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Style: American Modern
Original Fiji – Hub of the South Pacific vintage linen-backed travel poster.
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Fiji – Hub of the South Pacific vintage travel poster. Excellent condition, Grade A, ready to frame.
A striking example of jet-age optimism, this original mid-century poste...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Talco Paglieri - al Boro Timo, Italian vintage mid-century modern poste
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Talco Paglieriri Italian poster, Linen backed by Gino Boccasile. Size: 13.25" x 19". Year: c. 1949-1950. Very good condition. Grade A., ready to frame.
The bab...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Original Sydney CP Air - Canadian Pacific - Sydney Opera House travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Sydney (Australia) CP Air - Canadian Pacific – Sydney Opera House vintage travel poster. Archival lien-backed in excellent condition, Grade A, A-, ready to frame. Size 27.5”...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Original "FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE" - US 1-sheet, 1967 vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original, “For A Few Dollars More”, professionally linen-backed US one sheet movie poster with restored original fold marks: for Sergio Leone's Per qualche dollaro in piu, Eastwood! ...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
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Offset
The Lamentation
— Mid-century Modernism, WWII
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'The Lamentation', lithograph, 1941, edition 35, Fine and Looney 198. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower ri...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,120 Sale Price
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Cavendish Church
Located in Middletown, NY
A magnificent impression from the collection of the artist's sister, with a dedication in Arms's hand.
Etching on antique grayish-blue laid paper, 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (242 x 140 mm...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Saint Benigne, Dijon
Located in Middletown, NY
A fine impression on antique watermarked paper.
Etching on antique blueish-gray antique laid paper with an unknown crown watermark, 10 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches ( 268 x 175 mm); sheet 13 3...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Waiting, Pop Art Framed Offset Print by Will Barnet
By Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Waiting from the Kent Bicentennial Portfolio
Will Barnet, American (1911–2012)
Date: 1975
Offset Lithograph (unsigned as issued)
Image Size: 11.25 x 11 inches
Size: 17 x 14 in. (43.1...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Seventh Avenue Canyon, from New York in Etchings
By Anton Schutz
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: 1939.
Etching on light weight wove paper, 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches ( 350 x 273 mm); 15 1/4 x 12 inches; sheet (383 x 300 mm); full margins. Signed in pencil in the lower mar...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
William P. Hicks, Circus
Located in New York, NY
William P. Hicks has drawn everything about the circus that will fit in the plate. The main figure is an aerial act with a woman balancing on rope held by a figure on the floor. Ther...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Cargo Carriers
— New York Harbor
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'Cargo Carriers', etching and drypoint, c. 1932, edition 10, Kennedy 44. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression with rich burr and selectively wiped overall plate tone, in dark brown ink, on Arches cream laid paper; wide margins (2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Original Kennedy Galleries mat and label. Very scarce.
"On my trips up and down N.Y. harbor on the Weehawken Ferry, the late evening sun playing on the side of the big liners has always intrigued me... The liner shown I believe to be the Vaterland of the North German Lloyd...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
$1,440 Sale Price
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September 13, 1918. St. Mihiel [The Great Black Cloud].
By Kerr Eby
Located in Storrs, CT
September 13, 1918. St. Mihiel [The Great Black Cloud]. 1934. Etching, aquatint and sandpaper ground. Giardina catalog 182 state iv. 10 3/8 x 16 (sheet 13 1/8 x 18 1/4). Edition 100. Illustrated: Prints vol. VI, no. 2, 1935, page 85; Print Collector's Quarterly 26 (1939): 82; Fine Prints of the Year, 1935; Eby. War. Provenance: Frederick Keppel & Co. A rich, beautifully wiped impression on cream-colored wove paper. Signed and annotated 'imp' and 'Edition 100' in pencil, indicating a proof printed by the artist. This is Eby's most famous etching...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Etching, Aquatint
$9,000 Sale Price
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Original Train Autos-Couchettes vintage French poster 1964 linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1964 Bernard Villemot Poster — SNCF “I Entrust My Car and My Sleep to …” — Linen Backed Vintage Travel Advertising Art. Fine condition, Grade A. Excellent colors and rea...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Broken Carousel
— Mid-Century American Symbolism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Broken Carousel', color lithograph, 1950, edition 35, Fine and Looney 285. Signed, titled, and numbered '18/35' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked ...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Plate 11 from
Album 19
By Joan Miró
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Rhythmic serenity emanates from this delightful work. Miro creates a quirky yet sophisticated pattern of decorative and playful spots, irregular yet repetitive like a Dalmatian's coa...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tanks #1
— American Precisionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Tanks #1', lithograph, 1929, edition 50, Flint 39. Signed, titled, and numbered '11/50' in pencil. Signed with the artist's monogram in the stone, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (3/4 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards.
Image size 13 15/16 x 8 1/16 inches (355 x 204 mm), sheet size 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches (400 x 286 mm).
Exhibited: 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock', Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, 2008.
Literature: 'Prints and Their Creators, A World History', Carl Zigrosser, Crown Publishers Inc, 1974; 'American Lithographers...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Shift Change, Social Realist Woodblock Print by Mike Goscinsky
Located in Long Island City, NY
Shift Change
Mike Goscinsky, American (1933–2021)
Woodblock on thin wove paper, signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition of 15/75
Image Size: 14 x 19 inches
Size: 22 x 26.5 in. ...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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
The Yankee
— America
s Cup, 1934
By Jacques La Grange
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jacques La Grange, 'The Yankee', color woodcut, edition 500, 1934. Signed and numbered '25/500' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 1/8 to 1 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. A work from La Grange’s celebrated series of woodcuts 'Drama and Color in the America's Cup Races'. Image size 10 x 10 11/16 inches (254 x 271 mm); sheet size 12 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (311 x 337 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
When the artist created this print in 1934, the 'Yankee' was one of the most promising yachts eligible for the America's Cup but ultimately 'Rainbow' was chosen to defend against England's 'Endeavor' in that year's race. The 'Endeavor' was built for Thomas Sopwith who used his aviation design expertise to ensure the yacht was the most advanced of its day with a steel hull and mast. She was launched in 1934 and won many races in her first season but the Cup challenge was blighted by a strike of Sopwith's professional crew prior to departing for America. Forced to rely mainly on keen amateurs, who lacked the necessary experience, the campaign failed. 'Rainbow' won the series 4–2. This was one of the most contentious of the America's Cup battles and prompted the headline "Britannia rules the waves and America waives the rules."
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jacques La Grange was born in Clanwilliam (near Cape Town) in South Africa in 1895. He studied at London University and later immigrated to the United States. La Grange established himself as a painter, illustrator, and printmaker specializing in nautical subjects. He and his wife, Helen La Grange, published 'Drama and Color in the America's Cup Races' in 1934 and 'Clipper Ships of America and Great Britain 1833-1869', in 1936. Both were deluxe hardcover limited edition volumes with signed original color woodblock prints. La Grange had solo exhibitions at the Buchanan Gallery in 1929; the Babcock Gallery and the 56th Street Gallery, New York, in 1930; and at the Nicholas Roerich...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$560 Sale Price
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Untitled (Portrait of a young woman - wife of the artist)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a self portrait of a young woman who is the wife of the artist.
Francisco Souto was born in Venezuela, and received a BFA from Herron School of Art and a MFA from The Ohio ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$375 Sale Price
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The Fair
Located in Storrs, CT
The Fair. 1895-96. Lithograph. Way 92, Levy 144, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 135 state ii. Image 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 (sheet 13 x 9 5/8). A fine impression printed on antique cream-laid paper. Way lists 15-lifetime impressions (Goulding printed...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,450 Sale Price
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Portait of a Romanesque Capital
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on light cream wove paper, 2 5/8 x 2 11/16 inches (68 x 69 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and inscribed "IV" in pencil, lower margin. Likely a proof impression of the t...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Interiors I: Family Reunion — A penetrating scene with a hidden homage to Eadwea
By Peter Milton
Located in Middletown, NY
Interiors I: Family Reunion
1984
Resist ground etching and engraving on BFK Rives wove paper, 20 x 36 inches (501 x 913 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 49/175 in pencil, lower margin. In excellent condition with minor mat tone. A luminous, rich, and well-inked impression of this haunting image, with astonishing detail and depth. Framed handsomely under museum grade glass with archival materials in a solid wood frame with silver finish. [Milton 107]
Intended to be a stand alone image in its inception, Family Reunion ended up spawning seven additional images, and became a sort of Primo Pensiero in the sprawling, masterpiece suite now known as Interiors. The suite took eight years to complete, and consists of works of varying format, psychological intensity, and subject matter. The thematic darkness in the eight images waxes and wanes, and Milton intentionally included several interlude works to lighten the tension he felt while composing several of the darker images. The first two in the series, Family Reunion, and Hotel Paradise Café, were meant to be companion pieces. The equilibrium of each composition is anchored on a central brooding figure; a man (perhaps based on a Thomas Eakins portrait of the American anthropologist Frank Hamilton...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Original Vins Des Côtes du Rhône, French Wine Map vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Les Vignobles de France - Cote du Rhone vintage wine map poster. Horizontal. Size 36.5" x 27". Archival linen backed and ready to fram...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$600 Sale Price
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Original Air India, Over 50 Years of International Operations travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Aiir India, Over 50 Years of International Operation travel poster, Archival linen backed for preservation. Excellent condition, ready to frame. Grade A condition.
This rare collector’s item showcases the cheerful Air India Maharaja...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Interiors VII: The Train from Munich
By Peter Milton
Located in Middletown, NY
Interiors VII: The Train from Munich
Robert E. Townsend, 1991.
Resist ground etching and engraving with hand refinement in charcoal, pencil, stabilo, and eraser on BFK Rives white wove paper, 20 x 36 inches (507 x 914 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 51/175 by the artist in pencil, lower margin. A brilliant, inky impression with luminous light and gradient tones. In excellent condition with one extremely minor and superficial spot of light tan adhesive residue on the verso, unobtrusive and not visible on the recto, with no other visible defects. With the blind stamp of the printer, Robert E. Townsend in the lower left margin. An especially fine impression in superb condition. [Milton 113].
When asked about this work in particular, Milton expressed that his favorite images were his darkest images, in theme, mood, and in ink. Milton, who has said that his work is infused with a postmodern awareness of the past, has focused here in a deeply personal way on a segment of history that continues to haunt us all. The work, published in 1991, evokes one of the darkest periods of European history, the eroding and erasing of European culture under fascism, and the eventual total loss of humanity. The Train from Munich is an especially relevant and emotional work for Milton, who created the piece for his wife, Edith, who escaped Munich in 1939 as a child on the fabled Kinderstransport. The Kinderstransport was a desperate rescue effort on the part of the British government to save as many Jewish children as possible by railway before borders closed on the precipice of the Second World War. Children left their parents behind, and boarded the trains alone, leaving the impending doom of Nazi Germany, they arrived in Great Britain as refugees. More than 10,000 children escaped the holocaust via the Kinderstransport. In Train from Munich, the image itself holds an almost immeasurable amount of symbolism; each inch of the matrix is a successful effort to confront this history in a way that is poignant through a series of motifs. We see the Café disappearing into a ghostlike memory of the past, an allegory to the disintegration of culture, while through the windows we can see a rampant, snarling dog; a portrait of Hitler's shepherd, Blondi. Blondi isn't the only notable figure in the composition. Milton has pointed out that the fading figure of the doorman at the Hotel Metropole is modeled after the artist and intellectual Marcel Duchamp, and the face of the young girl peering...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Charcoal, ABS, Engraving, Etching
THOMAS HART BENTON
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HARRY STERNBERG (American, 1904-2001)
THOMAS BENTON, 1943. Color screenprint on gray card stock wove paper. Edition of 30. Signed "Benton by Sternberg" in ink, by hand by the artist...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Harbor with Sailboats — Early 20th-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Josimovich, Untitled (Harbor with Sailboats) ', linocut, 1923, edition 35. Signed, dated, and annotated '4/35' in pencil. Initialed 'G J' in ...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Original Kathreiners Malzkaffee vintage coffee poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Rare original Kathreiners Malzkaffee antique stone lithographic poster. Der Gehalt macht's! (Kathreiner’s Malt Coffee). Written in German, They had coffee roasting in both Muni...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$780 Sale Price
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Original Votez PRL vintage French political poster, 1947, linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original VOTEZ PRL: original political, antique, vintage French poster. Artist: Foro. Archival linen backed in fine condition, ready to frame. Over 75 years old lithograph.
Or...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Barbados Children.
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “Barbados Children” in 1996. This signed impression came to us directly from the Sanchez estate. Estate stamped on v...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tête-à-Tête in the Garden
Located in Storrs, CT
Tête-à-Tête in the Garden. 1894. Lithograph. Way 54, Levy 85, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 90. 8 x 6 1/2(sheet 10 7/8 x 8 1/2). Edition of 25-lifetime impressions plus a few proofs re...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$3,750 Sale Price
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Original Laguna Beach, South Laguna fun map poster, 1998
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Laguna Beach Tourist Map - Vintage 1998 Fun Map of Southern California Beach Town Linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. The special linen backing will he...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
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Offset
Original National Florida
s Westcoast vintage airline poster, linen-backed
Located in Spokane, WA
National Florida's West Coast Original Vintage Poster, linen-backed and ready to frame. Grade A condition. No restoration, no damage, no tears. Generally, posters for National Airlin...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
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Offset
Original Ireland Pictorial Vintage Poster Travel Map linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Ireland Pictorial Map, archival linen-backed, Grade A, ready to frame. This poster has no restoration, vibrant colors, and numerous details. Browne and Nolan Limited printed...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
September Morn - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
Three women strolling on a beach. This impression is one of the rare impressions p...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$1,200 Sale Price
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COMPOSITION - Lovely design portraying a future Abstract Expressionist.
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES CHAPIN (1887 – 1975)
COMPOSITION c. 1940
Lithograph signed in pencil, Image 11 7/8 x 7 ¾ inches, sheet 13 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches. Just a hint of mat line in the margins and on the verso. Some remnants of old tape prImarily at the left & right sheet edges. Rather scarce print but possibly published by Associated American Artists.
WONDERFUL PORTRAYAL OF AN UP AND COMING ARTIST...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adolf Dehn, The Artist and The Bull, 1940, self-portrait lithograph, Colorado
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Dehn, The Artist and The Bull, is from Dehn's period of teaching in Colorado at both the Broadmoor Art Academy and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. In this humous self-p...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original American Sephardi Federation New York Convention hand signed poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original American Sephardi Federation New York Convention 1993, hand-signed, linen-backed vintage poster. Grade A- condition. Today, this poster is more challenging to locate beca...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original "Real Circuo Artistico
Gran Cabalgata vintage poster Barcelona
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Real Circulo Artistico Gran Cabalgata de Barcelona vintage poster. A fun and uplifting image with smiles, parties, and flowers.
Real Circulo Artistico is an institution ...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Anna Barry, Navajo Yei Bei Chai
By Anna Barry
Located in New York, NY
Anna Barry (1907-2001), and her husband, the artist Ira Moskovitz, spent years in New Mexico in the late 1930s and 40s. They returned permanently to New York City in 1949.
The screen print (also known as silk screen or serigraph) Navajo Yei...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Walter DuBois Richards, The Lobster Float
Located in New York, NY
Ohio-born Walter DuBois Richards (1907-2006) was educated at the Cleveland School of Art. He re-located to New York around 1933 where he had a successful career as a commercial artis...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Thirteenth Century Belfry; Hôtel De Ville, Abbeville
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique laid paper, 6 9/16 x 3 15/16 inches (167 x 100 mm), signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Potentially a trial proof impression aside from the unsigned edition ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Little Girl
— American Modernism
By Milton Avery
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Milton Avery, 'Little Girl', drypoint, 1936, edition 60, Lunn 11. Signed, dated, and numbered '22/60' in pencil. A superb impression, in warm black ink with delicate overall plate tone, on off-white wove paper, with wide margins (2 5/8 to 4 1/8 inches); hinge stains on the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 8 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (222 x 121 mm); sheet size 14 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches (378 x 333 mm).
Collections: Cantor Arts Center, National Gallery of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
"I never have any rules to follow; I follow myself."
"I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight."
—Milton Avery
'His is the poetry of sheer loveliness.'
—Mark Rothko in his 1965 eulogy to Avery.
Milton Avery (1885-1965) is recognized as one of America's foremost modernist artists, renowned for his uniquely expressive style, evocative use of color, and captivating compositions.
Growing up in a working-class family in Altmar, New York, Avery's early life was marked by the struggles and realities of rural New York. Despite lacking formal artistic training, he displayed an innate talent for drawing from an early age. In 1905, his family relocated to Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked various odd jobs while developing his artistic skills through self-study and experimentation. In 1915, he enrolled at the Connecticut League of Art Students, where he received formal instruction and began to refine his distinctive style.
In 1918, Avery transferred to the School of the Art Society of Hartford and worked in the evenings so that he could paint during the day. He became a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts in 1924. That summer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he met the artist Sally Michael...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Left Bank Cafe, Paris
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Left Bank Cafe, Paris" 1987 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered H.C 166/175 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 26 x 38 inches, sheet size is 32.25 x 44 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, two 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
Sailor and His Girl
—Mid-Century Modernism, WWII
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Brussel-Smith, 'Sailor and His Girl', wood engraving, 1941, edition 35. Signed, titled, and numbered '21/35' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-in...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Lescure, Une Tour Des Remparts
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique laid paper, 6 9/16 x 3 15/16 inches (167 x 100 mm), signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Potentially a trial proof impression aside from the unsigned edition of 1459. Non-archival tape residue along the top and bottom sheet edges, recto, well outside of image area. Scattered handling creases and general scattered soiling in the margins, minor and unobtrusive.
[Fletcher 217].
This work was commissioned by The Architectural Forum...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Place Plumereau, Tours
Located in Middletown, NY
An impression printed by the artist
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 1 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches (49 x 79 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil, lower margin. From the...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Original North Coast Wine Country California vintage vineyard travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original North Coast Wine Country California vintage vineyard travel poster. The artist Earl Thollander. Size 24.25” x 30”. Archival linen backed in good condition. Grade A- A repaired tear along the bottom was restored during linen backing and is inconspicuous.
Celebrate Your Passion for Wine: Show off your love for wine culture while honoring California's North Coast’s rich history as one of the world’s premier wine regions. This poster represents the artistry and heritage behind each glass of wine you enjoy.
Capture the Essence of California Wine Culture in 1975
Transport yourself to the golden era of wine-making with this authentic vintage 1975 North Coast Wine Country poster, a must-have for those who love wine, history, and timeless art. Featuring a design that exudes classic California vineyard...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage Poster Saul Steinberg Galerie Maeght Paris France
Located in Surfside, FL
SAUL STEINBERG (American 1914-1999) Via Air Mail Geometric Design Lithograph. Sheet: 21 1/2 x 28 inches; Frame: 22 1/4 x 29 inches. Plate signed and dated l/r with sticker upper ri...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
2 Lovely Robert Kipniss Lithographs titled "Leaning"
"Interiors"
Located in New York, NY
Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931)
Left:
Leaning, c. 1988
Lithograph
Sight: 5 1/4 x 4 in.
Framed: 11 x 9 3/4 x 3/4 in.
Numbered lower left: 53/175
Signed lower right: Kipniss
Right...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Doorway, Modern Art Lithograph by Will Barnet
By Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Will Barnet, American (1911 - 2012)
Title: The Doorway
Year: 1998
Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP
Image Size: 33 x 18 inches
Size: 39 x 23 inches
Printer: TK Fine Art Editions, NY
Publisher: Smithsonian, Wash DC
Fig 198, pg 78 from Will Barnet: Prints 1931-2005, published by John Szoke...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sleeping Car
By James L. Hendershot
Located in New Orleans, LA
Associated American Artists published "Sleeping Car" by James Hendershot. This image shows a rail car filled with passengers and conductors.
This exhibit...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Original British Columbia United Air Lines travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Behold the original British Columbia United Air Lines vintage Travel Poster—a rare gem from the mid-century Modern era. This archival linen-backed beauty is in excellent condition an...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
"The Fish" Ida Ten Eyck O
Keeffe, Trout, Black and White, Water, Animal Art
Located in New York, NY
Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe
The Fish, 1935
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Monotype on paper
Image 6 x 8 1/2 inches
Exhibited
Dallas Museum of Art, Ida O'Keeffe: Escaping Georgia's...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Stokesay Castle
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on fine, light cream laid paper, 2 1/4 x 2 15/16 inches ( 58 x 75 mm), full margins. Signed and inscribed "II" in pencil, lower margin. A trial proof impression of the second...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Original Karting (Go-kart) vintage French racing poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original French poster. Linen-backed KARTING HAFA motor oil KARTING poster estimated to be in the late 1950s—early 60s. It is in excellent condition and ready to frame.
COUPE d´ E...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bernard Sanders, Portrait of Woman (with Bun), about 1925
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Sanders (1906-1967) was an extremely gifted portrait artist. and a master at showing us the sitter's age.
This is clearly not a young woman. She's, well, early middle age? ...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Nero
— Mid-Century American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Nero', 2-color lithograph, edition 35, 1944, Fine and Looney 233. Signed, dated, titled and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. Initialed 'BS' in the image, lower right. A...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Stanley William Hayter, Le Beche
Located in New York, NY
Black & Moorhead 145. The title, Le Beche, is The Shovel in English. Signed and dated in pencil under image at right.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Intaglio
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