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Item Ships From: Missouri
"Komposition" (Composition)
By Bernhard Heiliger
Located in Kansas City, MO
Bernhard Heiliger “Composition”, 1967 Medium: Lithograph Signed, numbered or inscribed Edition: 100 + H.C. Size: 20.5 × 12.9 on 25.5 × 19.7 inches COA provided Bernhard Heiliger (11...
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1960s Abstract Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Moa-Na-Hon-Ga, Great Walker, An Ioway Chief
By McKenney & Hall
Located in Missouri, MO
MOA-NA-HON-GA. GREAT WALKER. AN IOWAY CHIEF., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America Artist:Charles Bird King Publisher:McKenney and Hall hand-colored engraving on paper ...
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1830s American Realist Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Tiger, Hand Printed Work, Metalcut
By Jeff Sippel
Located in Yardley, PA
A hand printed photo lithograph with hand coloring/painting by international artist Jeffrey Sippel. All printing using an etching press and watercolor ...
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2010s Other Art Style Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Metal

Shadow Play
Located in Columbia, MO
Lisa’s organic shapes and textures rotate and recombine deftly, jumping easily between prints. But the serendipitous quality of Lisa’s work belies the controlled, methodical nature o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite, Screen

A Light
Located in Columbia, MO
Tobi C is a white, non-binary artist who grew up in San Diego and calls Columbia, Missouri home. Tobi holds a BA in both Structural Violence and Gender Studies from the Metropolitan University of...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Sheddings
Located in Columbia, MO
Tobi C is a white, non-binary artist who grew up in San Diego and calls Columbia, Missouri home. Tobi holds a BA in both Structural Violence and Gender Studies from the Metropolitan University of...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Masc
Located in Columbia, MO
Tobi C is a white, non-binary artist who grew up in San Diego and calls Columbia, Missouri home. Tobi holds a BA in both Structural Violence and Gender Studies from the Metropolitan University of...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

No
Located in Columbia, MO
Kansas City, Missouri-born artist Emmett Merrill holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, and he is returning to the Ma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Daily Bread
Located in Columbia, MO
Luca Cruzat, a Chilean born artist, received her MFA from Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois (2006). She also holds a master’s degree in foreign Language...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Gust
Located in Columbia, MO
Luca Cruzat, a Chilean born artist, received her MFA from Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois (2006). She also holds a master’s degree in foreign Language...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Breakdancer
Located in Columbia, MO
Luca Cruzat, a Chilean born artist, received her MFA from Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois (2006). She also holds a master’s degree in foreign Language...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Monoprint

Solar Dryer
Located in Columbia, MO
Luca Cruzat, a Chilean born artist, received her MFA from Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois (2006). She also holds a master’s degree in foreign Language...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

93: Cyprinus brama, Bream
By Edward Donovan
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward Donovan (1768–1837) was an Anglo Irish writer, natural history illustrator and amateur zoologist. Born in Cork, Ireland, Donovan was an avid collector of natural history speci...
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Early 1800s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Color, Etching

91: Salmo cambrius, Sewen
By Edward Donovan
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward Donovan (1768–1837) was an Anglo Irish writer, natural history illustrator and amateur zoologist. Born in Cork, Ireland, Donovan was an avid collector of natural history speci...
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Early 1800s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Color, Etching

50: Clupea encrasicolus, Anchovy
By Edward Donovan
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward Donovan (1768–1837) was an Anglo Irish writer, natural history illustrator and amateur zoologist. Born in Cork, Ireland, Donovan was an avid collector of natural history speci...
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Early 1800s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Color, Etching

36: Gadus merlangus, Whiting
By Edward Donovan
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward Donovan (1768–1837) was an Anglo Irish writer, natural history illustrator and amateur zoologist. Born in Cork, Ireland, Donovan was an avid collector of natural history speci...
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Early 1800s Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Color, Etching

28: Gadus merluccius, Hake
By Edward Donovan
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward Donovan (1768–1837) was an Anglo Irish writer, natural history illustrator and amateur zoologist. Born in Cork, Ireland, Donovan was an avid collector of natural history speci...
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Early 1800s Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Color, Etching

18. Cyprinus alburnus, Bleak
By Edward Donovan
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward Donovan (1768–1837) was an Anglo Irish writer, natural history illustrator and amateur zoologist. Born in Cork, Ireland, Donovan was an avid collector of natural history speci...
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Early 1800s Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Color, Etching

60: Barge, Canal Boats
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

53: Fishing Smack, Schooner, Sloop-rigged Barge
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

47: Barges
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

48: Gravesend Steam Packet
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

46: Folkstone Harbour
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

43: Prawn boats, Brighton Beach
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

41: Rope houses on the beach at Brighton
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

39: Thames Wherries
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

33: Dutch Schuyt
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

32: Sheer Hulk
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

31: Dutch Galliot
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

28: Thames East Indiaman
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

26: Billy-Boy unloading, Shoreham Harbour
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

25: Crab-boat at Rottingdean
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

12: Lobster-boat at Rottingdean
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward William Cooke was born in Pentonville. His father, George Cooke, and uncle William Bernard Cooke were also well-known line engravers. Growing up in an environment of artists,...
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1820s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Circus Dressing Room
By Dame Laura Knight
Located in Missouri, MO
Dame Laura Knight "The Circus Dressing Room" 1925 Etching Ed. 20 Signed Lower Right Image Size: approx. 14 x 10 inches Framed Size: approx. 23.5 x 17.75 inches An English impressio...
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1920s Realist Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

43: Perca labrax, Basse
By Edward Donovan
Located in Columbia, MO
Edward Donovan (1768–1837) was an Anglo Irish writer, natural history illustrator and amateur zoologist. Born in Cork, Ireland, Donovan was an avid collector of natural history speci...
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Early 1800s Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Color, Etching

Faces
By Leonor Fini
Located in Columbia, MO
Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, in the full swing of the Surrealist movement....
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Fraternal, Hand Printed Work, Metalcut
By Jeff Sippel
Located in Yardley, PA
A polyester plater lithograph creation hand printed, drawn, and colored by international artist Jeffrey Sippel. The paper size is 25” X 19” and the im...
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2010s Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Metal

Shere Mill Pond
By Sir Francis Seymour Haden, R.A.
Located in Missouri, MO
Shere Mill Pond, No. II (large plate). 1860. Etching and drypoint. Schneiderman 37.v/ix. 7 x 13 1/8 (sheet 10 3/4 x 16 3/8). This state is prior to publication in Études à l'Eau-Forte. Illustrated: Keppel The Golden Age of Engraving; Print Collector's Quarterly 1 (1911): 18; : Guichard, British Etchers, 1850-1940. A rich, brilliant proof with drypoint burr printed on white laid paper. Signed in pencil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shere Mill Pond, No. II was one of the most highly praised landscape prints of the etching revival. An impression was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861 under Haden’s pseudonym, H. Dean. Francis Seymour Haden used this anagram of his own name early in his career as an artist, in order to retain his anonymity and preserve his professional reputation as a surgeon. Biography: Sir Francis Seymour Haden (16 September 1818 - 1 June 1910), was an English surgeon, best known as an etcher. He was born in London, his father, Charles Thomas Haden, being a well-known doctor and lover of music. He was educated at Derby School, Christ's Hospital, and University College, London, and also studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, where he took his degree in 1840. He was admitted as a member of the College of Surgeons in London in 1842. In 1843-1844, with his friends Duval, Le Cannes and Colonel Guibout, he travelled in Italy and made his first sketches from nature. Haden attended no art school and had no art teachers, but between 1845 and 1848 he studied portfolios of prints belonging to a second-hand dealer named Love, who had a shop in Bunhill Row, the old Quaker quarter of London. Arranging the prints in chronological order, he studied the works of the great original engravers, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden and Rembrandt. These studies, besides influencing his original work, led to his important monograph on the etched work of Rembrandt. By lecture and book, and with the aid of the memorable exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1877, he tried to give a true reflection of Rembrandt's work, giving a nobler idea of the master's mind by taking away from the list of his works many dull and unseemly plates that had long been included in the lists. His reasons were founded upon the results of a study of the master's works in chronological order, and are clearly expressed in his monograph, The Etched Work of Rembrandt critically reconsidered, privately printed in 1877, and in The Etched Work of Rembrandt True and False (1895). Haden's printmaking was invigorated by his much younger brother-in-law, James Whistler, at the Haden home in Sloane Street in 1855. A press was installed there and for a while Haden and Whistler collaborated on a series of etchings of the Thames. The relationship and project did not last. Haden followed the art of original etching with such vigour that he became not only the foremost British exponent of that art but brought about its revival in England. His strenuous efforts and perseverance, aided by the secretarial ability of Sir WR Drake, resulted in the foundation of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. As president he ruled the society with a strong hand from its first beginnings in 1880. Notwithstanding his study of the old masters of his art, Haden's own plates were very individual, and are particularly noticeable for a fine original treatment of landscape subjects, free and open in line, clear and well divided in mass, and full of a noble and dignified style of his own. Even when working from a picture his personality dominates the plate, as for example in the large plate he etched after J.M.W. Turner's "Calais Pier," which is a classical example of what interpretative work can do in black and white. Of his original plates, more than 250 in number, one of the most notable was the large "Breaking up of the Agamemnon." An early plate, rare and most beautiful, is "Thames Fisherman". "Mytton Hall" is broad in treatment, and a fine rendering of a shady avenue of yew trees leading to an old manor-house in sunlight. "Sub Tegmine" was etched in Greenwich Park in 1859; and "Early Morning--Richmond", full of the poetry and freshness of the hour, was done, according to Haden, actually at sunrise. One of the rarest and most beautiful of his plates is "A By-Road in Tipperary"; "Combe Bottom" is another; and "Shere Mill Pond" (both the small study and the larger plate), "Sunset in Ireland," "Penton Hook," "Grim Spain" and "Evening Fishing, Longparish," are also notable examples of his genius. A catalogue of his works was begun by Sir William Drake and completed by Harrington in 1880. During later years Haden began to practise the sister art...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

15. Horseshoe crab, king crab
By Maria Sibylla Merian
Located in Columbia, MO
Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Germany in 1647 and received early artistic training from her stepfather, an established still life painter. She was fascinated by insects and collec...
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18th Century Realist Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Pigment

Lit Rouge
By Antoni Tàpies
Located in Missouri, MO
Color Lithograph Pencil Signed and Numbered 48/50 Image Size: approx 22 x 29 inches Framed Size: approx 30.25 x 41 inches Antoni Tàpies was born December 13, 1923, in Barcelona and ...
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1970s Modern Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ewa, Hand Printed Work, Woodcut
By Jeff Sippel
Located in Yardley, PA
A Mokulito (wood lithograph) creation hand printed by international artist Jeffrey Sippel. The paper size is 25” X 19” and the image size is11 ¼” X...
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2010s Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Joshua Reads the Word of the Law (Pencil Signed)
By (after) Marc Chagall
Located in Missouri, MO
Signed in Pencil Lower Right "Marc Chagall" Numbered Lower Left 77/275 Image Size: approx. 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches Framed Size: approx. 24 x 21 inches
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1950s Impressionist Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Angel
Located in Missouri, MO
Angel, 1952 Ferol K. Sibley Warthen (American, 1890-1986) Color Woodblock Print 6.5 x 5 inches 16 x 13.75 inches with frame Signed Lower Right Titled Lower Left Born 1890, Died 1986...
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1950s American Modern Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Color

Ohio Garden Lynx
Located in Columbia, MO
DONALD ROHELS Ohio Garden Lynx Lithograph Ed. 7/14 17 x 13 inches
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20th Century Abstract Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Fire Garden
Located in Columbia, MO
DONALD ROHELS Fire Garden Hand embellished lithograph Ed. 4/4 23.5 x 20 inches
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20th Century Abstract Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Orange Mesa
Located in Columbia, MO
Orange Mesa Screenprint on Fabric
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Fabric, Screen

Pink Fog
Located in Columbia, MO
Pink Fog Screenprint on Fabric
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Fabric, Screen

Otherness No. 1
Located in Columbia, MO
Otherness No. 1 Collograph 8.75 x 8.75 framed
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media

Otherness No. 2
Located in Columbia, MO
Otherness No. 2 Collograph 8.75 x 8.75 framed
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media

Otherness No. 4
Located in Columbia, MO
Otherness No. 4 Collograph 8.75 x 8.75 framed
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media

Otherness No. 6
Located in Columbia, MO
Otherness No. 6 Collograph 8.75 x 8.75 framed
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media

Dog and Fox Cross
Located in Columbia, MO
Dog and Fox Cross 1887 Etching 3 x 5
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Heath Recurved, Erica retorta Plate 362
By William Curtis
Located in Columbia, MO
Heath Recurved, Erica retorta Plate 362 1797 Hand-colored etching Ed. 1st ed. 9 x 5.25 inches
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1790s Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Adam and Eve
Located in Saint Louis, MO
In rich, thickly impastoed oil and acrylic paintings, Genieve Figgis updates art historical tropes and compositions with a macabre sense of humor. At fi...
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2010s Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Ministry of Education, Mexico City (Workers' Meeting)
By (after) Diego Rivera
Located in Missouri, MO
after Diego Rivera "Ministry of Education, Mexico City" (Workers' Meeting) 1933 from the portfolio "Frescoes of Diego Rivera" Published by the Museum of Modern Art, NY Signed by the artist lower center Diego Rivera was born on December 13, 1886 in the mountain town of Guanajuato in Mexico. His mother was an ardent Catholic and his father was a rich and aristocratic revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swore his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his diatribes against the Church. When he was eleven he attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts; his real teacher was Jose Posada...
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1930s Modern Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

National Palace, Mexico City (Juarez and the Reform Laws)
By (after) Diego Rivera
Located in Missouri, MO
(after) Diego Rivera "National Palace, Mexico City (Juarez and the Reform Laws) 1933 from the portfolio "Frescoes of Diego Rivera" Published by the Museum of Modern Art, NY Hand-Signed by the Artist Diego Rivera was born on December 13, 1886 in the mountain town of Guanajuato in Mexico. His mother was an ardent Catholic and his father was a rich and aristocratic revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swore his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his diatribes against the Church. When he was eleven he attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts; his real teacher was Jose Posada...
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1930s Modern Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Formulation: Articulation, Portfolio II, Folder 23
By Josef Albers
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Josef Albers Formulation: Articulation, Portfolio II, Folder 23, 1972 silkscreen Edition of 1000, unnumbered, unsigned Framed Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 25 1.2 inches (19.1 x 38.7 cm) ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Nasiterna Pygmae
By John Gould
Located in Missouri, MO
John Gould (British, 1804-1881) Nasiterna Pygmae c. 1849-1861 Hand Colored Lithograph Image Size: approx 19.5 x 13.5 inches Framed Size: 27 3/8 x 21 1/2 inches John Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Gould's work is referenced in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species. Gould was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, the son of a gardener, and the boy probably had a scanty education. Shortly afterwards his father obtained a position on an estate near Guildford, Surrey, and then in 1818 became foreman in the Royal Gardens of Windsor. He was for some time under the care of J T Aiton, of the Royal Gardens of Windsor. The young Gould started training as a gardener, being employed under his father at Windsor from 1818 to 1824, and he was subsequently a gardener at Ripley Castle in Yorkshire. He became an expert in the art of taxidermy, and in 1824 he set himself up in business in London as a taxidermist, and his skill led to him becoming the first Curator and Preserver at the museum of the Zoological Society of London in 1827. Gould's position brought him into contact with the country's leading naturalists, and also meant that he was often the first to see new collections of birds given to the Society. In 1830 a collection of birds arrived from the Himalayas, many not previously described. Gould published these birds in A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains (1830-1832). The text was by Nicholas Aylward Vigors, and the illustrations were lithographed by Gould's wife Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Coxen of Kent. This work was followed by four more in the next seven years including Birds of Europe in five volumes - completed in 1837, with the text written by Gould himself, edited by his clerk Edwin Prince. Some of the illustrations were made by Edward Lear as part of his Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae in 1832. Lear however was in financial difficulty, and he sold the entire set of lithographs to Gould. The books were published in a very large size, imperial folio, with magnificent coloured plates. Eventually 41 of these volumes were published with about 3000 plates. They appeared in parts at £3 3s. a number, subscribed for in advance, and in spite of the heavy expense of preparing the plates, Gould succeeded in making his ventures pay and in realizing a fortune. In 1838 he and his wife moved to Australia to work on the Birds of Australia and shortly after his return to England, his wife died in 1841. When Charles Darwin presented his mammal and bird specimens collected during the second voyage of HMS Beagle to the Geological Society of London at their meeting on 4 January 1837, the bird specimens were given to Gould for identification. He set aside his paying work and at the next meeting on 10 January reported that birds from the Galápagos Islands, which Darwin had thought were blackbirds, "gross-bills" and finches were in fact "a series of ground Finches which are so peculiar" as to form "an entirely new group, containing 12 species." This story made the newspapers. In March, Darwin met Gould again, learning that his Galápagos "wren" was another species of finch and the mockingbirds he had labeled by island were separate species rather than just varieties, with relatives on the South American mainland. Subsequently Gould advised that the smaller southern Rhea specimen that had been rescued from a Christmas dinner...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Missouri - Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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