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Item Ships From: New Mexico
Landscape No.6
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Terran Last Gun, Landscape No.6, Four-color Serigraph on White Somerset Paper, Edition of 4 2019 36" x 26", framed
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21st Century and Contemporary New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Screen

Hachiman Torii Kagawa Shikoku Japan, limited edition silver gelatin photograph
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Hachiman Torii Kagawa Shikoku Japan, 2023" is a silver gelatin print that was printed in the darkroom by master photographer and printer Michael Kenna. The print is matted to 20x16...
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2010s Minimalist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Silver Gelatin

The Patient Traveler, color limited edition photomontage artwork
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Patient Traveler by Maggie Taylor is a limited-edition, color photomontage image. Maggie Taylor is a Florida-based artist who creates complex photomontage compositions with a fl...
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2010s New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Branch and Berries Tokyo Honshu Japan, limited edition photograph
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Branch and Berries Tokyo Honshu Japan, 2023 is a silver gelatin print that was printed in the darkroom by master photographer and printer Michael Kenna. The print is matted to 20x1...
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2010s Minimalist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Silver Gelatin

Leaf House
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Reviewing the photographs of Julie Blackmon, critic Leah Ollman of the Los Angeles Times wrote: “Each frame is an absorbing, meticulously orchestrated slice of ethnographic theater … that abounds with tender humor but also shrewdly subtle satire.” Blackmon is a native of Springfield, MO, and her photographs are inspired by her experience of growing up the oldest of nine children—including five sisters—in what she calls “a generic American town in the middle of the U.S.” In college, Blackmon was introduced to the work of artists Sally Mann, Diane Arbus, and Helen Levitt, and she describes herself as “obsessed” with their images. “When my three children were small,” she recalls, “we moved into an old house with a darkroom in the basement. Like any mother, I wanted to take pictures of my kids. But I didn’t want to be just the ‘mother photographer.’ I wanted my work to be more: more penetrating, more artful, more striking, more thoughtful, more a reflection of the times. “Over the next few years, I progressed from making documentary black and white photographs of my life and the lives of my sisters to creating colorful, fictitious images that offered a more fantastical look at everyday life. My work became more conceptual, as I began to realize that I was not obligated to capture “reality” exactly, but that I could work more like a painter or a filmmaker, actively shaping the images I was creating. This realization—that fiction can often capture the truth more memorably than reality—was a major shift in how I saw the world around me, and it transformed my work.” “It’s thrilling to see the most common aspects of everyday life as potential stories or themes for a photograph. It changes how you see things: suddenly, a Starbucks employee on a smoke break, or an outmoded beauty shop catering to an elderly clientele, can spark a memorable image. As Nora Ephron...
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2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Transmission lines, Atacama Desert, Chile, 17 July, 2017
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Transmission lines, Atacama Desert, Chile, 17 July, 2017, limited edition, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of...
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2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Cikisani Kamuy Study 2 Sorachi Hokkaido Japan , limited edition photograph
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Cikisani Kamuy Study 2 Sorachi Hokkaido Japan, 2023 is a silver gelatin print that was printed in the darkroom by master photographer and printer Michael Kenna. The print is matted...
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2010s Minimalist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Silver Gelatin

Hillside Fence Study 9 Teshikaga Hokkaido Japan, limited edition photograph
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Hillside Fence Study 9 Teshikaga Hokkaido Japan" is a silver gelatin print that was printed in the darkroom by master photographer and printer Michael Kenna. The print is matted to...
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2010s Minimalist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Silver Gelatin

Cerro Dominador concentrated solar plant, Atacama Desert, Chile, 16 July, 2017
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Cerro Dominador concentrated solar plant, Atacama Desert, Chile, 16 July, 2017, limited edition, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining...
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2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Penguin Migration
Located in Santa Fe, NM
PENGUIN MIGRATION This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas of 'Penguin Migration', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very afford...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Glaze, Gesso, Giclée

El Romero photovoltaic plant, Atacama Desert, Chile, 14 July, limited edition
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
El Romero photovoltaic plant, Atacama Desert, Chile, 14 July, limited edition, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Deser...
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2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Cikisani Kamuy, Study 1, Sorachi Hokkaido Japan, limited edition photograph
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Cikisani Kamuy, Study 1, Sorachi Hokkaido, Japan, 2023 is a silver gelatin print that was printed in the darkroom by master photographer and printer Michael Kenna. The print is mat...
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2010s Minimalist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Silver Gelatin

Bare Tree, Toya Lake, Hokkaido, Japan, limited edition photograph
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Bare Tree, Toya Lake, Hokkaido, Japan, 2009 is a silver gelatin print that was printed in the darkroom by master photographer and printer Michael Kenna. The print is matted to 20x1...
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2010s Minimalist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Silver Gelatin

Staraya Ladoga Fog
Located in Santa Fe, NM
STARAYA LADOGA FOG This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Staraya Ladoga Fog', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very afford...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Gesso, Giclée

Distant Trees Sorachi Hokkaido Japan, limited edition photograph
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Distant Trees Sorachi Hokkaido Japan, 2023 is a silver gelatin print that was printed in the darkroom by master photographer and printer Michael Kenna. The print is matted to 20x16...
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2010s Minimalist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Silver Gelatin

Galumlee Beach Tree Taean Chungcheongnamdo South Korea, b&w ltd photograph
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Galumlee Beach Tree Taean Chungcheongnamdo South Korea" is a silver gelatin print that was printed in the darkroom by master photographer and printer Michael Kenna. The print is ma...
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2010s Minimalist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Silver Gelatin

Afternoon
Located in Santa Fe, NM
AFTERNOON This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Afternoon', by Vasily Golubev, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Golubev masterpiece at a very affordable price. Be...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Gesso, Giclée, Glaze

#38256, 28 August, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
#38256, 28 August, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: Renewable Energy and the ...
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2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

#40758, 1 September, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
#40758, 1 September, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed. ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: Renewable Energy and t...
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2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Fish Washing Tank, Sunjeongmaeul Go-Heung Jeollanam, South Korea, b&w photograph
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Fish Washing Tank, Sunjeongmaeul Go-Heung Jeollanam-do South Korea, 2023 is a silver gelatin print that was printed in the darkroom by master photographer and printer Michael Kenna....
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2010s Minimalist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Silver Gelatin

#39386, 29 August, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
#39386, 29 August, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: Renewable Energy and the ...
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2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

African
Located in Santa Fe, NM
AFRICAN This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas of 'African', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very affordable price. Produ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Glaze, Gesso, Giclée

White Cloud of Apple Blossoms
Located in Santa Fe, NM
This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'White Cloud of Apple Blossoms ', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very affordable pri...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Glaze, Giclée, Gesso

Green Meadow and Flowers
Located in Santa Fe, NM
GREEN MEADOW AND FLOWERS This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Green Meadow and Flowers', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Gesso, Giclée, Glaze

Portrait of an Old Man
Located in Santa Fe, NM
PORTRAIT OF AN OLD MAN This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Portrait of an Old Man', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a ver...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Gesso, Giclée

Mating Call
Located in Santa Fe, NM
MATING CALL This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas of 'Mating Call', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very affordable price. ...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Glaze, Gesso, Giclée

Bhutan Abstraction with Red - 1
By Ricardo Mazal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by world renown artist Ricardo Mazal exists in an edition of 30. Paper size is 35 inches h x 30 inches w with an image size of 26...
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2010s Abstract New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Woman in a Chariot
Located in Santa Fe, NM
WOMAN IN A CHARIOT This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas of 'Woman in a Chariot', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very affo...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Gesso, Giclée, Glaze

Orfeo I
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print printed on natural cotton rag paper by world renown artist Robert Kelly exists in an edition of 30 that is available as a single ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Pigment

Morning Reflection
Located in Santa Fe, NM
MORNING REFLECTION This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Morning Reflection', by Nikolai Timkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Timkov masterpiece at a very afford...
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1970s Impressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Giclée, Glaze, Gesso

Tanya
Located in Santa Fe, NM
TANYA This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Tanya', by Vasily Golubev, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Golubev masterpiece at a very affordable price. Produced t...
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1970s Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Glaze, Gesso, Giclée

Golden Rye
Located in Santa Fe, NM
GOLDEN RYE This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Golden Rye', by Nikolai Timkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Timkov masterpiece at a very affordable price. B...
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1960s Impressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Gesso, Giclée, Glaze

Afternoon in Rostov
Located in Santa Fe, NM
AFTERNOON IN ROSTOV This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Afternoon in Rostov', by Nikolai Timkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Timkov masterpiece at a very affo...
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1970s Impressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Glaze, Gesso, Giclée

Growing Strong, by Melanie Yazzie, Native American, monotype, green, black, bird
By Melanie Yazzie
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Growing Strong, by Melanie Yazzie, Native American, monotype, green, black, bird natural wood frame 27.25" x 35.25" paper size 20" x 28"
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2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Monotype, Archival Paper

Cajas-I
By Ricardo Mazal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by world renown artist Ricardo Mazal exists in an edition of 50. The paper size is 37 inches h x 35 inches w and an image size of...
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2010s Abstract New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Causeway
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Printed by Universal Limited Art Editions. Edition 65 of 100
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Barkhans
Located in Santa Fe, NM
BARKHANS This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Barkhans', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very affordable price. Beaut...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Glaze, Giclée

Beauty of Spring
Located in Santa Fe, NM
BEAUTY OF SPRING This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Beauty of Spring', by Nikolai Timkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Timkov masterpiece at a very affordable...
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1960s Impressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Gesso, Giclée, Glaze

Three Heads
Located in Santa Fe, NM
MILTON HEBALD (1917 - 2015) In 1994, at 77 years, Milton Hebald, one of the pre-eminent American figurative sculptors of the 20th centur...
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1990s American Modern New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Rag Paper, Digital, Digital Pigment

Slide, Color Photograph, Archival Pigment Ink Print, signed and numbered
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Slide by Julie Blackmon is from an ongoing series titled Home Grown According to the Los Angeles Times, Blackmon's images are “absorbing, meticulously orchestrated slices of ethnogr...
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2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Color, Archival Pigment

Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
By Toko Shinoda
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
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1990s Contemporary New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Theatre
Located in Santa Fe, NM
This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, Theatre, by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very affordable price. Produced to the ex...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Glaze, Giclée

Proem 3
By Matt Magee
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 15
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Two Dancers
Located in Santa Fe, NM
MILTON HEBALD (1917 - 2015) In 1994, at 77 years, Milton Hebald, one of the pre-eminent American figurative sculptors of the 20th centur...
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1990s American Modern New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Rag Paper, Digital, Digital Pigment

Nocturne Suite - 3 #4
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by world renown artist Robert Kelly exists in an edition of 50. Paper size is 24"h x 30"w with an image size of 14.5"h x 19"w. R...
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Early 2000s Abstract New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Pigment

Budding Grove
Located in Santa Fe, NM
MILTON HEBALD (1917 - 2015) In 1994, at 77 years, Milton Hebald, one of the pre-eminent American figurative sculptors of the 20th centur...
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1990s American Modern New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Rag Paper, Digital, Digital Pigment

FUGA
Located in Santa Fe, NM
MILTON HEBALD (1917 - 2015) In 1994, at 77 years, Milton Hebald, one of the pre-eminent American figurative sculptors of the 20th centur...
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1990s American Modern New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Digital Pigment, Rag Paper, Digital

Theatre
Located in Santa Fe, NM
THEATRE This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Theatre', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very affordable price. Produce...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Glaze, Giclée, Gesso

Lilacs
Located in Santa Fe, NM
LILACS This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Lilacs', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very affordable price. Produced to the exact size of the original work and beautifully textured with a clear gesso finish following Chetkov’s distinctive brushwork, this reproduction was exclusively authorized by the artist and is currently available only on 1stDibs. "The 'anatomy' of the flower is too summary, melted in the flow of emotions. Yet this work could not be called non-objective, abstract. Their plastic masses are too full of life, too rich and juicy, too much of the earth." Dr. Alexander Borovsky, Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg From 1995 until 2014, when Russia invaded Crimea (at which time cultural exchange largely came to an end) the Pushkin Gallery...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Gesso, Glaze, Giclée

Before the Race
Located in Santa Fe, NM
This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Before the Race', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very affordable price. Produced to the exact size of the original work and beautifully textured with a clear gesso finish following Chetkov’s distinctive brushwork, this reproduction was exclusively authorized by the artist and is currently available only on 1stDibs. "The horse plays a prominent role in Chetkov’s oeuvre, symbolizing youth, freedom and the flight of time, always conveying a sense of energy and animation. He related closely with Kandinsky who famously noted, “Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposely, to cause vibrations to the soul." Theodora Clarke, Russian Art Scholar, Courtauld Institute of Art From 1995 until 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea, (at which time cultural exchange largely came to an end) the Pushkin Gallery...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Giclée, Glaze

Mystic Rituals 4
By Brad Ellis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Brad Ellis exists in an edition of 30. Paper size is 46"h x 35"w with an image size of 40"h x 29"w. Brad Ellis is a Da...
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2010s Abstract New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Cotton, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital...

Still Life with Irises
Located in Santa Fe, NM
STILL IFE WITH IRISES This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Still Life with Irises', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chet...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Gesso, Glaze, Giclée

Morning
Located in Santa Fe, NM
MORNING This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Morning', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very affordable price. Produced to the exact size of the original work and beautifully textured with a clear gesso finish following Chetkov’s distinctive brushwork, this reproduction was exclusively authorized by the artist and is currently available only on 1stDibs. "In the last years of his life, Chetkov conveyed through his paintings a certain clarity and vision, with his works evolving up to the very last day, as is evident in 'Morning', a musical explosion of color harmony, unbounded with light and brilliance and the hopeful expectations of a new day." From 1995 until 2014 when Russian invaded Crimea (at which time cultural exchange largely came to an end) the Pushkin Gallery...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Glaze, Giclée, Gesso

Proem 1
By Matt Magee
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 15
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Night Chanters, black and white framed lithograph, kachina, limited edition
By Dan Namingha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Night Chanters, black and white framed lithograph, kachina, limited edition 100 The Gallery Wall, Inc. now doing business as Glenn Green Galleri...
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1980s Contemporary New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

SUNFLOWERS IN A GLASS
Located in Santa Fe, NM
SUNFLOWERS IN A GLASS This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas of 'Sunflowers in a Glass', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a...
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Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Glaze, Giclée

Untitled
Located in Santa Fe, NM
"A Wall Won't Stop Us" is a monotype featuring reduction woodcut and silkscreened elements. The print belongs to a series that captures Simpsons' mos...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Monotype

Antique Dog Lithograph in the Taste of Alfred De Dreux, France circa 1870
By Alfred de Dreux
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Portrait Lithograph in the Taste of Alfred De Dreux Bulldog and Frog France, circa 1870 Lithography 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 (28 x 20 frame) inches Six lithographs of dog portr...
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1870s Romantic New Mexico - Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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