Wisconsin - Art

'Yoga Dunes' exemplifies the long-exposure photography of Robert Kawika Sheer. In the image, across an arabesque sand dune, silhouettes of the artist perform yoga, each figure drawin...

'Walkover Bridge - Small Canal' is an original watercolor by Craig Lueck. These petite watercolors that make up Lueck's portfolio serve as windows into the artist's world. Scenery fr...

In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza takes influence from the Fauvist works of Henri Matisse, especially his famous 1904 composition "Luxe, calme et volupté." This influence is more pron...

This artwork is an original sketch for a painting called "Tempest," by Karin Krohne Kaufman. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece feat...

"Campions" is an original color lithograph by Sheila Stafford. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and titled it and wrote the edition number (24/24) in the lower left - b...

"Anza Borrego Spirit Shadows & Star-Trails" is an original fine-art photograph by Robert Kawika Sheer. The artist signed this piece in the lower right and editioned it in the lower l...

"India Spirits, Rajasthan, India," is an original fine-art performance photograph by Robert Kawika Sheer, signed in the lower right and numbered in the lower left. The piece depicts an Indian shrine...

"Lake Powell Star Circles-North Star" is a long-exposure photograph by Robert Kawika Sheer. The artist signed this piece in the lower right and editioned in the lower left. Edition 2...

This metal relief, by the artist Jean Carlo Brutus, features the figure in Haitian Voudou known as Bossou. Bossou is one of the Lwa – the pantheon of deities that intermediates betwe...

"Tokijiro, Midori, and Katsumi" is an original Japanese color woodcut by the artist Kuniyoshi. It was created in 1851 and depicts a scene from the play "Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu" (...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...

"From: Ilsée, Princess of Tripoli "Princess Ilsee's Oasis Throne" is an original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. From "Ilsee, Princesse de Tripoli," a rare illustrated book. Image: ...

"Progress Regress" is an original oil painting on canvas by Renee McGinnis. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This piece depicts a boy scrunching up his face, revealing that his teeth say "Progress Regress", the title of the painting. This boy is laying on a pillow in front of a stormy sky. 36" x 48" art 42" x 54" frame Renee McGinnis grew up on a farm in central Illinois and attended Illinois Wesleyan University, earning a BFA in 1984. She continued with graduate work in sociology and anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited widely in Chicago and has also been shown in Germany, Australia, New York City, Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Md. Her curatorial debut occurred when she launched “The Chicago Solution Show 2003" with the late Ed Paschke as juror, then again in 2005 with Art Institute of Chicago Curator of contemporary Collections- James Rondeau. Awards include: * Honorable Mention, Artists of The Millennium, Rockford Art Museum, juror: James Yood 2000 * Best of Show, juror Ed Paschke, Animal Images 2002 *Best of Show, 13th Annual Women’s Works, Woodstock, IL 2000 *1st Place, International Platform Assoc. Wash. D.C. 1999 *Honorable Mention, jurors: Tom Blackman, Gelsy Verna, Jay Dandy. Hyde Park Art Center...

African (Shona) 49 Shona Stone Samples with Specimen Box

"Giant Sequoia Star Trail" is a limited edition long-exposure photograph signed by the artist Robert Kawika Sheer. This piece is signed by the artist in the lower right, and is editi...

"Spirit Gondoliers, Venice, CA," is an original fine-art photograph by Robert Kawika Sheer. The image is signed in the lower right and editioned in the lower left. Edition: 45/250. T...

"The Ocean Spirit, Pupukea, Oahu" is a long-exposure limited edition photograph by Robert Kawika Sheer. The artist signed this piece in the lower right and editioned it in the lower ...

"Lightning Along Route 66 Arizona - Navajo Exit" is a long-exposure photograph by Robert Kawika Sheer. This limited edition photograph depicts the light trails from cars along Americ...

This is an original color lithograph created by Claude Weisbuch. It was designed to promote his show at Vision Nouvelle, a gallery in France. This show in particular was about his Ho...

"Changing Woman (Picking Pears)" is a mixed media piece in ink, watercolor, and iridescent additive signed lower center by the artist Karin Krohne Kaufman. It depicts a woman in a fl...

"Going to Meet the Princess" and "Ilsee's Followers" are two sides of one double-sided original lithograph by Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha. These illustrations were pages 53 & 5...

"Barbisio (Dog & Hat)" is an offset color lithograph poster by Giovanni Mingozzi, this example coming from the original printing of the poster. It features a white dog surrounded by ...

"Therapeutic Horse Knowledge" is an original oil pastel drawing on board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece upper left. This piece features a surreal and abstract enviro...

In this painting, Robert Richter presents the viewer with a deep and vibrant field of red grass. Indeed, the term 'field' here is apt, as the large expanse of red in the painting see...

This color pochoir was done in 1925 on Arches paper No. 738/750 and depicts two nude lovers. Archivally framed with 12k white gold; white gold fillet, silk mat, and museum glass. ...

"Farmers are Ploughing Their Fields II" is a mixed media piece by Xiao Ming. The artist stamped their mark lower right. It features abstracted figures farming. 20" x 10 3/4" art 28" x 28" art Born in the Yunnan province of China, Close to Tibet, Xiao Ming found her artwork on her beliefs and traditions of living with nature as a guardian and protector. These beliefs and traditions may have influenced Ming to favor colored inks, a gouache of sorts derived from mineral pigments bound by using animal glue, Mings work is steeped in Chinese art history, influenced by the ancient scroll...

"Dauphine" is an offset lithograph of a pastoral landscape created by Paul Kelsch for the Societe Nationale des Chemis de fer Francais, the French National Railways. 24" x 39" paper 30 1/2" x 21 1/8" image 48" x 33" frame Small hole in each corner, crease in paper and image upper left, small holes lower left. The SNCF, the French National Rail system, commissioned multiple posters to advertise and celebrate the connected locations on their routes after the Second World War. "Dauphine", created by Paul Kelsch, showcases a small village at the foot of a mountain bathed in the light of a sunset. Kelsch's technique employed impasto brush strokes and bright colors to capture the beauty of the landscape. This scene is in stark contrast to the destruction that the war had wrought in this area during the 1944 invasion. Because of this, the set of posters...

"Always Dancing" is an abstract oil on canvas painting by Alayna Rose. Like the works of abstract expressionist Cy Twombly, Rose uses explosive lines and an extensive palette to capt...

"Posing at Scooter Falls" is an original mixed media piece on paper signed lower right and on verso by artist Scooter Glithorthian. It depicts a yellow knight character and a blue th...

"Mi Gato" is an original collagraph by Joseph Rozman. The artist signed, dated, and titled the artwork below the image. This artwork is the artist's proof. This artwork features an a...

'Owl' is an original opal serpentine stone sculpture signed by the contemporary Zimbabwean artist Joel Nhete. The artist presents in this sculpture a highly abstracted figure of a wi...

"Vestido de la Region (Regional Costume) - Cuzco" is an original oil painting on canvas by Abelardo Marquez. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This painting depicts a w...

"Red Cloud-Oglala" is an original color lithograph by Leonard Baskin. It is an artists proof, and signed in the lower right under the image. It is a portrait of one of the most well ...

Chinese artist Xiao Ming's mixed media on paper artwork titled "Life is Here" depicts an abstract landscape surrounded by impressive mountains to the north and the rich blues of lake...

Original lithograph signed VII/L Art: 23 1/8"x17" Frame: 32 3/4"x26 5/8 Signed and number lower margin. Claude Weisbuch was born in Thionville, France in 1927 and was a pupil at L' ...

"Yosemite Falls" is a black and white photograph signed by Thomas Ferderbar. This view of the waterfall is from the side, not a center view. One can see how far the water falls down and where it creates mist as well. An evergreen tree balances the piece. Archival inkjet print on archival Epson Premium Luster paper. Camera that was used was an 8x10 Ansco View with a Goerz lens. And was scanned in the early 2000's with a drum scanner prior to achivally digitally printed. Signed by artist in lower left corner. Paper: 50 x 40 in Frame: 54 x 44 in Interview with the Artist: I wanted to become a photographer at the age of 12, when my sister Grace gave me a Kodak Box...

tabletop sculpture, indoor sculpture, metal sculpture, wood sculpture, rusted steel; My series of "Gathering" sculptures are table-top pieces made from laminated plywood and rusted s...

This ceremonial mask was created by an unknown artist in the Yaka tribe of Africa. This mask is made out of carved wood, plant fibers, and painted intricately. This mask is mounted on five steel rods and has a base. 26" x 14" x 15" The Yaka are an African ethnic group numbering around 300,000 found in southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, with Angola border to their west. The Yaka are notable for their arts and handicrafts. They make statues, portraits, baskets, carved objects, masks, tools for cooking, building, hunting, fishing or entertaining with additions of instruments such as drums. Their masks are bulky, distinctive with upturned noses and eyes shaped in the form of globules. These masks were frequently used in various Traditional Religion ceremonies. Their sculptures called Mbwoolo and their carved slit drum...

12 x 18 inches, artwork 20.5 x 26.5 inches, frame Signed upper right Stamped with artist's signature, lower left Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Fran...

Milwaukee's iconic spots are captured in watercolor and available as hand-embellished giclée. They are printed on archival quality watercolor paper and specially hand embellished so ...

'Lucille (1940s Female Bust Fashion Rendition)' is an original drawing by Jorge Ruiz-Martinez. The artist works in a pared-down style with a nod to Art Deco fashion images while neve...

"Vacation in a Cabin" is an original oil pastel drawing by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. In Vacation in a Cabin, 1989, Gee presents a complex and wildly c...

"Counterpoise" is an original color lithograph by Jeanette Pasin-Sloan. It features a number of brightly colored hyper-realistic shining glassware. The artist signed the piece lower ...

Art: 5-1/2"x 5" Frame: 14"x 13-3/8" Watercolor on Holbein watercolor paper. Signed and dated lower right. From Wisconsin, now living Kansas, Lueck is a Hallmark Illustrator & waterc...

"Boldest Native" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. This piece features a pile of apples with abstract textures. The artist signed the piece lower right and titled it...

"Casual Encounter" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. The artist signed the piece lower right and titled it lower left. This artwork is edition number 147/300. It fea...

I WONDER is one of the best studies of light in this artist’s portfolio. The figure looks out with incredible openness and wonderment. Signed

The present hand-colored lithograph is one of several decorative images of flower-filled vases published by Nathaniel Currier. This example contains roses, tulips, forget-me-nots, and others all within a vase with gold eagle head handles and an image of a beautiful young woman the belly. 16 x 11 inches, artwork 22.5 x 18.25 inches, frame Entitled bottom center Signed in the stone, lower left "Lith. and Pub. by N. Currier" Inscribed lower right "152 Nassau St. Cor. of Spruce N.Y." Copyrighted bottom center "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1848 by N. Currier in the Clerk's office of the Southern District of N.Y." with the number 249 Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting, housed in a lemon gold moulding. Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...

"Undersea Living" is an original ceramic sculpture by Bill Reid. The artist signed the piece on the back and the title is stamped into the front. Reid's narratives have many humorous...

"Invading Knight" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and wrote the title/edition number 200/275, in the lower left corn...

"Jam Session I" is an original oil painting on canvas by Alayna Rose. This painting features a variety of abstract marks in bright green and yellow over a bright pink background. 6...

"Singer Songwriter" is an original oil painting on wood by Robert Richter. It depicts a figure with their back to the viewer playing an instrument. Only the neck of the instrument is...

"The Dance" is an original watercolor painting by Ernesto Gutierrez. The artist signed and dated the piece lower right. It depicts a number of peo...

"The Average Guy" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece features a seated man with his head resti...

Art: 17" x 23 1/4" Frame: 27 5/8" x 33 7/8" Original color lithograph (VIII/L) Signed lower right. This original Weisbuch lithograph comes from th...

"Mask, Baga Guinea" is a carved wooden mask created c. 1920. Where a face would go in the mask is actually the body of a woman figure. There are two breasts above a hole for the mask wearer...

"Flower" is an original signed springstone sculpture by the Shona artist Rangarirai Makunde. It depicts an abstracted flower with swirling and unfolding dark forms. The sculpture wei...

"Bland Impressions of Easy Park (The Fall Collection" is an original acrylic painting on canvas by Reginald K. Gee. It is signed in the lower-left corner. This painting depicts two s...

"In The Clear" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. The artist signed, titled, and dated the artwork in lower center. This piece is an artist's proof. It features a she...

"Royal Applause" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and editioned/titled it lower left with graphite. This piece features two yellow-headed birds known as Gannet Seabirds. To the right of the birds is shown a rendition of an ornate wood...