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Medium: Monotype
Sleepwalking 18, monochromatic dream like figures
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic. Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut. His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light. Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...
Category

Early 2000s Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Archival Paper

Figure, black and white, monochromatic mysterious female nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Monotype

Abstract Monotype - Inside XV
Located in San Francisco, CA
This beautiful monotype by Kirsten Stolle (1967-) is a simple, yet elegant composition with beautiful, harmonious colors. There is a wonderful warmth and richness to the surface; var...
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Early 2000s Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Abstract Monotype - Elipse VI
Located in San Francisco, CA
This beautiful monotype by Kirsten Stolle (1967-) is a simple, yet elegant composition with beautiful, harmonious colors. There is a wonderful warmth and richness to the surface; var...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Abstract Monotype - Elipse III
Located in San Francisco, CA
This beautiful monotype by Kirsten Stolle (1967-) is a simple, yet elegant composition with beautiful, harmonious colors. There is a wonderful warmth and richness to the surface; var...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Monotype: Love Letters
Located in New York, NY
Voyaging among humanity words and thoughts of affection and care which fill the air, leaving traces of love. Can you feel them? Angelica’s multi-layered works are informed by her on...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Italian Contemporary Art by Federica Frati - Ex Voto
Located in Paris, IDF
Monotype on paper, Framed 25 x 25 x 3 cm Federica Frati is an Italian artist born in 1977 who lives lives and works in Brecia, Italy. She is graduated from art school Foppa where sh...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Monotype

Untitled V
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled V" is a monotype on paper by noted artist Tracey Adams, born 1954. It is hand signed, dated 1995 in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist and numbered...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Untitled #7
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Richard Attilio Moquin (American, born 1934) Title: Untitled #7 Year: 1992 Medium: Monotype Paper: B.F.K Rives Image size: 13.75 x 9.75 inches paper size: 22 x 1...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Untitled #4
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Richard Attilio Moquin (American, born 1934) Title: Untitled #4 Year: 1992 Medium: Monotype Paper: B.F.K Rives Image size: 13.75 x 9.75 inches paper size: 20.5 x...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Untitled #2
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Richard Attilio Moquin (American, born 1934) Title: Untitled #2 Year: 1992 Medium: Monotype Paper: B.F.K Rives Image size: 13.75 x 9.75 inches paper size: 20.5 x...
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Ghosts of New York 5, mysterious, monochromatic cityscape
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of a series of oil based monotypes on fine printmaking paper, subtle color design, symbolic and atmospheric figure/figures in cityscape
Category

2010s Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Archival Paper

Wrestlers, monochromatic sports dramatic black and white
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstr...
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2010s American Modern Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Monotype

Pitcher and Peaches III
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype with collage. Kushner recently completed a series of monotypes, many with collaged decorative papers. He worked from still-lives of flowers, fruits, pitchers and Bett...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Sleepwalking #15, dark tones, monochromatic, mysterious
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstr...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Monotype

Pro Tempore, figure painterly brushwork grey tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
From a series of monotypes of the figure with head turned from the viewer. The ambiguous symbolism is both personal yet universal.
Category

2010s Impressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Italian Contemporary Art by Federica Frati - The Angel and the Minotaur
Located in Paris, IDF
Monotype on paper Federica Frati is an Italian artist born in 1977 who lives lives and works in Brecia, Italy. She is graduated from art school Foppa where she learned the main arti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Monotype

Narcissus Braziliana original woodcut monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present artwork is a vibrant and colorful example of the woodcut prints of Carol Summers. The image is dominated by the form of a red tropical flower, closely cropped around the petals like in the photographs of Imogen Cunningham and the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. 9.63 x 11.63 inches, artwork 21 x 23 inches, frame Edition 16/50 in pencil, lower right Titled in pencil, lower right Signed in pencil, lower center Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting, Museum Glass to inhibit fading, and housed in a modern profile gold gilded wood moulding. 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 non-western 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...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Woodcut

Sleepwalk Redux #9, monochromatic black and white mystery monotype
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Paper

Ballet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Caviar20 is excited to be offering this exceptional "Single Autographic Print" from 1954. It is the earliest "SAP" we've handled and come directly from the estate of Harold Town. Harold Town (1924-1990) remains one of the most fascinating characters from the "Painters Eleven" group. While Town coined the group's name (based on the number of artists who simply attended their first meeting) his output was diverse ever-changing. Somewhat ironically, Town's first significant body of work, which established his reputation, was a group of monoprints - which he called "Single Autographic Prints" Town was introduced to lithography by fellow Painters Eleven member Oscar Cahen...
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1950s Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Fall Birch , colorful monorpint, nature trees
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype
Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Archival Paper

Approaching Slains Castle #8, black/white monotype, architecture ruin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype Ms. Murray is notable for capturing the crystalline quality of northern light. She has an extensive exhibition history and she is represented in both private and public co...
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2010s Photorealist Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

The Awakening, abstract monotype, earth tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Statement-The emphasis in the work is on color ,motion and emotion. I make paintings that are inspired by aspects of life thus transforming color and movement into their own visual ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype

"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" Woodcut Monotype signed by Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Paricutin (Volcano in Michoacan, Mexico)" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. In the image, an abstracted volcano erupts in a joyous burst of purples and oranges. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Art: 8 x 11 in Frame: 17 x 19 in 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 non-western 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...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype, Woodcut

Estate No. 082050
Located in New Orleans, LA
Otto Neumann (1895-1975) was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker. His monotypes evolved from sharp, angular, black and whites to late abstract prints in a variety of colors. Neumann lived through revolutionary changes in the art world of prewar and postwar Germany. He was a prolific artist in Germany during a time of the country’s unprecedented academic and intellectual growth. His early work shows the influence of both French masters like Cezanne and the contemporary style that was then being developed by German Expressionists like Kirchner. A master printmaker, Neumann was also inspired by the works of Albrecht Durer, whose allegorical subject-matter and unmatched drawing technique Neumann would emulate throughout his career. A lifetime preoccupation with the human figure informs his work, with frieze-like human figures recalling ancient Greek art...
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1960s Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Still Life With Glove - Monotype by Simon Goldberg - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life With Glove is a Monotype print realized by Simon Goldberg (1916-2002). Good condition on a yellowed paper, included a cardboard passpartout ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Fließen 8
Located in Wien, 9
Barbara Szüts was born in Bad Bleiberg in Carinthia (AUSTRIA) in 1952. She studied painting with Carl Unger at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1974 to 1980. From 1986 ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Varnish, Pencil, Monotype

View Across the River
Located in Fairfield, CT
Frame size: 34x26.5" Elizabeth Higgins describes herself as an abstract figurative and landscape painter. Everything around her serves as a potential subject, an inspiration to begi...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Monotype

Sleepwalk Redux #21, 2015
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent o...
Category

2010s Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Monotype

Diver, 1995
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennet...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

Materials

Paper, Monotype, Archival Paper

Still Life - Original Monotype by Simon Goldberg - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an Original Monotype realized by Simon Goldberg (1916-2002). Good condition on a yellowed paper, included a cardboard passpartout (31x39 ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Night Walk, abstract
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype Charbonnel Ink Archival paper
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype

Dust Bowl, monotype, black and white, wpa style
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...
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2010s American Realist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Paper, Monotype

Kiss Me Deadly 2, night, sea, boat, black and white, surrealist noir
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...
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2010s Surrealist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Paper, Monotype

Sleepwalk Redux #8, 2015
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent o...
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2010s Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Monotype

Flamenco , Paris, Louvre, Salon d Automne, Academie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955. A Post-Impressionist figural monotype showing a woman standing beneath a tree in t...
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1950s Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Monotype

Taos II – Earth-Toned Abstract 20th Century Monotype by Wilma Fiori, Framed
Located in Denver, CO
Experience the quiet power of the American Southwest through “Taos II,” a stunning original abstract monotype print by celebrated artist Wilma Fiori (1929–2019). Rendered in an evoca...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Chinese Pleasures III
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype Since 1985, Woodman has collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark to produce monotypes, woodcuts and lithographs with the same inventiveness and exuberance of her ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Untitled, 1981, Sam Francis Monotype
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled, 1981, unique embossed monotype print on handmade paper. Created at the Institute of Experimental Printmaking by lauded American artist, Sam Francis (1923-1994). The Sam Fra...
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1980s Art by Medium: Monotype

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Ink, Oil, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pigment, Monotype

Modern Minimalist Abstracts in Blue, Gray, White Red – 3 Framed Monotypes
Located in Denver, CO
This striking set of three original abstract monotypes by acclaimed Denver modernist Wilma Fiori (1929–2019) showcases her signature use of color and form. Rendered in a refined pale...
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20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Awake - Original Lithograph by Leo Guida - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Awake is an original lithograph realized in 1985 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Titled and Hand-signed in pencil on the lower margin: Esemplare unico "R...
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1990s Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Lithograph, Monotype

Matador - Monotype Lithograph - Late 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Matador is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1970s. Original Two Colors Monotype Lithograph (unique copy) on paper. Mint conditions. Torero is an excellen...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Lithograph, Monotype

Figure of Woman - Original Monotype by Helen Vogt - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Woman is an original monotype realized by Helen Vogt, in 1929. The state of preservation is very good. Not signed. Stamp of the artist on th...
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1920s Modern Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

"Cowboy s Delight IV"
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype Juarez’s most recent prints are four groups of monoprints Cowboy’s Delight II, Copper Mallow, Yucca Bloom and Flowers and Pearls. Juarez gathered wild flowers from ar...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Pink Plumeria IV
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype with collaged antique paper. Robert Kushner is a painter and a sculptor. He gained attention in the early seventies as a performance ar...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Composition - Original Monotype - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a beautiful monotype realized by an artist of the XX century. In very good condition. Hand signed (illegible signature) on the lower right margin of the plate. On the...
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20th Century Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Composition - Monotype on Cardboard by Valerio Romagnoli - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is beautiful original monotype artwork on cardboard realized by the Italian Artist Valerio Romagnoli. Hand-signed on the lower left. In good conditions, with some foldi...
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20th Century Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Nude - Monotype on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a monotype on paper realized by Anonymous artist of the XX century. The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. The artwork represents a nude female figure, posi...
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20th Century Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Figures - Monotype On Paper - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is monotype on paper realized in 1983 by unknown artist of the XX century. Hand-signed "Sterhis" on the lower in pencil right and dated. The state of preservation of the ar...
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1980s Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Woman - Original Monotype - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is a Monotype artwork realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.. In a good condition. Sheeet dimensions: 41 x 29 cm. The artwork represents a woman portrait. The artwork...
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1950s Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Woman s Profile - Original Monotype - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Profile is a Monotype artwork realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.. In a good condition. Sheeet dimensions: 42 x 29.5 cm. The artwork r...
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20th Century Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Insects - Original Monotype On Paper - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Insects is a beautiful artwork realized by an artist of the 20th century. Original Monotype. In excellent condition. Hand signed on the lower right margin.
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Composition - Monotype - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original monotype print realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century, Hand-signed on the lower right, not readable. In very good condition. Sheet dimension :...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Abstract, Silver and Blue , San Francisco Bay Area, Taos, NEA Fellowship, SFAI
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Abstract, Silver and Blue' by Charles Strong, 1989. San Francisco Bay Area, Taos, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institu...
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1980s Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Laid Paper, Monotype

Le Retour par la Plage (Tunisie) - Monotype by E.Deschler - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Le Retour par la Plage (Tunisie) is an artwork realized by Emile Deschler in 1977. Monotype on paper. Hand-signed and dated in pancil on the lower right corner. Perfect conditions...
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1970s Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Female Portrait in Profile - Color Monotype by Bernard Lemaire
Located in Roma, IT
Female Portrait in Profile is an original artwork realized by the French artist Bernard Lemaire between the end of the XIX and the beginning of the...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Glimpse of a Horse
Located in Austin, TX
Darren Vigil Gray (b. 1959, American) Title: "Glimpse of a Horse" Medium: Monotype Print on Paper Dimensions: 27" x 39" framed Markings: Signed in Pencil LR "Darren Vigil Gray" ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Les cygnes by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Animal themed monotype
Located in London, GB
Les cygnes by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Watercolour monotype 49 x 63 cm (19 ¹/₄ x 24 ³/₄ inches) Signed lower left, manzana Executed circa 1920 Provenance: Private collec...
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1920s Art Deco Art by Medium: Monotype

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Watercolor, Monotype

Strömen 11
Located in Wien, 9
> Monotype, ink, varnish on red Ingres paper > signed and dated lower right Barbara Szüts was born in Bad Bleiberg in Carinthia (AUSTRIA) in 1952. She studied painting with Carl Ung...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Varnish, Ink, Monotype

Madrid Por la Nocha
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled, and number MS 1 (Mono screenprint 1/1). This is one of a small group of prints done during a session working with Gronk at Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles. Lorenzo de la Mota was the master printer helping Gronk to create a series of abstract prints. His work is similar to Gronk, who found inspiration in graffiti and mural art...
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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

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