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Item Ships From: Wisconsin
17th century etching Rembrandt biblical scene crucifixion figures
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Rembrandt's print 'Christ Crucified Between Two Thieves: an oval plate' is one of the most captivating of the artist's oeuvre. Etched to an oval rather than a rectangular plate and t...
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1640s Dutch School Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching, Printer's Ink, Drypoint

"Family of Six, " Original Lithograph signed by John Thomas Biggers
By John Thomas Biggers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Family of Six" is an original black and white lithograph by John Biggers. The artist signed and dated the piece in the lower right and titled and editioned it (AP III) in the lower ...
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1980s Contemporary Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"La Reconnaissance Infinie (The Infinite Recognition)" Litho after Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Reconnaissance Infinie (The Infinite Recognition)" is a color lithograph after the 1963 painting by Rene Magritte. Two of Magritte's bourgeois "littl...
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2010s Surrealist Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

19th century woodcut engraving print figurative American forest trees scene
By Winslow Homer
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present woodcut engraving is an original print designed by Winslow Homer, originally published in Harper's Weekly on April 30, 1859. It is an excellent example of the many prints Homer produced of fashionable people engaged in leisurely activities, in this case along a picturesque countryside lane. The sign reading 'Belmont' on the left indicates this is probably near his home in Belmont Massachusetts. The image presents multiple figures, both men and women, riding horseback: Some in the distance gallop away, toward a town marked by a church steeple beyond. Three others in the foreground, including two equestrian women, gather around a group of children who have been gathering flowers and trapping birds...
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1850s Victorian Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Woodcut, Engraving

"Carte de Voeux #731, " Lithograph by Marc Chagall in Chagall Catalog Raisonne
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Carte de Voeux #731" is an original lithograph greeting card by Marc Chagall. It is in the Chagall Catalogue Raisonne and is from a rare edition of only 200. It depicts a face and a bird in Chagall's signature whimsical modernist style. 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" art 21" x 18 1/4" frame Marc Chagall was born in Liozno, near Vitebsk, now in Belarus, the eldest of nine children in a close-knit Jewish family led by his father Khatskl (Zakhar) Shagal, a herring merchant, and his mother, Feige-Ite. This period of his life, described as happy though impoverished, appears in references throughout Chagall's work. The family home on Pokrovskaya Street is now the Marc Chagall Museum...
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1970s Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lucite, Lithograph

Homage a Leonardo d'Vinci (Battle Scene I from De La Bataille Vol. I)
By Claude Weisbuch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
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...
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1970s Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Derriere Le Miroir, " Three Original Color Lithographs by Saul Steinberg
By Saul Steinberg
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Derriere Le Miroir" is an original color lithograph signed by the artist Saul Steinberg. The artist's signature is in the bottom left margin. Image Size: 14"x20" Frame Size: 25 5/8...
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1970s American Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

"La Page Blanche (The White Page)" lithograph after painting by Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Page Blanche," or in English "The White Page," is an original color lithograph executed after the original painting from 1967 by the Belgian Surrealist...
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2010s Surrealist Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Original Lithograph Native American Female Figure Mystery Secret Society Signed
By Leonard Baskin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cheyenne Woman in the Robes of a Secret Society" is an original lithograph by Leonard Baskin. It depicts a Native American woman in pale green robes. The title is written on the lef...
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1990s Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Ink

20th century lithograph figurative print male subjects hats dark scene signed
By Claude Weisbuch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Five Dutchmen with Hats" is an original lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. The artist signed the piece lower right and wrote the edition number (EA 15/30) in the lower left. This piece ...
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1970s Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

20th century color lithograph figurative print male subjects sketch scene signed
By Claude Weisbuch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Portrait Equestre" is an original color lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. This piece depicts a number of figures in black robes looking at horses. The a...
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1970s Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

20th century drypoint etching figurative animal print horses sketch signed
By Claude Weisbuch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Combat Equestre" is an original lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. The artist signed the piece lower right and wrote the edition number (24/100) in the lower left. This piece depicts mu...
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1970s Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

"La Lecon du Professor Tulp, " Original Lithograph signed by Claude Weisbuch
By Claude Weisbuch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Lecon Du Professor Tulp" is an original lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. The artist signed the piece lower right and wrote the edition number (126/320) in the lower left. This piec...
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1970s Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Fashionable Boulevard Montmartre, " Original Lithograph Poster by Pierre Brenot
By Pierre Laurent Brenot
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fashionable Boulevard Montmartre" is an original lithograph poster by Pierre Laurent Brenot. This piece depicts four figures in fashionable costumes in a variety of dynamic poses. T...
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1940s Art Nouveau Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'Babylone d'Allemagne' original lithograph poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Babylone d'Allemagne' or 'German Babylon' is an original lithograph poster by the lauded artist of the Art Nouveau style Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This is the second poster that La...
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1890s Art Nouveau Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

"Le Prince Iris, " Surrealist Lithograph From "Je Reve" Portfolio
By André Masson
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Prince Iris" is an original color lithograph by Andre Masson. The artist signed the piece lower right in pencil and wrote the edition number, H.C. XXV/X...
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1970s Surrealist Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Toulouse Lautrec Original Lithograph Famous Political 1800s Collection Signed
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lautrec Book: From Au Pied du Sinai written by Georges Clemenceau" lithographs created by the legendary Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This book, Au Pied...
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1890s Post-Impressionist Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Mulberry Paper

20th century color lithograph French scene female figures cafe street signed
By Francois Batet
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Terrasse aux Champs Elysees" is an original color lithograph by Francois Batet. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and wrote the edition number (126/200) in the lower le...
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1980s Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'Sagot-Le Garrec' Poster
By Jacques Villon
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The frame is included. Art size: 25" x 19" This is an original and very rare vintage art poster from a Jacques VILLON's exhibition. It took place ...
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1970s Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Printer's Ink

"Eve Incurs God's Displeasure (M. 236), " Original Lithograph by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Eve Incurs God's Displeasure" is an original double sided lithograph by Marc Chagall. On recto the print features the biblical story of Eve being scolded by God for her sin in the G...
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1960s Expressionist Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Boy With Book Looking Out Window, " Original Lithograph print classic gift
By James Ormsbee Chapin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Boy With Book Looking Out Window" is an original lithograph print by James Ormsbee Chapin. The artist signed the piece in pencil lower right. This piece depicts a boy looking out th...
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1940s Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Le Passant, " Original Color Lithograph
By Robert Engels
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Passant" is an original Art Nouveau color lithograph. It depicts two women in the foreground wearing medieval white robes and a knight passing behind them on a black horse. Features the L'Estampe Moderne blindstamp bottom right hand corner. 1898. 15 3/4" x 12" art 23" x 19 1/4" framed Robert Engels studied in Dusseldorf and moved shortly thereafter to work in Munich. Later, he became a professor at a school of applied arts at the KGS in Munich. He created many decorative prints as well as stained glass windows and also created compositions to illustrate Joseph Bedier's rendition of "Tristan and Iseult...
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1890s Art Nouveau Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Play, " Figurative Etching Nude with Children signed by Kenneth Hayes Miller
By Kenneth Hayes Miller
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Play" is an original etching by Kenneth Hayes Miller. The artist signed the piece in pencil and in the plate. This piece features a nude figure with two smaller doll-like figures. ...
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1920s American Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Late 19th century color lithograph art nouveau ornate bookplate figures floral
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dream Weavers" and "Soul of the Land" are two sides of a double-sided lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. These illustrations were created for "Ilsee, Princess of Tripoli" and are the rare proofs before the text. These artworks were for pages 31 and 32. 8" x 6 1/4" art 19 1/4" x 17 1/8" frame Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in the small town of Ivancice, Monrovia. Though it is rumored that Mucha was drawing before he was walking, his early years were spent as a choirboy and amateur musician. It wasn’t until after he finished high school that he came to realize that living people were responsible for the art that he admired in the local churches. That epiphany made him determined to become a painter. He was soon sent off to Paris, where he studied at the Academie Julian. On January 1, 1985, he presented his own new style to the citizens of Paris. Spurning the bright colors and the more square-like shape of the more popular poster artists, the design was a sensation. Art Nouveau can...
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1890s Art Nouveau Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Dolly (I Love you!), " Original Color Lithograph Poster by the Clérice Frères
By Clerice Frères
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dolly" is an original color lithograph poster by The Clérice Frères (The Clérice Brothers), signed within the composition on the lower left edge, just ...
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1920s Art Deco Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Art Nouveau Lithograph 1800s Landscape Romantic Figure Floral
By Georges De Feure
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Retour (L'Estampe Moderne I)" is a color lithograph by Georges de Feure. It features a woman with red hair in an environment of flora and fauna with muted colors and the Art Nouveau...
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1890s Art Nouveau Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

19th century lithograph art nouveau ornate female figures outline illustration
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"From: Ilsee, Princess of Tripoli "Jaufre and Eymardine" is an original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. From "Ilsee, Princesse de Tripoli," a rare illustrated book. Image: 8.12" x 6"...
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1890s Art Nouveau Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Requiem/Let Them Be, " Etching and Aquatint signed by Joan Snyder
By Joan Snyder
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Requiem" is an original etching and aquatint by Joan Snyder. The artist signed the piece, and the edition is of 120. This piece features abstract, expressionist text and an striking portrait of a woman with red lipstick on a pink background. 25 5/8" x 20" art 32" x 26" frame Joan Snyder was born on April 16, 1940, in Highland Park, New Jersey. She received her AB from Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey (1962), and an MFA from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey (1966). She was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1974) and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1983). Snyder lives in Brooklyn and Woodstock, New York. Although Snyder’s paintings are often placed under various art-movement umbrellas—Abstract...
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1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Original Lithograph Native American Figure Portrait Male Tribe Bold Stoic Signed
By Leonard Baskin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Kill Spotted Horse" is an original lithograph created by Leonard Baskin. It was published by Fox Graphics. This is a proof purchased directly from the artist. Baskin signed the work in the lower right margin and labelled the work as a proof in the lower left margin, written with graphite. It depicts Kill Spotted Horse, an Assinniboine Native American, in a feather headdress against a light blue background.  Artwork Size: 15" x 13 1/2" Frame Size: 27 1/2" x 26 3/8" Artist Bio: Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was an american artist born in New Jersey and taught art classes in Massachusetts. He has received many public commissions (including a bas relief for the FDR Memorial), honors, and his work is owned by many major museums around the world. Additionally, Baskin was a teacher at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. As a champion for human rights, Baskin created many pieces celebrating those who were seldom recognized.  Baskin’s interest in nineteenth century Native Americans was roused into acute attendance from ignorant indifference, when the National Park Service asked him to provide illustrations for the handbook that described the then called “Custer National Park”, now called “Little Big...
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1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Ink

20th century color lithograph French scene female figure boats water signed
By Francois Batet
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Printemps" is an original color lithograph by Francois Batet. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and wrote the edition number (184/200) in the lower left. This piece ...
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1980s Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Orient Express, " Lithograph Poster by Pierre Fix-Masseau
By Pierre Fix-Masseau
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Orient Express" is a lithograph poster by Pierre Fix-Masseau. The artist signed his name in the lower right of the image. This piece depicts a fashionable woman smoking in one of the rooms of the Venice Simplon...
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1980s Art Deco Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Early 20th century aquatint landscape figure boat water trees lake print signed
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Le Pecheur' is an excelletn example of the aquatints of Manuel Robbe, a French artists working during the turn of the 20th century. The image draws upon th...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Aquatint

Original Lithograph Native American Figure Portrait Male Tribe Bold Stoic Signed
By Leonard Baskin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Magpie Eagle Feathers" is an original lithograph proof for Fox Graphics signed by the artist Leonard Baskin. It depicts a Cheyenne man named Magpie Eagle Feathers in a black hat against a blue background. Artwork Size: 38 1/2" x 26 3/4" Frame Size: 49 3/4" x 37 1/2" Artist Bio: Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was an American artist born in New Jersey and taught art classes in Massachusetts. He received many public commissions (including a bas relief for the FDR Memorial), honors, and his work is owned by many major museums around the world. Additionally, Baskin was a teacher at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. As a champion for human rights, Baskin created many pieces celebrating those who were seldom recognized. Baskin’s interest in nineteenth century Native Americans was roused into acute attendance from ignorant indifference, when the National Park Service asked him to provide illustrations for the handbook that described the then called “Custer National Park”, now called “Little Big...
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1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Ink

19th century color woodcut Japanese ukiyo-e print samurai figure
By Toyoharu Kunichika
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ichimura Hazaemon as Hatsuyumeya Mitsujiro" is a woodcut print by Toyoharu Kunichika in red, blue, and black. 14" x 9 1/2" art 20 3/4" x 16 3/4" framed From the series “First Per...
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1860s Edo Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

"Yanagibashi in Snow, " Color Woodcut Portrait with Umbrella
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Yanagibashi in Snow" is an original color woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada. This woodblock print depicts a woman walking in the snow near the Motoyanagi canal, which was located in Tokyo...
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1920s Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

'Fatima' original lithograph in colors signed by Rudolph Carl Gorman
By Rudolph Carl Gorman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Fatima' is an original color lithograph by the renown printmaker R.C. Gorman. from Arizona, the artist's later works focus almost entirely on the female figure and take Native American and Southwestern imagery as a source of inspiration. Here, a single woman sits in a colorful yet undefined space. The form of her yellow dress as she kneels is repeated in the delicately drawn bunches gladiolus flowers...
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1990s Contemporary Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Noel, " Religious Linocut on Blue Paper stamped signature by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Noel" is an original linocut on blue paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower center. This artwork features the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus. Both figu...
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1950s American Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Linocut

'Monday in Wick Haven' original linoleum cut print by Howard Thomas
By Howard Thomas
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this image, Howard Thomas presents the viewer with a domestic interior. The image is dominated by the figure of a black woman, resting her arm on an ironing board. To the right, the tool of her task dangles a chord above a checker tiled floor. Beyond, though a window, neighboring homes fill the landscape. The careful line-work of the linocut adds a sense of expressionism to the scene, but the image nonetheless falls into the Social Realism that captivated most American artists during the Great Depression. This print was published in 1936 as part of the Wisconsin Artists' Calendar for the year 1937, which included 52 original, hand-made prints – one for each week of the year. 6 x 5 inches, image 10 x 7.13 inches, sheet 12.37 x 12.43 inches, frame Entitled "Monday in Wick Haven" lower left (covered by matting) Inscribed "Linoleum Cut" lower center (covered by matting) Artist name "Howard Thomas" lower right (covered by matting) Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and museum glass, all housed in a silver gilded moulding. Quaker-born in Ohio, Thomas trained in the Midwest at Ohio State University and the Chicago Art Institute. He taught in the Art Department of the Milwaukee State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) where he became good friends with Carl Holty, Edward Boerner, Robert von Neumann...
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1930s American Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Linocut

"La Naissance D'Eve, " Surreal Lithograph from "Je Reve" signed by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Naissance D'Eve" is an original color lithograph from the "Je Reve (I Dream)" portfolio by Andre Masson. The artist signed the piece lower right in pencil and wrote the edition n...
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1970s Surrealist Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'The Dealer' original signed color lithograph from the Gambler Series
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'The Dealer' is an original lithograph from John Doyle's 'Gambler' series. The suite included ten different prints, each image capturing the exhilaration and danger of the games of chance played by casino goers. In one of the prints, a woman pulls the lever of a slot machine; in another, men queue before a lottery ticket window. In 'The Dealer,' a man faces the viewer directly. His stern gaze is hidden behind dark glasses as he springs cards between his hands in a flurry of aces and spades. His clothes reflect both the fashion of the 1970s while also hearkening to the villains of Western films. All the while, he is framed from behind by the arch of a blackjack table, which is itself lined by glistening lights of the casino. 29.5 x 20.5 inches, artwork 37.75 x 28.75 inches, frame Signed "doyle" in pencil, lower right Entitled "Dealer" in pencil, lower left Series title "Gamblers" in pencil, lower left Edition "XXXIII/XL" (33/40) in pencil, lower left Publisher blindstamp, lower left Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting, UV Clear glass to inhibit fading, and housed in a maroon-tinted mock tortoise shell finish wood moulding with a gold finish bevel. Artwork in excellent condition; housed in a new custom frame. John Lawrence Doyle...
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1970s Contemporary Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

20th century color lithograph postcard indigenous figures landscape rock sky
By Joseph Roy Willis
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Navajo Indians At Home" is a color lithograph postcard by Joseph Roy Willis. A number of American Natives of varying ages and genders are depicted in the brightly colored clothing a...
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1930s Other Art Style Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Postcard, Lithograph

20th century woodcut ink black and white figures musical instruments dramatic
By Robert Franz Von Neumann
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Chamber Music" is an original wood engraving by Robert Franz von Neumann. It features a room full of men in the thralls of creating music together. A small audience stands outside their circle. Image: 5.5" x 7" Framed: 14" x 15.56" 1888 - 1976 Born in Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany, Robert von Neumann...
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1930s American Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

"Sierra Madre, " Original Color Woodblock Nude signed by Carol Summers
By Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sierra Madre" is a color woodblock signed by Carol Summers. As suggested by the title, the print teeters the line between Summers' fanciful landscapes an...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

"Solidarity, " Etching of an Surrealist Landscape signed by Yves Tanguy
By Yves Tanguy
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Solidarity" is an original etching by surrealist artist Yves Tanguy. The artist signed the piece in pencil in the lower right and wrote the edition number, 109/150, in the lower lef...
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1940s Surrealist Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

19th century color lithograph figures cemetery willow tree memorial headstone
By Nathaniel Currier
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present hand-colored lithograph was produced as part of the funeral and mourning culture in the United States during the 19th century. Images like this were popular as ways of remembering loved ones, an alternative to portraiture of the deceased. This lithograph shows a man, woman and child in morning clothes next to an urn-topped stone monument. Behind are additional putto-topped headstones beneath weeping willows, with a steepled church beyond. The monument contains a space where a family could inscribe the name and death dates of a deceased loved one. In this case, it has been inscribed to a young Civil War soldier: William W. Peabody Died at Fairfax Seminary, VA December 18th, 1864 Aged 18 years The young Mr. Peabody probably died in service for the Union during the American Civil War. Farifax Seminary was a Union hospital and military headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The hospital served nearly two thousand soldiers during the war time. Five hundred were also buried on the Seminary's grounds. 13.75 x 9.5 inches, artwork 23 x 19 inches, frame Published before 1864 Inscribed bottom center "Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier. 2 Spruce St. N.Y." Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent rag matting and TruVue Conservation Clear glass, housed in a gold gilded 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...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Watercolor, Lithograph

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1890s Other Art Style Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Lounging
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Located in Milwaukee, WI
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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Located in Milwaukee, WI
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1970s Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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Located in Milwaukee, WI
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1970s Modern Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Color

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Located in Milwaukee, WI
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1890s Art Nouveau Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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By Paolo Garretto
Located in Milwaukee, WI
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1930s Surrealist Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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Located in Milwaukee, WI
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1850s Edo Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Pigment, Woodcut

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Located in Milwaukee, WI
"From: Ilsée, Princess of Tripoli Recto: "Eldenias" Verso: "Hilderich" is an original color lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. Exquisite double-sided color lithographs from "Ilsee, Princ...
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1890s Art Nouveau Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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Located in Milwaukee, WI
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Mid-19th Century Edo Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Clanman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
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1960s Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

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Giclée

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By Claude Weisbuch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
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1970s Contemporary Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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Located in Milwaukee, WI
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1970s Pop Art Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Ink

From: Ilsee, Princess of Tripoli Recto: "Dream Woman " Verso: "Visions "
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"From: Ilsee, Princess of Tripoli Recto: "Dream Woman" Verso: "Visions" is an original color lithograph by Alphonse Mucha. Exquisite double-sided color lithograph from "Ilsee, Princ...
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1890s Art Nouveau Wisconsin - Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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