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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Rag Paper
Midnight Magnolia Triptych (Three 24 x 18 inch cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are three separate 24 x 18-inch hand-printed photographs using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. Unframed, side by side, they span 24 x 54 inches”. Once matted and framed ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

New York City, Central Park, Night Photography, Twin Greek Temples (Dusk)
Located in New york, NY
A contemporary color photograph by Roberta Fineberg is a nod to photo secessionist Edward Steichen. The subject for the artist's night photography is a Central Park West building (th...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Digital, Digital Pigment, Archi...

Event
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Dramatic watercolor on rag paper. Part of the Janus series by Frank Hyder.
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Watercolor, Rag Paper

Whataburger Sunset
Located in New Orleans, LA
Archival pigment ink print on Hahnemuhle cotton paper. Each print is uniquely hand embellished by the artist with acrylic paint and prismacolor. Edition 3 of 5. Kristin Moore says o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Acrylic, Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Classical Nude, Pink Mixed-Media Art and Design Original Work on Paper
Located in New york, NY
Classical Nude, 2016 by Roberta Fineberg (RF) is a 13" x 10.75" photopolymer chine-colle monoprint on rag paper - signed, titled, and dated by the artist on verso (back of the work)....
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Ink, Rag Paper, Intaglio, Monoprint, Other Medium

Parade, hand-finished cyanotype on paper, with pressed flowers and gold leaf
Located in Dallas, TX
Rosie Emerson, born in 1981, is a contemporary artist working almost exclusively on representing the female form. Emerson’s figures draw reference from archetypes old and new, from Artemis to the modern day super model, each solitary figure, an allegory of her own fantasy. Interested in surface, the interplay between photography and painting. Emerson’s works are playful constructs; Photography is used, not as a device for capturing reality but for creating romanticised optical illusions. Inspired by her love of theatre, performance, shrines and rituals, she uses lighting, costume, set and prop making, alongside printmaking and painting to create other worldly one off pieces. Her photography is inspired by both the drama of the baroque, and ethereal qualities of Pre Raphaelite works. Other important influences include late medieval and renaissance paintings, Japanese prints, and magical realist literature. Emerson’s screen...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper

Foggy Iris Diptych (two 24 x 18" cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
NOTE: It is impossible to buy this pair of works and ALSO the very similar "Foggy Iris Triptych" because two of the works in the triptych are these two here. The price is lower for p...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

"Fluidity Nr 7" Photography 40" x 30" inch Edition of 10 by Lika Brutyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fluidity Nr 7" Photography 40" x 30" inch Edition of 10 by Lika Brutyan Original photography by Lika Brutyan from the ""Fluidity" series Archival pig...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Archival Pigment, Rag Paper

Serenity At Dawn by James Sparshatt. Framed Archival Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
A frozen morning on the Bure River – a glass-like reflection of the over-arching trees James Sparshatt’s black and white landscapes from his Norfolk home emphasize the beauty of the big skies...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper

Moonlight Magnolia Diptych (Two 8.5 x 11" hand-printed cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two separate 11 x 8.5 inch (45 x 60 cm) original hand-printed original cyanotype photographs sold together. Cyanotypes are an antique photographic process dating back to t...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Hopefully in Love II – Fine Art Giclée on Rag Created Hand Signed by Artist
Located in Woodstock, GA
“Hopefully In Love II”, part of a four part series, bursts with energy, color, and emotion — a fearless composition that channels both chaos and beauty in equal measure. In this dyna...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Digital Pigment, Rag Paper

Winter Woods, edition 1 of 5 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 11 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
The moody scene of a shady bend in a forest path was captured at dawn on a winter's day. The sky is beginning to brighten. The tall narrow format accentuates the height of the tower...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

"Peek A Boo" Cityscape, acrylic gouache on Stonehenge rag paper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Peek A Boo" is an original piece by Branche Coverdale and is made from acrylic gouache on Stonehenge rag paper. This piece measure...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Acrylic, Gouache, Rag Paper

Winding Path (24 x 14 inch hand-printed cyanotype, ed. 2 of 10 editions)
Located in Oakland, CA
New as of Jan. 1, 2025. This is a brand-new addition to the artist's ever-growing series of foggy woods in northern California near San Francisco. These tall eucalyptus trees are the...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Green Elderflower II (12 x 12 inch monotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though these pale mint green botanical monotypes resemble woodcuts or linocuts they are actually cyanotypes, a form of kind of photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist al...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Morning Valley Light (hand-printed cyanotype, 8.5x 11 " matted to 11x 14")
Located in Oakland, CA
Towering monterey pines lean into the blue mist of the valley beyond.These iconic Monterey Pines are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco. A larger framed edition of this ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Japan, Contemporary Color Japanese Landscape Photography, Blue Lotus
By Tadayuki Naito
Located in New york, NY
Blue Lotus, 2003 is a contemporary color photograph by Japanese artist Tadayuki Naito. Naito created a series on the blue lotus, a flower of peace and hope. The artist’s desire was t...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...

Green Elderflower I (12 x 12 inch monotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though these pale mint green botanical monotypes resemble woodcuts or linocuts they are actually cyanotypes, a form of kind of photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist al...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Green Willow II (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Pop Flower 46, Bright Orange Mandala, Green, Maroon, Dark Burgundy, Blue Center
Located in Kent, CT
This multicolored drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Pop Flower 46 is a predominately orange mandala shape with a gr...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper, Pigment

Rhododendron Branch IV (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Misty Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer. Al...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Daylight Shadow - Giclée on Rag, Hand Signed, Black, White, Modern, Contemporary
Located in Woodstock, GA
“Daylight Shadow” captures the moment where illumination meets resistance — a study in duality rendered through gesture, motion, and restraint. The work embodies the paradox of contr...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper, Digital Pigment

Misty Evening Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer. ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Misty Slope, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 11 x 17 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

French Quarter (Golden Hour)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Archival pigment ink print on Hahnemuhle cotton paper. Each print is uniquely hand embellished by the artist with acrylic paint and prismacolor. Edition 1 of 5. Kristin Moore says o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Acrylic, Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Pop Flower Four B Zero Five - Orange Red Black Geometric Mandala Circle, 2016
Located in Kent, CT
Contemporary drawing created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Pop Flower 4B05 is a predominately orange mandala shape with red and black in the center creating an intri...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper, Pigment

Misty June Wildflowers ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
The flowers use in this unique monotype are called Coronaria Alba in Latin or by their common name Rose Campion. They grow 2 feet tall with velvety gray-green leaves and white petals...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Flowering Eucalyptus I ( 30 x 21.5 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this may look like a woodcut or screen print, it is a kind of photography. Cyanotypes are a 19th century alternative (cameraless) photographic process. This monotype was print...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Pine Ridge (29.5 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Bending Pine, edition 1 of 5 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 11 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
The tree is a native Californian Monterey pine. They are found up and the down the coast of California from Carmel to San Francisco and all the way up north Mendocino. The moody scen...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Waiting for Brasil by James Sparshatt. Archival Print with Wooden Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Atlantic Ocean stretching out from Dingle. In Irish folklore Brasil was believed to be a phantom island lost in mists that appeared once every seven years but could never be reac...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper, Wood

Sprung ( Cat )
Located in Hudson, NY
This new series of painting is an exciting transition for Kinney as he is best known for assemblage and sculpture. “Anim”, the Latin root word of animal, means life, soul or breath. ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Sumi Ink, Rag Paper

Bending Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 29.5 x 18" , edition 1 of 5)
Located in Oakland, CA
New. A nearly 30 inches (29 5/8") hand-printed version of the smaller landscape of the same name. There are just 5 editions of this largest size. All are unframed. The tree is a na...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Green Willow I (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

"Michelle" Nude Photography 28" x 20" inch Edition 1/20 by Lika Brutyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"Michelle" Nude Photography 28" x 20" inch Edition 1/20 by Lika Brutyan Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Not Framed. Ships in a tube. Lika Brutyan is American...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Spring Clover I (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 14 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This long narrow blue and white monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual flowers of fresh-cut Dutch clover growing wild. This unique print is the same size as ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Moonlight Magnolia (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a hand-printed photograph using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. This is a negative (reversal of the dark and light tones) of the original photograph of a branch of a magn...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Arrested Love – Floral, Giclée, Rag, Blue, Pink, Purple, Orange, Color, Medium
Located in Woodstock, GA
“Arrested Love" captures the volatile beauty of emotion held mid-bloom — a moment when passion, tenderness, and restraint coexist in luminous tension. Bursts of fuchsia, cobalt, gold...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Digital Pigment, Rag Paper

Escape to Paris
Located in Malmo, SE
Digital C-Print with Diamond Dust. Artwork size: 79x118 cm, Frame size 83x122x5 cm. Framed with a black wooden frame and museum glass anti-reflective. Edition of 10. Acquired direc...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper, C Print

I Am – Fine Art Giclée on Rag, Created and Hand Signed by the Artist
Located in Woodstock, GA
“I Am” emerges as both declaration and meditation — a visual affirmation of existence itself. This work transcends the boundaries of abstraction to inhabit a spiritual register, wher...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper, Digital Pigment

Lucas Museum in Construction, LA, Architecture, Contemporary Photography
Located in New york, NY
Lucas Museum in Construction, Los Angeles, 2024 by Roberta Fineberg (RF) 14 x 30 in. archival pigment print For the Lucas Museum in Construction, Roberta Fineberg translates her vis...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...

Two Tall Pines, (hand-printed cyanotype, 23 x 14 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a larger version of the 18 x 11 inch photograph of the same name. This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pin...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Silver Eucalyptus Diptych (two 24 x 18" cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
The pale gray-green of this pair of monotypes calls to mind the celadon glaze of Japanese pottery. Each was made using freshly-cut branches from eucalyptus trees which grow in the w...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Four Agapanthus Flowers ( 30 x 22 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Agapanthus are also known as "The Lily of the Nile". The crisp silhouettes of the giant agapanthus blooms were hand-printed using living fresh cut agapanthus flowers from the artist'...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Bay Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two separate 40 x 26 inch cyanotypes (unique monotypes) made using the same tree branches flipped over facing the opposite direction, the result being a symmetrical mirror ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Monotype, Photogram, Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper

Victory Gallop - Equestrian Watercolor
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Victory Gallop" is a mesmerizing watercolor on textured rag paper, capturing the essence of the Bon Vivant lifestyle. A woman, adorned in resplendent garments and an exquisite hat, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Watercolor, Rag Paper

New York City, Portrait Photograph, Artist Louise Bourgeois in her Studio
Located in New york, NY
A unique print of Louise Bourgeois, in her studio, New York City, 1992 by Jean-Michel Voge. This is a 17" x 23" archival pigment print on Japanese Awagami handmade paper in an editio...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital Pigm...

"Thinking of Rodin 2" Nude Photography 28" x 20" in Ed. of 20 by Lika Brutyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"Thinking of Rodin 2" Nude Photography 28" x 20" in Ed. of 20 by Lika Brutyan Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Not Framed. Ships in a tube. Lika Brutyan is Am...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Amsterdam VIII ed 28/50 black-white canal house facade aquatint etch print
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam VIII is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade and is...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Delight In Bloom – Fine Art Giclée on Rag, Hand Signed by the Artist
Located in Woodstock, GA
Radiant yet serene, "Delight in Bloom" celebrates the quiet joy found in nature’s unfolding moments. Soft layers of yellow, orange, white, and plum mingle in a gentle play of light a...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Digital Pigment, Rag Paper

Primavera Pop 17 - Geometric Mandala Green Orange Yellow Red Lines, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
Contemporary multicolored drawing created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Primavera Pop 17 is a predominately dark green, bright yellow and dark orange geometric flowe...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper, Pigment

Wild Mugwort (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 24 x 12 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is the silhouette of wild mugwort (artemisia) or chrysanthemum weed which grows in the woods in northern California. It is a fragrant herb that smells similar to sage. Though t...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

LA Pink Cityscape [Hand Embellished]
Located in New Orleans, LA
Giclee print on archival cold press cotton rag. Every print is uniquely hand embellished by the artist with gold acrylic paint. Edition 4 of 5. In this new series of paintings, Moor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Rag Paper, Giclée

Study In Grace II – Fine Art Giclée on Rag, Nude Study, Hand Signed by Artist
Located in Woodstock, GA
“Study in Grace II” is an intimate graphite drawing that honors the quiet power of the human form. Rendered with sensitivity and precision, Michelle Thomas captures a robust female f...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Digital Pigment, Rag Paper

Frank Sinatra - Lookin Good Tonight Las Vegas
By David Sutton
Located in Chicago, IL
Frank Sinatra performs live at The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, NV. Taken during the Share Benefit Concert in 1960. Frank Sinatra Enterprises Archival digital print. Printed on 100% Co...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, Color Photograph, Iconic New York City Landmark
Located in New york, NY
Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, 2011 by Roberta Fineberg is a 20 x 16 in. archival pigment print (color photograph) of 19th-century sculptor Emma Stebbins’s Angel of the Waters. Ins...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...

Hand signed letter from Frankenthaler framed with Arkatov s signed portrait
Located in New York, NY
This work features a photographic portrait of Helen Frankenthaler, taken by renowned musician and photographer Jim Arkatov, founder of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchester, and author of the 1998 book "The Creative Personality". The photograph is hand signed and dated '92 by Jim Arkatov. Framed alongside the photograph is a typed letter, hand signed in marker with a personal annotation ("Thanks again!!") by Helen Frankenthaler, thanking Mr. Arkatov for sending her glossy prints of his photograph and stating that she looks forward to seeing his book. Arkatov's original signed portrait, along with Frankenthaler's original signed letter, are elegantly framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV plexiglass. There is also a die-cut window in the back of the frame to reveal Arkatov's signature on the back of his photograph. Measurements: Framed 14.25 inches (vertical) by 19.75 inches (horizontal) by 1.75 inches (depth) Photographic portrait of Helen Frankenthaler: 9.25 inches (vertical) by 7.25 inches (horizontal) Letter from Frankenthaler to Arkatov: 7 inches (vertical) by 6.25 inches (horizontal) This collection was acquired from the Estate of Jim Arkatov. Below is an excerpt from his 2019 obituary in the Los Angeles Times: "...His was an immigrant’s story, a child from Russia who landed in San Francisco, befriended violinist Isaac Stern — whose fame was still to come — took up the cello and decided to pour his life into making music. James Arkatov found work with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and then with the philharmonic in San Francisco before coming to L.A. as a Hollywood studio musician who worked on movie soundtracks and backed up Ella Fitzgerald on some of her more memorable recordings, such as “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Books.” Amazed at the dazzling talent around him in Hollywood, he came up with a simple but lasting idea — form their own orchestra. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra made its debut on an April evening in 1968, as hundreds squeezed into the newly built Mark Taper Forum. Arkatov played cello as usual as the ensemble drifted through the works of Mozart, Vivaldi, Haydn and other legends of the classics who’d written music specially for smaller orchestras. Arkatov, who lived long enough to see the orchestra celebrate its 50th anniversary, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 98. “The orchestra represented a contextualized part of L.A. that had simply never been captured,” said his son, Alan Arkatov, the chair of the education and technology program at USC’s Rossier School of Education. “L.A. simply didn’t have this type of ensemble.” Arkatov was born in Odessa, Russia, on July 17, 1920, and moved around Europe before sailing with his family to San Francisco, where his father opened a photo studio. One of his early childhood friends was Stern, who would become an international star who performed on the world’s biggest stages. Arkatov, who began playing the cello when he was 9, formed a string quartet with Stern when they were teens. After stints as a cellist in San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, Arkatov became a member of the NBC Orchestra, the studio musicians who supplied the soundtracks for the movies that kept Hollywood humming. Pulling from the talent of Hollywood like an NFL team on draft day, he cobbled together a roster capable of handling the delicate and nuanced music written for chamber orchestras. In contrast to the L.A. Phil, which filled the stage with 100 or so musicians, the chamber orchestra was but half that size. The idea was to create a group that would play works written expressly for such an orchestra, many of them from the Baroque era. “The ensemble was never meant to compete with the Philharmonic,” Arkatov’s son said...." Helen Frankenthaler Biography: Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, she expanded the possibilities of abstract painting, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. She produced a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound and continues to grow. Frankenthaler was born on December 12, 1928, and raised in New York City. She attended the Dalton School, where she received her earliest art instruction from Rufino Tamayo. In 1949 she graduated from Bennington College, Vermont, where she was a student of Paul Feeley. She later studied briefly with Hans Hofmann. Frankenthaler’s professional exhibition career began in 1950, when Adolph Gottlieb selected her painting Beach (1950) for inclusion in the exhibition titled Fifteen Unknowns: Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery. Her first solo exhibition was presented in 1951, at New York’s Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and that year she was also included in the landmark exhibition 9th St. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture. In 1952 Frankenthaler created Mountains and Sea, a breakthrough painting of American abstraction for which she poured thinned paint directly onto raw, unprimed canvas laid on the studio floor, working from all sides to create floating fields of translucent color. Mountains and Sea was immediately influential for the artists who formed the Color Field school of painting, notable among them Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. As early as 1959, Frankenthaler began to be a regular presence in major international exhibitions. She won first prize at the Premiere Biennale de Paris that year, and in 1966 she represented the United States in the 33rd Venice Biennale, alongside Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jules Olitski. She had her first major museum exhibition in 1960, at New York’s Jewish Museum, and her second, in 1969, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, followed by an international tour. Frankenthaler experimented tirelessly throughout her long career. In addition to producing unique paintings on canvas and paper, she worked in a wide range of media, including ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, and especially printmaking. Hers was a significant voice in the mid-century “print renaissance” among American abstract painters, and she is particularly renowned for her woodcuts. She continued working productively through the opening years of this century. Frankenthaler’s distinguished, prolific career has been the subject of numerous monographic museum exhibitions. The Jewish Museum and Whitney Museum shows were succeeded by a major retrospective initiated by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth that traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI (1989); and those devoted to works on paper and prints organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1993), among others. Select recent important exhibitions have included Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959 (Gagosian, NY, 2013); Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2014); Giving Up One’s Mark: Helen Frankenthaler in the 1960s and 1970s (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2014–15); Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler (Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2015); As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings and No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Ink, Photographic Paper, Rag Paper

Commanding Curve - Equestrian Watercolor
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Commanding Curve" is a captivating watercolor painting on rag paper that beautifully portrays the freedom horse riding allows. The artwork depicts a woman with short brown hair grac...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Watercolor, Rag Paper

Frank Sinatra - Live at The Sands
Located in Chicago, IL
Live at The Sands – Frank Sinatra circa mid 1950s. Performing at the Copa Room, Sands Hotel. Las Vegas, NV. Giclee 300gsm smooth archival rag paper and arch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Rag Paper

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Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée

Rag Paper art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Rag Paper art available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add art created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, red, purple and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Addison Jones, Laurentina Miksys, Larsen Sotelo, and Brian Ziff. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Rag Paper art, so small editions measuring 0.01 inches across are also available

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