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Lullaby Henry Moore portrait black white drawing woman Auden poetry illustration
By Henry Moore
Located in New York, NY
One of a series of 18 lithographs drawn by the artist for the Auden Poems/Moore Lithographs 1974 book and portfolio. This work is from an edition of 25 printed on vellum aside from the portfolio (edition of 75) and the book. Signed by the artist lower right in pencil; numbered lower left in pencil.
Lullaby features a male figure standing behind a woman sleeping with her head down. This shadowy figure recurs throughout Moore’s Auden lithographs, an ambiguous presence who exists between menace and comfort. The imagery for Lullaby was inspired by Auden’s poem Lullaby. Lullaby was the first poem Moore read for this project, which begins:
“Lay your sleeping head, my love / Human on my faithless arm; / Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from / Thoughtful children, and the grave / Proves the child ephemeral: / But in my arms till break of day / Let the living creature lie, / Mortal, guilty, but to me / The entirely beautiful.”
Lullaby is one of a group of lithographs...
Category
Late 20th Century Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Beautiful Child (Artist Proof)
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Beautiful Child" Artist Proof, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s
Depicts a young girl.
Color: Black and Whi...
Category
1960s American Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Warhol in Cookieland, 1987 extremely rare poster numbered 138/190 rarely seen!
Located in New York, NY
Debi Szarkowski-Effron
Warhol in Cookieland, 1987
Limited Edition offset lithograph poster
Bears the photographer's copyright stamp and pencil numbered 138/190 on the lower left fron...
Category
1980s Pop Art Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
R.I.P. Stephen Lawrence 1974 - 1993
By Chris Ofili
Located in New York, NY
Chris Ofili
R.I.P. Stephen Lawrence 1974 - 1993, 2013
Lithographic print in 4 colours with silkscreened glow-in-the-dark text
17 7/10 × 14 inches
Edition of 100
Accompanied by a numb...
Category
2010s Abstract Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
The World Stage: Israel (Hardback Monograph Hand Signed by Kehinde Wiley)
By Kehinde Wiley
Located in New York, NY
Makes a fantastic gift!
Kehinde Wiley
The World Stage: Israel (Hand Signed by Kehinde Wiley), 2012
Illustrated hardback monograph with dust jacket. Hand Signed by Kehinde Wiley
Boldl...
Category
2010s Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Dreamer
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Dreamer" Edition of 150, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s
Depicts a boy dreaming.
Color: Black and White
...
Category
1960s American Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Exquisite Sound
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Exquisite Sound" ArtistProof, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s
Depicts a female Cellist.
Color: Brown and ...
Category
1960s American Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Monograph: GERHARD RICHTER PORTRAITS (official hand signed book - 1 of only 50)
By Gerhard Richter
Located in New York, NY
Gerhard Richter
GERHARD RICHTER PORTRAITS (official hand signed copy), 2009
Hardback monograph with dust jacket (official hand signed copy)
Hand signed by Gerhard Richter on the titl...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Alfred Bendiner, ...And So..., 1948, Republican Convention nominating Dewey
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
The full title really should be ...And So I Give Your The Next President of the United States. The scene is the Republican Convention, in Philadelphia, in 1948. There are so many fas...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Collaborative Etching With 6 artist Hand Signed by 3 artists inc. Dorothy Dehner
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Adolph Gottlieb, David Smith, Dorothy Dehner, Edgar Levy, Lucille Corcos and Esther Gottlieb
Collaborative Etching With 6 artist (Hand Signed by 3 artist), ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Miss Parkett for Parkett 71
By Richard Phillips
Located in New York, NY
Richard Phillips
Miss Parkett for Parkett 71, 2004
5 Color Lithograph on Somerset White paper
Hand signed, numbered 37/70 and dated on lower front
25 4/5 × 20 inches
Unframed
This 5-...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled: Head of A Woman 2
By George Zachary Constant
Located in New York, NY
George Zachary Constant (American/Greek 1892-1978), "Untitled: Head Of A Woman No. 2", Portrait/ Figurative Etching and Drypoint signed on Paper, 12.50 x 8.75 (15.25 x 11.50 Framed),...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
O'Neill accuses Faulkner of lack of loyalty and support (Nancy & Jim Dine)
By R.B. Kitaj
Located in New York, NY
Ronald B. (R.B.) Kitaj
Nancy and Jim Dine, or O'Neill accuses Faulkner of lack of loyalty and support (Kinsman 40), 1970
16 Color Silkscreen with collage and coating on different wove papers
Hand signed and numbered in pencil 29/70 on the front. The back (which is framed) bears the Kelpra Studio blindstamp
Frame included: held in the original vintage metal frame
Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee
Very rare stateside. Other editions of this work are in the permanent collections of major institutions like the British museum, which has the following explanation: "The artist Jim Dine and his wife Nancy were close to Kitaj and his family, especially after the death of Elsi, Kitaj's first wife in 1969. They sometimes stayed with the Dines at their farm in Vermont during Kitaj's second teaching sojourn in the United States. Dine and Kitaj held a joint show at the Cincinnati Museum of Art in 1973. In the catalogue both artists contributed an insightful 'essay' on each other with Dine stressing Kitaj's obsession with all things American and baseball-related...' The alternate title, "O'Neill accuses Faulkner of lack of loyalty and support" can be seen on the artwork itself, and clearly is some kind of inside joke among friends. By the way -- do you see the way the colored dots are placed over the figures? Kitaj was doing this well before Baldessari who made it famous; that's how pioneering he was at the time.
Referenced in the catalogue raisonne of Kitaj's prints, Kinsman, 40
Published and printed by Chris Prater of Kelpra Studio, Kentish Town, United Kingdom
Ronald Brooks (RB) Kitaj Biography
R.B. (Ronald Brooks) Kitaj was born in 1932 in Cleveland Ohio. One of the most prominent painters of his time, particularly in England where he spent some four decades spanning the late 1950s through the late 1990s, Kitaj is considered a key figure in European and American contemporary painting. While his work has been considered controversial, he is regarded as a master draughtsman with a commitment to figurative art. His highly personal paintings and drawings reflect his deep interest in history; cultural, social and political ideologies; and issues of identity.
Part of an extraordinary cohort who emerged from the Royal College of Art circa 1960, which included Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, and David Hockney, Kitaj was immediately pegged as one of its leading figures. The London Times greeted his first solo show in 1963 as a long-awaited and galvanizing event: “Mr. R.B. Kitaj’s first exhibition, now that it has at last taken place, puts the whole ‘new wave’ of figurative painting in this country during the last two or three years into perspective.” In 1976, KItaj curated the exhibition The Human Clay, and in the essay he wrote for it he proposed the existence of a “School of London”—a label which stuck to a group of painters that includes Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Michael Andrews...
Category
1970s Pop Art Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Screen, Pencil
Idyll
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Sheldon Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Idyll" Artist Proof, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s
Depicts female nudes bathing in a ...
Category
1960s American Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Artist Nicholas Speralis
By John Hardy (Artist)
Located in New York, NY
John Hardy (American 1923-2014), "The Artist Nicholas Speralis" , Abstract Figurative Lithograph, 30 x 22.50, 1979
Colors: Black, White
Category
1970s Abstract Impressionist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Robert Morris - Hand Signed European Poster - iconic famous art historical image
By Robert Morris
Located in New York, NY
Robert Morris (1931-2018)
The Mind/Body Problem (Hand signed and dated), 1995
Offset lithograph
33 × 23 1/2 inches 83.8 × 59.7 cm
Edition of 250 (this is a uniquely hand signed print, aside from the regular unsigned edition)
Signed and dated '97 in black marker by Robert Morris; unnumbered
Unframed
Published by Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
This work was acquired from the estate of artist and noted art collector Rick Collar. This limited edition hand signed offset lithograph, published on the occasion of a 1995 German museum exhibition, reprises Robert Morris' historic and controversial advertisement for his New York Castelli-Sonnabend exhibition from April 6-27, 1974. According to Wikiart, the original poster was part of Robert Morris' "continuing dialogue with the artist Lynda Benglis, with whom he had previously collaborated on film projects. In the ad, featured in Artforum magazine, Morris is seen from the waist up, flexing his muscles and outfitted only in S & M gear: a German Army helmet, aviator sunglasses, steel chains, and a spiked collar...
Category
1990s Minimalist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Baseball Game: realist large-scale black and white drawing of sports game
By Michele Zalopany
Located in New York, NY
This print depicts a baseball game mid-play. An umpire crouches with his hand up, and the batter stands poised. In the lower right, spectators peer onto the field. The awning of the stadium, silhouetted in black, cuts lines across the top of the composition, rising over a hillside crowded with homes. This finely-drawn lithograph features Zalopany's characteristic mastery of light and shadow, from the delicate texture of the field, to the spectators backlit in shadow.
The composition of Baseball Game was taken from a page in an old picture book, depicting a downtown section of Caracas, Venezuela that is home to a number of Art Deco buildings, all built in the 1950's. Found images are a regular inspiration for Zalopany's large-scale realism. This print calls additionally on Zalopany's regular depiction of nature contrasted with the man-made: here, a behemoth stadium rises beside rolling hills, themselves punctuated with more buildings than trees. This contrast is enhanced by the use of textured, delicate handmade paper, which lends warmth to this dramatic black-and-white drawing.
Image 37.5 x 28 in. / 95.25 x 71.2 cm. Paper 51 x 36 in. / 131 x 93 cm. Lithograph on Korean kozo paper. Edition 70. Signed by the artist lower right in pencil, numbered lower center in pencil.
Born in 1955 in Detroit Michigan, Michele Zalopany is a contemporary American artist best known for her large-scale watercolor and pastel paintings based on photographs found in digital picture collections, old books, and flea markets, etc. Found photographs and film screen shots that had originally served other purposes -- family snapshots, police photos...
Category
1980s Contemporary Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Self Portrait by Jim Dine (plate seven from Self Portraits portfolio 1971)
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine, Self Portrait 1971
drypoint on Hodgkinson Hand Made Tone-Weave paper
Paper 18 x 14 in. / 46 x 36 cm
Plate 8 x 6 in. / 20 x 15 cm
plate seven from Self Portraits (1971) port...
Category
1970s Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Films of Andy Warhol, Whitney Museum framed poster (Hand Signed by Billy Name)
By Billy Name
Located in New York, NY
Billy Name
Films of Andy Warhol, Whitney Museum of American Art (Hand Signed by Billy Name), 1988
Offset Lithograph
Very rare vintage poster - hand signed by Billy Name on the front.
Frame Included
Very rare vintage poster - when hand signed by Warhol...
Category
1980s Pop Art Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Permanent Marker
Sunday Afternoon
By Lucille Fink
Located in New York, NY
Lucille Fink creates slightly bizarre, densely drawn spaces. Signed, titled, and numbered '19,' in pencil. Annotated on the reverse, "June, 1932, week of 6-10-32, last wk of school."...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joseph Hirsch, Beard
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Hirsch had such empathy for his subjects! But he was also an amazingly skilled lithographer who could get extremely delicate details out of the stone. Signed and numbered in p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Life (B) R.B. Kitaj Film noir night city scene of woman in red dress
By Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the artist and numbered 49/50 lower left in pencil. Color lithograph on mauve Wookey Hole handmade waterleaf paper.
This print features the encounter between an alluring ...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jim Dine Rimbaud, the Coffee Exporter poet portrait drawing in earth tone sepia
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine has expertly sketched the accomplished French poet and coffee trader Arthur Rimbaud. A vignette of dark brown surrounds his thin, fine features, which are defined with a flu...
Category
1970s Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Venice Walk 1983 Vintage David Hockney Exhibition Poster in turquoise teal
By (after) David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. Hockney’s keen eye and uncanny ability to capture his subjects’ individuality is evident in this casual portrait of Gregory Evans walking in Venice, California. Hockney’s longtime friend, one-time manager, and former lover, Evans has served as a longtime model and inspiration to the artist for over 40 years. Here, Gregory dons stylish heeled brown boots and flared blue jeans, with red backpack...
Category
1980s Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harry Sternberg, Whitney and ACA, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography.
The deluxe editions of...
Category
1990s American Modern Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Michael
By Gary Hume
Located in New York, NY
Gary Hume
Michael
2002
Screenprint
60 1/8 x 30 inches; 153 x 76 cm
Edition of 80
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower recto)
Frame available upon request
Gary Hume...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Harry Sternberg, (Chasing) Girlfriends, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography.
The deluxe editions of...
Category
1990s American Modern Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Dialogue Between Ancients Mark Tobey black and white greek roman philosophers
By Mark Tobey
Located in New York, NY
This portrait of two philosophers in conversation is a rare figurative work from Mark Tobey, one of the founders of the American Mystical school of pa...
Category
1970s Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Michaelangelo (Edition 96/100)
By Thomas Cornell
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Cornell (American b. 1937), "Michaelangelo", Edition 96/100, Figurative Drypoint/ Etching signed and numbered in pencil, 24 x 18.50, 1964, Late 20th Century
Colors: Black and...
Category
1960s American Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Vintage David Hockney poster Young Playwrights Festival 1982
By (after) David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
A masked performer gestures his hands, wearing bright green garb, a long hat, and jaunty black shoes with white socks. Hockney paints in loose strokes of color: garnet, sapphire, bright yellow, and emerald green. This vintage David Hockney...
Category
1980s Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Young Musician (Artist Proof)
By Shelly Fink
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Young Musician" Artist Proof, Figurative/Portrait Lithograph signed on Paper, 17 x 14, Late 20th Century
Color: Black and White
Sheldon Fink was born in 1925 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, and won Tiffany Foundation grants in 1957 and 1963. Shelly's work has appeared at the Albany Art Institute, the Berkshire Art...
Category
1960s Abstract Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled: Woman with Plant
Located in New York, NY
Unknown/Unidentified Artist, "Untitled: Woman with Plant", Abstract Figurative/ Portrait Lithograph signed in Pencil, 16 x 11.50 (Image: 12 x 9), Mid-20th Century, 1949
Colors: Blac...
Category
1940s Abstract Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pink Nicola, Nicola as an Orchid, Brown, Brown, Silver and Brown
By Gary Hume
Located in New York, NY
Gary Hume
Pink Nicola, Nicola as an Orchid, Brown, Brown, Silver and Brown
2005
Set of three screenprints on silver leaf
"Pink Nicola": 49 1/4 x 38 1/8 inches; 125 x 97 cm
"Nicola as...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Silver
Excursion Incident (Edition 3/9)
By Alvin H. Schwartz
Located in New York, NY
Alvin H. Schwartz (American, 1916-2000), "The Excursion Incident" Edition 3/9, Figurative/ Illustration Lithograph signed and numbered in Pencil, 11 x 14, Mid 20th Century, 1940
Col...
Category
1940s Abstract Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled: Head of A Woman 1
By George Zachary Constant
Located in New York, NY
George Zachary Constant (American/Greek 1892-1978), "Untitled: Head Of A Woman No. 1", Portrait/ Figurative Etching and Drypoint signed on Paper, 12 x 10 (15 x 13 Framed), Early to M...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Harry Sternberg, Girlfriends, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography.
The deluxe editions of...
Category
1990s American Modern Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
'Till Death Do Us Part Skull' (Red/Silver/Blue)
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
The ‘Till Death Do Us Part Skull' in vibrant red is a remarkable work by renowned contemporary artist Damien Hirst. Part of his 2012 skull series, this piece is one of only 50 editio...
Category
2010s Pop Art Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Foil
Mona Lisa Print by David Hollier
By David Hollier
Located in New York, NY
Text from: Leonardo da Vinci, Book VI, published 1883
"The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased...
Category
2010s Pop Art Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Agnes Weinrich, Woman Facing Left
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions are for sheet size. The drawing is signed in pencil at the lower left.
Agnes Weinrich was one of the artists who settled in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, at the t...
Category
1920s American Modern Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Crayon
Untitled (Portrait Of A Lady, Edition 80/100)
By Yoram Lukov
Located in New York, NY
Yoram Lukov (Israeli b. 1940), "Untitled (Portrait of a Lady)" Edition 80/100, Abstract Figurative/ Portrait Lithograph, 20.50 x 28.50, Late 20th Century
Colors: Black, White
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Signed Original Pastoral Etching by John E. Costigan
By John Costigan
Located in New York, NY
This original, limited edition etching, was realized by the esteemed American artist John E. Costigan, who is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Philips M...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Dominie in Catalonia, Kitaj drawing black white portrait of young girl with hat
By Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Located in New York, NY
This hand-drawn black and white portrait of Dominie, Kitaj’s adopted daughter, is one of the few etchings produced by the artist. The shape of Dominie’s wide sunhat and its patterned...
Category
Late 20th Century Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Girl with Long Hair, Colin Self british Pop Art portrait of woman in black white
By Colin Self
Located in New York, NY
A contemporary of David Hockney and Peter Blake, Colin Self is an important British printmaker whose innovative etching techniques and novel use of found materials have defined his d...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Adult
By Gary Hume
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint
Edition of 36
Signed and titled in graphite (lower recto)
Frame available upon request
Available from Matthew Marks Gallery, New York and Los Angeles
Category
1990s Contemporary Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Cap'n A.B Dick (A) gray fisherman portrait sou'wester hat R.B. Kitaj lithograph
By Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Located in New York, NY
Kitaj’s drawing is of a fisherman in profile, wearing a sou’wester: a collapsible rain hat. The image is a wry portrait, ostensibly of Albert Blake Dick, ...
Category
1970s Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie (Mauve)
By Daniel Handal
Located in New York, NY
Two-color screen print, painted museum box (Edition of 3 + 2 APs)
Signed and numbered on label, verso
From the series, "Final Girls"
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Screen
Caitlin
By Swoon
Located in New York, NY
Caitlin
2019
5-color photopolymer letterpress relief print of hand-torn kozo paper (Edition of 300)
20.5 x 13.5 inches
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Benton, Mabel Loomis Todd, monoprint with Chine collé, Pioneer Activist
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
Pioneer Activists is an ongoing series of artworks by Suzanne Benton. Consisting largely of monoprints with Chine collé where the artist references suffragists, feminists, writers an...
Category
1990s Feminist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
Kanovitz Surrealist cityscape street scene with pedestrians and geometric forms
By Howard Kanovitz
Located in New York, NY
A surreal juxtaposition of geometric forms and uncannily realistic pedestrians forms the composition of this moody screen print. Framed by a flat of charcoal grey, a man in shadow i...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Benton, Anna Julia Cooper, monoprint with Chine collé, Oberlin College Women
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
Pioneer Activists is an ongoing series of artworks by Suzanne Benton. Consisting largely of monoprints with Chine collé where the artist references suffragists, feminists, writers and educators from the 19th century and beyond. These works embody the artist’s stellar theme of bringing past to present.
Anna Julia Cooper, monoprint with Chine collé, 27 x 19 3/4 inches, 2020
1858-1964
An educator, administrator, and social reformer, Anna J. Haywood Cooper was born a slave in Raleigh, North Carolina, and spent fourteen years fighting to gain access to Latin and Greek classes reserved for men at St. Augustine's Normal School and Collegiate Institute, from which she graduated in 1877. She married the Reverend A. C. Cooper at St. Augustine's, where each taught, but after his death in 1881, she began the second phase of her education at Oberlin. That year she joined Mary Eliza Church (Terrell) and Ida A. Gibbs Hunt in the "gentleman's"
collegiate course and graduated in 1884. One of the pioneer African-American women who earned a B.A., she returned to Oberlin for an M.A. in Mathematics, which she received in 1887.
Continuing her trailblazing for race and gender issues, Cooper wrote the feminist manifesto, A Voice from the South, spoke at feminist and educational conferences, and achieved many honors such as membership in the American Negro Academy. She was a leader in the National Association of Colored Women. Aligned with DuBois's philosophy, she spoke at the
1900 Pan African Conference in London, arguing for self-determination for African-Americans and an end to colonialism in Africa and apartheid in South Africa.
Anna Cooper received a Ph.D. at the Sorbonne in 1925 after a decade of study while she also maintained a full-time teaching load. Her thesis was on French policies during slavery. She had been shaping Frelinghuysen University in Washington, D.C., an interdenominational Bible college, and became its president in 1930, at the age of 72. She died in 1964 at the age of 105.
In preparation for this ongoing series the artist received images from Legacy Magazine’s photo archive of 19th Century women writers, understanding that she’d obtain permission from each source to use the photos in her artworks. Permissions were received and she began the series in 1992. The Harvard/Radcliffe Schlesinger library then offered Suzanne access to relevant microfiche images that were employed in subsequent works. In addition, the library exhibited the in 1992. The collector Vivien Leone purchased and donated one to the library, and the library subsequently purchased two more.
The Women’s Rights Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY, exhibited the growing series in 1995 during the 75th anniversary of women’s suffrage. The Oberlin College...
Category
2010s Feminist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Monoprint, Laid Paper
Benton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Daughter, monoprint, PioneerActivist
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
Pioneer Activists is an ongoing series of artworks by Suzanne Benton. Consisting largely of monoprints with Chine collé where the artist references suffragists, feminists, writers an...
Category
1990s Feminist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
Acrobats, Michele Zalopany. Black and white monotype painting landscape
By Michele Zalopany
Located in New York, NY
In this black and white monotype, Zalopany has captured a duo of tumblers atop a roof, as onlookers stare in wonder. The artist is able to cap...
Category
1980s Realist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Monotype
Two Handcrafted Foster Brothers Frames with Mezzotint by William Henderson
Located in New York, NY
Two Hand Crafted Foster Brothers Frames, Gilded, c. 1920
Wood and gold leaf
22 7/8 x 18 x 3/4 inches each
Note: One frame contains a mezzotint by William Henderson.
Established by S...
Category
1920s Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
Benton, Carrie Chapman Catt, monoprint with Chine collé, Pioneer Activist
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
Pioneer Activists is an ongoing series of artworks by Suzanne Benton. Consisting largely of monoprints with Chine collé where the artist references suffragists, feminists, writers and educators from the 19th century and beyond. These works embody the artist’s stellar theme of bringing past to present.
Carrie Chapman Catt, monoprint with Chine collé, 18 ¾ "x 12 15/16", 1992
(1859 – 1947)
The women’s right to vote in the United States is owed largely to the efforts of Carrie Chapman Catt.
Born in Wisconsin and educated at Iowa State, Catt left work as a high school principle and later as a newspaper editor to join the fight for women’s suffrage.
Skilled as a lecturer, Catt rose rapidly to national leadership, succeeding Susan B. Anthony as president of the National/American Women’s Suffrage Association in 1900.
Catt’s pressure on President Woodrow Wilson and her tireless work to secure state ratification, culminated in the Nineteenth Amendment’s adoption in 1920.
Following suffrage work, Catt devoted herself to peace and disarmament issues, serving as chair of the Committee on the Cause and Cure of War.
The Women’s Rights Historical Park exhibited the growing series in 1995 during the 75th anniversary of women’s suffrage. The Oberlin College...
Category
1990s Feminist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
La Couseuse (The Seamstress)
By Jacques Villon
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Villon (1875-1963), La Couseuse (The Seamstress), drypoint, 1905, signed in pencil lower right margin. Reference: Ginestet and Pouillon 147, Aub...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Misregistered Torso
Located in Fairfield, CT
About the Artist:
Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Vera Miles as Lila (Verdigris)
By Daniel Handal
Located in New York, NY
Two-color screen print, painted museum box (Edition of 3 + 2 APs)
Signed and numbered on label, verso
From the series, "Final Girls"
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Screen
Sharni Vinson as Erin (Cochineal)
By Daniel Handal
Located in New York, NY
Two-color screen print, painted museum box (Edition of 3 + 2 APs)
Signed and numbered on label, verso
From the series, "Final Girls"
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Portrait Prints
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Screen
