Alexander Francis Lydon

Pochard - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870

1870

This artwork titled "Stag" 1957 is an original woodcut on laid paper by noted American artist Leonard Baskin, 1922-2000. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P. (Artist Proof) pencil by...

This is a unique mono print made with different colored inks. The image is 10x8 inches and the paper it is printed on is 16x14 inches. The images is of a young man lying down, dayd...

In 'The Rabbit,' Wisconsin artist Clarice George Logan presents the viewer with a multi-figural scene: under a wood-frame structure, four children crouch on the ground, gathered around a young woman who presents a rabbit. Under normal circumstances, such an image of children with a bunny would recall childhood storybooks. In this case, however, the image is more ambiguous and suggests the unfortunate economic circumstances many children suffered during the interwar years. Nonetheless, the group could also be interpreted as a nativity play, with the rabbit taking the place of the Christ child, shining light on the children like in a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Correggio. The careful line-work of the woodblock engraving adds a sense of expressionism to the scene, leaving the figures looking distraught and dirty, though the image nonetheless falls into the Social Realist category that dominated American artists during the Great Depression. This print was published in 1936 as part of the Wisconsin Artists' Calendar for the year 1937, which included 52 original, hand-made prints - one for each week of the year. Clarice George Logan was born in Mayville, New York in 1909 but moved to Wisconsin in 1921. She attended the Milwaukee State Teachers College from 1927 to 1931 where she studied with Robert von...

From a series of wood engravings by Eric Gill. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - ...

Japanese woodblock print of a field with a cat and birds. The print is framed in a black frame with a black matte. It is stamped with a red stamp by the artist. The woodblock print is in the style of Kunihiro Amano.

Dan Burne Jones is widely know as the author of the Rockwell Kent print catalogue raisonne. It's so interesting to see that he is a gifted wood engraver as well. Jones's own prints a...

This came out of a Chicago collection. It appears to be signed Betsey Nelson. It depicts Ulysses from Dante's Inferno from Greek Mythology. mythological figures. it is done on a fin...

This came out of a Chicago collection. It appears to be signed Linda Tweed. It depicts a dragon or griffin (phoenix?) like mythological figure. it is done on a fine tissue like pape...

This came out of a Chicago collection. It appears to be signed Linda Tweed. It depicts a centaur like mythological figure. it is done on a fine tissue like paper and there is some w...

This came out of a Chicago collection. It appears to be signed Betsey Nelson. It depicts canto from Greek Mythology. Virgil and Dante mythological figures. it is done on a fine tiss...