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Rare Labors of Cupid by Dominick and Haff sterling silver Flatware set - 108 pieces total. This pattern is a figural multi-motif pattern and was made in 16 different elaborate motif,...

Lisa Fellerson’s paintings provoke an interplay and tension between line, shape, and color. With no preconceived idea in mind, she begins by dripping, scrapping, and gouging acrylic ...

"Pura Vida" is an original color woodcut signed by Carol Summers. A multi-colored piece shows a waterfall with red flames behind it in the middle of the piece. On the left stands a tree with yellow leaves on a hill. To the right is a rainbow. This is an excellent example of Summer's printmaking, not just because of the technique and imagery, but because it numbered 1 of the edition of 125. In addition, it contains a personal inscription to the Milwaukee gallerist David Barnett, who has championed the work of Summers and produced catalogs of his work. Indeed, this print appears as no. 189 in the David Barnett Gallery's 1988 catalogue raisonné of Summer's woodcuts. Feel free to inquire if you would like to purchase a copy of the catalogue raisonné along with your Carol Summers print. Art: 24.25 x 24.75 in Frame: 36 x 35 in signed lower right titled and inscribed to David [Barnett] lower right edition (1/125) lower right Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MOMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...

Chateau rose by Alvin sterling silver flatware set, 64 pieces. This set includes: eight dinner size knives, 9 1/2", eight dinner size forks, 7 7/8", eight salad forks, 6 1/2", e...

A Large Nineteenth Century Zinc Buoy having bone pieces attached to its circumference. All attached on a metal stand. Fabulous piece of nautical folk art or found object.

Vintage Gorham sterling silver flatware set in the Etruscan pattern featuring an Art Deco style Greek Key design. Although this pattern ...

Flemish by Tiffany & Co. sterling silver flatware set of 50 pieces. This set includes: Eight knives, 9 1/4", eight forks, 7", eight salad forks, 6 3/4" , eight teaspoons, 5 7/8", eight cream soup spoons, 6 7/8", eight flat handle butter spreaders, 6", one gravy ladle, 7 5/8", one cold meat fork, 8 1/2", Includes bonus brand new storage chest - styles vary. Excellent condition, no monograms. This set will be beautifully professionally polished and sealed in individual plastic sleeves prior to shipping. Stunning! Tiffany’s Flemish...

Tom Ford Autumn/Winter 2015 brown silk georgette smocked corset peplum top. Sweetheart neckline with ruffled detail along front edge. 3/4 length semi-sheer sleeves with knife pleat d...

ALAIA PARIS c. 2010 Monochrome Ombre Wool Silk Fit & Flare Mini Dress Brand / Manufacturer: Alaia Paris Circa: 2010 Designer: Azzedine Alaïa Style: Fit and Flare Mini Dress Color(s)...

Dinner Size Chrysanthemum by Stieff sterling silver Flatware set - 64 pieces. This set includes: 12 Dinner Knives, 9 3/4" 12 Dinner Size Forks, 7 7/8" 12 Salad Forks, pierced, 6 1/...

Etruscan by Gorham sterling silver 6-piece tea set with date marks for 1923. The set includes:  1 - Impressive kettle on stand: Marked with #A9806, it weighs 42.11 ozt., and measures 12" x 8 1/2" . 1 - Coffee pot: Marked with #A9801, it weighs 22.68 ozt., and measures 10" x 9" . 1 - Tea pot: Marked with #A9802, it weighs 20.85 ozt., and measures 8" x 9 1/12" . 1 - Sugar bowl with lid: Marked with #A9803, it weighs 14.03 ozt., and measures 7 1/2" x 6 3/4" . 1 - Creamer (Gold washed interior): Marked with #A9804, it weighs 7.16 ozt., and measures 6" x 5" .  1 - Waste (Gold washed interior): Marked with #A9805, it weighs 7.68 ozt., and measures 4 3/4" x 5 1/2" . This set is not monogrammed and is in excellent condition. Vintage Gorham sterling silver flatware...

Yves Saint Laurent S/S 2007 "Tribute Mary Jane" purple suede platform pumps. Purple suede trimmed with thin black patent leather piping. Thin purp...

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Art Nouveau Figural Woman with Daisies 14K yellow gold lorgnette with diamonds signed by Krementz & Co. It measures 4 3/4" long and 1 1/8" wide when closed or 4 1/2" when open. It we...

ALEXANDER McQUEEN S/S 2003 "Irere" Green Stretch Knit Puff Sleeve Button-Up Top Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: S/S 2003 "Irere" Designer: Alexander McQueen Style: Button-up top Color(s): Shades of green Lined: No Marked Fabric Content: "100% cotton" (primary material) Unmarked Fabric Content (feel of): Suede (down center front) Additional Details / Inclusions: Alexander McQueen S/S 2003 "Irere" green button-up top. Flowy fabric; lots of stretch or give to material. Form-fitting through bodice. Very deep scoop neckline at front of top; meant to be worn with a separate garment underneath; banding around neckline. Sheer puff sleeves...

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Styled in the lavish Baroque manner, this highly collectible pattern is our best seller. Introduced in 1941, it captures classic symbols of the Renaissance in the exquisitely carved ...

"Original Lithograph V" is an original color lithograph by Joan Miro, published in "Miro Lithographs III, Maeght Publisher" in 1977. It depicts Mir...

Superb "Blok" by Georg Jensen sterling silver dinner size flatware set, 36 pieces. This service includes: 6 dinner knives, long handle, 9" 6 dinner forks, 7 1/8" 6 salad forks, 6 3/...

Edition 2/13 Signed to lower right Ananda Kesler was born in Haifa, Israel. In 2002 she received her BA in Fine Art from the University of Iowa. She has continued her art education ...

ALEXANDER McQUEEN A/W 2004 “Pantheom as Lecum” Pink Metallic Embroidered Coat Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: A/W 2004 ...

The present painting, titled 'Black Mat,' is a small and intimate work by the American artist Fred Reichman. An intimate work measuring only ten by ten i...

This geometric green and cream wool flatweave organic modern rug, measuring 2' x 4', is a stunning blend of simplicity and intricacy. The rug features a sophisticated geometric patte...

PIERRE CARDIN c.1960’s Navy Cream Geometric Mod Color Block Mini Dress Circa: 1960’s Label(s): Les Jerseys de Pierre Cardin Designer: Pierre Cardin Style: Sleeveless a-line mini dr...

Sea Sculpture by Gorham sterling silver Flatware set - 66 pieces. This pattern would be perfect for a modern home. It has a wave-like design, reminiscent...

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This mini Persian Farahan carpet measures 3'0" x 4'0" and features a floral design in shades of yellow, olive green, light blue, cream and pink. It was hand-woven by an artisan in Pe...

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14K white gold filigree ring featuring an European cut diamond weighing about 1/2 carat. The diamond has VS2 clarity and I-J color. It measures about 4.8mm. The antique diamond is set in a delicate domed filigree mounting...

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14K white gold sapphire ring. The ring features a genuine earth mined oval cut blue sapphire. It measures about 5.1mm x 4.2mm and weighs .67cts. The sapphire is a medium greyish-blue...

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