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Item Ships From: Manhattan
"Dahlias" by Gary Bukovnik (Flowers, Still life, Watercolor, Paint, Print)
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in New York, NY
This image features a colorful arrangement of pink, red and purple flowers by American artist, Gary Bukovnik. Bukovnik is an internationally acclaimed painter and printmaker who prim...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Screen

Caravaggio
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Marc Dennis is an American artist renowned for his paintings of subtly staged and slightly voyeuristic images of contemporary American culture. Interested in the tr...
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2010s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

Plane #300
By Thomas Eigel
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: This series explores the color and composition of our most recognizable form of transportation. A photographer and art director, Thomas Eigel brings an inspired eye...
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2010s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

Double Poppies Black
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Double Poppies Black 2025 
Color silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking and sand on Rising 4-ply museum board 
Sheet size: 52.5 x 30 inches (133 x 76 cm)
 Image size: 48.5 x 26 inches...
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Screen

The Happy Life
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: The Happy Life is about marriage, hence the white bouquet; family, hence the copulating and crawling insects; and the general aspects of life, such as change and gr...
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2010s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

Mezza Luna
By Julio Larraz
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Julio Larraz is an expert draftsman, adroitly sketching his subjects and enlivening them with vibrant color. Larraz is recognized for his precise and detailed techn...
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Early 2000s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

Mnemonic Device, Silkscreen with hand coloring, Signed/N British Pop Art pioneer
By Joe Tilson
Located in New York, NY
Joe Tilson Mnemonic Device, 1975 Silkscreen with hand coloring on Thin Bamboo Wood Sheet 21 1/4 × 19 1/2 inches Edition 96/100 Hand signed and numbered from an edition of 100 on rect...
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1970s Pop Art Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Ink, Screen

"Wedgewood" by Ben Schonzeit (Photorealist, Surreal, Still life, Flowers, Tulip)
By Ben Schonzeit
Located in New York, NY
b. 1942, Brooklyn, NY A pioneer in the SoHo art scene of the 1960s and one of the leaders of the Photorealist movement of the 1970s, Ben Schonzeit is best know for his still life pa...
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1990s Surrealist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Screen

Black Berries by Judith Rothchild
By Judith Rothchild
Located in New York, NY
Black Berries by Judith Rothchild - 23/100 Judith Rothchild is an American born artist, having grown up in Boston, Massachusetts. She now lives in the Languedoc region of France, wh...
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1990s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint, Etching

Rare Abstract Expressionist flower lithograph, 1969 Top Chinese-US artist Signed
By Walasse Ting
Located in New York, NY
Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 Abstract Expressionist Flower, 1969 Color lithograph with publisher's blindstamp Pencil signed, dated, and numbered IV/XV by Walasse Ting on the front 23 × 30 inche...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

Materials

Pencil, Lithograph

Jacob's Ladder
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Marc Dennis is an American artist renowned for his paintings of subtly staged and slightly voyeuristic images of contemporary American culture. Interested in the tr...
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2010s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

The pot boiling by David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of ‘Fundevogel’. One of just a few in the series that depicts a single form with such complexity, drawn directly on the plate by Hockney. This is certainly an ode to Giorgio Morandi’s etchings...
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1960s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Elephant
Located in New York, NY
Burke Libaire is a Charleston based visual artist and designer. She began her career in New York City, translating her love of art and architecture into the world of interior design ...
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2010s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper

Homage to Kenneth Koch with Hearts, Love Bread Sky, Pop Art lithograph Signed/N
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine Kenneth Koch Homage (Oh Scarf of Paradise, Blue Sky is Bread to the Scarf), 1966 Color lithograph on blue grey wove paper with deckled edges 37 × 24 1/2 inches Pencil signed...
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1960s Pop Art Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Pencil

Zinnias and Bachelor Buttons.
By Margaret Jordan Patterson
Located in New York, NY
Margaret Patterson created this color woodcut print circa 1920. It is signed in pencil at the paper edge, lower right. Printed in areas to the paper edge -sheet size 10 1/16 x 7 1/...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Woodcut

Judy Chicago, Through the Flower Iconic signed/n silkscreen Feminist art, Framed
By Judy Chicago
Located in New York, NY
Judy Chicago Through the Flower, 1991 Silkscreen on Stonehenge natural white paper with deckled edges Publisher: Unified Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico Signed, titled and numbered 24/...
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1990s Feminist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Screen

Yellowpop Neon Flowers lighted Wall Hanging/Sign - brand new in box
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Yellowpop after Andy Warhol Neon Flowers lighted Wall Hanging/Sign, 2022 Neon flex material, consisting of PVC or Silicon piping with LED lights mounted on a recycled acrylic board Edition 258/500 (numbered on COA) Box is plate signed; accompanied by official numbered COA authorized by the Warhol Foundation...
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2010s Pop Art Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Silicone, PVC, Acrylic Polymer, Neon Light, Mixed Media

Sun on Six (Jasper Johns linocut, hand signed and numbered 4/26)
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns Sun on Six, 2000 Color linoleum cut on Gampi Torinoko paper Pencil signed, dated and numbered 4/26 on the front Published by Z Press, Calais, Vermont Frame included: ele...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Rice Paper, Pencil, Linocut

John E. Billmyer, Flower Piece, WPA wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
'Flower Piece' shows the artist, John Billmyer, to be a highly accomplished wood engraver. There are endless patterns and created details -- all executed flawlessly. Mostly made up o...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Woodcut

Water Lilies
By Michelle Stuart
Located in New York, NY
Michelle Stuart is an American artist whose work references a range of influences, from history to astronomy and botany, as well as her extensive travels to ancient archaeological sites. Stuart studied in Mexico, France, and at The New School for Social Research in New York. Since the 1960s, Stuart has created a multifaceted body of work including large-scale earth works...
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1990s Contemporary Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Etching

Water Lilies
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Orchid, gorgeous signed/n silkscreen by renowned 1970s realist artist
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt Orchid, 1979 Silkscreen on wove paper Pencil signed, dated and numbered 144/175 by Lowell Nesbitt on the front Published by Charles Cardinale Fine Creations, Inc., with blind stamp on the front 25 × 25 inches Unframed This work is pencil signed, dated and numbered 144/175 by Lowell Nesbitt on the front. About Lowell Nesbitt. Lowell Nesbitt, who was born in Baltimore on Oct. 4, 1933, was a graduate of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and also attended the Royal College of Art in London, where he worked in stained glass & etching. In 1964, the Corcoran Gallery or Art in Washington gave him one of his first museum exhibitions, and by the mid 1970's he had decided to leave the museum a bequest of more than $1 million. But in 1989, he publicly revoked the bequest after the Corcoran canceled a disputed exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, who was an old friend. Mr. Nesbitt named the Phillips Collection as a beneficiary instead. He was frequently grouped with the Photo Realists, but his images were more interpretively distorted, somewhat loosely painted and boldly abbreviated. He had many subjects: studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes and groupings of fruits and vegetables. He also painted his dog, a Rottweiler named Echo, the Neoclassical facades of SoHo's 19th century cast-iron buildings and several of Manhattan's major bridges. Despite such variety, Lowell Nesbitt was best known for gargantuan images or irises, roses, lilies and other flowers, which he often depicted in close up so that their petals seemed to fill the canvas. Dramatic, implicitly sexual and a little ominous, they earned the artist a popularity with the general public that tended to overshadow his reputation within the art world. In 1980, the United States Postal Service issued four stamps based on Mr. Nesbitt's floral paintings. He also served as the official artist for the space flights of Apollo 9...
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1970s Realist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Screen, Pencil, Graphite

Metropolitan Opera Centennial 1883-1983 lithographic poster A Heart at the Opera
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine Metropolitan Opera Centennial 1883-1983 poster, 1983 Offset lithograph poster; unsigned 46 × 29 inches Unframed This limited edition poster was pu...
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1980s Pop Art Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Magritte at Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Milan, Italy, Offset lithograph poster
By René Magritte
Located in New York, NY
René Magritte Magritte at Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Milan, Italy, ca. 1980 Offset lithograph lettering and silkscreen poster on thin wove paper ...
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1980s Surrealist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Offset, Screen

Bouquet
By Ross Bleckner
Located in New York, NY
Created by the artist in 2024, Ross Bleckner's, Bouquet is an archival pigment print with acrylic paint. Hand-signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 60, the artwork measur...
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21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Acrylic, Archival Pigment

"Linwood" by Robert Kushner (Still life, Red, Blue, Yellow, Flowers, Vibrant)
By Robert Kushner
Located in New York, NY
This edition was commissioned in 1997 to celebrate 'Lincoln Center Festival'. The edition of 108 is signed and numbered in graphite by the artist. This print comes directly from the publisher, Lincoln Center Editions...
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1990s Contemporary Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Screen

Disco
By Kimberly Genevieve
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Disco is from Kimberly's "personal moments of happiness" series. LA based photographer Kimberly Genevieve is known for her use of color and interesting cropping. A...
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2010s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

Georgia O'Keeffe, Limited Edition Flower Poster with beautiful Friendship Quote
By Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in New York, NY
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Poppy poster, with Friendship Quote, 1987 "Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - it is so small - we haven't time- and to see takes time, like to have a fr...
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1980s American Realist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Glitter Magnums
By Kimberly Genevieve
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: "The Glitter Diet playfully pokes fun at the staples of the American Diet and the glamorization of mass-produced food in our society. Your food pyramid just got an ...
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2010s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

Recent Still Life (1966 limited edition, Hand signed and dated by Jasper Johns)
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns Recent Still Life (Hand signed and dated by Jasper Johns), 1966 Collotype. Hand signed and dated by Jasper Johns Edition of 2100 (this work is, exceptionally, hand signed & dated by Johns; the regular edition is not) Signed and dated lower right front by Jasper Johns in graphite pencil August, 27, 2008 Provenance: Estate of artist and noted collector Rick Collar Framed - held in original vintage frame under plexiglass This scarce early (1966) limited edition collotype was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Recent Still Life" at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. The regular unsigned edition was 2100, and the official signed edition was 100; however, exceptionally, Jasper Johns signed...
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1960s Pop Art Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Photogravure

New York, New York, vintage 1980s poster (hand signed and inscribed by Don Nice)
By Don Nice
Located in New York, NY
Don Nice New York, New York (hand signed and inscribed by Don Nice), 1984 Rare offset lithograph poster (signed and inscribed from Don Nice to Dick Polich) Signed and inscribed in gr...
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1980s Pop Art Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Yellow Mushroom
Located in New York, NY
Burke Libaire is a Charleston based visual artist and designer. She began her career in New York City, translating her love of art and architecture into the world of interior design ...
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2010s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper

"Andalusia Rose" by John Woodrow Kelley (Still life, Pink, Flower, Realism)
By John Woodrow Kelley
Located in New York, NY
This is a screen print of a pink rose on wove paper, 1990, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 72 (total edition includes nine artist's proofs). Published by Lincoln Ce...
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1990s Realist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Screen

Cyclamen II
By Michael Mazur
Located in New York, NY
Mr. Mazur’s restless artistic temperament led him to explore a variety of styles and media, shuttling between realism and abstraction. He produced narrative paintings like “Incident ...
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1980s Realist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Monotype

Blue and White Vase with Cyclamen
Located in New York, NY
Still Life depicting a blue and white vase with Cyclamen. Signed by the artist in the center right. Jean Hannon grew up in Boston and attended the School at the Museum of Fine Arts,...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Canvas, Oil

Pop Art Archival Print, 'Blue Trash', 2022
By Gavin Turk
Located in New York, NY
'Blue Trash' is a vibrant pop print by contemporary master Gavin Turk. The blue, orange, red, and yellow hues give this work a playful energy. ‘Blue Trash’ is edition 7 of 30 and is ...
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2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper

Paper Lanterns
By David Salle
Located in New York, NY
Three-color solar plate intaglio on Somerset paper (Edition of 75 + 15 APs) Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, recto 30 x 22 inches, sheet 16 x 10.75 inches, image This artwork...
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1990s Contemporary Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Intaglio

Mid-Century Modernist Mezzotint Still Life by Tomoe Yokoi
By Tomoe Yokoi
Located in New York, NY
This serene Mid-Century Modernist Mezzotint Still Life by Tomoe Yokoi originates from the United States, Circa 1970. This quiet scene depicts a still life on a round table with a da...
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1970s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

"Still Life"
By Kaiko Moti
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful modernist aquatint etching was realized by the esteemed Indian artist Kaiko Moti, circa 1975. It offers an abstracted and stylized tree branch (presumably that of a Ch...
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1970s Modern Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Aquatint

Purple Irises on Red
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz Purple Irises on Red 2023 Archival pigment ink print, on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm 24 x 30 inches (61 x 76 cm) unframed Signed and numbered edition of 100 Alex Kat...
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2010s Pop Art Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Double Poppies Yellow
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Double Poppies Yellow 2025 
Color silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking and sand on Rising 4-ply museum board 
Sheet size: 52.5 x 30 inches (133 x 76 cm)
 Image size: 48.5 x 26 inche...
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Screen

Donald Sultan 'Seven Silvers Jan. 24, 2024' - Limited Edition Silkscreen
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Donald Sultan's 'Seven Silvers Jan. 24, 2024' is a masterful color silkscreen featuring enamel inks, flocking, and tar-like textures, limited to an edition of 30. Donald Sułtan Seve...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Screen

A Still Life at Millbank by Gordon House 1980 colorful abstract geometric
By Joe Tilson
Located in New York, NY
Colorful abstract geometric and playful screenprint in pink, red, green, yellow, tan, and blue. From a portfolio produced to commemorate the Kelpra Studio Exhibition at the Tate Gall...
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1980s Contemporary Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Screen

Abstraction for Lincoln Center, Hand signed dated, inscribed by Thomas Nozkowski
By Thomas Nozkowski
Located in New York, NY
THOMAS NOZKOWSKI Mostly Mozart (Hand signed and inscribed), 2007 Offset Lithograph. Hand signed dated 2016 and inscribed to Kevin 29 × 35 inches Personally signed and dedicated by No...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Offset

Jonas Wood, Large Shelf Life, Lt. Ed. museum print Hand Signed & Dated by artist
By Jonas Wood
Located in New York, NY
Jonas Wood Large Shelf Life (Hand Signed), 2018 Limited edition offset lithograph (uniquely hand signed by the artist) 23 × 23 inches Boldly signed and dated in black marker on the f...
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2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

Lily Scent
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg Lily Scent, 1981 Lithograph 32 x 24 inches SPIII Signed
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Hotel St. Gothard Zurich.
By Otto Baumberger
Located in New York, NY
Hotel St. Gothard Zurich. 1917. Color lithograph, On linen. 50 x 36" Otto Baumberger’s first posters were created in 1911. However, his most productive period for posters was from the 1920s to the mid-1930s. He created about 230 posters in all, many of which he lithographed himself. An important representative of Swiss Expressionism...
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1910s Art Deco Manhattan - Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Deluxe Hand Signed Edition of 100, Pop Art Still Life from 1 Cent Life, Framed
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in New York, NY
Scarce Collectible - one of only 100 hand signed lithographs from the Deluxe Edition of the 1 Cent Life Portfolio, acquired from the Estate of Robert Indiana: Tom Wesselmann Deluxe ...
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1960s Pop Art Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Blue Iris, 1980 Color silkscreen on wove paper, Signed, dated AP 1/8, Framed
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt Gorgeous silkscreen on wove paper Signed, dated and numbered AP 1/8 on the front This is a gorgeous violet/periwinkle colored print Matted and framed in the original v...
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1980s Pop Art Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Screen

Pa-Twaing
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Marc Dennis is an American artist renowned for his paintings of subtly staged and slightly voyeuristic images of contemporary American culture. Interested in the tr...
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2010s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

Still Life with Pear
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Still Life with Pear is a lithograph in colors on wove paper. Hand-monogrammed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 250, the a...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Goyards ABC
By Libby Black
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information. ABOUT THIS PIECE: If you were to buy a Goyard bag and have it monogrammed you would cho...
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2010s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Plexiglass

The Exuberant Garden
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Dennis is known for his hyper naturalistic, highly detailed and obsessively delineated paintings that explore the subversive potential of beauty and pleasure. Fresh...
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2010s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

Set of Six Botanical Prints
Located in New York, NY
These colored engravings are from Edward Joseph Lowe's 1861 book "Beautiful Leaved Plants. Being a Description of the Most Beautiful Leaved Plants ...
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1860s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

Materials

Laid Paper, Engraving

Nature Studies from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle
By Leonardo da Vinci
Located in New York, NY
Leonardo da Vinci "Nature Studies from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle" The J. Paul Getty Museum, November 15, 1980 - February 15, 1981 Exhibition Poste...
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15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Offset

"La Nouvelle" Tulip Hand-Colored Engraving
By Christoph Jacob Trew
Located in New York, NY
"La Nouvelle" is from Christoph Trew's Hortus Nitidissimis omnem per annum superbiens Floribus ... Der das ganze Jahr hindurch im schönsten Flor stehende B...
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Mid-18th Century Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Laid Paper, Engraving

Kiki Smith, Toxicology, Linotype and engraving, Signed by artist & poet, Framed
By Kiki Smith
Located in New York, NY
Kiki Smith Toxicology, 2009 Linotype and engraving in black, gray, and yellow on white wove paper. Printed from a magnesium engraving on Vandercook cylinder presses. Hand signed by ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Etching, Linocut

Tool Drypoint: Paintbrush by Jim Dine, black and white tool still life sketch
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine drew the plate for this image in the same period as his “Thirty Bones of My Body” 1972 portfolio of drypoint tool images. Crisbrook paper (30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 56 cm.) and p...
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1970s Modern Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Drypoint

Frogs and Toad, Signed lithograph (AP), from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness
By Jack Beal
Located in New York, NY
Jack Beal Frogs and Toad, 1971 Hand signed in pencil by Jack Beal, annotated AP One-color lithograph proofed by hand and pulled by machine from a zinc plate on Arches buff paper with deckled edges at the Shorewood Bank Street Atelier Stamped, hand numbered AP, aside from the regular edition of 150 Stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY JACK BEAL, bears blind stamp 18 × 24 inches Unframed 18 x 24 inches Stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY JACK BEAL, bears distinctive blind stamp of publisher (shown) Publisher: David Godine, Center for Constitutional Rights, Washington, D.C. Jack Beal's "Frogs and Toads" is a classic example of protest art from the early 1970s - the most influential era until today. This historic graphic was created for the legendary portfolio "CONSPIRACY: the Artist as Witness", to raise money for the legal defense of the Chicago 8 - a group of anti-Vietnam War activists indicted by President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell for conspiring to riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (1968 was also the year Bobby Kennedy was killed and American casualties in Vietnam exceeded 30,000.) The eight demonstrators included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. (The eighth activist, Bobby Seale, was severed from the case and sentenced to four years for contempt after being handcuffed, shackled to a chair and gagged.) Although Abbie Hoffman would later joke that these radicals couldn't even agree on lunch, the jury convicted them of conspiracy, with one juror proclaiming the demonstrators "should have been shot down by the police." All of the convictions were ultimately overturned by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. This lithograph has fine provenance: it comes directly from the original Portfolio: "Conspiracy The Artist as Witness" which also featured works by Alexander Calder, Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Romare Bearden Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Poons, Peter Saul, Raphael Soyer and Frank Stella - as well as this one by Jack Beal. It was originally housed in an elegant cloth case, accompanied by a colophon page. This is the first time since 1971 that this important work has been removed from the original portfolio case for sale. It is becoming increasingly scarce because so many from this edition are in the permanent collections of major museums and institutions worldwide. Jack Beal wrote a special message about this work on the Portfolio's colophon page. It says, "In 1956, shortly after Sondra and I moved to New York, two friends were arrested and jailed for protesting air-raid drills. From them and their friends came our education. This work is dedicated to them and their families. "In Memory of Patricia McClure Daw and AL Uhrie" - This print was made for their children. Jack Beal Biography: Early in his career Walter Henry “Jack” Beal Jr. painted abstract expressionist canvases, because he believed it was “the only valid way to paint.” By the early 1960s he totally altered his approach and fully repudiated abstraction. Turning to representation, he painted narrative and figurative subjects, often enhanced by bright colors and dramatic perspectives. Beal was born in Richmond, Virginia, and from 1950 to 1953 he attended the Norfolk Division of William and Mary College Polytechnic Institute, (now Old Dominion University) where he studied biology and anatomy. Shifting gears, he sought art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he focused on drawing, and met his wife, artist Sondra Freckelton. His art history instructor encouraged her students to paint in the manner of established artists, and to that end he frequented the Institute’s galleries. For Beal this was significant: “Until I saw pictures of real quality I had tended to think of painting as just so much self-indulgent smearing around, but when I saw masterpieces by Cézanne and Matisse, and other painters of similar stature, I was bowled over; suddenly I realized the force of art.” After spending three years (1953–1956) at the Art Institute, Beal concluded his studies there without getting a terminal degree, thinking it was only useful if he wanted to teach, which, at the time, he did not. He also took courses at the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. During this period he married Freckelton, a fellow student and sculptor who began her career working in wood and plastic. Together they moved to New York’s SoHo District before its transformation from a wasteland of sweatshops and small factories into an arts district. They were active with the Artist Tenants Association which was instrumental in getting zoning laws changed so that artists could live and work in the well-lit lofts. Embracing what came to be called “New Realism,” Beal initially painted an occasional landscape as well as earthy-toned still lifes which consisted of jumbled collections filled with personal objects. His signature style started with a series of female nudes—all modeled by Freckelton—based on Greek mythology. These were large canvases with flat paint surfaces, dramatic foreshortening, and unusual perspectives. He further enlivened them with vivid colors, stark lighting, and dynamic patterns derived from textiles and overstuffed furniture. He stopped painting nudes after two episodes. The first came as he was loading a canvas of his naked wife onto a truck in lower Manhattan; several laborers walked by and started to fondle and kiss the painting. On the one hand he felt his wife had been violated, while on the other he was pleased that his realism was so convincing. The second occurred after a solo exhibition in Chicago at which the reception had been sponsored by Playboy magazine. A few days later he was approached by a publicist and asked if Playboy bunnies could be photographed in front of his paintings. He refused. Some portrait commissions came Beal’s way, but he preferred only portraying friends. More significant were four large murals on the History of Labor in America, the 20th Century: Technology (1975), which he undertook for the headquarters of the United States Department of Labor in Washington. Following a historical timeline, the themes were: colonization, settlement, nineteenth century industry, and twentieth century technology. The unveiling ceremony was attended by government officials and Joan Mondale, an arts advocate and wife of the vice-president. The reviewer for the Washington Post wrote enthusiastically: “They’re heartfelt and they’re big (each is 12 feet square). Their many costumed actors (the Indian, the trapper, the scientist, the hardhat, the capitalist in striped pants, the union maid, etc.) strike dramatic poses in dramatic settings (a seaside wood at dawn, an outdoor blacksmith’s forge, a 19th-century mill, a 20th-century lab). The lighting is theatrical. Beal’s compositions, with their swooping curves and bunched diagonals, are as complicated as his interwoven plots.” To accomplish the murals Beal assembled a team of assistants and models, much in the manner of Renaissance masters, which included artist friends and Freckelton. who by then was painting brightly colorful still lifes. A second mural commission ensued from New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority for two twenty-foot long installations for the Times Square Interborough Rapid Transit Company subway station. Beal’s designs for The Return of Spring (installed in 2001, three days after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, DC and Philadelphia) and The Onset of Winter (installed in 2005), Beal captured the appearance of his models in an oil painting made to the scale of the intended mosaic. A collaboration with Miotto Mosaics, the canvases were shipped to the Travisanutto Workshop, in Spilimbergo, Italy, where craftsmen fabricated the design to glass mosaics. The Return of Spring depicted construction workers and other New Yorkers in front of a subway kiosk and an outdoor produce market and in The Onset of Winter, a crowd watches a film crew recording a woman entering the subway as snow falls against the city’s skyline. Harkening back to some of his early nudes based on Greek myth, Persephone, goddess of fertility and wife of Hades, appears in both. The symbolism is pertinent, since she spent six months each year below ground. Although he disparaged teaching early on, Beal and Freckelton offered four summertime workshops on their farm in Oneonta, New York. He was an instructor at the New York Academy of Art, a graduate art school he helped to establish in 1982. Returning to Virginia, he taught at Hollins College...
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1970s Realist Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Birthday Cake & Strawberry Ice Cream
By Kendyll Hillegas
Located in New York, NY
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2010s Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

Burger King Baja Breaker
By Matthew Carden
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information. ABOUT THIS PIECE: This image comes from the series "Fast Food Fast Cars: The Pursuit of Happiness" in which Carden photographs one icon of American childhood- a Hot Wheels...
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21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Still-life Prints

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Plexiglass

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