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Item Ships From: Tri-State Area
Dahlias by Gary Bukovnik, 2001 (bouquet of flowers in vase)
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in New York, NY
This image features a colorful arrangement of pink, red and purple flowers by American artist, Gary Bukovnik. Bukovnik is an internationally acclaimed painter and printmaker who prim...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Jacob's Ladder
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Marc Dennis is an American artist renowned for his paintings of subtly staged and slightly voyeuristic images of contemporary American culture. Interested in the tr...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tomato-Beef Noodle O's
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Among the artist’s most iconic and recognizable images, Andy Warhol created Tomato-Beef Noodle O's in 1969. As one of ten independent images within the famed Soup II series, this is...
Category
1960s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Faith Ringgold Groovin' High Hand Signed Limited Edition
By Faith Ringgold
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This piece, titled "Groovin' High", is a printer's proof created by the renowned artist and civil rights activist Faith Ringgold. The print is signed and numbered, printed on heavy p...
Category
1990s American Modern Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Picasso Cote D'Azur Poster- Original Lithograph- 1962 VINTAGE
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Côte d'Azur is a lithograph designed by Pablo Picasso in collaboration with Henri Deschamps, depicting a view from Picasso's balcony overlooking the Côte d'Azur. Created in 1962, thi...
Category
1960s Cubist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Le Bouquet Rose, Large Signed Modern Lithograph by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
This simple still life is a lithograph by Russian Modern artist Marc Chagall. It employs several of Chagall's recurring motifs, such as a bird (in this case a rooster), a bouquet of ...
Category
1980s Modern Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sandias, Surrealist Mixographia by Rufino Tamayo
By Rufino Tamayo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican (1899 - 1991) - Sandias, Year: 1977, Medium: Mixographia, signed and numbered in crayon, Edition: 31/100, Size: 29 x 20.75 in. (73.66 x 52.71 cm), Publishe...
Category
1970s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Mezza Luna
By Julio Larraz
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Julio Larraz is an expert draftsman, adroitly sketching his subjects and enlivening them with vibrant color. Larraz is recognized for his precise and detailed techn...
Category
Early 2000s Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Scarce offset lithograph: Cake Slices, for SFMOMA, Hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud
By Wayne Thiebaud
Located in New York, NY
Wayne Thiebaud
Cake Slices, for the New SFMOMA (Hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud), 1996
Color Offset lithograph (hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud)
B...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Tulips 2, Photorealist Lithograph by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lowell Blair Nesbitt was an American painter and printmaker who’s work consists of unique and vivid depictions of flowers.
Tulips 2
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993)
Date: ...
Category
1970s Photorealist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Caravaggio
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Marc Dennis is an American artist renowned for his paintings of subtly staged and slightly voyeuristic images of contemporary American culture. Interested in the tr...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
New York, New York, vintage 1980s poster (hand signed and inscribed by Don Nice)
By Don Nice
Located in New York, NY
Don Nice
New York, New York (hand signed and inscribed by Don Nice), 1984
Rare offset lithograph poster (signed and inscribed from Don Nice to Dick Polich)
Signed and inscribed in gr...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Flowers, Galerie Sonnabend announcement invitation card addressed with postmark
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol (after)
Flowers, Galerie Sonnabend announcement invitation card, 1970
Offset lithograph on smooth card, addressed with postmark
7 1/5 × 7 1/5 inches
Unframed
Instead of observing flowers in nature, Andy Warhol found his botanical inspiration in a 1964 issue of Modern Photography. He transformed a photograph of hibiscus blossoms into a technicolor series of silkscreens, each simply titled Flowers and debuted at the influential Leo Castelli Gallery later that same year. Silkscreens from that exhibition have since sold for over $2 million at auction. While they evoke the Flower Power movement of the 1960s, Warhol’s Flowers have also be interpreted as a symbol of mourning, as the artist created these works just after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination...
Category
1970s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
White Orchid, Impressionist Poster by David Lee
Located in Long Island City, NY
David Lee, Chinese (1944 - ) - White Orchid, Year: 1981, Medium: Poster, Size: 19 x 15 in. (48.26 x 38.1 cm), Description: Soft and bright, this rendering of flowers by David L...
Category
1980s Impressionist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
RECEIVING HAND Signed Lithograph, Fantastic Realism, Stone, Healing Art
By De Es Schwertberger
Located in Union City, NJ
RECEIVING HAND is a hand drawn original lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper 100% acid free. RECEIVING HAND a finely detailed hand drawn example of Fantastic Realism...
Category
1970s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tiger
Located in New York, NY
Burke Libaire is a Charleston based visual artist and designer. She began her career in New York City, translating her love of art and architecture into the world of interior design ...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
Fight For Your Right
By Floyd P. Stanley
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Let's not pretend that we don't enjoy 80's music.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Floyd P. Stanley is an LA based photographer creating product shot photographs of mixed tapes....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Roseville Bouquet, Pop Art Screenprint on Paper by Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Roseville Bouquet
Peter Max, German/American (1937)
Date: 1991
Screenprint on Paper, signed and numbered in color pencil
Edition of 33/300
Size: 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Frame S...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Donald Sultan 'Seven Silvers Jan. 24, 2024' - Limited Edition Silkscreen
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Donald Sultan's 'Seven Silvers Jan. 24, 2024' is a masterful color silkscreen featuring enamel inks, flocking, and tar-like textures, limited to an edition of 30.
Donald Sułtan
Seve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Bouquet de Tulipes Rouge, Original Lithograph, Signed and Numbered
By Roger Mühl
Located in New York, NY
This magnificent bouquet of Red Tulips is an original lithograph by famous French artist Roger Muhl. The elegant lines and joyful colors are typical of the artist's love for nature and its flora. Roger Muhl lived in the town of Mougins in the South of France and he was strongly inspired by the bright and warm light found in the Mediterranean.
This original lithograph is from a signed and numbered edition in pencil by artist of 175 plus 10 artist proofs. Printed and published by Edition E.F. Mourlot in 1990
Certificate of Provenance:
Each individual work of art carefully curated by Mourlot Editions...
Category
1990s Modern Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life with Goldfish Bowl
By (after) Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Still Life with Goldfish Bowl" is a reproduction of a painting by Roy Lichtenstein, originally created in 1972. This piece captures Lichtenstein's iconic Pop Art style, making it a ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Still Life #2, Hand-Colored Abstract Still Life by Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Still Life #2
Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz
Chilean (1939–2021)
Date: 1981
Hand-Colored Etching, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition of 19/65
Image Size: 19.75 x 29 inc...
Category
1980s Abstract Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Curtains and Leaves, Modern Lithograph by Robert Kipniss
By Robert Kipniss
Located in Long Island City, NY
Curtains and Leaves
Robert Kipniss, American (1931)
Date: circa 1975
Lithograph, Signed and numbered in Pencil
Edition of 32/35
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
Category
1970s American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Roy Lichtenstein Still Life with Goldfish Bowl Vintage Pop Art
By (after) Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Still Life with Goldfish Bowl is a 1980 vintage blank greeting card, originally printed for the Guggenheim Museum. The card is framed in a white wood frame with a front profile of 1 ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
The Italian Poppies (Flowers)
By Ed Baynard
Located in New York, NY
This is a 20 color screen print on Sommerset paper. The edition was printed at Brand X Editions in 1997.
Ed Baynard’s paintings and graphic prints blend the contemporary and the cla...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Bouquet, Modern Lithograph by Bernard Buffet
By Bernard Buffet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bernard Buffet, French (1928 - 1999)
Title: Bouquet
Year: circa 1968
Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate
Size: 13 in. x 9.5 in. (33.02 cm x 24.13 cm)
Category
1960s Modern Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Anemone per Antipasti, Lithograph by Salvador Dali 1972
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989)
Title: Anemone per Antipasti (Anemone of the Toreador)
Year: 1972
Medium: Lithograph with embossing on heavy Arches paper, signed and num...
Category
1970s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Morning Glories, Photorealist Screenprint on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A series of ghostly Morning Glory blooms set against a rich black background. These moon-toned flowers are rendered as a screenprint by Lowell Blair Nesbitt. This print is signed and...
Category
1970s Photorealist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Purple Irises on Red
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Purple Irises on Red
2023
Archival pigment ink print, on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm
24 x 30 inches (61 x 76 cm) unframed
Signed and numbered edition of 100
Alex Kat...
Category
2010s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pa-Twaing
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Marc Dennis is an American artist renowned for his paintings of subtly staged and slightly voyeuristic images of contemporary American culture. Interested in the tr...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Apples and Zinnias, Modern Still Life Lithograph by Janet Fish
By Janet Fish
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Janet Fish, American (1938 - )
Title: Apples and Zinnias
Year: 1995
Medium: Lithograph on Japon paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 65
Imag...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Curtains, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Curtains
Year: 1981
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: HC 10
Image Size: 22 x 26.5 inches
Size: 26 ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Hole Punch (Jim Dine 30 Bones of My Body portfolio) tool dry point
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
The hand tool is undoubtedly Jim Dine’s most iconic motif. Meticulously catalogued in rows like scientific specimens or sketched individually, hammers, awls, brushes, saws and screwd...
Category
1970s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Drypoint
T.Rex
By Floyd P. Stanley
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Let's not pretend that we don't enjoy 80's music.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Floyd P. Stanley is an LA based photographer creating product s...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Interior with Cup and Kettle, Modern Lithograph by Robert Kipniss
By Robert Kipniss
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Kipniss, American (1931 - )
Title: Interior with Cup and Kettle
Year: 1986
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120, AP XV
Image Size: 12 x 10 in...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
FALLING RIBBON Signed Mini Lithograph, Red Satin, Surreal Beach Scene
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
FALLING RIBBON is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival A...
Category
1990s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$384 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Jim Dine tool Poster Kestner Gesellschaft 1970 (Hammers 1970) retro red
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster reproduces Jim Dine’s 1970 lithograph Hammers, which is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. It w...
Category
1970s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Double Decoy II, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Double Decoy II
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP
Image Size: 19.5 x 23 inches
Size: ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Thiebaud Paint Cans Vintage Pop Art
By (After) Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Reproduction of Paint Cans by Wayne Thiebaud exemplifies the artist's masterful ability to elevate everyday objects into vibrant works of art. Known for his bold use of color, textur...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
$100 Sale Price
20% Off
Carnations, Still Life Screenprint by John Grillo
By John Grillo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Grillo, American (1917 - 2014)
Title: Carnations
Year: 1979
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 25
Image Size: 22.5 x 16.5 inches
S...
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Pocahontas Pillow, Pop Art Serigraph by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Pocahontas Pillow
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 30
Size: 26 x 29 inches
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Roy Lichtenstein 'Blue Grapes' Invitation 1972 FRAMED
By (after) Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 17 x 13 inches ( 43.18 x 33.02 cm )
Image Size: 4 x 5.5 inches ( 10.16 x 13.97 cm )
Framed: Yes
Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Additional Details...
Category
1970s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$224 Sale Price
36% Off
The Most Distant Visible Part of the Sea, Pop Art Silkscreen by Rauschenberg
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg, American (1925 - 2008)
Title: The Most Distant Visible Part of the Sea
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph and Screenprint, Signed and numbered in pencil
Editi...
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
JBCRIAL1VY-98, famed print for ACRIA series, Hand signed, Unique variant, Framed
By John Baldessari
Located in New York, NY
John Baldessari
JBCRIAL1VY-98 (Unique Variant, Hand Signed), 1998
Ink jet print on paper. - Unique Variant
Hand signed by John Baldessari on the front
1 of 96 similar works completed...
Category
1990s Conceptual Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Graphite, Digital, Inkjet
Three Deer, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Three Deer
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 30
Image Size: 24 x 32 inches
Size: 26 in. ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
The Exuberant Garden
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Dennis is known for his hyper naturalistic, highly detailed and obsessively delineated paintings that explore the subversive potential of beauty and pleasure. Fresh...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
PARROTS AND FLOWERS Signed Lithograph, Flowers Blue Vase Tropical Parrots, Plums
By Walasse Ting
Located in Union City, NJ
PARROTS AND FLOWERS is an original hand drawn lithograph by the renowned Chinese born artist Walasse Ting (DING XIONGQUAN, Chinese, 1929-2010) printed on archival Somerset printmakin...
Category
1980s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
FLOWER BLOSSOMS, LIGHT BLUE VASE Signed Lithograph, Magenta, Pink, Red, Green
By Walasse Ting
Located in Union City, NJ
FLOWER BLOSSOMS, LIGHT BLUE VASE is an original hand drawn lithograph by the renowned Chinese born artist Walasse Ting (DING XIONGQUAN, Chinese, 1929-2010) printed on archival Somers...
Category
1980s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jonas Wood, Large Shelf Life, Lt. Ed. museum print Hand Signed & Dated by artist
By Jonas Wood
Located in New York, NY
Jonas Wood
Large Shelf Life (Hand Signed), 2018
Limited edition offset lithograph (uniquely hand signed by the artist)
23 × 23 inches
Boldly signed and dated in black marker on the f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Vase de Fleurs, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Vase de Fleurs". The original painting was completed in 1958. In the 1970's after Picasso's ...
Category
1980s Modern Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dufy, L'opaline bleue, Vacances forcées (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper
Year: 1970
Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio...
Category
1970s Modern Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Iris on Beige, Photorealist Screenprint on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Photorealist flower screenprint by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt, signed and numbered in pencil.
Iris on Beige
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993)
Date: Circa 1980
Scr...
Category
1980s Photorealist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Georgia O'Keeffe, Limited Edition Flower Poster with beautiful Friendship Quote
By Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in New York, NY
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Poppy poster, with Friendship Quote, 1987
"Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - it is so small - we haven't time- and to see takes time, like to have a fr...
Category
1980s American Realist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
$345 Sale Price
50% Off
Blue Vase, Framed Lithograph by Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Max
Title: Blue Vase
Year: 1981
Medium: Lithograph on Somerset, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 165
Image Size: 25 x 19 inches
Size: 30.5 in. x 24 in. (77.47 cm...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pelvis in the Distance
By (after) Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a reproduction of Georgia O'Keeffe's painting titled Pelvis in the Distance. Published by the now-defunct Shorewood Fine Art Publications in Connecticut, a renowned publisher...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
$1,024 Sale Price
20% Off
Jar from Samarkland, Alice Neel
By Alice Neel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Alice Neel (1900-1984)
Title: Jar from Samarkland
Year: 1982
Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper
Edition: A.P. 24/25; 175, plus proofs
Size: 38 x 28 inches
Condition: Good
Ins...
Category
1980s Expressionist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$11,600 Sale Price
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Frogs and Toad, Signed lithograph (AP), from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness
By Jack Beal
Located in New York, NY
Jack Beal
Frogs and Toad, 1971
Hand signed in pencil by Jack Beal, annotated AP
One-color lithograph proofed by hand and pulled by machine from a zinc plate on Arches buff paper with deckled edges at the Shorewood Bank Street Atelier
Stamped, hand numbered AP, aside from the regular edition of 150 Stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY JACK BEAL, bears blind stamp
18 × 24 inches
Unframed
18 x 24 inches
Stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY JACK BEAL, bears distinctive blind stamp of publisher (shown) Publisher: David Godine, Center for Constitutional Rights, Washington, D.C.
Jack Beal's "Frogs and Toads" is a classic example of protest art from the early 1970s - the most influential era until today. This historic graphic was created for the legendary portfolio "CONSPIRACY: the Artist as Witness", to raise money for the legal defense of the Chicago 8 - a group of anti-Vietnam War activists indicted by President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell for conspiring to riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (1968 was also the year Bobby Kennedy was killed and American casualties in Vietnam exceeded 30,000.) The eight demonstrators included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. (The eighth activist, Bobby Seale, was severed from the case and sentenced to four years for contempt after being handcuffed, shackled to a chair and gagged.) Although Abbie Hoffman would later joke that these radicals couldn't even agree on lunch, the jury convicted them of conspiracy, with one juror proclaiming the demonstrators "should have been shot down by the police." All of the convictions were ultimately overturned by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
This lithograph has fine provenance: it comes directly from the original Portfolio: "Conspiracy The Artist as Witness" which also featured works by Alexander Calder, Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Romare Bearden Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Poons, Peter Saul, Raphael Soyer and Frank Stella - as well as this one by Jack Beal. It was originally housed in an elegant cloth case, accompanied by a colophon page. This is the first time since 1971 that this important work has been removed from the original portfolio case for sale. It is becoming increasingly scarce because so many from this edition are in the permanent collections of major museums and institutions worldwide.
Jack Beal wrote a special message about this work on the Portfolio's colophon page. It says, "In 1956, shortly after Sondra and I moved to New York, two friends were arrested and jailed for protesting air-raid drills. From them and their friends came our education. This work is dedicated to them and their families. "In Memory of Patricia McClure Daw and AL Uhrie" - This print was made for their children.
Jack Beal Biography:
Early in his career Walter Henry “Jack” Beal Jr. painted abstract expressionist canvases, because he believed it was “the only valid way to paint.” By the early 1960s he totally altered his approach and fully repudiated abstraction. Turning to representation, he painted narrative and figurative subjects, often enhanced by bright colors and dramatic perspectives.
Beal was born in Richmond, Virginia, and from 1950 to 1953 he attended the Norfolk Division of William and Mary College Polytechnic Institute, (now Old Dominion University) where he studied biology and anatomy. Shifting gears, he sought art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he focused on drawing, and met his wife, artist Sondra Freckelton. His art history instructor encouraged her students to paint in the manner of established artists, and to that end he frequented the Institute’s galleries. For Beal this was significant: “Until I saw pictures of real quality I had tended to think of painting as just so much self-indulgent smearing around, but when I saw masterpieces by Cézanne and Matisse, and other painters of similar stature, I was bowled over; suddenly I realized the force of art.”
After spending three years (1953–1956) at the Art Institute, Beal concluded his studies there without getting a terminal degree, thinking it was only useful if he wanted to teach, which, at the time, he did not. He also took courses at the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. During this period he married Freckelton, a fellow student and sculptor who began her career working in wood and plastic. Together they moved to New York’s SoHo District before its transformation from a wasteland of sweatshops and small factories into an arts district. They were active with the Artist Tenants Association which was instrumental in getting zoning laws changed so that artists could live and work in the well-lit lofts.
Embracing what came to be called “New Realism,” Beal initially painted an occasional landscape as well as earthy-toned still lifes which consisted of jumbled collections filled with personal objects. His signature style started with a series of female nudes—all modeled by Freckelton—based on Greek mythology. These were large canvases with flat paint surfaces, dramatic foreshortening, and unusual perspectives. He further enlivened them with vivid colors, stark lighting, and dynamic patterns derived from textiles and overstuffed furniture. He stopped painting nudes after two episodes. The first came as he was loading a canvas of his naked wife onto a truck in lower Manhattan; several laborers walked by and started to fondle and kiss the painting. On the one hand he felt his wife had been violated, while on the other he was pleased that his realism was so convincing. The second occurred after a solo exhibition in Chicago at which the reception had been sponsored by Playboy magazine. A few days later he was approached by a publicist and asked if Playboy bunnies could be photographed in front of his paintings. He refused.
Some portrait commissions came Beal’s way, but he preferred only portraying friends. More significant were four large murals on the History of Labor in America, the 20th Century: Technology (1975), which he undertook for the headquarters of the United States Department of Labor in Washington. Following a historical timeline, the themes were: colonization, settlement, nineteenth century industry, and twentieth century technology. The unveiling ceremony was attended by government officials and Joan Mondale, an arts advocate and wife of the vice-president. The reviewer for the Washington Post wrote enthusiastically: “They’re heartfelt and they’re big (each is 12 feet square). Their many costumed actors (the Indian, the trapper, the scientist, the hardhat, the capitalist in striped pants, the union maid, etc.) strike dramatic poses in dramatic settings (a seaside wood at dawn, an outdoor blacksmith’s forge, a 19th-century mill, a 20th-century lab). The lighting is theatrical. Beal’s compositions, with their swooping curves and bunched diagonals, are as complicated as his interwoven plots.” To accomplish the murals Beal assembled a team of assistants and models, much in the manner of Renaissance masters, which included artist friends and Freckelton. who by then was painting brightly colorful still lifes.
A second mural commission ensued from New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority for two twenty-foot long installations for the Times Square Interborough Rapid Transit Company subway station. Beal’s designs for The Return of Spring (installed in 2001, three days after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, DC and Philadelphia) and The Onset of Winter (installed in 2005), Beal captured the appearance of his models in an oil painting made to the scale of the intended mosaic. A collaboration with Miotto Mosaics, the canvases were shipped to the Travisanutto Workshop, in Spilimbergo, Italy, where craftsmen fabricated the design to glass mosaics. The Return of Spring depicted construction workers and other New Yorkers in front of a subway kiosk and an outdoor produce market and in The Onset of Winter, a crowd watches a film crew recording a woman entering the subway as snow falls against the city’s skyline. Harkening back to some of his early nudes based on Greek myth, Persephone, goddess of fertility and wife of Hades, appears in both. The symbolism is pertinent, since she spent six months each year below ground.
Although he disparaged teaching early on, Beal and Freckelton offered four summertime workshops on their farm in Oneonta, New York. He was an instructor at the New York Academy of Art, a graduate art school he helped to establish in 1982. Returning to Virginia, he taught at Hollins College...
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1970s Realist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
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Lithograph
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Located in Long Island City, NY
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1980s American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
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By Walasse Ting
Located in New York, NY
Walasse Ting 丁雄泉
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Color lithograph with publisher's blindstamp
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
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By Knox Martin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist:Knox Martin, American (1923 - )
Title: Flowers 8
Year: 1981
Medium: Silkscreen on Heavy Hand-Made Paper, signed in pencil
Paper Size: 42 x 30 inches
Printed by American Atelier...
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1980s American Modern Tri-State Area - Still-life Prints
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Screen