American Realist Animal Prints

Mallard Drakes (Louisiana Honkers) Drypoint, c. 1940 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Titled in pencil lower left (see photo) Note: A famous image by Kleiber. It is was made in a hand colored version which commands a large premium. Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches Hans Kleiber (1887-1967) Hans Norbert Kleiber, painter, etcher, illustrator, and naturalist, was born in Cologne, Germany on August 24, 1887. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1900, settling in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming. Kleiber first worked in lumber camps before working for the United States Forest Service from 1906 until 1924. One of his duties as a ranger was to monitor the logging camps in the Bighorn Mountains. Kleiber was primarily self-taught as an artist and it was in the 1920s that he began devoting himself to art. It appears that he first began to work in watercolor and oil but was producing etchings and drypoints as early as 1924. He traversed the mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and his subjects are drawn from the pristine landscapes and wildlife. Kleiber's first exhibition of his etchings was mounted in 1928 at Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. His etching, Crossing the Platte, was included in the 1939 New York World's Fair exhibition, American Art Today. There was an exhibition of fifty of his etchings at the National Museum in 1944, and an exhibition of his watercolors was mounted at the Grand Central Galleries in New York in 1950. Kleiber was a member of the Society of American Etchers and the California Society of Printmakers. He received a silver medal in 1931 from the Printmakers Society of California for his print, Leaving the High Country...

Allan Mardon, Canadian (1931 - ) - Illegal, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 17 x 24 inches, Size: 22 in. x 29 in. (...

Harry Schaare, American (1922 - 2008) - The Getaway, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 50, Image Size: 16 x 24.5 inches, Size: 23 ...

Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Mustangs on the Run, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 19 x 23.5 inches...

Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Pinto, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Image Size: 16 x 20 inches, Size: 22 in. x 29....

Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Back Of The River, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 17 x 22 in., Size: 21 in. ...

Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Last of the Strays, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 40, Image Size: 20 x 26 inches, Size: 22.5 ...

This artwork titled "The Horsemen" 1935, is an original lithograph on paper by noted American artist William Gropper, 1897-1977. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 9.5 x 12.75 inches, framed size is 17.5 x 20.40 inches. Published by Associated American Artists, New York, printed by George Miller. Referenced and pictured in the artist catalogue raisonne by Steinberg, page 246 and Windisch and Cole, plate #602. Custom framed in a black metal frame, with off white matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame have very minor scratches. An example of this particular artwork is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. and at the Portland Museum, Portland. About the artist: William Gropper was born in New York City's Lower East Side in 1897. He was the first of six children to parents who earned small wages working in sweatshops. At the age of fourteen, Gropper left school to help support his family. While carrying bolts of cloth for his deliveries, Gropper began to draw on scraps of paper, sidewalks, and walls. A passerby saw some of these drawings and invited Gropper to attend a life-drawing class at the Ferrer School. He studied there for three years from 1912 to 1915, attending classes taught by Robert Henri and George Bellows. From 1915 to 1918 Gropper attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art part-time on scholarship. Gropper also won a scholarship to the National Academy of Design, but remained as a student for only a short time; the rigid and systematic institution conflicted with Gropper's belief in the personal nature of art. At the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, Gropper earned several prizes. One of these prizes was for his cartoons, which led him to be hired by the New York Tribune in 1917 to sketch for their features. A few years later through freelance work, his cartoons and drawings appeared in other newspapers and magazines, such as The Liberator, The New Masses, The New York Post, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. By the late 1920s Gropper was an established cartoonist and draughtsman. He sympathized with the labor movement and was a champion of peace and personal liberty. Gropper began to paint seriously, but privately, on these themes in 1921. Gropper's first exhibition of monotypes was held in 1921 at the Washington Square Book Shop in New York. At this time, he also began to do illustrations for books. Gropper took his first sketching trip in 1924 to the West with Morris Pass. By 1930 Gropper began to receive recognition as a fine artist. In 1934, he received two mural commissions from the Schenley Corporation in New York City. In 1935, he was commissioned to paint a mural for the Hotel Taft in New York City. In 1936, Gropper received several public mural commissions: one was for the Freeport, Long Island Post Office, which was completed in 1938 and followed by another mural for the Northwestern Postal Station, Detroit, Michigan. In his first gallery exhibition in 1936 at ACA Galleries, Gropper's work was so well received by critics, collectors, and artists that the following year he had two one-man exhibitions at ACA Galleries. In 1937, Gropper traveled west on a Guggenheim Fellowship and visited the Dust Bowl and the Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams, sketching studies for a series of paintings and a mural he painted for the Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. That same year he had paintings purchased by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Gropper exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Whitney Museum of American Art (1924-55), Art Institute of Chicago (1935-49), Carnegie International (1937-50), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1939-48), and National Academy of Design (1945-48). He was a founder of the Artists Equity Association and member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. From 1940 to 1945 William Gropper was preoccupied with anti-Nazi cartoons...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Cardinal, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 1...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Redtail Landing, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Size: ...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Great Horned Owl, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 19 x 24 inches, Size: 23 in...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Owl Haven, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 18 x 22 inches, Size: 23 in....

Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Last to Arrive, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 19 x 23 inches, Size:...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Green Winged Teal, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 22 x 18 inches, Size: 29 i...

Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Snowy Owl Year: 1975 Medium: Lithograph, signed and dedicated in pencil Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)

This artwork titled "Soaking Up" c.1970 is an original lithograph on Wove paper by noted western artist Tom (Thomas) Ryan, 1922-2011. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 68/100 in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 12.25 x 17.35 inches, sheet size is 17.5 x 21.65 inches. It is in excellent condition About the artist: Tom Ryan was born Jan. 12, 1922, in Springfield, Ill., to William Martin Ryan — whose family immigrated to Illinois from Ireland in the 1880s — and Sarah Helen Behrens, whose ancestry predates the Revolutionary War. They had nine children — six boys and three girls. He began drawing before he went to school. "I was 4 years old and drawing airplanes, and an older brother was helping me," Ryan told the Reporter-Telegram in a 2002 interview at the Haley Library's going away party held in his honor. "Those were my first art lessons." He did not decide to be an artist until after his service in World War II. While in the U.S. Navy during the war, he "made quite a bit of money" drawing portraits of his shipmates and other servicemen. After being discharged in 1945, he picked up a Life magazine that carried an article about N.C. Wyeth. "I read the article, and I liked what I read, and I loved the pictures reproduced from his paintings in the article," Ryan said in 2002. "I decided then and there to be an artist." Following his graduation from the American Academy of Art, an education made possible through the GI Bill, he returned to Springfield where he married Jacqueline "Jacquie" Harvey, daughter of a local doctor. She died in 1998. The Ryans moved to New York City where he continued his studies at the Art Students League. During his second year at the Art Students League, he won a contest. His winning painting became the cover for Western writer Ernest Haycox's novel The Outlaw. "Every month after that I also received an assignment from this publisher, and they would be Western novels," Ryan said in 2002. "So that's what I did for the next six or seven years. Then I started exhibiting at the Latendorf Gallery on Madison Avenue. What I sold mainly were the book covers. They would be published and I would get paid by the publisher, and I'd take them to the gallery, and I'd get paid again." Ryan began making trips west in the late 1950s. He would stay three or four months painting, sketching and photographing scenes he'd need later. At that time, his works centered around historical events and places. "I particularly liked to do some of the trail drive things that I did, like the old longhorns," Ryan said in 2002. In the early 1960s, a work by Norman Rockwell and one by Ryan appeared in the same catalog. Rockwell, who was doing the Boy Scouts calendars for Brown and Bigelow, the premiere calendar publishing company in the United States, told the calendar company about Ryan. "The art director gave me a call and asked if I'd like to do a contemporary cowboy...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Snow Geese Landing, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 23 x 18 inches, Size: 29 ...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Canada Geese Family, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 17 x 22 inches, Siz...

Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Let's Move 'Em, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 18.5 x 27 inches, Siz...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Canada Geese in Flight, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 18 x 24 inches, Size: ...

This artwork "Racoon" c.1990 is an offset lithograph by noted animals wildlife artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is hand signed and numbered 230/750 in ...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Bob White Quails II, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 22 x 18 inches, Siz...

Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Saddlebred, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 64/500, Size: 22 x 29.5 in. (55.88 x 74.93 cm), Descripti...

Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Thoroughbred, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Size: 22 in. x 29.5 in. (55.88 cm x 74.93 cm), Des...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Wood Ducks, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 23 x 18 inches, Size: 29 in. x 23 in. (7...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Deer Mouse, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 14 x 23 inches, Size: 23 in...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Snow Owl, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 22 x 18 inches, Size: 23 in. x 29 i...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Wood Duck, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Size: 29 in....

Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Quarter Horse, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Size: 22 in. x 29.5 in. (55.88 cm x 74.93 cm), De...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Red Tail Hawk, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 18.5 x 25 inches, Size: 23 in....

This artwork titled "Soaking Up" c.1970 is an original lithograph on paper by noted western artist Tom (Thomas) Ryan, 1922-2011. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 68/100 in penc...

Dropping In Drypoint, c. 1940 Signed lower right (see photo) Titled lower left Condition: Excellent Brown paper tape around the sheet edges from the printing and air dryi...

This artwork "Birds in the Tree" 1976 is a color offset lithograph by American wildlife artist Thomas Quinn, born 1938. It is hand signed, inscribed Arti...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Bob White Quails , Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 22 x 18 inches, Size:...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Watcher, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 23...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Osprey, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 24 x 17 i...

Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Prize Rack, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 17.5 x 23 inches, Size: ...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Winter Oak, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 17.5 x 23 inches, Size: 21.5 in. x...

Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Saddlebred, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Size: 22 in. x 29.5 in. (55.88 cm x 74.93 cm), Descr...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Falcon's Vigil, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 18 x 23 inches, Size: 2...

Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Great Grey Owl (Winter), Year: 1973, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Size: 21.5 x 29 in. (54.61 x 73.66 cm), Description: Perched on ...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Red Shouldered Hawk, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 18 x 22 inches, Siz...

"Boy With Cows" is an original drypoint etching by John Edward Costigan. It depicts a young boy with three cows standing in a watering hole. The artist si...

Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - We Shall Not Talk of War, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 19 x 25 inc...

Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Middle of Nowhere, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 16 x 23.5 in, Size: 20.5 i...

Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Blanket Signals, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 22.5 x 18 inches, Size: 25 i...

Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Checking The Stock, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 18 x 22.5 inches, Size: 2...

Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Camouflage, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 22.5 x 18 in., Size: 26.5 in. x 2...

In th Bighorns (Wyoming) Drypoint, c. 1930's Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Titled in the plate lower left Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 6 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches Hans Kleiber (1887-1967) Hans Norbert Kleiber, painter, etcher, illustrator, and naturalist, was born in Cologne, Germany on August 24, 1887. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1900, settling in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming. Kleiber first worked in lumber camps before working for the United States Forest Service from 1906 until 1924. One of his duties as a ranger was to monitor the logging camps in the Bighorn Mountains. Kleiber was primarily self-taught as an artist and it was in the 1920s that he began devoting himself to art. It appears that he first began to work in watercolor and oil but was producing etchings and drypoints as early as 1924. He traversed the mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and his subjects are drawn from the pristine landscapes and wildlife. Kleiber's first exhibition of his etchings was mounted in 1928 at Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. His etching, Crossing the Platte, was included in the 1939 New York World's Fair exhibition, American Art Today. There was an exhibition of fifty of his etchings at the National Museum in 1944, and an exhibition of his watercolors was mounted at the Grand Central Galleries in New York in 1950. Kleiber was a member of the Society of American Etchers and the California Society of Printmakers. He received a silver medal in 1931 from the Printmakers Society of California for his print, Leaving the High Country...

Artist: Will Barnet, American (1911 - 2012) Title: Meditation and Minou Year: 1980 Medium: Lithograph and Serigraph on BFK Rives, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 40/150

This colorful lithograph By Reeves is in perfect condition and never was framed or hung before. It is hand signed and numbered 17/750. Richard Stone Reeves (November 6, 1919 – Octobe...

untitled (Duck taking to flight, flushed by a dog) Drypoint & Aquatint, c. 1940 signed lower right Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis, after his ...

Clark, Roland (American 1874-1957). JACK SNIPE. Etching, 1928. Edition of 70. Signed in pencil. 8 1/2 x 12 inches. In excellent condition.

Harry Schaare, American (1922 - 2008) - Feeding Time, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 50, Image Size: 14 x 19.5 inches, Size: 20...

Harry Schaare, American (1922 - 2008) - Polo, Year: 1979, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Size: 27 in. x 39 in. (68.58 cm x 99.06 cm), Descripti...

Harry Schaare, American (1922 - 2008) - The Finish Line, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Size: 30.5 in. x 41 in. (77.47 cm x 1...

A fine etching of a Pike Fish. Perfect for the angler or sport fisherman Born in Newark, New Jersey, Robert Birmelin became a professor of fine arts at Queens College in New York, an...

Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Apaloosa, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Size: 22 in. x 29.5 in. (55.88 cm x 74.93 cm), Descrip...

Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Morgan, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Image Size: 16 x 20 inches, Size: 22 in. x 29...

Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Tennessee Walker, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Size: 22 x 29.5 in. (55.88 x 74.93 cm), Desc...