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Style: American Modern
The Relay Race" — Original Olympic Poster, Munich — Black American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jacob Lawrence, 'The Relay Race' (Olympische Spiele München 1972), 12-color serigraph, signed in the matrix, lower right. From the 1972 limited edition silk screen edition of not mor...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Original U.S. Military 1944 Propaganda Poster: In Mein Kampf...without a fight!
Located in Spokane, WA
This rare, original Newsmap for the Armed Forces poster from 1944 is a significant artifact of World War II history. Distributed weekly by the Army Information Branch, these maps kep...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
La Salle and Washington Street (Chicago, Illinois)
— WPA American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'La Salle and Washington Street (Chicago, Illinois)', woodcut, c. 1935, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impre...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Alfred Stieglitz, Hands, Dorothy Norman, 1947 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite halftone print after Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), titled Hands, Dorothy Norman, originates from the 1947 folio Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio, 1864–1946. Published by T...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$716 Sale Price
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The Workers (No. 2)
— 1930s WPA Modernist Woodcut
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'The Workers (No. 2)', woodcut, edition 50, c. 1935. Signed and numbered 2/50 in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margin...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Landing
from the
Lumber Camp
series — American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Clare Leighton, 'Landing' from the series 'Lumber Camp', wood engraving, edition 100, 1931. Signed, titled, and numbered 75/100 in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-whi...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Grand Canal, Venice
By Elias S. Mandel Grossman
Located in Middletown, NY
1926. Etching in sepia ink on Japon paper, 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 inches (245 x 292 mm), full margins with the lower margin slightly notched. Signed, titled and dated in pencil in the lower ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Original Formidable! - Bal du Moulin Rouge Paris vintage cabaret poster
By René Gruau
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Moulin Rouge - Striking small-format vintage poster by Rene Gruau. Archival linen-backed and in excellent condition, ready to frame. Bright, vibrant colors. Grade A.
Celebrate the electric allure of Parisian nightlife with this authentic René Gruau poster made for the Moulin Rouge. In flowing ribbons of red and a bold splash of inky black, Gruau captures the can-can's motion in a memorable silhouette. Elegant, striking, and unmistakably Paris, this piece makes a perfect addition to any collection of fashion, advertising, or mid-century graphic art.
The legendary Moulin Rouge poster...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Welcoming Jeers - Lithograph, 1997
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
Welcoming Jeers, 1997
Lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On Arches vellum 76 x 56 cm (c. 29.9 x 22 in)
Published by Galerie Enrico Navarra
...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Americans will Always Fight for Liberty vintage WWII (1943) poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Title: Original 1943 WWII Propaganda Poster - "Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty" - Authentic U.S. Government Issue. Archival linen-backed with the original US Government-issue...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Night Shadows
By Edward Hopper
Located in Plano, TX
Night Shadows. 1921. Etching. Levin 82. 7 x 8 3/8 (sheet 10 x 13 7 1/16).s Series: Six American Etchings: The New Republic Portfolio, 1924. Edition approximately 500-600. Illustrate...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$48,000 Sale Price
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Sisters
— Renowned Black American, Harlem Renaissance Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Lesesne Wells, 'Sisters', linocut, edition not stated but small, 1928. Signed, titled, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A fine impression on off-white wove Japan paper, with wide margins (1 7/8 to 3 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by the artist. Very scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 8 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches (208 x 171 mm); sheet size 13 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (343 x 273 mm).
Exhibition and Literature: 'Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection,' The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, extensive touring exhibition, 1998-2000.
Collections: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (Anacostia Community Museum).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“Wells is more than an artist with a deep concern for his fellow man. He carries many of his themes a step further into an apocalyptic world, a world of revelation and shifting lights. … He works on large blocks in a bold free style. … His work has a vigor, therefore, that is not often used in the medium today.”
—Jacob Kainen (painter, critic, and collector) from Richard J. Powell’s 1986 essay Phoenix Ascending: The Art of James Lesesne Wells.
James Lesesne Wells was an American painter, printmaker, educator, and pioneering figure of the Harlem Renaissance, whose work established a vital connection between African heritage, modernist form, and African American cultural identity. Known for his innovative use of linoleum and woodblock printing, Wells played a key role in shaping 20th-century African American art and inspired countless students throughout his lengthy career as a teacher at Howard University.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Wells' early exposure to the arts came through church and community, where African American cultural traditions were central. He pursued formal artistic training at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania (earning a B.A. in 1924), followed by studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Barnes Foundation, where he encountered European modernists as well as traditional African sculpture, which profoundly influenced his style.
Wells moved to New York in the late 1920s, swiftly immersing himself in the lively artistic and intellectual scene of Harlem. There, he became associated with artists, writers, and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, contributing to the growth of Black cultural identity. Considered a mentor to many famed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Wells served as director of a summer art workshop in Harlem where his assistants included Charles Alston, Jacob Lawrence, and Palmer Hayden...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake
Located in Plano, TX
Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake. 1889. Etching, aquatint and burnishing. Goodrich 104. 14 1/4 x 20 5/8; sheet 18 1/2 x 24 1/2. Edition unknown but quite possibl...
Category
Late 19th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$40,000 Sale Price
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Pool Diver - Lithograph (Olympic Games Munich 1972)
Located in Paris, IDF
David HOCKNEY
Pool Diver, 1972
Original lithograph
Signature printed in the plate
On paper 101 x 64 cm (c. 40 x 26 inch)
Made for the Olympic Games in Munich, 1972
REFERENCES : Bri...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Making Camp
Located in Columbia, MO
Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889 - 1975) was a painter, muralist, and printmaker whose sinuous, rhythmic style came to define the Regionalist movement. His paintings and lithograph...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original
United Behind the Service Star
antique World War One vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: United Behind The Service Star ; Great vibrant colors. Linen backed. All the various support organizations that backed up the soldiers and war relief during World War One. A-, B+ condition. Paper tear from the bottom about 10" professionally laid down. No paper loss.
A large blue star appears over the flags, and below the image reads "United Behind the Service Star". The poster features American soldiers carrying the flags of seven major service organizations: the YMCA, the National Catholic War Council, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation Army, War Camp Community Service, the American Library Association, and the YWCA. These organizations were instrumental in providing various forms of support, such as food, medical care, and morale-boosting services, both to soldiers and civilians.
If you have ever looked to have a 'supreme' version of this great war poster...
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1910s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
BREAD LINE - Large Strong 30
s Modernist Labor Print
By Iver Rose
Located in Santa Monica, CA
IVER ROSE (1899-1972)
BREAD LINE ca. 1935
Lithograph, signed, titled and no. 22/85 in pencil. Image 15” x 17 3/8. Large margins, sheet 18 x 22”. Generally good condition. Some slig...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Continental Airlines limited edition travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Continental Airlines travel poster. Linen backed in fine condition. Signed and numbered 35/50.
This original Continental Airlines poster artistically represents regional destinations prominently served by Continental Airlines in the past. The design is modern and bold, showcasing a unique black-and-white theme with strong, futuristic typography and graphical illustrations. Each city is creatively depicted using stylized imagery that resonates with its character—Oklahoma City features a cowboy motif, New Orleans embraces a jazzy, cultural essence, Dallas reflects the energy of movement, and Midland/Odessa highlights industrial and oil-centric themes.
This limited-edition poster is printed in black and white. It features Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Dallas, and Midland / Odessa destinations. Above each name is a design that represents each destination city.
Oklahoma City has rodeo horseback riding. New Orleans has steamships, Dallas has football players, and Midland has large oil tanker trucks. This image features the Saul Bass l967 Continental logo in the design.
Continental Airlines was a major United States airline founded in 1934 and eventually headquartered in Houston, Texas.
The airline was acquired by UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines, on October 1, 2010.
This is an original vintage Continental Airlines poster...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Werner Drewes, Winter, 1933, modernist woodcut
Located in New York, NY
A modernist fantasy winter scene created by Werner Drewes, this print brings key aspects of the period together. His cubist-inspired woodcut technique is utilized here to bring the s...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Norman Rockwell "Bottom Of The Sixth" Seriolithograph
Located in New York, NY
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)
Bottom of The Sixth
Original painting produced 1948, authorized postumous estate print produced 2005
Seriolithograph
Sight: 20 1/4 x 19 in.
Fram...
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Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original pre-release
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original movie poster, Linen-backed original Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom pre-release. "Coming May 23rd, 1984.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the 1984 Steven Spielberg treasure-hunting action-adventure fantasy sequel ("If adventure has a name... It must be Indiana Jones."; "Trust him."
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$476 Sale Price
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Original
Apollo Stumpen
vintage Swiss cigar poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Swiss poster: Apollo Stumpen Cigars. Johannes Handschin created this Swiss poster. Swiss size of 35" x 49". Professional acid-free archival linen backed, ready to frame. The colors are vibrant and intense. Great colors. Rare original Swiss (Switzerland) vintage poster.
This is the rarer large format, the rarest version of the poster. The small format is 20 x 27, about 1/2 the size.
There is a flaw in the lower section of the man’s covering, the lower left of his chin. Shown in images.
Switzerland was known for some of the better printing of their posters and the use of more expensive inks, thus richer colors in the posters that survive today.
This art deco-style cigar poster...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$760 Sale Price
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"The Little One" - Rare Signed Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Little One" - Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper
Bold lithograph by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). A young child is kneeling, facing away ...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
Chicago Skyline
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful turn-of-the-century lake view of Chicago by an American artist known for his Texas landscapes.
Etching with drypoint on watermarked Umbria laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (182 x 275 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/25 in pencil, lower margin. In good condition with adhesive residue at the sheet edges on the verso, does not show through to the recto. A lovely Lake Michigan landscape...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Original The Navy Put
em Across, Vintage Recruiting Poster, U.S. Navy, linen
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "The Navy Put 'Em Across": Vintage WWI Recruitment Poster by Henry Reuterdahl, 1918. Linen-backed.
An extraordinarily scarce and historically rich piece of American propag...
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1910s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
New York Skyline
By Louis H. Ruyl
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper with deckle edges, 4 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches (233 x 323 mm); sheet 9 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches (240 x 338 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/75 ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Elwood W. Bartlett, Wisconsin Farm, about 1945, mid-century wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana.
Largely self taught as a printmaker, Bartlett worked in a style that once identified as his, immediately t...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Cappiello
s Contratto Canelli Vermouth - later printing
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Contratto Canelli Vermouth vintage Italian liquor poster. Archival linen backed and ready to frame. Very good condition. This is the later c.1950 lithograph printing of the poster. Beautiful advertising vintage affiche printed in offset lithography (second edition). There is no second printing date besides the original date inside the poster by Cappiello's signature.
(Note that the earlier printing sells for about $9500.)
Most standard size original Italian posters are 39" x 55" in size; or 27.5" x 39 half sheets.
This is currently the lowest and best price for this Cappiello Contratto poster on 1st Dibs.
The woman in this Cappiello poster rests on a large green maple leaf while holding a bottle of Vermouth Victor and a bottle of Vermouth Bianco...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Baden Baden, Casino
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Baden Baden, Casino" 1988 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 261/375 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 36 x 42 inches, sheet size is 42 x 48 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, three small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back.
About the artist:
Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival.
Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes.
Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions.
When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union.
In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars.
Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care.
Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out."
His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995.
LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather.
He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess.
As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid."
After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war.
On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s.
When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint.
While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine.
In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician.
Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation.
In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter.
Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world.
"Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962.
Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him.
A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters.
Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS.
Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
New York : Statue of Liberty - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Bernard BUFFET
New York : Statue of Liberty, 1986
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Justified EA (artist proof)
On Arches vellum 76 x 58 cm (c. 30 x 22 inch)
REFRENCES : Catalogue raisonne Bernard Buffet lithograph...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Shahn Original Hand Signed Litho WPA Artist Rilke Poem Lithograph Portfolio
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
"To Days of Childhood That are Still Unexplained". It depicts six female silhouette figures in long dresses or coats against a blue and pastel purple background. From the Rainier Ma...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Soaring New York
— 1930s American Modernism, New York City
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Soaring New York', aquatint, soft-ground etching, roulette, 1931-32, edition 25, Duffy 165. Signed, dated, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmosp...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Chartres; Cathedral of Notre Dame from the River
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb impression on Japon paper, one of only three proofs.
Etching on handmade Japon paper with a deckle edge, 13 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches (333 x 252 mm); sheet 18 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Delayed (Bus is late, the umbrella up and the long walk home thru rain begins)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
The bus is delayed and the night is cold and rainy as a lone woman raises her umbrella to brave the shadowy walk home after giving up on her ride She has just left the bus shelter a...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Lot Cleaning, Los Angeles
— 1930s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Lot Cleaning, Los Angeles', wood engraving, edition 60, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 69. Signed, titled and numbered '51/60' in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on Kitakata Japan pape...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Prodigal Son
Located in London, GB
A man raises his hand to his chin, his neck tilted and face turned to look at a dilapidated farmhouse, barely held together by planks of wood and exposed to the elements. Behind him ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The King - Lithograph, 1997
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
The King, 1997
Lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On paper 76 x 56 cm (c. 29.9 x 22 in)
Published by Galerie Enrico Navarra
Authenticated b...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Pin-Up - Telephone Call linen backed vintage pinup girl.
Located in Spokane, WA
Behold the original lithographic Petty Pin-up, a unique vertical-format piece. The see-through bathing suit she wears seems to make her glow, especially with her red hair peeking fro...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Equal Justice Under Law" Screenprint #99/125 on Wove Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Equal Justice Under Law" Screenprint #99/125 on Wove Paper
Iconic composition by Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008). A red envelope and a hand holding sprouted grass the pli...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Screen
Adolf Dehn, Lake Tarryall, 1941 mid-century lithograph of Colorado mountain lake
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Lake Tarryall, a 1941 lithograph by Adolf Dehn (1895-1968) was made while he was teaching in Colorado. A native of Waterville, Minnesota, Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art ...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bicentennial Indian from the Kent Bicentennial Portfolio by Fritz Scholder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bicentennial Indian by Fritz Scholder, Native American (1937–2005)
Portfolio: Kent Bicentennial
Date: 1975
Offset Lithograph (unsigned as issued)
Image Size: 9.5 x 13 inches
Frame Si...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Emprunt SNCF 1957 Souscrivez vintage French railroad poster linenbacked
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1957 “Emprunt SNCF Souscrivez” vintage French poster by Paul Schmitt, linen-backed and ready to frame. The poster had been folded for shipment, and the fold lines were res...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Origiinal Piedmont "Take Off and Paint the Town" vintage airlines travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Piedmont, Take Off and Paint the Town vintage airlines travel poster. Archival linen backing in very good condition, ready to frame. This is a serigraph, so it features rich...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Original Mardi Gras New Orleans 1978 festival serigraph poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Mardi Gras, New Orleans, 1978 linen-backed poster. Dressed up in what would be an American Indian costume with full headgear, he is holding a shield with a horse on it. Indian decoration on the footwear. Signed and numbered.
I believe this has to deal with Big Chief leading his Congo Nation Mardi Gras Indian group. Zulu Parade. Many of the original Mardi Gras jazz posters...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$636 Sale Price
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The Spire -- New York
Located in Plano, TX
The Spire -- New York. 1985. Etching and drypoint. 14 1/2 x 11 (sheet 22 1/2 x 18). Trial proof of the second third, prior to the edition of 100. Printed on Rives cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. A rich impression in pristine condition, housed in an archival sleeve. This etching has never been matted. Provenance: the artist's estate. Titled, annotated 'third state - trial proof' and signed in pencil. A dramatic view of the Chrysler Building.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$350 Sale Price
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Low Country (South Carolina)
Located in Middletown, NY
An enchanting Southern landscape by the mother of the Charleston Renaissance.
A native of Charleston, South Carolina, and educated under the tutelage of Thomas Anshutz at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, O'Neill Verner was a teacher, a mother, an artist, an ardent preservationist, and a skilled autodidact. Having previously focused on painting, in the early 1920s she found herself deeply moved by printmaking as a media, and especially so by the simple, peaceful themes and tableaus she discovered in Japanese art. She embarked on a effort to teach herself Japanese printmaking techniques, and in the process, produced the charming images of every day life in Charleston and its environs that earned her recognition as a cultural icon in her day, and in more modern times, as the mother of the Charleston Renaissance, which flourished well into the 1930s. In 1923 she opened a studio in Charleston where she focused on documenting the local color and the architecture and landscape that distinguishes Charleston as one of the South's most beautiful cities, all the while applying the gentle and poetic thematic sensibilities of Japanese printmaking. O'Neill Verner soon found herself in high demand when municipalities and institutions throughout the country sought commissions from her to document the beauty of their grounds and historic buildings. She worked as far north as the campuses of Harvard and Princeton, and extensively across the South, including in Savannah, Georgia, where through sweeping commissions she was able to marry her love of southern preservation and art. O'Neill Verner was a lifelong learner, and continued a path of edification that led her to study etching at the Central School of Art in London, to travel extensively through Europe, and to visit Japan in 1937, where she studied sumi (brush and ink) painting. She was a founding member of the Charleston Etchers Club, and the Southern States Art League. Her works are represented in the permanent collections of leading museums across the American south, and in major national institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston's Museum of Fine Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. O'Neil Verner...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Financial District
, New York City — American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Financial District', lithograph, 1931, edition 75, Duffy 155. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 3/4 to 5 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 13 5/16 x 10 3/8 inches (338 x 264 mm); sheet size 23 x 16 inches (584 x 406 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Literature: 'American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy Collection', the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., 1987.
Collections: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980) was one of the best-known of the second generation of artists who moved to Taos. A native of Massachusetts, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Woodstock Art Colony. Beginning his association with Taos in 1926, he became a resident of the community in the 1930s. During his career, he received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected an Academician in the National Academy of Design. He earned a national reputation as a painter, muralist, and printmaker.
Cook’s work in the print mediums received acclaim early in his career with one-person exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum (1927) and the Museum of New Mexico (1928). He received numerous honors and awards over the years, including selection in best-of-the-year exhibitions sponsored by the American Institute of Graphics Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Society of American Etchers, and the Philadelphia Print Club. His first Guggenheim Fellowship took him to Taxco, Mexico in 1932 and 1933; his second in the following year enabled him to travel through the American South and Southwest.
Cook painted murals for the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 and the Treasury Departments Art Program in 1935. The latter project, completed in Pittsburgh, received a Gold Medal from the Architectural League of New York. One of his most acclaimed commissions was a mural in the San Antonio Post Office in 1937.
He and Barbara Latham settled in Talpa, south of Taos, in 1938 and remained there for over three decades. Cook volunteered in World War II as an Artist War Correspondent for the US Navy, where he was deployed in the Pacific. In 1943 he was appointed Leader of a War Art Unit...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cortland Street
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on antique handmade laid Japon paper, 12 7/8 x 7 1/2 (327 x 191 mm); sheet 15 5/16 x 10 7/16 (389 x 265 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil in the lower margin....
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Mexican Travelers, Modern Lithograph by Millard Sheets
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mexican Travelers by Millard Owen Sheets, American (1907–1989)
Date: Circa 1977
Lithograph on Arches paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition o...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Kaffee-Rahm, Swiss vintage coffee poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Swiss Kaffee Rahm Pilatus ; Swiss coffee cream poster. Linen backed. The coffee-colored woman poises with a coffee cup on her head, pouring s...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$513 Sale Price
25% Off
Down the River
Located in London, GB
In this sentimental work from 1939, Benton expresses his admiration for the rural lifestyle of the Midwest. He highlights the connection between man and the land by depicting two fig...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cathedral de Saint Julien le Mans
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 9 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (232 x 248 mm); sheet 12 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches (307 x 323 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil in ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
A view of the New York Public Library, looking uptown along 5th Avenue.
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: c 1920.
Etching with aquatint printed in brownish black ink on cream wove paper, 8 3/4 x 12 inches (220 x 304 mm), full margins. Signed and titled in pencil in the lower ma...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder
"Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist
Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in t...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Samuel J. Woolf Antique Litho: First Aid Station at Seicheprey
Located in New York, NY
Samuel J. Woolf (American, 1880-1948)
First Aid Station at Seicheprey
Lithograph
Sight: 11 x 14 1/2 in.
Framed: 20 x 23 x 1 in.
Signed lower right: S. J. Woolf
Numbered lower left: 23/150
This print is based on Woolf 1918 oil painting: Front Line Dressing Station...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original MEXICO, Pais de Maravillas vintage travel poster, linen backed.
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "Mexico, País de Maravillas" Linen-Backed Vintage Poster, c. 1950s. Grade A- condition.
Immerse yourself in the vibrant charm of mid-c...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Reginald Wilson, Horses
Located in New York, NY
Although this work is titled Horses. It nice to think it could be (Horses in a Field in Woodstock, NY), but it was printed by Will Barnet at the Art Students League, about 1938, and Wilson, who visited Woodstock with Arnold Blanche...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Seattle World
s Fair, America
s Space Age vintage 1962 poster on linen
By Earle Duff
Located in Spokane, WA
Vintage 1962 Seattle World's Fair Poster by Earl Duff – Linen Backed. Condition A-: upper right corner restored as shown in the last enlarged photo. Size 35.5” x 25”.
Capture a piec...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Notre Dame de Paris
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb, dark impression of a well known scene by Arms.
Etching with aquatint on watermarked handmade F.J. Head & Co. laid paper, 12 3/8 x 13 15/16 inches (315 x 354 mm), full marg...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
"History of Detroit" Linoleum Cut, Black Ink, African American, Mural Style
Located in Detroit, MI
"History of Detroit" is in the style of a mural by the master muralist from the city of Detroit, Hubert Massey. It renders in dramatic composition the ov...
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Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
American Modern figurative prints for sale on 1stDibs.
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