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Item Ships From: San Francisco
Dogon Mask
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dogon Mask" 1996 in a color off set lithograph with screenprint by African/American artist Nathaniel Bustion, b.1942. It is hand...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset, Screen
Untitled I
By Charles Eckart
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" 2000, is an original colors soft ground etching on wove paper by noted American artist Charles Eckart, b.1935. It is hand signed and numbered 9 in pencil by t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Cosmic Explosion
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cosmic Explosion" c.2000, is an original colors woodcut on thin rice paper paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, titled and ins...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Carrara II - large format photograph of iconic Italian marble quarry
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Signed large scale original photograph of the Mediterranean marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, iconic material source of classic Italian art and architec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Cliff House, San Francisco
By Fanch (Francois Ledan)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cliff House, San Francisco" c.1980 is a original colors lithograph on paper by French artist (Fanch, Francois Ledan, born 1949) it is...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Seascape IX - large format photograph of blue water surface
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scape photograph of mesmerizing water and cloudscape
SEASCAPE IX by Frank Schott
58 x 58 inches ( 147 x 147cm )
edition of 7
signed
48 x 48 inches ( 122 x 122cm )
edition of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Ink
Puerto Escondido
By Arnold A. Grossman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Puerto Escondido" 1992 is an original color aquatint by noted California artist Arnold A. Grossman, 1923-2016. It is signed, dated, titled and numbered 1/20 in p...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Persephone VI - large format photograph of a timeless environmental still
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from Erik Pawassar's body of works 'Persephone', a series of environmental still-life photographs of timeless palimpsest impressions
62 x 48 inches (157 x 122cm)
signed edition of 7
40 x 31 inches (102 x 79cm)
signed edition of 25
archival fine art pigment print
signed & numbered by artist on label
custom/larger sizes are available on request
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Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph.
Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian Salgado...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Petite Fleur Suite I
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- )
Title: Petite Fleur Suite I
Medium: Screenprint
Image size: 11 x 14 inches
Sheet size: 18 x 20 inches
Signature: lower right
Edition: 375 This one: 103/3...
Category
1990s Impressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Screen
Rose, from Recent Etchings II
By Wayne Thiebaud
Located in San Francisco, CA
Framed: 39 3/8 x 30 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches, 3/4 inch face, Wood frame
Wayne Thiebaud was born Mesa, Arizona in 1920, and his family soon moved to Los Angeles in 1921. In high school he ...
Category
1970s San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Ansicht Von Rothenburg
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura
Title: Ansicht Von Rothenburg
Year: Circa 1930
Medium: Color etching on silk
Paper: Wove
Image size: 9.25 x 4.75 inches
Framed size: 16.5 x 12.5 inches
Signa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Marco
By Nicola Simbari
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Nicola Simbari – Italian (1927-2012)
Title: Marco
Year: 1978
Medium: Screen Print
Image size: 28.5 x 31.75 inches.
Sheet size: 35 x 37.5 inches.
Signature: Signed lower ri...
Category
1970s Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Screen
Concrete - large scale photo of tonal palette texture of Brutalist architecture
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Concrete (2014) by Frank Schott, a study of monochromatic details of contemporary urban architecture, urban textures and tonal color palettes
27 x 40 inches / 68cm x 102cm
signed ed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Bamboo Forest (6 panels) - abstract nature observation of iconic Japanese grove
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale abstract photographic sections of lush emerald green nature biotope, a highly detailed observation of the natural beauty of Japan's famous Arashiyama Bamboo Grove
Bamboo Forest by Erik Pawassar
48 x 175 inches (122 x 444cm)
six prints of 48 x 29 inches
signed edition of 7
The work is also available as a single panoramic photograph:
42 x 118 inches (107 x 300cm)
signed edition of 7
archival quality fine art pigment print
limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux
artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity
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About the artist:
Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph.
Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian Salgado, Raghubir Singh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
FLOW II - large format photograph of abstract liquid water cloudscapes
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Flow'
Flow II by C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Seascape IX - large format photograph of blue water surface
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of mesmerizing water and cloudscape
SEASCAPE IX by Frank Schott
48 x 48 inches ( 122 x 122cm )
edition of 7
signed
5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée
Salzburg View
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Salzburg View" c. 1970 is an original color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The plate m...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Hana
By Rudolph Carl Gorman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Hana" 1982 Is an original lithograph by renown Navajo artist Rudolph Carl Gorman, 1932-2005. It is signed, dated and numbered 199/250 in pencil by the artist. With the blind stamp of the artist and printer. The image size is 19.5 x 26 inches, the sheet size is 22 x 30 inches, framed size is 33 x 41 inches. Custom framed in a dark wood frame, with fabric matting. the artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition, it has minor restorations, barely visible.
About the artist:
Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest's best known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man's world with some calling him the "Picasso of Indian artists". Of this kind of attention, he said: "I wish people would quit pushing my being Indian. The only time I was interviewed as If I were a normal person was by the Jewish Press in Tucson. It was the first time I felt international and almost white". (Samuels 222)
His parents were Carl Nelson...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Cowboy TV - large format photograph of iconic western in American landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph of vintage TV set with iconic western movie in American wild west landscape
Cowboy TV by Frank Schott is available in three edition sizes:
48 x 64 inches (122 x 162cm)
signed edition of 7
30 x 40 inches (76 x 102cm)
signed edition of 25
58 x 77.25 inches (148 x 148cm)
signed edition of 7
archival fine art pigment print
signed & numbered by artist on certificate label
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Frank Schott grew up in Germany and attended the prestigious Academy of Arts in Cologne, studying under Professor Arno Jansen, who was an early influence.
Moving to California in 1998, Schott's work has evolved to include the epic landscapes and deserts of the American West as well as architectural, conceptual and more formal environments from both home and his travels.
Influenced by a number of photographic peers and precursors such as Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Ed Rusha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Petite Fleur Suite II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- )
Title: Petite Fleur Suite II
Medium: Screenprint
Image size: 11 x 14 inches
Sheet size: 18 x 20 inches
Signature: lower right
Edition: 375 This one: 148/...
Category
1990s Impressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Screen
Topiary I (framed) - large format photograph of ornamental shaped urban tree
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photogaph from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening and whimsical botanical art of topiaries' green minimalism
Topiary I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Giclée
La Danse des Faunes
By Pablo Picasso
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Title: La Danse Des Faunes
Year: 1957
Medium: Original zinc plate two colors lithograph
Edition: Unumbered of 1000
Paper: Arches
Ima...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Listen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Listen" 1998 is an original color lithograph on paper by noted American artist David Hollowell, b.1951. It is hand signed and num...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
YES - XXL format photograph of conceptual motivational message sign at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana signs in landscape of the American West
YES by Frank Schott
58 x 81 inches (...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Untitled #5
By Richard Attilio Moquin
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Richard Attilio Moquin (American, born 1934)
Title: Untitled #5
Year: 1992
Medium: Monotype
Paper: B.F.K Rives
Image size: 13.75 x 9.75 inches
paper size: 20.5 x...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
Seascape I Diptych - abstract photograph of water color cloud horizon
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format abstract photograph of water color clouds and horizon
from a series of photographic works capturing the sea blue color palette of the ocean
S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée
Poetes, Sculpteurs, Peintres
By Joan Miró
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Poetes, Sculpteurs, Peintres" 1960, is an original color lithograph on Rives paper by renown artist Joan Miro 1893-1983. It is hand signed (monogramed) and numbered II/XV in pencil by the artist. The artwork (sheet) size is 26 x 20 inches, framed size is 39.25 x 32.5 inches. Published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, printed by Fernand Mourlot., Paris. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne by Mourlot plate #260. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with black color bevel and fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Joan Miró Ferra was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona Spain, the son of a goldsmith and watchmaker. At the age of 14, he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja's Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales in the same city. Upon completing three years of art studies, and under pressure from his parents, he took a position as an accounting clerk. After suffering a nervous breakdown, he abandoned business and resumed his art studies, attending Galí's Escola d'Art in Barcelona from 1912 to 1915.
Miró's work before 1920 showed the latest artistic influences, including the bright colors of the Fauves* and the geometric forms of Cubism*. It was in Paris through the 1920s-1930s where, under the influence of Surrealist* poets and writers, Miró evolved his mature style. His latest works drew on the Surrealist principles of memory, fantasy, and the irrational to create visual art. Miró's works were also shaped by the flat, two-dimensionality of his native Catalan folk art, Spanish Romanesque...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Pantheon (Rome) - large scale photograph of iconic architectural elements
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pantheon (Rome) by Frank Schott
from a series of monochromatic and timeless photographic observances of iconic architectural and interior references around Rome's historical center
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
SIerra Country #2
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sierra Country" 1969 is an original color serigraph on Wove paper by Canadian/American artist Howard Bradford, 1919-2008. It is ha...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
"Concert Hall Set III" Large original color lithograph
By Sam Francis
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Concert Hall Set III" 1977 is an original color lithograph on B.F.K Rives paper by renown American artist Sam Francis 1923-1994. It i...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Star Wars R2-D2 - large format photograph of the original iconic droid robot
By Tom Schierlitz
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale still life photograph of the original iconic droid robot from the classic Star Wars movies
Star Wars (R2-D2) by Tom Schierlitz
60 x 48 inches (152 x 122cm)
signed edition of 7
40 x 32 inches (102 x 81cm)
signed edition of 25
archival quality fine art pigment print
limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Hemisphere II - large format photograph of abstract liquid cloudscapes in water
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Hemisphere'
Hemisp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Persephone I - muted still life of a timeless environmental interior vignette
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale original photograph from Erik Pawassar's body of works 'Persephone', a series of environmental still-life photographs of timeless palimpsest impressions
62 x 48 inches (157 x 122cm)
signed edition of 7
40 x 31 inches (102 x 79cm)
signed edition of 25
24 x 19 inches (61 x 48cm)
signed edition of 25
archival fine art pigment print
signed & numbered by artist on certificate label
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Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph.
Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian Salgado, Raghubir Singh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink
Dancers
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dancers" c.1990is a color offset lithograph by noted equine American artist Fred Stone, 1930-2018. It is hand signed in pencil by the a...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Billboard - large scale monochromatic photograph of iconic Americana road sign
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
a monochromatic photographic homage to artist Ed Ruscha from a series of iconic Americana roadside billboards and conceptual signage
BILLBOARD by Frank Schott (2010)
25.5 x 40 inch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Billboard - large scale monochromatic photograph of iconic Americana road sign
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
a monochromatic photographic homage to artist Ed Ruscha from a series of iconic Americana roadside billboard signs and conceptual signage
BILLBOARD by Frank Schott
48 x 76 inches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Alternance
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Alternance" c.1980 is an original lithograph on Arches paper by noted French abstract expressionist artist Francois Rouan, b.1943. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Flowers Market
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Marche aux Fleurs
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 8.5 x 6.5...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Hallelujah - large format photograph of baroque Italian palazzo fresco ceiling
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Epic scale photograph of mesmerizing baroque details in a long forgotten architectural masterpiece discovered in Mediterranean Sicily, Italy
Hallelujah by Frank Schott
66 x 59 inch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Hemisphere I - large format photograph of abstract liquid cloudscapes in water
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Hemisphere'
Hemisp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Maurice Chevalier, Casino de Paris
By Charles Kiffer
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Maurice Chevalier, Casino de Paris" created 1925 is a lithographic poster on paper by French noted artist Charles Kiffer, 1902-1...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Aspen Study III - large scale photograph of Indian summer autumnal color palette
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Aspen Study III by Frank Schott
a series of images capturing the yellow golden Indian summer foliage palette of aspen trees in California's Sierra Nevada...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
The Bridge House
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: The Bridge House
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 10 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
The Purple Mountain’s Majestic
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " The Purple Mountain's Majestic" 1973 is a color lithograph after artist Hall Drake Diteman, 1925-2009. It is hand signed at the l...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Unknown
By Mahmoud Farshchian
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" is an original color lithograph by acclaimed Iranian artist Mahmoud Farshchian, born 1930. It is hand signed and numbered 20...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
After Lunch
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "After Lunch" 1994 is an original etching by French/Canadian artist Pierre Roland Renoir b.1958 (Grand son of the famous impressionist artist Pierre Auguste Renoir) It i...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Soaking Up
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Soaking Up" c.1970 is an original lithograph on Wove paper by noted western artist Tom (Thomas) Ryan, 1922-2011. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 68/100 in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 12.25 x 17.35 inches, sheet size is 17.5 x 21.65 inches. It is in excellent condition
About the artist:
Tom Ryan was born Jan. 12, 1922, in Springfield, Ill., to William Martin Ryan — whose family immigrated to Illinois from Ireland in the 1880s — and Sarah Helen Behrens, whose ancestry predates the Revolutionary War. They had nine children — six boys and three girls. He began drawing before he went to school.
"I was 4 years old and drawing airplanes, and an older brother was helping me," Ryan told the Reporter-Telegram in a 2002 interview at the Haley Library's going away party held in his honor. "Those were my first art lessons."
He did not decide to be an artist until after his service in World War II. While in the U.S. Navy during the war, he "made quite a bit of money" drawing portraits of his shipmates and other servicemen. After being discharged in 1945, he picked up a Life magazine that carried an article about N.C. Wyeth.
"I read the article, and I liked what I read, and I loved the pictures reproduced from his paintings in the article," Ryan said in 2002. "I decided then and there to be an artist."
Following his graduation from the American Academy of Art, an education made possible through the GI Bill, he returned to Springfield where he married Jacqueline "Jacquie" Harvey, daughter of a local doctor. She died in 1998.
The Ryans moved to New York City where he continued his studies at the Art Students League. During his second year at the Art Students League, he won a contest. His winning painting became the cover for Western writer Ernest Haycox's novel The Outlaw.
"Every month after that I also received an assignment from this publisher, and they would be Western novels," Ryan said in 2002. "So that's what I did for the next six or seven years. Then I started exhibiting at the Latendorf Gallery on Madison Avenue. What I sold mainly were the book covers. They would be published and I would get paid by the publisher, and I'd take them to the gallery, and I'd get paid again."
Ryan began making trips west in the late 1950s. He would stay three or four months painting, sketching and photographing scenes he'd need later. At that time, his works centered around historical events and places.
"I particularly liked to do some of the trail drive things that I did, like the old longhorns," Ryan said in 2002.
In the early 1960s, a work by Norman Rockwell and one by Ryan appeared in the same catalog. Rockwell, who was doing the Boy Scouts calendars for Brown and Bigelow, the premiere calendar publishing company in the United States, told the calendar company about Ryan.
"The art director gave me a call and asked if I'd like to do a contemporary cowboy...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Verdes, Loir et Cher, France
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Verdes, Loire et Cher, France" is an original lithograph by American artist Teall (La Verne Teall) Messer, 1897-1977. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 36/40 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 10.65 x 13.65 inches, the sheet size is 14 x 21.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age of this piece.
About the artist:
Born in Dixon Illinois in 1897, Teall Messer dropped the name Lavern as soon as he came "of age". He went to New York to be an artist and intellectual. He hung out with the playwrights of the time and ended up with an award from the Rockefellers to go to Paris and study painting. This was in the 1920's. He stayed for several years in Paris being the stereotypical American painter there. He had contact with at least some of the famous painters and shared a studio with Alexander Calder. One story was that he and Alexander were dating two French sisters. The girls' mother told them to drop the Americans as they would never make much money. That was true for Teall, not so for Calder. He also knew Brancusi well enough to have a signed sketch dedicated "á Teall Messer avec amour". He knew Gertrude Stein well enough to heartily dislike her, considering her a phony.
In France Teall married a member of the Byrd...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Bermuda Triangle
By Jean-Marie Haessle
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Marie Haessle - French/American (1939-)
Title: Bermuda Triangle
Year: 1980
Medium: Screen Print
Sight size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches.
Sheet s...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Color, Screen
"Elephant Family" Large original serigraph.
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Elephant Family" 1983 is an original large color serigraph on paper by noted American artist Leroy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 63/300 in pe...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
La Grande Parade des Chats (The Great Parade of the Cats)
By Leonor Fini
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Leonor Fini
Title: La Grande Parade des Chats (The Great Parade of the Cats)
Year: 1973
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 1...
Category
1970s Surrealist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Optical Sunrise
By Yvaral (Jean-Pierre Vasarely)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Optical Sunrise" c.1990 is an original colors screen print on wove paper by noted French artist Yvaral AKA Jean Pierre Vasarely, 1934-2002. It is hand signed and...
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Late 20th Century Op Art San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
"Hannukah" From the suite "The Seven Festivals"
By David Sharir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "HAnnukah" from the suite "The Seven Festivals" 1981, is an original colors serigraph on Arches paper by noted Israeli artist David Sharir,b. 1938. It is hand sig...
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Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Garden Moments II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- )
Title: Garden Moments II
Medium: Screenprint
Image size: 22 x 26.75 inches
Sheet size: 22 x 26.75 inches
Signature: lower right
Edition: 375 This one: 35...
Category
1990s Impressionist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Screen
Untitled (Fantastic Scene)
By Michael Bowen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled, Fantastic Scene" c.1975 is an original color etching with aquatint on wove paper by American surrealist artist Michael Bowen, 1937-2009. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 14.85 x 18 inches, sheet size is 21.5 x 26 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the subject:
Nowhere is the intertwining of metaphysical, biographic and social narratives more evident than in the Café Life series painted in the 1980’s. Though the “series” was done in the 80’s, the pieces really revive the spirit of the Beat café scene, which began in the mid-1950’s and which was so instrumental to the particular spiritual and social vibe of the counter culture. And his Café Life observations continue over his artist life with scenes, such as the ones here, from Los Angles, Bolinas, Mexico and Italy.
About the artist:
Michael Bowen (December 8, 1937 – March 7, 2009) was an American fine artist known as one of the co-founders of the late 20th and 21st century Visionary art movements. His works include paintings on canvas and paper, 92 intaglio etchings based on Jungian psychology, assemblage, bronze sculpture, collage, and handmade art books. An icon of the American Beat Generation and the 1960s counterculture, Bowen is also known for his role in inspiring and organizing the first Human Be-In in San Francisco. Chronicled in books and periodicals reflecting on the turbulent 1960s, Bowen's historical impact on both the literary and visual art worlds is well documented. He remains influential among avant-garde art circles around the world. He started his art career at age 17, when he joined the American installation artist Ed Kienholz in his Los Angeles studio. There he met and joined with other influential Beat Generation artists including Wallace Berman, John Altoon, and Dennis Hopper. Bowen participated in the construction of the Ferus Gallery and Now Gallery created by Ed Kienholz and curated by Walter Hopps. Bowen attended the Chouinard Art Institute for several years during his formative artistic experiences in Los Angeles. In the late 50s and early 60s, Bowen continued his spiritual training and research. He investigated and practiced a variety of occult topics, Eastern philosophies, and mysticism, and his artwork reflected these themes. Bowen is often referred to as a mystic artist. As a lifelong student of the Bhagavad-Gita, Bowen's entire career has emulated the spiritual warrior archetype of Arjuna, fighting for the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution. Michael Bowen moved to San Francisco in the late 1950s, and along with fellow artist comrades Arthur Monroe...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Cityscape
By Anatole Krasnyansky
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Cityscape" c.1990 is an original color serigraph by Ukrainian/American artist Anatole Krasnyansky. It is hand signed and numbered 24/350 in black ink by the artist. The artwork size is 9.35 x 11.15 inches, framed size is 19.75 x 21.75 inches. Custom framed in a gold and silver frame, with off white matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Anatole Krasnyansky (born in 1930; Kiev, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-American artist who has gained prominence by pioneering a new watercolor technique. Krasnyansky added paper texture as a component of his watercolors. With this new process, Krasnyansky added texture and depth to the watercolor medium and expanded its expressive possibilities to a level usually associated with oil painting.
Biography
He was born in Kiev, growing up and living during the times when Ukraine was a part of the U.S.S.R. Krasnyansky received master's degrees in fine art and architecture. He found that the freedom of expression that he needed in his artwork could not be found within the strictures of the Soviet Union and moved to the United States in 1975.
In the U.S., Krasnyansky found valuable use for his knowledge of architecture, design and his imagination. and found success in multiple artistic pursuits. Almost surreal, Krasnyansky’s figures are recognizable form while incorporating elements of his Eastern heritage, the cubist ideas of Picasso and Braque, and as well as American culture.
Accomplishments
Krasnyansky began working as a scenic artist for ABC and CBS, including the production of two Academy Awards shows. He became a set designer for Universal Studios (credits including The Blues Brothers and Battlestar Galactica...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
War Scene
By Abel Pann
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "War Scene" c.1930 is a color lithograph on Wove paper by noted Latvian/Israeli artist Abel Pfeffermann Pan, 1883-1963. It is signed in the sto...
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Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Union Street, San Francisco
By Edith (Mark) Milsk
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Union Street, San Francisco" is an original etching on creme wove paper by American artist Edith (Mark) Milsk, 1899-1982. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (Image) size is 5.5 x 3.65 inches, framed size is 16.5 x 13.40 inches. Custom framed in a red Oak frame, with beige matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Edith Milsk...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
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