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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Carlo Lasinio "Ermina and the Wounded Tancredi" Original Etching C.1820
Located in San Francisco, CA
Carlo Lasinio "Ermina and the Wounded Tancredi" Original Etching C.1820
Remarkable early 19th century etching
Plate dimensions 14.75" wide 11.25" high
The frame measures 24.75" wi...
Category
Early 20th Century Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Majus II
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Victor Vasarely Majus II, 1974 is a screenprint on polyester on metal that is hand-signed by Victor Vasarely (Hungary, 1906 – France, 1997) in pen and ink the lower right margin and...
Category
1970s Op Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Metal
Joseph Hirsch "September Morn" Rare Variant Signed / Numbered, circa 1960s
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in San Francisco, CA
Joseph Hirsch (1910-1981) "September Morn" rare variant signed / numbered, circa 1960s
"September Morn" is most recognized in its color variant. This i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Moses Strikes the Rock" Louvre Museum Etching Late 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Moses Strikes the Rock Louvre Museum Etching Late 19th Century
Remarkable detail in this fine etching done by the Louvre in Paris. The Louvre has the largest collection of original ...
Category
Late 19th Century Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Frankenstein)
By Kerry James Marshall
Located in Berkeley, CA
Hardground Etching
Category
2010s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
18th Century Engraving "Birdseye View of Grand Country House at Hamstead Marshal
Located in San Francisco, CA
18th Century Engraving "Birdseye View of Grand Country House at Hamstead Marshall" C.1924
Bird's eye view of the grand country house and gardens at Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire, o...
Category
Early 18th Century Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Gould & Richter Thrush Warbler Lithograph
By John Gould
Located in San Francisco, CA
John Gould: 1804-1881. British ornithologist who was the British equivalent of Audobon. He produced these incredible books of The Birds of Great Britain and The Birds of Australia am...
Category
Late 19th Century Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Daniel Heidi Modernist Abstract Serigraph S/N
Located in San Francisco, CA
Daniel Heidi Modernist Abstract Serigraph S/N
Remarkable serigraph by Daniel Heidi.
The print is signed "Heidi" in the lower left corner.
The serigraph is from a limited edition o...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Secrets Series
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Secrets Series" c.1980, is an original woodcut monoprint with embossing on thick Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, tit...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monoprint
Secrets Series
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Secrets Series" c.1980, is an original woodcut monoprint with embossing on thick Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, tit...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monoprint
Beyond the Sun Series
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Beyond the Sun Series" c.1970, is an original woodblock monoprint with embossing on artisanal hand made paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It i...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monoprint
Niño Maíz Gusanos (Boy Corn Worms)
By Francisco Toledo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Francisco Toledo
Niño Maíz Gusanos (Boy Corn Worms), 2014
Poster
35.40 x 23.60 inches
Edition of 33
This poster is part of a series called "No a los Transgénicos” - a visual arts ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color
Vintage Lithograph "The Actor" Pencil Signed and Titled C.1940
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Lithograph "The Actor" Pencil Signed and Titled C.1940
Dimensions 7.5" wide x 10.5" high
The distressed frame measures 14.75" wide x 17.5" high
Signed and titled (illegibl...
Category
Early 20th Century Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
From Above (Beijing)
By Martin Puryear
Located in Berkeley, CA
COLOR HARDGROUND ETCHING WITH AQUATINT AND DRYPOINT. RIVES BFK PAPER
IMAGE SIZE: 18” x 24”; PAPER SIZE: 29” x 34”
EDITION OF 40
Category
2010s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Nature Morte a la Pipe (Still Life with Pipe), 1959
By Georges Braque
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Extremely detailed and brilliantly colored, Braque (Argenteuil-sur-Seine, 1882- Paris, 1963) creates this still life full of vigor and warmth. Adding a unique, organic quality to the...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Pink Mountain
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color spitbite aquatint and aquatint with drypoint.
Edition of 35
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Slender Pines (11 x 8 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Untitled
By Stanley Whitney
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Stanley Whitney’s Untitled 2017 color etchings are musical and improvisational with a spectrum of colors created in a grid that reinvigorate the mind and spirit. Each so unique and s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Torero
By Georges Braque
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Toreros seek to elicit inspiration and art from their work. Their intentions are not to deliberately cause harm the bull, but create an emotional connection with the crowd through th...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Masked Woman Signed Lithograph
By Richard Lindner
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Richard Lindner (German/American 1901-1978) original hand signed in pencil lithograph "Masked Woman". Unframed #16 of 100 dated and stamped lower right 1971.
Category
20th Century Modern Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
DNA: Etching: II
By McArthur Binion
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint and drypoint.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Plate 11 from 'Album 19'
By Joan Miró
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Rhythmic serenity emanates from this delightful work. Miro creates a quirky yet sophisticated pattern of decorative and playful spots, irregular yet repetitive like a Dalmatian's coa...
Category
1960s American Modern Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
DNA: Etching: III
By McArthur Binion
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint and softground etching.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Not Known
By Squeak Carnwath
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color Aquatint Etching on Rivere White
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Hanover Schmiedestrasse
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Hanover Schmiedestrasse" 1920 is an original color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower cen...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Four Locations
By Ross Bleckner
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color spitbite aquatint with chine colle.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Lonnie's Flag
By Mary Lee Bendolph
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint.
Edition 50
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Light
By Squeak Carnwath
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint etching on Rives light weight cream paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
MAB: (ETCHING II) 1971 YELLOW
By McArthur Binion
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint and hardground.
Edition of 25
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Plain Weave Grid (Emerald Green, Spring Green, Ruby Red, Primrose Yellow)
By Ruth Laskey
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching.
Category
2010s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Allied Chemical Tower, Packed, Project for Number 1 Time Square New York
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled ' Allied Chemical Tower, Packed, Project for Number 1 Time Square, New York" 1971, in an original color lithograph on Arjomari paper by renown Bulgarian/American ...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
About That Time
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color spitbite aquatint and softground etching with drypoint.
Paper Size: 29.5” x 22.75”
Edition of 30
Category
2010s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
"Centre Noeuds" planche #8
By Roberto Matta
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #8 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
"Centre Noeuds" planche #10
By Roberto Matta
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #10, 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
"Centre Noeuds" planche #2
By Roberto Matta
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #2, 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Wading I (Pink)
By Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Located in Berkeley, CA
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Wading I (Pink)
Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint.
Edition of 40
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Somatic
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color aquatint with chine collé gampi.
Image Size: 40”x 29”; Paper Size: 40” x 29”
Edition of 25
Category
2010s Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Snaggletooth
By Mary Lee Bendolph
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint.
Edition of 50
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Intaglio
Pour ce Jour, 1968 (Poèmes, #7)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Greenwich, CT
Pour ce jour (For this Day) is a woodcut on paper from Marc Chagall's Poèmes portfolio, published in 1968. The image size is 13 x 10 inches and the art is framed in an ornate, gold-t...
Category
20th Century Modern Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Constance Fletcher
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Constance Fletcher"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Susan B.
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "ISusan B."
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Indiana Elliot
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Indiana Eliott"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Jenny Reefer
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Jenny Reefer"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Anthony Comstock
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Anthony Comstock"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Jo the Loiterer
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Jo the Loiterer"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
paper size: 23.65 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Leon Amiel, New York
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
Description: From the suite "The Mother of All Us"
About the artist:
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928. His family name was Clark but he adopted the name of his native state early in his career. His father worked for a Phillips 66 gas station and his mother ran a diner. He began his studies in art in 1945 at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. He then moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, eventually moving to New York City in 1956.
A major Pop Artist, his work is characterized by the use of words and relatively flat paint with no brush strokes. This cold and somewhat mechanical approach to painting in which the words are often stenciled into the design probably was influenced by street signs, pinball machines, the commercial stenciling process used in printing and advertisements. In fact, Indiana calls himself "a painter of signs". He uses the common everyday symbols and words of America and paints them as brilliantly colored pop art paintings. His work comments in an ironic fashion on American life and culture, often making pointed political statements about American society.
The words in his painting are usually simple and short words, sometimes with clear meaning and other times arranged in an ambiguous fashion to project multiple meanings, and occasionally involve puns. It is interesting to try to put his "words" together to get a sense of the meaning. For instance, in The Triumph of Tira, painted in, 1960-61, the artist presents four circles with four squares inside them and four stars inside the squares. There is one word in each star. The upper left says "Law"; the upper right says "Cat"; the lower left says "Men"; and the lower right says "Sex." Of course it is hard to understand the relationship between the words, and as you begin to speculate on what it might mean, a number of possible interpretations evolve.
Other works have more obvious meanings, sometimes political. One painting shows an outline of the State of Alabama with Selma marked in the right location. The words "Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part", are stenciled around the map. This is a reference to the march on Selma, which was an important event in the Civil Rights Movement during the 60's.
Indiana's most famous painting is of the word "Love". It is painted with the LO on the top and VE on the bottom. This painting was used as a design for an American postage stamp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Lillian Russell
By Robert Indiana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
Title: "Lillian Russell"
Year: 1977
Medium: Original color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 32/150 in pencil
Paper: Arches
Image size: ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
At Present
By Ross Bleckner
Located in Berkeley, CA
Color sugarlift aquatint with chine collé.
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Red Valerian - print on paper
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon archival pigment print featuring minimal pink flower (a Red Valerian flower) in a glass vase. The image is from a still life painting created is 2020. A work on paper i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Pigment
Still Life with Cue Ball - ltd. ed. print on paper
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon archival pigment print featuring minimal flora in a gold vase with cue ball. The image is from a still life painting created is 2020. A work on ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled
By Joel Shapiro
Located in San Francisco, CA
Joel Shapiro received his B.A. in 1964, and his M.A. in 1969 from New York University. Since his first solo exhibition in 1970, Shapiro's work has been the subject of more than 160 s...
Category
1990s Abstract Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera (Variant)
By Oskar Kokoschka
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, (Variant) 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera (Variant)
By Oskar Kokoschka
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, (Variant) 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka, 1886-...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera (Variant)
By Oskar Kokoschka
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, (Variant) 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Amalgamation
By Samuel Levi Jones
Located in Berkeley, CA
Flatbite and color aquatint.
Edition of 25
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
#6, How hard it is to climb up other people's stairs, The Divine Comedy
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#6, How hard it is to climb up other people's stairs, The Divine Comedy. The Paradise. monotype with hand coloring in ink.
From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Monoprint
#7 With a voice one day I'll come back, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#7, With a voice one day I'll come back, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise. Monotype with hand coloring in ink. Unique.
From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspired by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Monoprint
#2, I saw more than a thousand splendors coming to me, The Divine Comedy.
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#2, I saw more than a thousand splendors coming to me, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise . Monotype with hand coloring in ink. Unique.
From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand color...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Monoprint
Untitled from 'Album 21'
By Joan Miró
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1978 this work was one of twenty one illustrations Miró executed for Carlos Franqui’s collection of poetry entitled Album 21. A character gazes at the viewer, its eyes wid...
Category
1970s Modern Bay Area - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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