and Hall's 19th century publication are included. Col. Thomas J. McKenney was Superintendant of The Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1816 until 1830. He was one of a very few government officials to defend American Indian interests and attempt to preserve their culture. He travelled to Indian lands meeting the Native American leaders. He brought with him an accomplished artist, James Otto Lewis...

Category

Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Ruins of the Roman Baths of Belisarius: A 19th C. Etching by Luigi Rossini
Ruins of the Roman Baths of Belisarius: A 19th C. Etching by Luigi Rossini

Ruins of the Roman Baths of Belisarius: A 19th C. Etching by Luigi Rossini

By Luigi Rossini

Located in Alamo, CA

This early 19th century etching entitled "Veduta degl' Avanzi delle Torri di Belisario Dalla parte che guarda l' Interno della Città, vicino a Porta S. Giovanni, A. Mura Aureliane" (...

Category

1820s Old Masters Bay Area - Art

Materials

Etching

Volti
Volti

Volti

By Umberto Bianchini

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Volti" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Umberto Bianchini, 1934-1990. It is signed at the lower left ...

Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Oil

Blue Tide Oil on Canvas, Contemporary Landscape, Signed, 21st Century
Blue Tide Oil on Canvas, Contemporary Landscape, Signed, 21st Century

Blue Tide Oil on Canvas, Contemporary Landscape, Signed, 21st Century

By Gail Chase-Bien

Located in Burlingame, CA

Gail Chase Bien creates luminous oil on linen paintings that unfold slowly, both in their making and in their viewing. Built through thin, layered applications of paint over months a...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

View From the Window: 21st Century American Realist Oil Painting
View From the Window: 21st Century American Realist Oil Painting

View From the Window: 21st Century American Realist Oil Painting

By Willard Dixon

Located in Burlingame, CA

One of our finest living contemporary American Realist artists, Willard Dixon, has painted 'View From the Window; featuring green leaves, grey branches, purple lilac and orange turni...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Botanical Experiment #2
Botanical Experiment #2

Botanical Experiment #2

By Paula Valenzuela

Located in San Francisco, CA

Paula Valenzuela Botanical Experiment #2, 2025 Watercolor, alcohol and acrylic inks on paper 9 x 12 inches This one-of-a-kind work on paper comes unframed and ships in a tube. Exter...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Marmo di Carrara (framed) - large format photograph of Italian marble quarry
Marmo di Carrara (framed) - large format photograph of Italian marble quarry

Marmo di Carrara (framed) - large format photograph of Italian marble quarry

By Frank Schott

Located in San Francisco, CA

Framed large scale original photograph of the Mediterranean marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, iconic material source of classic Italian art and architecture, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details Marmo di Carrara...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment,...

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Charles Arnoldi

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist: Charles Arnoldi (American, born 1931) Title: Untitled Year: 2001 Medium: Off set lithograph Edition: Numbered XXIX 54/115 in pencil Image size: 17 x 17 inches Signat...

Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Art

Materials

Offset

Peace and Justice, Haiti.
Peace and Justice, Haiti.

Peace and Justice, Haiti.

By Shepard Fairey

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Peace and Justice, Haiti" 2013, is an original screen print on cream, Speckletone fine art paper. by noted American artist Shepard Fairey, b.1970. It is hand sig...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Bay Area - Art

Materials

Screen

5.75' Heartfelt 2/29
5.75' Heartfelt 2/29

5.75' Heartfelt 2/29

By Lorri Acott

Located in Napa, CA

Lorri Acott is an internationally collected sculptor known for her impressionistic, figurative works that explore themes of connection, resilience, and the shared human experience. H...

Category

2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Bronze

Waves Crashing on the Rocks
Waves Crashing on the Rocks

Waves Crashing on the Rocks

Located in San Francisco, CA

Here’s a recipe for an instant coastal escape. It’s all there in this painting, the exploding spray of seawater straight up into the salty air above the boulders, the endless variety...

Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bur Reed & Water Hemlock: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Bur Reed & Water Hemlock: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving

Bur Reed & Water Hemlock: A 17th-18th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving

By Basilius Besler 1

Located in Alamo, CA

This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Orobanche, Cicuta Maxima, Sparganium (Bur Reed, Water Hemlock, Broomrape) ", depicting a flowering Bur Reed, Water Hemlock, Broomrape plants from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713. This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper with wide margins. There us spotting and some discoloration, most prominently in the upper and lower margins. There is irregularity and some loss along the right paper edge. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 21.5" high and 17.25" wide. Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...

Category

Early 18th Century Academic Bay Area - Art

Materials

Engraving

Edge op/ed

Edge op/ed

By Giuseppe Palumbo

Located in Napa, CA

Bronze sculpture, op/ed Giuseppe Palumbo's bronze sculptures are textural, warm, spirited works that capture the essence of each being he portrays. His anthropomorphic artworks delv...

Category

2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Bronze

Le Cirque (The Circus) III
Le Cirque (The Circus) III

Le Cirque (The Circus) III

By Camille Hilaire

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Le Cirque (The Circus) III" is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by noted French artist Camille Hilaire, 1916-2004. It is hand signed and inscribed I...

Category

Late 19th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for form', C. 2007 by David Ruth
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for form', C. 2007 by David Ruth

Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for form', C. 2007 by David Ruth

By David Ruth

Located in Oakland, CA

This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

The Old City Hall, Munich, Germany
The Old City Hall, Munich, Germany

The Old City Hall, Munich, Germany

By Luigi Kasimir

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Old City Hall, Munich, Germany" c.1930 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 13.25 x 11.15 inches, framed size is 24.75 x 21.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black and gold frame, with light grey matting and blue fillets. It is in excellent condition, slightly toned by age around the plate mark, see picture #7. The frame have a very small minor restoration, practically invisible. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna...

Category

Early 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Etching

Sneezewort, Poppy, Strawflower: 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Sneezewort, Poppy, Strawflower: 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving

Sneezewort, Poppy, Strawflower: 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving

By Basilius Besler 1

Located in Alamo, CA

This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Ptarmica Vulgaris (Sneezewort), Papaver Spinosum (Mexican Poppy), Chrysocame Peregrina (Seaside Strawflower)", depicting flowering Sneezewort, Mexican Poppy and Seaside Strawberry plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713. This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper. The left margin is thinner than the others and the left edge is somewhat irregular where the engraving was previously bound in the original publication. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring. The sheet measures 20" high and 16.38" wide. Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...

Category

1640s Academic Bay Area - Art

Materials

Engraving

Fallscape
Fallscape

Fallscape

By Peter Milton

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Fallscape" 1961, is an original drypoint etching by noted American artist Peter Winslow Milton, b.1930. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 15/40 in pencil by ...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

“Woodland Study”
“Woodland Study”

“Woodland Study”

Located in San Francisco, CA

Remarkably, this painting tells its own story on the verso. To save your eyesight, here's what it reveals: James McDougal Hart (1828-1901) Landscape, animal, and portrait painter. A ...

Category

1860s Hudson River School Bay Area - Art

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Tamalas Bay Evening / Boats on the Bay at sunset - peaceful
Tamalas Bay Evening / Boats on the Bay at sunset - peaceful

Tamalas Bay Evening / Boats on the Bay at sunset - peaceful

By Willard Dixon

Located in Burlingame, CA

Boats at sunset depicted in this calm and peaceful oil painting — Tamales Bay Evening — from American Realist Willard Dixon. The canvas is 17 x 50 inches...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tawny or Brown Owl: A Framed Original 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by Gould
Tawny or Brown Owl: A Framed Original 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by Gould

Tawny or Brown Owl: A Framed Original 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by Gould

By John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter

Located in Alamo, CA

This is a framed original 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled “Syrnium Aluco" (Tawny or Brown Owl) by John Gould, from his "Birds of G...

Category

Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Gertrude Barrer Oil on Board
Gertrude Barrer Oil on Board

Gertrude Barrer Oil on Board

Located in San Francisco, CA

Gertrude Barrer: 1921-1992. Well listed American artist with auction records over $9500. She studied a the Arts Student League in the 1940s. More recently art historians have said s...

Category

20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Art

Materials

Oil

Flora Italiana ( Anemone Viola ) - large format botanical still life photograph
Flora Italiana ( Anemone Viola ) - large format botanical still life photograph

Flora Italiana ( Anemone Viola ) - large format botanical still life photograph

By Linda Rosewall

Located in San Francisco, CA

Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring the botanical ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Flora Italiana ( Papavero Arancio Piene ) - large botanical still life photo
Flora Italiana ( Papavero Arancio Piene ) - large botanical still life photo

Flora Italiana ( Papavero Arancio Piene ) - large botanical still life photo

By Linda Rosewall

Located in San Francisco, CA

Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's botany study series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring t...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

A Soulful Modernist Portrait
A Soulful Modernist Portrait

A Soulful Modernist Portrait

By Boris Deutsch

Located in San Francisco, CA

On offer is a portrait of an unknown sitter who is rendered with profound dignity yet lifted from gloomy solemnity by a vibrant and intriguing background. Notably, artist Boris Deuts...

Category

1950s American Modern Bay Area - Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Migratory Squirrel: An Original 19th Century Hand-colored Lithograph by Audubon
Migratory Squirrel: An Original 19th Century Hand-colored Lithograph by Audubon

Migratory Squirrel: An Original 19th Century Hand-colored Lithograph by Audubon

By John James Audubon

Located in Alamo, CA

This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Migratory Squirrel, No. 7, Plate XXXV", from John James Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America, published in P...

Category

Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Otavalo Man
Otavalo Man

Otavalo Man

By Arturo Nieto

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "Otavalo Man" 1965 is a color pastel on paper by Ecuadorian artist Arturo Nieto Checa, 1933-1995. It is signed and dated at the lower right c...

Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Pastel

Mothu et Doria: A 19th C. Lithograph from Les Maitres de l'Affiche by Steinlen
Mothu et Doria: A 19th C. Lithograph from Les Maitres de l'Affiche by Steinlen

Mothu et Doria: A 19th C. Lithograph from Les Maitres de l'Affiche by Steinlen

By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen

Located in Alamo, CA

This is a framed 19th century color lithograph entitled "Mothu et Doria" created by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen and published between 1896 and 1899 in Paris, France by Jules Cheret in his famous series of miniature colored stone lithographs of popular Belle Epoch posters...

Category

Late 19th Century Bay Area - Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Old Farm, California
The Old Farm, California

The Old Farm, California

By Clifford Holmes

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "The Old Farm" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower left corne...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Oil

Golden Gate Bridge ( 58 x 110" )
Golden Gate Bridge ( 58 x 110" )

Golden Gate Bridge ( 58 x 110" )

By Frank Schott

Located in San Francisco, CA

GOLDEN GATE by Frank Schott an epic scale photograph of iconic Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco skyline in Northern California's atmospheric morning light 58 x 110 inches ( 147 ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée

Ocean with Crescent Moon
Ocean with Crescent Moon

Ocean with Crescent Moon

By Willard Dixon

Located in Burlingame, CA

Ocean with Crescent Moon - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 ye...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

To Be Understood

To Be Understood

By Brett Hammond - Pop Art

Located in Napa, CA

Brett Hammond’s spray-painted canvas panels pay homage to pop art traditions as he explores his own interests in satire, drama, and romantic tension. Above all, his work is smart, fu...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Bay Area - Art

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

"Children Playing in a Field" Large oil painting on canvas
"Children Playing in a Field" Large oil painting on canvas

"Children Playing in a Field" Large oil painting on canvas

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "Children Playing in a Field" c.1980 is an oil painting on canvas by Dutch artist Louis Van Der Beesen, 1938-2009. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. ...

Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Oil

A Tribute to Adeline
A Tribute to Adeline

A Tribute to Adeline

By Lynette Cook

Located in Burlingame, CA

'A Tribute to Adeline' depicts a historic San Francisco building with warm sunlight and shadows cascading across the facade of the building with inset window panes. The subtle and br...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Mountain Sunrise 3 (Cyanotype framed to 29 x 23 inches)
Mountain Sunrise 3 (Cyanotype framed to 29 x 23 inches)

Mountain Sunrise 3 (Cyanotype framed to 29 x 23 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Though it resembles a giant abstract watercolor painting owing to its soft gradations and luminous quality, this is a form of photography called a cyanotype, photogram or sun print. ...

Category

2010s Abstract Bay Area - Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Seascape X - large format photograph of monochrome blue water surface & horizon
Seascape X - large format photograph of monochrome blue water surface & horizon

Seascape X - large format photograph of monochrome blue water surface & horizon

By Frank Schott

Located in San Francisco, CA

Mesmerizing large scale photograph from artist's Seascape series, a body of works capturing the tactile surfaces and monochromatic nature of oceanic water and cloudscapes Seascape ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée

Seascape IX  - large format photograph of blue water surface
Seascape IX  - large format photograph of blue water surface

Seascape IX - large format photograph of blue water surface

By Frank Schott

Located in San Francisco, CA

large scape photograph of mesmerizing water and cloudscape SEASCAPE IX by Frank Schott 58 x 58 inches ( 147 x 147cm ) edition of 7 signed 48 x 48 inches ( 122 x 122cm ) edition of...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Ink

She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD14491) - large scale abstract photo
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD14491) - large scale abstract photo

She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD14491) - large scale abstract photo

By Mona Kuhn

Located in San Francisco, CA

Large scale photograph of reflective golden architectural abstraction In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction. She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms. AD14491 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence) 60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm edition of 8 + 2AP 40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm edition of 8 + 2AP limited edition photograph is printed under artist supervision and accompanied by signed artist certificate: artist signature labels are 8x10 in size signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity label is then placed centered on verso if the mounted print __________________ About the artist Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art. For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia. Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes and Succulents (2018) with a debut at Musee Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2019. Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum exhibition in Germany and the US. Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris, The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Australian Centre for Photography and Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. Mona Kuhn currently lives and works in Los Angeles. __________________ Solo Exhibitions 2024 Mona Kuhn: Between Modernism and Surrealism, Houk Gallery, New York, NY 2023 Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Galerie XII, Paris, France Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Kunsthaus-Göttingen, Germany Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Jackson Fine Art...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Succulents 01 - large format photograph from the series Bushes and Succulents
Succulents 01 - large format photograph from the series Bushes and Succulents

Succulents 01 - large format photograph from the series Bushes and Succulents

By Mona Kuhn

Located in San Francisco, CA

From the series 'Bushes and Succulents' (2018), Mona Kuhn’s artistic response to the ongoing currents in contemporary feminism. Reminiscent of Georgia O’Keefe’s floral paintings, your eyes wander around the graceful lines, not knowing exactly what you are looking at. The images are a celebration of the female essence - confident, raw and elegant, yet confrontational and unapologetic. Succulents 01 (2018) 60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm edition of 5 + 1AP 40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm edition of 8 + 2AP limited edition photograph printed under artist supervision + accompanied by signed artist certificate: artist signature labels are 8x10 in size signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print __________________ About the artist Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art. For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia. Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Kuhn's monograph titled Bushes and Succulents has been published by Stanley/Barker Editions, with a debut at Jeu de Paume in Paris, in 2019. A stunning career retrospective of Mona Kuhn's works has been published by Thames & Hudson, Spring 2021. Kuhn's forthcoming publication Kings Road, will be published and released by Steid this Fall 2021. Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles. __________________ Solo Exhibitions 2021 Mona Kuhn: Works, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York Mona Kuhn: Works, Flowers Gallery, London Mona Kuhn: Works, Galerie XII, Los Angeles + Paris + Shanghai Mona Kuhn: 835 Kings Road, Art, Design and Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara 2020 Still Light, Jardin du Bra'haus, Montée du Château, Clervaux, Luxembourg Mona Kuhn: Early Depictions, Flowers Gallery, London Mona Kuhn: Intimate, UP Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 2019 Bushes and Succulents, Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco Mona Kuhn: She Disappeared, Jackson Fine Art...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Cul de Sac
Cul de Sac

Cul de Sac

By Alexandre Minguet

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Cul de Sac" is an original color lithograph by French artist Alexandre Minguet, 1937-1996. The image size is 7 x 11 inches, framed size is 17.35 x 21.5 inches. I...

Category

Late 20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Flowers, very large lithograph
Flowers, very large lithograph

Flowers, very large lithograph

By Gary Bukovnik

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "Flowers" .1996 is a large original color lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Gary Bukovnik, born 1947. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 13/200 in whi...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Lithograph

View of the Gate
View of the Gate

View of the Gate

By Willard Dixon

Located in Burlingame, CA

Bicycles and passers by view the Golden Gate Bridge at the water's edge in San Francisco in this contemporary horizontal landscape from celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as the Oakland Museum of California. The work comes is 32 x 50 inches and is framed is a hard wood floater frame. Outer dimensions with frame is 33 x 551 inches. Signed and dated by the artist. Painted in 2020. Born: Kansas City MO, 1942 Education: Art Students League, New York, NY Cornell University Brooklyn Museum School San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969 Awards and Commissions N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989 California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998 Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998 Teaching 1989-90: San Francisco State University 1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar 1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA 1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA One Man Exhibitions 2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield 2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY 2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY. 2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA 2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY 2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA 1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA 1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery) 1994: Fischbach Gallery 1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery 1992: Fischbach Gallery 1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1990: Fischbach Gallery 1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1987: Fischbach Gallery 1987: Gallery 454 North 1986: William Sawyer Gallery 1985: Fischbach Gallery 1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx 1984: William Sawyer Gallery 1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery 1981: William Sawyer Gallery 1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery 1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery Selected Group Exhibitions 2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish, Irene Zweig, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA 2015: REAL with Elizabeth Barlow Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2014: Stillness and Activity / A father and daughter exhibition, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2013: Outwin Boocher Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Hey Everybody / Portraits, Diablo Valley College 2012: Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge”, George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA. Introduction Two/ Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA. 2011: California: A Landscape of Dreams/ Fresno Art Museum 2010: Self Portrait Invitational/ Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT 2009: On Beauty /I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA. 2008: At Water’s Edge / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA. 2007: San Francisco Scenes/ George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA Ten Years- A Retrospective/ Dolby Chadwick Gallery, S.F., CA. 2006: Our Planet, Our Home/ SFMOMA Artists Gallery, S.F. CA 2005: 2005 Spring Group Show/ Earl McGrath Gallery, L.A., CA 2002: H2O’02, Paintings of Water/ Fischbach Gallery, NYC Scene in Oakland 1852-2002 Oakland Museum Oakland, CA The Garden/ Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA The Moving Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY Bay Area Printmakers/ works from Trillium Press, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA California Landscape Paintings/ College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA Bay Area Printmakers/ SF Museum of Modern Art/Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA Visions: Northern California/ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA 2001: Opening Exhibit: Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY 2000: Hackett Freedman Gallery Artists/ Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, Ca 1999: Homage to the Art Institute, Artists Who Transformed American Culture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999: What is Art For? What are Museums For? What are You For? curated Curated for the Oakland Museum by William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster, Oakland, CA 1998: Paintings of Marin County Past and Present/ The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997: 10th Anniversary Exhibition/ Hackett Freedman Gallery, S.F., CA 1996: Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas/ Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (traveling exhibition) Contemporary American Realist Painters/ Halls Crown Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1996: Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute/ One Bush St., S.F., CA 1996: New Work by Selected Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Flower Paintings/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA 1995: Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area / De Young Museum, S.F., CA Contemporary Still Life Painting/ David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1994: Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY New Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA A Room with a View/ The North Point Gallery, S.F., CA 1993: Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA Vanishing Point: A Look at Contemporary Landscape Painting”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Tribute/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA Revolution: Into the 2nd Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, S.F., CA Contemporary Realism: Central and Northern California Landscapes/ Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism/ a traveling exhibition curated by Alan Gussow and Babcock Galleries, N.Y., NY 1992: A Day in the Country, California Landscape Painting / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA West Art and the Law/ Weat Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN(traveling ex.) The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY In Support of Contemporary Bay Area Artists / One Market Plaza, S.F., CA 1991: The Landscape in 20th-Century American Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art/ New York, NY, National Traveling Exhibit 1990: Contemporary Landscapes/ 21st Anniversary Exhibition Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 1990: New Bay Area Painting Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA 1989: The Modern Pastoral/ Robert Scholekopf Gallery, New York, NY 1988: Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988: Ten Artists from the William Sawyer Gallery / Shasta College Gallery, Redding CA Works on Paper/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1987: The Contemporary American Landscape/ Swain Gallery, NJ 1986: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape/ Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 1985: The Bay Area Seen/ Bay Area Regionalists Show, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA Large Scale/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX A City Collects/ Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA American Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984: San Francisco Bay Area Painting/ curated by George Neubert for the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE American Landscape Painting/ California State University, L.A. CA Western Landscape Painters/ The Museum of the West, Houston, TX The Urban Landscape / One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA 1982: Collectors Gallery 16/ McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX Thirty Approaches to Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA 1981: Views of California Past and Present/ Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA Landscapes/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX 110th Anniversary S.F. Art Institute Alumni Group Show/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA 1980: Realism/ Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 1979: Bay Area Artists Exhibition/Sale/ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Omnium Gatherum/ Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA California Viewpoints/ Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA 1978: New Work/ Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA 1977: Contemporary California Artists/ Marshall-Meyers Gallery Alternative to the Whitney Annual/ James Yu Gallery, N. Y, N.Y. San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize) 1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ 1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gallery, Seattle, WA Faculty Show/ California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1975: Realism in Painting and Ceramics/ Helen Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA 1975: A Tribute to the Art Institute/ Hansen Fuller Gallery, S.F., CA California Artists/ Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT 1974: Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water/ by Alfred Frankenstein Expo 74, Spokane, WA A Sense of Place/ curated by Alan Gussow for the Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE The Discovery Gallery, Montclair, N.J. 1973: College of Marin Gallery, Kentfield, CA California Artists/ Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA 1972: Visiting Artists/ California State University, Hayward, CA 1970: Drawing Invitational/ Emanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA 1970: San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA 1967: Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Annual, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA 1966: California Landscape Painters/ San Francisco Art Institute, S.F. CA. Selected Collections The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Oakland Museum The Utah Museum of Fine Art San Francisco Art Commission Shaklee Corporation Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA San Francisco International Airport Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX California First Bank, San Francisco, CA United Pipeline, Houston, TX Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA Atlantic Richfield Corporation Shell Oil, Houston, TX First National Bank of Seattle RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA Texas Heritage Society Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA Sohio Corporation Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY Chemical Bank, NY Swissre Corporation, NY The Insurance Company of North America First National Bank of Midland, Texas Commerce Bank AMA Headquarters, Washington, DC Hughes Tool, Houston, TX ATT, NY Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, San Francisco, CA IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA Northern Trust Company, Chicago, IL Smith Kline and French Corp., Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA Republic National Bank Chevron Trammel Crow Company, Dallas, CA U.S. Insurance Group, N.J. Southwestern Bell Corp., MO Union Bank Pacific Bell United States Trust Company, NY The United Bank of Denver, CO Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, PA Atlantic Richfield Corp., Los Angeles, CA Show, Pittman, Pots and Trobridge, Washington, DC San Francisco Zen Center Hughes Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, CA Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN Bank of America, NY Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City,MO Robinson Humphrey/American Express, Atlanta, GA Merrill Lynch, San Francisco, CA Goldman Sachs, NY Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., NY Victoria Bank and Trust, Victoria, TX NYNEX, NY Coca Cola, U.S.A., Atlanta, GA TransAmerica Corporation Pacific Telesis Group Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison Exxon Corporation U.S. Trust Selected Private Collections Estate of Ahmet Ertegun, New York, NY Mr. Harrison Ford, Los Angeles, CA Estate of Irving Lazarr, Los Angeles, Ca Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Holzer, New York, NY Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asher, Los Angeles, CA Mr. John Irvin, London, England Ms. Joan Didion, New York , NY Ms. Sabrina Guinness, London, Eng. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Hills, San Francisco, CA Mr. and Mrs. Peter Duchin Ms. Linda Ronstadt Ms. Faye Dunaway Mr . Peter Morton Mrs H.J. Heinze, New York, NY Mr. Rupert Lowenstein Mr. and Mrs. Robert Emery, San Francisco, CA Mr. Earl Mc Grath, New York, NY Mr. Nat Weiss, New York, NY Mr. Luca Barilla Mr. Bruce Schnietzer, New York, NY Dr. and Mrs. Robert Carroll, New York, NY Mrs. Nicholas Boyd, San Francisco, CA Mr. and Mrs. Robert Green, San Francisco, CA Mr. Chappy Morris, New York, NY Ms. Carla Kirkeby, Los Angeles, CA Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Caplow, Los Angeles, CA Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meyerowitz, New York, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. Steven Gilsendaine Mrs. Caroline Cushing Graham, Los Angeles, CA Mr. Michael Nesmith, Los Angeles, CA Mr. Griffen Dunne, New York, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Erskine, Pasadena, CA Mr. N.J. Friedman, Hillsborough, CA Mr. Harold Hollingsworth...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled #1
Untitled #1

Untitled #1

By Howard Bradford

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "untitled #1" 1978 is an original color serigraph on Wove paper by Canadian/American artist Howard Bradford, 1919-2008. It is hand signed,...

Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Art

Materials

Screen

Deity of Human Origin #6

Deity of Human Origin #6

By Sergio Nates

Located in San Francisco, CA

Sergio Nates Deity of Human Origin #6, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 33 x 20 inches This one-of-a-kind acrylic painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars. Sergio Nates (...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Bay Area - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Large Mid-Century Abstract Oil Painting By E. Costello
Large Mid-Century Abstract Oil Painting By E. Costello

Large Mid-Century Abstract Oil Painting By E. Costello

Located in San Francisco, CA

Mid Modern Abstract Oil Painting By E. Costello Large and impressive abstract oil painting created with oils on Masonite. This painting can hang vertical, or horizontal. Dimension...

Category

1960s Abstract Bay Area - Art

Materials

Oil

TULLE Tripthych - abstact photographs of  mesmerizing texture details 48" x 36"
TULLE Tripthych - abstact photographs of  mesmerizing texture details 48" x 36"

TULLE Tripthych - abstact photographs of mesmerizing texture details 48" x 36"

By Christian Stoll

Located in San Francisco, CA

TULLE Tripthych Edition of 3 by Christian Stoll an epic scale photograph of mesmerizing texture details 3 x Single Images in 48 x 36 inches / 122cm x 9...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Spoonbill "Platalea leucorodia": An 18th Century Hand-colored Nozeman Engraving
Spoonbill "Platalea leucorodia": An 18th Century Hand-colored Nozeman Engraving

Spoonbill "Platalea leucorodia": An 18th Century Hand-colored Nozeman Engraving

By Cornelis Nozeman and Jan Christiaan Sepp

Located in Alamo, CA

This a rare 18th century hand-colored large folio-sized copperplate engraving entitled "Platalea leucorodia" (Spoonbill) by Cornelius Nozeman in volume II of his publication 'Nederlandsche Vogelen', engraved by Christiaan Sepp or his son Jan Christiaan Sepp, published in Amsterdam in 1770. This engraving depicts a Platalea leucorodia Spoonbill, a large bird that lives mainly in Europe, Asia and Africa. It commonly migrates long distances on thermal air currents from the colder Northern European climates to Sub-Saharan Africa in the winter, sometimes as far long as Finland to South Africa. The Asian black stork...

Category

1780s Naturalistic Bay Area - Art

Materials

Engraving

Romantic Composition is a tall vase
Romantic Composition is a tall vase

Romantic Composition is a tall vase

By Gary Bukovnik

Located in Burlingame, CA

'Romantic Composition is a tall vase' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, i...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Watercolor

Mediterranean Dip - large format photograph of ethereal sunset and surfaces
Mediterranean Dip - large format photograph of ethereal sunset and surfaces

Mediterranean Dip - large format photograph of ethereal sunset and surfaces

By Frank Schott

Located in San Francisco, CA

Mesmerizing large scale photograph from artist's Seascape series, a body of works capturing the tactile surfaces and monochromatic nature of oceanic water and sunsets Mediterranea...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Marchand de Couleurs
Marchand de Couleurs

Marchand de Couleurs

By Man Ray

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled, Marchand de Couleurs, is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by American artist Man Ray, 1890-1976. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P (Artist Proof) in ...

Category

1970s Dada Bay Area - Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Curvy Brushstrokes" Large etching with aquatint, framed
"Curvy Brushstrokes" Large etching with aquatint, framed

"Curvy Brushstrokes" Large etching with aquatint, framed

By Sol LeWitt

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Curvy Brushstrokes" 1997 is a colors etching with sugar lift aquatint on Somerset textured white paper by renown artist Sol (Solomon) LeWitt, 1928-2007. It is hand signed and numbered 1/15 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 29.90 x 39.90 inches, paper sheet size is 40.5 x 49.80 inches, framed size is 43.75 x 53 inches. Published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco, printed by Dana Sywulak, assisted by Dena Schneleit, Mary Andrews and Case Hudson at Crown Press, San Francisco. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne, plate #1997.07. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, floated on white backing, with white spacer. It is in excellent condition, the frame has minor very small restorations, practically invisible. About the artist: Known for his modular white cube sculpture, geometric drawings and abstract design paintings including many wall paintings that took teams of people to execute, Sol LeWitt was a major promoter of dominant post World War II Conceptualism and Minimalism. He used geometric shapes and lines to challenge his viewers, and sometimes they seemed logical and other times they seemed to have no basis in either reason or reality. Although he was highly active in New York City, he shied away from any semblance of art celebrity life style and spent much of his later life working from his home and studio in Chester, Connecticut. At the beginning of his career when he was gaining notoriety, conservative critics panned him fiercely. Seeking to get away from the frenetic activity of the New York art scene, he went to Spoleto, Italy in the 1980s and remained there for many years. The influence of Italian culture seemed to lend a new opulent quality to his work, and also the launching of his wall paintings, which he called drawings even though they were done with acrylic paint. "He began making colored flagstone patterns, spiky sculptural blobs and ribbons of color, like streamers on New Year's Eve, often as enormous decorations for buildings around the world. It was if he had devised a latter-day kind of Abstract Expressionism . . ." (Kimmelman) Of his personal modesty it was written: "He tried to suppress all interest in him as opposed to his work; he turned down awards and was camera-shy and reluctant to grant interviews. He particularly disliked the prospect of having his photograph in the newspaper." (Kimmelman) Sol LeWitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Russian immigrant parents. His father, a doctor, died when Sol was age six, and he and his mother then went to live with an aunt in New Britain, Connecticut. His mother encouraged his art talent, and enrolled him in classes at the Wadsworth Atheneum. LeWitt's subsequent residence in Chester, after he was a well-known artist, was near the Atheneum, and he became a strong supporter of that institution including the securing of a long time loan to it of a highly prestigious private collection of modern art. LeWitt earned a B.F.A. degree from Syracuse University in 1949, and then was drafted in the Korean War. His special assignment was making posters for the Special Services. From 1955 to 1956, he worked as a graphic designer for architect I.M. Pei, who was beginning his career. He also did pasteups for Seventeen magazine...

Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Untitled #1
Untitled #1

Untitled #1

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "Untitled #1" is a colors monotype on Arches paper by Dutch artist Frans Horbach. It is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) is 19.65 x 19.65 inches, sheet size is 35.5 x 24.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright, has never been framed. About the artist: Born in Holland, Dutch artist Frans Horbach first visited New York when he was 17 years old, traveling on a cargo ship from Rotterdam, just as his fellow country man Willem de Kooning had done years before. Two years later he left Holland and emigrated to California. During the years that he lived and worked as a professional artist in America, one of the main sources of artistic influence came from artists belonging to what is now known as the New York school of American lyrical abstract expressionist art - Rothko, Pollock, De Kooning... He was attracted by their ideas, style of work, and more importantly, by their vital energy and uninhibited self-confidence. Horbach's work also was influenced, more subtely perhaps, by his contact with indigeneous Indian people during his journeys in the American South-West and Mexico. These encounters were a rich source of inspiration - they became integral to a philosophical framework which involved the appreciation of physical space in a poetic and artistic sense. In later years, as the result of his long-time interest in oriental art and philosophy, some of his work show a distinct affinity with the aesthetic sensibilities of traditional Japanse...

Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Art

Materials

Monotype