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Item Ships From: South Carolina
Untitled (Two Nudes) — Erotic Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hans Bellmer, Untitled (Two Nudes), engraving and drypoint, 1971, edition 99. Signed and numbered '94/99' in pencil. A fine impression, on Arches cream wove paper; the full sheet wit...
Category

1960s Surrealist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Engraving, Drypoint

Keith Richards "Keith Coors"
By Ethan Russell
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Keith Richards on stage, Rolling Stones U.S. 1972 Tour “Some of my most outrageous nights– I can only believe actually happened because of corroborating evidence. No wonder I’m famo...
Category

1970s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

The beautifully soft sand dunes of Namibia form their own private city
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
The beautifully soft sand dunes of Namibia form their own private city A large swath of curvaceous sand dunes forming a wall The print series Dunes: Landscapes Evolving documents t...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Seated Figure' — American Expressionism
By Max Weber
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Max Weber, 'Seated Figure", woodcut, edition not stated, 1919-20, Rubenstein 17. Signed in pencil. A fine impression on cream Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 to 3 1/8 in...
Category

1920s Expressionist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Woodcut

'The Connectors' — Vintage American Realism, New York City
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'The Connectors', 1934, etching, edition not stated, Ryan 66. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on handmade, cream laid paper, with margins (1/2 to 1...
Category

1930s American Realist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Etching

Ethereal Emotions Elegant Neutral Colors a Contemporary Gestural Horse Painting
Located in Charleston, US
Abbie Gibson's large scale contemporary horse painting, "Between Two Worlds" is inspired by the horse and ethereal qualities surrounding the animal, while focusing on the subjects of...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a White Horse, Fashion-Inspired, Vertical, Minimalist
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Belle" The delicate nature of this equestrian portrait reveals the classic yet otherworldly appeal of the Camargue horses as a single white horse appears in contrast against the na...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

A Samburu woman stands against an Acacia tree in this fashion-inspired image
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"""Nonguta and the Tree"" A Samburu woman stands against an Acacia tree in this fashion-inspired image In this fashion-inspired image, a Samburu woman named Nonguta relaxes in her...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Dolly Parton
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Dolly Parton photographed in New York City in September, 1976. Estate Stamped by photographer David Gahr.
Category

20th Century Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Surreal image of the Arctic landscape filled with natural textures and beautiful
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
Surreal image of the Arctic landscape filled with natural textures and beautiful forms Organic snow formations against a dark sky with whispy clouds The limited edition print serie...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

A sand dune in Namibia with a pattern of ripples in it from the wind
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
A sand dune in Namibia with a pattern of ripples in it from the wind A delicate texture appears where the wind whips the sand dunes. This ornate pattern will disappear when the wind...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Deck Patterns (Ethnein), Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
Located in Yardley, PA
This photograph unapologetically celebrates the sensual and aesthetic elements of the feminine form. Knight’s poolside photography blends confident, inspirational women with warm, ...
Category

2010s Other Art Style South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Ink

Giraffes walking across a dry lake bed in Amboseli with Kilimanjaro in backdrop
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
Two giraffes walk across the plains with Kilimanjaro in the backdrop and dense cloud cover Exceptional Creatures is a limited edition print series documenting the most extraordinary...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

White Horses Standing Beneath a Waterfall, Color Photography, Horizontal
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Endless Dream" Although the horses are calm and collected, the powerful waterfall Skógafoss pounds thousands of gallons of water into the pool they stand in. The conditions to crea...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jerry Garcia "Dead End"
By Jim Marshall
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Jerry Garcia sitting next to the "Dead End" sign at Woodstock Music Festival. Woodstock, NY. 1969 Photograph signed by the late photographer Jim Marsh...
Category

20th Century Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Award-winner, Best Seller, Largest Sand Dunes in the World, Minimal, Monotone
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Desert Rising" The lone tree in the foreground helps you understand the immense scale of the sand dunes of Sossusvlei. The print series Dunes: Landscapes Evolving documents the m...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Abstract, Minimal Image of the Arctic Landscape
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Monolith" Two peaks against a dune of snow with a flat-white backdrop. The limited edition print series Northern Dreams is a tribute to one of the most spectacular places Drew ha...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Les Marionettes I — Erotic Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hans Bellmer, Les Marionettes I, etching with hand coloring, 1969, edition 150. Signed and annotated 'HC' in pencil. A fine impression on brown Roma hand-made laid paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 2 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 11 13/16 x 11 1/8 inches; sheet size 15 5/8 x 13 1/4 inches. A 'Hors Commerce' impression. From a suite of 11 etchings created by Bellmer to illustrate 'On the Marionette Theatre...
Category

1960s Surrealist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Etching

Surf Imsouane
By Kate Holstein
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Surf Imsouane. Morocco 2018 Signed by photographer Limited Edition photograph Available in various sizes and prices. Framing additional and o...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Fashion, Iconic, Portrait of a Tribal Woman in Kenya, Youthful, Iconic, Jewelry
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Ray of Light" In this award-winning image, a young Rendille woman named Mindisayo basks in the sun. The print series Desert Song: Compositions of Kenya exhibits classic, timeles...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Siana #4, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Sharon Webb
Located in Yardley, PA
I have painted around the edges of the canvas should you decide to display this work unframed. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authent...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Acrylic

Place at the Table, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
Located in Yardley, PA
Building on the tradition of black and white nude photography, Aaron Knight employs a technique that uses faint hints of color throughout the image to impart either warm or cool tone...
Category

2010s Other Art Style South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Ink

David Bowie and Mick Ronson
By Mick Rock
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
David Bowie with Mick Ronson “Taken on the train up to Aberdeen, Scotland for the first gig of David’s final Ziggy tour, 15 May 1973. "Of all my limited e...
Category

20th Century Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Woman in Kenya Wearing Tribal Jewelry, Black and White Photography, Vertical
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Adorned" This fashion-inspired, award-winning black and white profile portrait of a young Rendille woman shows the delicate yet bold ornamentation that her remote tribal community ...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Black and white image of a lone elephant throwing dirt on his back to keep cool
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"""Pride of Tsavo"" Black and white image of a lone elephant throwing dirt on his back to keep cool Elephants throw dirt onto their backs to help them cool off amid the unrelenting...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lotan VII - Contemporary abstract black and white ink painting
By Christopher Rico
Located in East Quogue, NY
Black and white contemporary abstract painting by Christopher Rico - ink on Yupo paper. Offered unframed. For this black and white series of paintings, Rico uses oversized calligraphy brushes on Yupo paper. He lays out long sheets on the floor and masks off dimensions for what would become separate sheets. Many of the eventual works were painted together as one in order to preserve single and repetitive strokes that materialized as part of his daily meditations. This physical meditation resulted in artifacts of gesture allowing subconscious imagery to emerge freely as though they were born from the depths--where a physical entity’s relationship to gravity and environment is different than for lifeforms on the surface. Abstract art, abstract painting, abstraction, gestural abstraction, gestural painting, black and white, black and white painting, work on paper, yupo paper, black ink, painting, monochrome, monochromatic art...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, India Ink

Fashion-inspired portrait of a dark horse against a dark backdrop with a bridle
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"""Profile in Dress I"" Fashion-inspired portrait of a dark horse against a dark backdrop with a bridle Composition of a dark horse with bridle photographed against a black backdro...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Black and white portrait of the front of a young Samburu warrior holding a spear
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"""Pride of the Samburu"" Black and white portrait of the front of a young Samburu warrior holding a spear A detailed portrait of a Samburu warrior with his spear, ready for the da...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Keith Richards "Patience Please"
By Ethan Russell
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Keith Richards "Patience Please for a Drug Free America" 1972 "Exile on Main Street" Tour. Limited Edition. Signed by photographer.
Category

1970s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Surreal capture of a polar bear walking towards the camera with her head down
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"""Opal"" Surreal capture of a polar bear walking towards the camera with her head down Close-up, intimate portrait of a polar bear walking towards the camera set against a surreal...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Fashion-Inspired Portrait of an Elite White Horse with a Black Bridle
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Etched in Stone" This best-selling, award-winning image features the defined musculature of an all white-horse against a black backdrop. The print series Equus: Light & Form focus...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Children's Ward' — Socially-Conscious Realism
By Robert Riggs
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Riggs, 'Children's Ward', 2-color lithograph, c. 1940, edition c. 50, Beall 11, Bassham 76. Signed, titled, and numbered '14' in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A su...
Category

1940s Realist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Sunlit Seaside
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Lithograph of original painting. printed on heavy matte paper. signed by the artist.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bob Dylan "Infrared"
By Elliott Landy
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Taken in Woodstock, NY in 1968. One of the most iconic photographs of Bob Dylan.
Category

20th Century Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Epic portrait of a beautiful, dark Friesian horse with a flowing mane
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Epic portrait of a beautiful, dark Friesian horse with a flowing mane Black and white portrait of a Friesian horse against a white background This powerful global series explores...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

'I'll Be What I Choose' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'I'll Be What I Choose: Vanity of Ambition', color lithograph, 1949, edition 40, Fine and Looney 281. Signed, titled, and numbered '23/40' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower ri...
Category

1940s American Modern South Carolina - Art

Materials

Lithograph

'Abstract Boats' — American Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Abstract Boats', color serigraph, 1938, edition 12. Signed, dated, and numbered ' /12' in pencil. A fine, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; t...
Category

1930s American Modern South Carolina - Art

Materials

Screen

Neutral Desert II, Original Contemporary Abstract Landscape Acrylic Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Neutral Desert I, Original Contemporary Abstract Landscape Painting 12" x 9" (HxW) Oil on Canvas Paper A modern take on an impressionist landscape, this oil painting by artist April Moffatt is nearly abstract, almost a color field painting. The canvas is filled with large swaths of blue, peach, and grays with undertones of green, purple, and blue. The composition is given further dimension with lines of ochre and hints of black. A simple and neutral contemporary painting...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Ethereal Friesian horse running with his mane flowing behind him
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Ethereal Friesian horse running with his mane flowing behind him Fashion-inspired black and white image of a Friesian horse against an off-white backdrop with a flowing mane This ...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jerry Garcia at the Pyramids
By Adrian Boot
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Photograph of Jerry Garcia in 1978 at the Pyramids in Egypt. The Grateful Dead played 2 shows in Giza, Egypt on September 15 & 16th. Signed and numbered by photographer. #21/25
Category

20th Century Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Dylan and The Dead
By Herb Greene
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Bob Dylan with the Grateful Dead backstage at the Oakland Coliseum, CA. This photograph is part of a edition of only 13. Signed by photographer Limited Edition photograph.
Category

20th Century Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Two Hours at the Beach
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: During the spring of 2011, Columbia fiber and installation artist Susan Lenz spent a mere two hours along South Carolina’s coastline coll...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Found Objects

Piazzetta, Venice
By Jan C. Vondrous
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jan Charles Vondrous, 'Piazzetta, Venice', color etching, 1930. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right. A fine impression, on cream, laid pap...
Category

1930s Impressionist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Etching

Allman Brothers
By Baron Wolman
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
"In March 1969, talented music writer Stanley Booth and I visited Macon, Georgia and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, on assignment for Rolling Stone. Among other southern music royalty, we hung out with Phil Walden of Redwal Music, the Macon music company Phil started with Otis Redding. At Redwal we were taken into the recording studio where we were introduced to the Allman Brothers; the band was in the studio rehearsing. This was very, very early in the career of the Allman Brothers; the band had only recently been shaped into its new form by Walden. From left to right: Berry Oakley, Duane Allman...
Category

20th Century Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Panacea Pour l’âme #14, Abstract Blue & Orange Acrylic Painting, 2012
Located in Boston, MA
Panacea Pour l’âme #14, Abstract Blue & Orange Acrylic Painting, 2012 28" x 22" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Unframed, but comes "cloth-edged" (black) and ready to display with hanging wire Arti...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract South Carolina - Art

Materials

Acrylic

Neil Young back of Limo 30x40
By Joel Bernstein
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Neil Young in back of Limo after purchasing his Gretsch "White Falcon" guitar in the West Village of NYC. 1970. 30x40 inch is a Edition of 25. Signed and numbered by photographer
Category

1970s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Horses
By Anne Menke
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Horses in Mongolia by Anne Menke.
Category

20th Century Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Through the Trees and Into the Woods #32, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Sharon Webb
Located in Yardley, PA
I have painted around the edges of the canvas should you decide not to frame this work. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity s...
Category

2010s Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Acrylic

'Old Cedars' – Early New Mexico Landscape, Southwest Regionalism
By George Elbert Burr
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Elbert Burr, 'Old Cedars – New Mexico', etching, 1920, edition 40, Seeber 218. Signed and annotated '(c) George Elbert Burr Del. et Imp.' in pencil. ...
Category

1920s Realist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Etching

'St. Marks on the Bowery' - Famed New York City Landmark
By Leon Dolice
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'St. Mark's Church on the Bowery', aquatint with etching, edition not stated but small, 1932. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate lower left and titled in the plate lower right. A superb, atmospheric impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 9 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (248 x 187 mm); sheet size 13 1/8 x 10 inches (333 x 254 mm). Impressions of this work are held in the collections of the Princeton University Art Museum and the Five College Museums. ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Vienna, Leon Dolice left a secure position in the family business to pursue his artistic interests. He began his art education in his teens and early twenties when he traveled through Europe to study the works of the Old Masters. He immigrated to America in 1920 and made his home in Manhattan. As a printmaker, he chose as his subjects the architecture, back streets, dock scenes, and other aspects of New York City life that were being overtaken by the modern world. In 1950, learning of the coming demolition of the Third Avenue El, Dolice created a series of Third Avenue and other New York City landmarks that were threatened with extinction. His images from that period provide a record of a New York that has passed into history. During his lifetime, Dolice exhibited throughout Europe and the United States. Retrospectives of his work include a one-man show of his graphic work at Tribeca Gallery, New York; the traveling exhibition ‘Vintage New York’ with the New Rochelle Council on the Arts; and the Hofstra Museum, Hempstead. Dolice's works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York, the National Gallery of Art, the New York Historical Society, Georgetown University, the Philadelphia Print Club, and the New York Public Library, as well as private and corporate collections. ABOUT ST. MARKS CHURCH St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery is a parish of the Episcopal Church located at 131 East 10th Street, at the intersection of Stuyvesant Street and Second Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The property has been the site of continuous Christian worship since the mid-17th century, making it New York City's oldest site of continuous religious practice. The structure is the second-oldest church building in Manhattan. In 1651, Petrus Stuyvesant, Director General of New Netherland, purchased land for a bowery or farm from the Dutch West India Company and, by 1660, built a family chapel at the present-day site of St. Mark's Church. Stuyvesant died in 1672 and was interred in a vault under the chapel. Stuyvesant's great-grandson, Petrus "Peter" Stuyvesant, sold the chapel property to the Episcopal Church for $1 in 1793, stipulating that a new chapel be erected to serve Bowery Village, the community which had coalesced around the Stuyvesant family chapel. In 1795, the cornerstone of the present-day St. Mark's Church was laid, and the fieldstone Georgian-style church, built by the architect and mason John McComb Jr., was completed and consecrated on May 9, 1799.[4] Alexander Hamilton provided legal aid in incorporating St. Mark's Church as the first Episcopal parish independent of Trinity Church in New York City. By 1807, the church had as many as two hundred worshipers at its summer services, with 70 during the winter. While the 19th century saw St. Mark's Church grow through its many construction projects, the 20th century was marked by community service and cultural expansion. Today, the rectory houses the Neighborhood Preservation Center, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, and the Historic Districts Council, as well as other preservation and community organizations such as the Poetry Project, the Millennium Film Workshop, and the Danspace Project. St Mark's has supported an active artistic community since the 19th century. In 1919, poet Kahlil Gibran was appointed a member of the St. Mark's Arts Committee, and the next year, the two prominent Indian statues, "Aspiration" and "Inspiration" by sculptor Solon Borglum...
Category

1930s American Modern South Carolina - Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Art Forms in Nature (Plate 79 - Basiliscus) — 1899 Celebration of Nature
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ernst Haeckel, 'Art Forms in Nature' (Plate 79 - Basiliscus), offset lithograph, 1899. Signed and titled in typeset, upper left. Titled 'Tafel 79 — Basi...
Category

1890s Realist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Incredible portrait of a mountain gorilla against dense jungle foliage
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
Incredible portrait of a mountain gorilla against dense jungle foliage In this extraordinary moment, a mountain gorilla stands epically atop a rock formation, with the dense jungle ...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Otherworldly capture of an iceberg in black and white
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"""Phantom"" Otherworldly capture of an iceberg in black and white Unique photograph of an iceberg in the Weddell Sea amidst a dark background of sky and sea, creating an abstract,...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Large group of fledgling penguins and two adult king penguins with white chests
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Eclipse" Large group of fledgling penguins and two adult king penguins with white chests Two adult king penguins with white chests appear vibrantly amongst the fledglings in this ...
Category

2010s Minimalist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Court' — WPA Social Conscience, Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Claire Mahl Moore, 'Court' also 'The Authorities', woodcut, 1936, edition 5. Signed 'Mahl' and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on ...
Category

1930s Expressionist South Carolina - Art

Materials

Woodcut

David Bowie and Band
By Mick Rock
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
David Bowie with Mick Ronson and the Spiders during the filming Jean Genie. 1972 Signed by the late Mick Rock Edition #14/50
Category

20th Century Contemporary South Carolina - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Upper Tuscany — Mid-century expressionism
By William Thon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Thon, 'Upper Tuscany', a two-sided watercolor, c. 1955. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, expressionist work, with fresh colors, on cream watercolor paper; the image...
Category

1950s American Modern South Carolina - Art

Materials

Watercolor

'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 V. Inscribed 'J. F. note paper', in pencil, in the artist’s hand; with the Feininger estate stamp and catalog no. 'W 859' in pencil. Annotated 'W.290 V state 3609' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce. Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 5/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; NY, NY. ABOUT THE ARTIST Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public. Still, he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892. After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin. One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category

1930s Bauhaus South Carolina - Art

Materials

Woodcut

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