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Style: American Realist
Panda
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Panda" c.1990 is an offset lithograph by noted animals wildlife artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is hand signed and numbered 379/750 in p...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
St Paul De Vence
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "St Paul De Vence" c.1980 is an original lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Sheldon C. Schoneberg, 1926-2012. It is hand signed, titled and inscribed Artist Proof G.S. in pencil by the artist. The image size is 11.25 x 17.75 inches, sheet size is 22 x 30 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the artist:
Born in Oak Park, Illinois; family moves to Beverly Hills; Attends El Rodeo, Beverly Hills High then Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles; University of Southern California, BFA cum laude. MFA, 1951; Academia di Belle Arti, Rome, 3rd Year Certificate; Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, Mexico, 1952, Graduate School - Fresco Printings.
TEACHING:
Santa Monica College, 1947; Hollywood Art Center School 1948; Pratt University, New York, 1950; Academic Rank of Full Professor of Art - University of New York, New Paltz, 1964 and University of Southern Maine 1967; Master Drawing Classes, Paris-American Academy of Art, Paris, France 1984-1985, Drawing, Painting and Contemporary Art History- University of New England, Biddeford, Maine 1993 - 2002.
CYCLES OF WORKS IN ART:
• Biblical, American Indian, Rome 1948-62, Oil Paintings
• Drawings Wash and Ink, Wood and Ink, Sepia Conte and Ink, Pastels 1940-1968, California, New York, Maine
• Archetypal Frescos 1948-55, Mexico, California, Israel
• Goyescas, Satiric Ink and Wash Sketches, Spain and Greece 1954-1962
• Tapestries of the Zodiac 1961-1963, Spain
• Para-Mandalas, Collages, Mixed-Media, Oil Paintings 1961-1967
• Flower-Children Series and Flag Series, Charcoal Pastel Drawings, California and Maine 1965-2008
• Bas-Relief polyester Resin Sculpture, Bronze Sculpture, 1966-1968
• The Centaurs Garden Suite, Centre Genevois de Grauvure Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland, lithographs on stone and etchings 1971
• Oil Paintings,Landscapes, Portraits, Nudes and Still Lifes, Mykonos, Greece, Spain, California, France, Mexico, Maine, British Columbia, Switzerland 1960-2008
• Barbary Coast Drawings, Full Color and Monochromatic 1967-1994
• The Apocalypse Series, Acrylic and Oil Paintings, Drawings 1973-1983
• Charcoal Pastel Drawings, California, Maine, France, Switzerland 1946-2008
• Metamorphous Series, Charcoal Pastel Collage Drawings on Museum Board 1987-2008
• Collage Series Drawings, San Francisco, Limington, New paltz, Los Angeles 1958-2008
• Poster Series, 90+ Charcoal Pastel Drawings on Museum Board 1985-2008
• Fayum Portrait Series, Charcoal-Pastel and Fauve Drawings 1992-2008
• Formal and Informal Portraits - Oil Paintings, Drawings, Models, Commissions, Compositions, Re-Creations 1942-2008
• Murals- Commissiond, Given and Inspired Oil paintings, Drawings, Acrylic Paintings, Collage Drawings 1936-2008
• Maquettes-100+ small original Charcoal Pastel Drawings for commissions 1970-2008
• The Great Masters of Art Series 1998-2008
• Flower Oil Paintings on Canvas ( Sunflowers, Hydrangas,etc) 2000-2008
EXHIBITIONS: INTERNATIONAL: COMBINED TOTAL OF 214, INCLUDING 82 ONE_MAN EXHIBITIONS. A SELECTION FOLLOWS.
• Museum of Munich 1948
• Museum of Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico 1952
• Hellenic-American Union, Athens, Greece 1961
• Casa de Cultura, Malaga, Spain 1964
• Exposition Internationale d'Art de Mode, Val de Grace, Paris, France
• 20th Anniversaire Paris American Academy 1985
• Gallery International Inc, St Maarten, Netherlands Antilles 1990-93
• National Museum of Mexico,D.F.1970-2008 Genesis Fresco 12'x35'
• Galerie du Carlton, La Croisette, Cannes, France 1964-78
• Galerie des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France 1966-78
• Galeria "M" Copenhagan, Denmark 1967
• Galerie del Cisne, Madrid, Spain
• Upper Grosvenor Galleries, London England 1966-68
• Kunsthandel Monet, Amsterdam Holland 1960-80
• Harrison Galleries, Vancouver BC Canada 1970-2008
• Guild Gallerie Calgary, Canada 1975-98
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: USA
• University of Southern California 1950
• Palos Verdes Community Galleries, CA 1955
• Cowie Galleries, Los Angeles, CA 1956
• Los Angeles Municipal Galleries, Barnsdall, CA " Art of the Mural" 1959
• Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA 1962-63
• Raymond Burr Galleries Beverly Hills, CA 1961-64
• Gallery 235, Chicago,IL 1967
• Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA (Retrospective 1969-2008)
• Lars Laine Art Galleries, Palm Springs, CA 1969-84
• Two Squares Gallery, Denver, CA 1966-70
• Fisk University Art Museum, Nashville TN 1968
• Lewis Galleries, Omaha Nebraska 1973-2008
• Talberts Galleria Tacoma, WA 1978-2008
• Lyon Art Gallery San Francisco CA 1974-1980
• Owl 57 Galleries Woodmere NY 1979-2008
• Walt Kuhn Galleries, Cape Neddick...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dancers
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dancers" c.1990is a color offset lithograph by noted equine American artist Fred Stone, 1930-2018. It is hand signed in pencil by the a...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Winter Tracery (Milford Connecticut)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled 'Winter Tracery (Milford Connecticut)" is an original drypoint etching by noted American artist Philip Kappel, 1901-1981. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (Image) size is 9 x 12 inches, framed size is 17.25 x 21.25 inches. Custom framed in a wooden light grey frame, with light grey matting and black color fillet. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Philip Kappel — painter, illustrator, printer, writer, and lecturer — was born on February 10, 1901 in Hartford, CT and died in 1981. Kappel is best remembered for his landscapes, portraits, figures, marine, lithography, and etching. He held a teaching position with H. B. Snell, Boothbay, ME Studios, 1923 and 1924. His addresses in 1929 were 500 Fifth Avenue in New York City and, for the summer, care of Philip Little, 10 Chestnut Street, Salem, MA; and in 1935, Sarasota, FL.
Kappel was a pupil of the Pratt Institute Art School in Brooklyn, NY and Philip Little (1857-1942) and held memberships with the North Shore Artists Association in Gloucester, MA; the Marblehead...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Three Dancers
By Alan Feltus
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Three Dancers" 1980 is an original color lithograph on Arches paper by noted American artist Alan Feltus, b.1943. It is hand signed and numbered 32/60 in pencil by the artist. With the blind stamp of the publisher, Editions Press, San Francisco. The image size is 18.5 x 24.5 inches, sheet size is 22.5 x 30 inches, framed size is 33.5 x 39.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with off white matting and silver color spacer. It is in excellent condition
About the artist:
Alan Feltus was born in Washington, D.C. in 1943 and grew up in Manhattan. He studied for one year at the Tyler School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and then Cooper Union in New York (B.F.A. 1966), and Yale University (M.F.A. 1968). He has received many awards for his work that include the Rome Prize Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Grant in Painting, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant in Painting, two Pollock Krasner Foundation Grants in Painting, the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award from Cooper Union, and the Raymond P...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
When Predators Meet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "When Predators Meet" 1988 is an offset lithograph by renown Western artist Gary Carter, born 1938. It is hand signed and numbered 817/...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
House in the sun
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "House in the Sun" c.1930 is an offset lithograph on wove paper by noted Taos, New Mexico artist Kenneth Miller Adams, 1897-1966. It is signed and titled in the plate. The artwork (image) size is 6.75 x 12 inches, framed size is 13.5 x 18.25 inches. Custom framed in silver metal frame, with light grey matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame have some very small minor scratches, barely visible.
About the artist:
Painter Kenneth Adams (1897-1963) arrived on the Taos art scene in 1924, at the urging of his former instructor Andrew Dasburg. Although Adams had been born and raised less than 700 miles away in Topeka, Kansas, his journey to the Southwest had been years - and countries - in the making.
Earlier in his 20s, Adams had embarked on the Midwesterner’s equivalent of a Grand Tour: Chicago, then New York City, and finally, Italy and France. From these sojourns, the artist had absorbed all the lessons in light, color, and form that renowned teachers and rolling countrysides could offer.
Now, thanks to Dasburg’s invitation, Adams found he could stop traveling; he had finished honing his craft and found his muse. New Mexico - its people and its land - would be an infinite source of inspiration.
Adam’s painterly devotion soon impressed the prestigious Taos Society of Artists...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dancer at Rest
By Alan Feltus
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Alan Feltus– American (1943- )
Title: Dancer at Rest
Year: 1981
Medium: Color Lithograph
Sight size: 30 x 22 inches.
Sheet size: 30 x 22 inches
Framed size: 37 x 29 inches
Publisher: Editions Press. Blindstamp lower right
Printer: Editions Press. Printed on Arches paper
Signature: Signed lower right
Edition: 30 plus proofs. This one numbered 7/30
Condition: Good
This contemporary realist lithograph is by Alan Evan Feltus (1943-). The lithograph was printed and published in 1981 by Editions press in an edition of 30. It is printed on Arches paper. It is signed and dated in the lower right and numbered 7/30 in the lower left, both in pencil. It is in a very nice modern wood frame, fully floating on a linen mat and covered with and Plexiglas. The print and mat are in good condition. The frame is in fair to good condition with normal wear. The Plexiglas has some faint scratches.
About the artist:
Alan Feltus was born in Washington, D.C. in 1943 and grew up in Manhattan. He studied for one year at the Tyler School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and then Cooper Union in New York (B.F.A. 1966), and Yale University (M.F.A. 1968). He has received many awards for his work that include the Rome Prize Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Grant in Painting, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant in Painting, two Pollock Krasner Foundation Grants in Painting, the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award from Cooper Union, and the Raymond P...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
String of Pearls
By Robert Peak
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "String of Pearls" 1988 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist Robert (Bob) Peak, 1927-1992. It is hand signed an...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Still Life with Silver Vase, large color serigraph
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Still Life with Silver Vase" 1991 is a large original color serigraph by artist Audean Johnson. It is hand signed and numbered 195/275 in ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
John Taylor Arms, Study in Stone, Cathedral of Ourense
Located in New York, NY
John Taylor Arms was known for making such finely drawn etchings that commercial tools were not good enough: He regularly used sewing needles with corks ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Sporting Good Store
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Sporting Good Store" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Racoon
Located in San Francisco, CA
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 ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Olympia
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Titled "Olympia" c.1970 is an original etching by New Orleans artist David L. Abel, b.1940. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 9/150 in pencil by the artist. The ima...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Still Life #3
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Still Life #3" 1989 is an original color lithograph by American artist Audean Johnson. It is hand signed and numbered 227/275 in pencil by...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Doctor
s Office
By Lee Dubin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Doctor's Office" 1976 is a color lithograph by American artist Lee Dubin, b.1933. It is hand signed and numbered 106/200 in pencil by the artist. The image size ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
US Open Golf Tournament, American Realist Lithograph by Mel Hunter
By Mel Hunter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - US Open Golf Tournament, Year: 1977, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 600, Size: 19 x 22 in. (48.26 x 55.88 cm)
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Corner Drugstore
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Corner Drugstore" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and num...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Dreamland Toys
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dreamland Touys" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and numbered...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Brave New World 1, dramatic, black
white Ashcan, Americana
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett ...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
The Fifer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Fifer
Etching, c. 1875
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Bt descent in the artist's family
Edition: One of four known impressions
With annotation on...
Category
1870s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Curiosity Shop
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The curiosity Shop" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and numbe...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Indian Friendship Dance
By Gene Kloss
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Indian Friendship Dance
Drypoint, 1953
Signed in pencil lower right, (see photo)
Edition 200
Published by The Society of American Graphic Artists, New York
An impression is in the collection of SAAM, Washington and RISD Museum,
Condition: Excellent
Very rich impression with burr and selective whiping of the ink for atmospheric nocturnal effect.
Image/Plate size: 8 3/16 x 11 15/16 inches
Sheet size: 11 1/8 x 17 inches
Reference: Kloss 450
"'Indian Friendship Dance' is an eloquent statement of something which Gene Kloss has both observed and participated in. It is an Indian dance that is thought of as entertainment, rather than ceremony, but it is essentially an idea expressed in action, and an idea that has universal meaning. The young men who dance wear costumes of exquisite workmanship, intricately wrought with beads and feathers and subtle combinations of colors. The dancers are trained from childhood but develop their own steps and exhibit distinctive strength and grace. Singers and a tom-tom accompany the dance and since it usually takes place at night, a campfire is the source of light. The conclusion occurs when all the onlookers, old and young and from many places, join hands with the dancers in a slow revolving movement, while those who can, sing the difficult but meaningful Indian song that flows with the rhythmical dance step and speaks of fellowship, brotherhood, friendship." - An excerpt from a descriptive statement, written by Lynd Ward, and distributed with the drypoint at the time of publication." Courtesy Old Print Shop
Born Alice Glasier in Oakland, CA, Kloss grew up amid the worldly bustle of the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with honors in art in 1924. She discovered her talents in intaglio printmaking during a senior-year course in figurative drawing. The professor, Perham Nahl, held up a print from Kloss’ first plate, still damp from the printing process, and announced that she was destined to become a printmaker.
In 1925, Gene married Phillips Kloss, a poet and composer who became her creative partner for life. The match was uncanny, for in her own way Gene, too, was a poet and a composer. Like poetry, her artworks capture a moment in time; like music, her compositions sing with aesthetic harmony. Although she was largely self-taught, Kloss was a printmaking virtuoso.
On their honeymoon the Klosses traveled east from California, camping along the way. They spent two week is Taos Canyon – with a portable printing press cemented to a rock near their campsite – where Gene learned to appreciate the wealth of artistic subject matter in New Mexico. The landscape, the cultures, and the immense sky left an indelible impression on the couple, who returned every summer until they made Taos their permanent home 20 years later.
Throughout her life, Kloss etched more than 625 copper plates, producing editions ranging from five to 250 prints. She pulled every print in every edition herself, manually cranking the wheel of her geared Sturges press until she finally purchased a motorized one when she was in her 70s. Believing that subject matter dictated technique, she employed etching, drypoint, aquatint, mezzotint, roulette, softground, and a variety of experimental approaches, often combining several techniques on the same plate. She also produced both oil and watercolor paintings.
Kloss’ artworks are filled with drama. Her prints employ striking contrasts of darkness and light, and her subjects are often illuminated by mysterious light sources. Though she was a devout realist, there is also a devout abstraction on Kloss’ work that adds an almost mythical quality.
For six decades Kloss documented the cultures of the region-from images of daily life to those of rarely seen ceremonies. She and her husband shared a profound respect for the land and people, which made them welcome among the Native American and Hispanic communities. Kloss never owned a camera but relied instead on observation and recollection. Her works provide an inside look at the cultures she depicted yet at the same time communicate the awe and freshness of an outsider’s perspective.
Although Kloss is best known for her images of Native American and Penitente scenes, she found artistic inspiration wherever she was. During the early years of their marriage, when she and Phil returned to the Bay Area each winter to care for their aging families, she created images of the California coast. And when the Klosses moved to southwestern Colorado in 1965, she etched the mining towns and mountainous landscapes around her.
In 1970 the Klosses returned to Taos and built a house north of town. Though her artwork continued to grow in popularity, she remained faithful to Taos’ Gallery A, where she insisted that owner Mary Sanchez keep the prices of her work reasonable regardless of its market value. Kloss continued to etch until 1985, when declining health made printmaking too difficult.
From her first exhibition at San Francisco’s exclusive Gump’s in 1937 to her 1972 election to full membership in the National Academy of Design, Kloss experienced a selective fame. She received numerous awards, and though she is not as well known as members of the Taos Society of Artists...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
"Fishing Village" Joe Jones, Mid-Century, American Life, Small Town Scene
By Joe Jones
Located in New York, NY
Joe Jones
Fishing Village, 1949
Signed in pencil lower right margin
Lithograph on wove paper
Image 9 5/16 x 12 9/16 inches
Sheet 12 x 15 15/16 inches
From the edition of 250
The initial details of Jones' career are sparse, and this is intentional. The young artist was engaged in a process of self-reinvention, crafting a persona. When he submitted a work to the Sixteen Cities Exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art in 1933, he briefly characterized himself: "Born St. Louis, 1909, self-taught. " Jones intentionally portrayed himself to the art community as an authentic working-class figure, backed by a compelling history. He was the youngest of five children in a family led by a one-armed house painter from St. Louis, a Welsh immigrant, and his German American spouse. At the age of ten, Jones found himself in a Missouri reformatory due to authorities' concerns over his graffiti activities. After completing elementary school, he traveled by freight car to California and back, even being arrested for vagrancy in Pueblo, Colorado. Returning to St. Louis, he attempted to settle down by working alongside his father. Yet, Jones felt a profound restlessness and was drawn toward a more elevated artistic pursuit in his late teenage years. He discovered a local collective of budding artists that formed St. Louis’s "Little Bohemia," sharing a studio and providing mutual support until he managed to secure his own modest workspace in a vacant garage.
Jones’s initial creations comprised still lifes, landscapes, and poignant portraits of those close to him. These subjects were not only accessible but also budget-friendly, as hiring models was beyond his means. He depicted himself, his father, mother, and eventually, his wife. In December 1930, at the age of 21, Jones wed Freda Sies, a modern dancer and political activist who was four years older than him.
By 1933, Jones had started gaining noteworthy local recognition through a solo exhibition at the Artists’ Guild of Saint Louis. Of the twenty-five paintings on display, one, titled River Front (private collection, previously with Hirschl and Adler Galleries), was selected to illustrate a feature article about his show in The Art Digest (February 15, 1933, p. 9). Shortly before this exhibition, a young surgeon named Dr. Robert Elman took an interest in Jones’s art, purchasing several pieces and forming a group of potential patrons committed to providing the emerging artist with a monthly stipend in exchange for art. This group was officially known as the "Co-operative Art Society," but it was informally dubbed the "Joe Jones Club. " Jones became an active participant in the St. Louis artistic scene, particularly within its bohemian segments. He embraced modernism and was a founding member of the "New Hat" movement in 1931, a playful rebellion against the conservative and traditional mainstream art establishment.
The summer of 1933 marked a significant shift in Jones’s journey. Sponsored by a dedicated ally, Mrs. Elizabeth Green, Jones, along with Freda and Green, embarked on an eastward road trip. In Washington, D. C., they explored the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery (part of the Smithsonian Institution), the Library of Congress, and Mount Vernon. Following this whirlwind of art and American culture, they made their way to New York, where they visited various museums and galleries, including a stop at The New School for Social Research, which featured notable contemporary murals by fellow Missourian Thomas Hart Benton and the politically active Mexican artist, José Clemente Orozco. From June through August, Jones and Freda resided in the artist colony of Provincetown, Massachusetts, later returning home via Detroit to see Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry mural housed at the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts.
While Elizabeth Green allegedly hoped that Jones would refine his artistic skills under the guidance of Charles Hawthorne or Richard Miller in Provincetown, Jones followed a different path. Rather than pursuing conservative mentors, he connected with an engaging network of leftist intellectuals, writers, and artists who dedicated their time to reading Marx and applying his theories to the American landscape. Jones's reaction to the traditional culture of New England was captured in his statement to a reporter from the St. Louis Post Dispatch: “Class consciousness . . . that’s what I got of my trip to New England. Those people [New Englanders] are like the Chinese—ancestor worshipers. They made me realize where I belong” (September 21, 1933). The stark social divisions he witnessed there prompted him to embrace his working-class identity even more fervently. Upon returning to St. Louis, he prominently identified himself as a Communist. This newfound political stance created friction with some of his local supporters. Many of his middle-class advocates withdrew their backing, likely influenced not only by Jones’s politics but also by his flamboyant and confrontational demeanor.
In December 1933, Jones initiated a complimentary art class for unemployed individuals in the Old Courthouse of St. Louis, the same location where the Dred Scott case was deliberated and where slave auctions formerly took place. Concurrently, the St. Louis Art League was offering paid courses. Emphasizing the theme of social activism, with a studio adorned with Soviet artwork, Jones’s institution operated for just over a year before being removed from the courthouse by local officials. The school’s political focus and unconventional teaching practices, along with its inclusion of a significant number of African American students during a period marked by rigid racial segregation, certainly contributed to its challenges. Under Jones’s guidance, the class created a large chalk pastel mural on board, measuring 16 by 37 feet, titled Social Unrest in St. Louis. Mural painting posed no challenge for the former housepainter, who was adept at handling large wall surfaces. His first significant commission in St. Louis in late 1931 was a mural that celebrated the city’s industrial and commercial fortitude for the local radio station, KMOX. This mural, aimed at conveying optimism amid severe economic hardship, showcased St. Louis's strengths in a modernist approach. When Jones resumed mural work in late 1933, his worldview had evolved considerably. The mural produced for the school in the courthouse, conceived by Jones, featured scenes of modern St. Louis selected to highlight political messages. Jones had observed the technique of utilizing self-contained scenes to craft visual narratives in the murals he encountered in the East. More locally, this compositional strategy was commonly employed by the renowned Missouri artist...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
A Long Rifle Awaits, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - A Long Rifle Awaits, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 17 x 26 inches, ...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miguel, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Miguel, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 16.5 x 22 in., Size: 21 in. x 28.5 in...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Figure Study (From Interior: Evening)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and numbered by the artist
Edition: 25
Printed on Hahnemuhle paper
Published by Neptune Fine Arts
Condition: excellent
Plate/Image size:
Sheet size:
"Stone Roberts’ luminous still lifes, private interiors, and large-scale panoramas of figures in motion invite us to look—and then look some more—and relish in the sensuality of the three-dimensional world. While Roberts’ varied influences include Greek Mythology and Roman Classicism, Dutch and Spanish Old Masters, Fantin-Latour, Ingres, and Balthus, his subjects are decidedly of today. From Grand Central Terminal to his wife gardening in Stonington, Connecticut, Roberts paints people and places from his personal surroundings into formal compositions that often appear to have mythical, literary, or psychological elements. Roberts received his B.A. from Yale University, New Haven, CT, where he studied painting with William Bailey, and his M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, and Rome.
Roberts' work can be found in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, including the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection, New York.
A solo exhibition of Stone Roberts’ work was held at the Museum of the City of New York in 2012 entitled Stone Roberts: New York City Paintings." Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Modern
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Sydney and Walda Besthoff
Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC
Mrs. Robert Carroll
Mr. and Mrs. Willam Cecil
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN
Jerald Dillon Fessenden
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Ms. Barbara Goldsmith
Mrs. Paul Gottlieb
Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund
Mr. and Mrs. Arie L. Kopelman
Alex S. Jones
William Louis-Dreyfus
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Marlas
J.D. McClatchy and Chip Kidd
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Menschel
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mrs. Stephen Paine
Mr. and Mrs. W.J.W.J. van Roijen
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald II
Mark Singer
Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa
Stephens Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas
Woodberry Forest...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Crucifixion, Realist Lithograph by Joseph Hirsch
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joseph Hirsch, American (1901 - 1981)
Title: The Crucifixion
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: 100
Si...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Coupe Gordon Bennett 1909
original lithograph by Marguerite "Gamy" Montaut
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Coupe Gordon Bennett 1909 — Curtiss le Gagnant" is an original Lithograph with Pochoir created by Marguerite Montaut (GAMY). Gamy presents the viewer w...
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Early 1900s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Ink
19th century etching black and white seascape print figure waves rocks signed
By James Fagan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Fisherman's Catch" is a signed (in pencil lower right and in plate lower left) etching by James Fagan. It depicts a fisherman walking on a beach in black and white. It is signed...
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1880s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Trench
By James Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Trench
Lithograph, 1937
Signed and annotated in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 30
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Mary Ryan Gallery
Frac Teck Services, Ft. Worth, TX
Part of a se...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Autumn (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Title: Four Ages of Love: Autumn
Year: circa 1985
Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper
Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
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1980s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$280 Sale Price
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The Hold Up, First State
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil by the artist lower right
Titled "Hold Up" by the artist in pencil.
Signed by the printer Bolton Brown lower left.
Edition: 42 in this state
Note: In The Hold Up, se...
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1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chon-Mon-I-Case, an Otto half chief.
Located in Pasadena, CA
History Of The Indian Tribes Of North America, With Biographical Sketches And Anecdotes Of The Principal Chiefs. Embellished With One Hundred And Twenty Portraits, From The Indian Ga...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$480 Sale Price
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Women In Golf : The Perfect Couple 1988 Signed Limited Edition Art Etching
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Signed Limited Edition Etching by Charles Bragg.
Women in Golf Suite : The Perfect Couple
1988
Etching
13" x 14.5" inches
Signed in pencil, titled and marked 100/300
Unframed
Ch...
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1980s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Women in Golf #18 Signed Limited Edition Etching 1988
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Signed Limited Edition Art Etching by Charles Bragg.
Women in Golf Suite : #18
1988
Etching
13" x 14.5" inches
Signed in pencil, titled and marked 95 /300
Unframed
Step into the ...
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1980s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$227 Sale Price
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Flying Concellos
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Flying Concellos, etching, 1936, signed in pencil lower right and annotated “40 Proofs” lower left. Reference: Sasowsky 163, fourth state (of 4). In excel...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Skiing, World Cup, Lithograph by Jim Jonson
By Jim Jonson
Located in Long Island City, NY
US World Cup Skiing
Jim Jonson, American (1928–1999)
Date: 1977
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 300, AP
Image Size: 18 x 25 inches
Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 c...
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1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Darius at 10
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Darius at 10
Drypoint, 2022
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Printed by Rebekah Wilhelm
Her drystamp lower right
Published by the artist
Edition 14, plus proofs
Condition: Excel...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
WNEW Peggy Lee Offset Print, American Realist, 20th Century, Unframed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This large, billboard-size poster was designed by Bobby Lee Hickson for WNEW Jazz, featuring the legendary Peggy Lee. With its bold composition and striking imagery, this rare promot...
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20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$120 Sale Price
20% Off
Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Summer (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Title: Four Ages of Love: Summer
Year: circa 1985
Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper
Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$280 Sale Price
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Fashions of the Past
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan (American 1871 – 1954), Fashions of the Past, etching and aquatint, 1926, signed and titled by the artist in pencil (Morse 224 IV/IV), also signed by the printer. From the...
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1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Irving Place Burlesk
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Irving Place Burlesk, etching, 1929, signed in pencil lower right and numbered (18) lower left. Reference: Sasowsky 75, third state (of 3). In very good c...
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1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Partings Long Seen Coming from the Rilke Portfolio
By Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969)
Title: Partings Long Seen Coming from the Rilke Portfolio
Year: 1968
Medium: Lithograph on Richard de Bas, si...
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1960s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Holiday in Camp -- Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Holiday in Camp -- Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball"
Wood engraving, 1865
After Winslow Homer
Unsigned
(Signed in text in title caption, see photo)
Published in Harper's Weekly July 15, 1...
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1860s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
"En Salada" Salad Fixings Intaglio on Paper by Joseph C. MaCarthy
Located in Soquel, CA
"En Salada" Salad Fixings Etching on Paper by Joseph C. MaCarthy
This Intaglio print, titled "En Salada," by San Francisco Bay area artist Joseph C. McCarthy (American, 20th C), cre...
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Original "You Can Lick Runaway Prices, You Hol The 7 Kesys to Hold Down Prices"
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WWII poster: YOU CAN LICK RUNAWAY PRICES ORIGINAL VINTAGE WWII POSTER BY JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG
Distributed originally by OWI for the Office of Economic Stabilization.
1. Buy and hold War Bonds.
2. Pay willingly our share of taxes.
3. Provide adequate life insurance and savings for our future.
4. Reduce our debts as much as possible.
5. Buy only what we need and make what we have last longer.
6. Follow ration rules and price ceilings.
7. Cooperate with our Government's wage stabilization program. Publisher: [S. l.]: Distributed by O.W.I. for the Office of Economic Stabilization.
Linen backed fine condition. Restored original Government fold marks (on all World War 2 American vintage posters)
James Montgomery Flagg is best known for depicting Uncle Sam in recruitment and public service announcement posters of both World War I and II. You Can Lick Runaway Prices? Features a new painting created by Flagg in c.1942. The poster emphasizes seven steps that the average American could take to prevent inflation. Among these points include significant themes of buying war bonds, conservation, and food rationing. The seven steps correspond to the seven letters that spell Victory. The imagery references Flagg's iconic I Want You poster...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Original Ford, The all New Taunus 12M Super vintage German poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Ford of Germany, The All New Taunus 12M Super vintage German antique poster. Archivally linen-backed om excellent condition and ready to frame. We have not be able to locate any other document copy of this poster.
The Taunus 12M, presented in 1952, was the first new German Ford...
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1950s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
RUNNING THE RAPIDS
By Frank Benson
Located in Portland, ME
Benson, Frank. RUNNING THE RAPIDS. Paff 269. Etching, 1927. Edition of 150. Signed in pencil. Printed on Whatman paper. 5 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches (plate), 8 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches (sheet). A...
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1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original "Proper Care Before Birth" means More Babies vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Proper Care Before Birth” vintage poster.
Archival linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. Size 20.5” x 27”; circa 1917.
The Original "Proper Care Before Births" vintage poster is a rare find for collectors of World War 1 memorabilia...
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1910s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
At the Show
By Jerome Myers
Located in New York, NY
Jerome Myers (1867-1940), At the Show, etching and drypoint, c. 1920, signed in pencil lower right. In good condition, with margins (paper losses upper corners), faint ink marks and ...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Original Charles Dickens
David Copperfield US movie poster half-sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original David Copperfield vintage movie poster. One half sheet. Metro – Goldwyn –Mayer. DAVID COPPERFIELD 1962 Original U.S. Half Sheet horizontal Movie Poster. NSS: R-62/207. Fine condition. The first release of this movie David Copperfield was in 1935.
Starring: W. C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore...
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1960s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$319 Sale Price
20% Off
Reflections
By Will Barnet
Located in Buffalo, NY
“Reflection, 1971”
Medium: Color serigraph
Signed and titled
Ed: 121/225
Sheet: 30 x 23 in.
Image: 22 x 14.5 in.
Condition: Excellent
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
$2,400 Sale Price
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THE EVANGELIST
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOHN STOCKTON DE MARTELLY (American 1903 - 1980)
THE EVANGELIST, 1941 (Zink 19)
Lithograph, signed, dated and numbered 80/100 in pencil below image. Signature and date in lighter pencil. Image. Very Good Condition. image, 13 1/2 x 9 3/4". Full sheet with deckle edges, 16 x 11 3/4". The Evangelist apparently represents de Martelly's New Hampshire neighbor Lizzy Osgood. De Martelly worked in an American Regionalist Style, often depicting his New Hampshire neighbors. He was associated with Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Art Institute. Most of de Martelly's regionalist prints were published by Associated American Artists in editions of 250. This lithograph is scarcer in an edition of only 100. He became an art professor at Michigan State University. After the 1940's de Martelly abandoned his Regionalist style for abstraction.
Roger Genser...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$680 Sale Price
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Figure Study (From Interior: Evening)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and numbered by the artist
Edition: 25
Printed on Hahnemuhle paper
Published by Neptune Fine Arts
Condition: excellent
Plate/Image size:
Sheet size:
"Stone Roberts’ luminous still lifes, private interiors, and large-scale panoramas of figures in motion invite us to look—and then look some more—and relish in the sensuality of the three-dimensional world. While Roberts’ varied influences include Greek Mythology and Roman Classicism, Dutch and Spanish Old Masters, Fantin-Latour, Ingres, and Balthus, his subjects are decidedly of today. From Grand Central Terminal to his wife gardening in Stonington, Connecticut, Roberts paints people and places from his personal surroundings into formal compositions that often appear to have mythical, literary, or psychological elements. Roberts received his B.A. from Yale University, New Haven, CT, where he studied painting with William Bailey, and his M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, and Rome.
Roberts' work can be found in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, including the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection, New York.
A solo exhibition of Stone Roberts’ work was held at the Museum of the City of New York in 2012 entitled Stone Roberts: New York City Paintings." Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Modern
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Sydney and Walda Besthoff
Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC
Mrs. Robert Carroll
Mr. and Mrs. Willam Cecil
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN
Jerald Dillon Fessenden
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Ms. Barbara Goldsmith
Mrs. Paul Gottlieb
Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund
Mr. and Mrs. Arie L. Kopelman
Alex S. Jones
William Louis-Dreyfus
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Marlas
J.D. McClatchy and Chip Kidd
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Menschel
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mrs. Stephen Paine
Mr. and Mrs. W.J.W.J. van Roijen
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald II
Mark Singer
Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa
Stephens Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas
Woodberry Forest...
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20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$840 Sale Price
30% Off
"Young Girl With Hat, " Victorian Portrait Etching signed Frederick M. Spiegle
By Frederick M. Spiegle
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Young Girl With Hat" is a classical Victorian portrait etching. It is signed in graphite in the lower right by the artist, F.M. Spiegle. It depicts a Victorian girl with curly hair ...
Category
1880s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
The Tournament (Tennis at Newport)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A lithograph by George Bellows. “The Tournament (Tennis at Newport)” is a realistic lithograph on paper in black and white by American Realist artist, George Bellows. Bellows' depictions of sporting / leisure scenes are unique and valuable. This artwork is edition 56/63 with framed dimensions of 26 x 29 x 1 1/4 inches and has been in the same private collection for almost four decades. The artwork is signed in pencil, lower right, "G. Bellows.”
Provenance:
Catherine E Burns...
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1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Salt Bark
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Salt Bark" 1947, is an original lithograph on paper by noted naval American artist Gordon Hope Grant, 1875-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. ...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
NBA, American Realist Lithograph by Allan Mardon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Allan Mardon, Canadian (1931 - ) - NBA, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 950, Size: 23 x 26 in. (58.42 x 66.04 cm)
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Little Penthouse
By Martin Lewis
Located in New York, NY
Martin Lewis (1881-1962), Little Penthouse, drypoint, 1931, signed in pencil lower right [signed in the plate in a rectangle lower left]. Reference: McCarron 91, only state. Printed ...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
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