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Medium: Woodcut
Large Scale Abstract Figurative Landscape Woodcut, Signed Limited Edition 1/10
Located in Soquel, CA
Large scale limited edition woodcut print of an an abstracted scene with landscape elements and rough figural forms including a dog, house and tree that emerge from chaotic linear ab...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Paper, Woodcut, Ink

Decent - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Decent - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman Limited Edition 01/04 This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Immerse yourself in the...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Kuwana Station - Woodcut after Utagawa Hiroshige -1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Kuwana Station is an original modern artwork realized after Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in 1920s. Original woodcut print oban yokoe. After the famous Tokaido series, ...
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1920s Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Gondolas on the Grand Canal in Venice - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Robert BONFILS Gondolas on the Grand Canal in Venice Original woodcut Handsigned in pencil Numbered /154 On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) Bears the blind stamp of the edito...
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1920s Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

"Little Wolf s Last Camp, " Colored Woodblock A/P signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Little Wolf's Last Camp" is a colored woodblock A/P signed by Carol Summers. In the image, a mountain looms over a circle of teat the edge of a lake, a scene likely inspired by the life events of the Northern Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf (c. 1820-1904) and his leadership during the Northern Cheyenne Exodus. The drama of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Frame: 37 x 37 in This is an artist's proof from the edition of 100 Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MOMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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1970s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Gauguin, Delightful Land (Nave nave fenua), Gauguin (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin Utopian paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Gauguin, A portfolio of 12 color woodblocks, Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903 from the collection of the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946. Rendered by Albert Carman (1899-1949); published the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston and The Studio Publications, Inc., New York and London; printed by Holme Press Inc., New York, in an edition of MMMD. Excerpted from the folio, Paul Gauguin and Emil Bernard at Pont-Aven, Brittany, in 1888, each made a bas-relief, wooden panel to decorate a piece of furniture for a friend. In order to keep a record of their designs, a few inked impressions were made on paper. The illustration at left is a reproduction of a print which is possibly one of the above mentioned. It is further possible that this experiment later gave Gauguin the idea of making woodcuts. Just as his work in painting expressed a revolt against the overemphasis on factual representation of the nineteenth century in favor of decorative pattern and color, so also his woodcuts leaned strongly to the same side of the balance. Ten of the cuts reproduced (all excepting Soyez Amoureuses and Changement de Residence), which constitute the whole of his best known series, were made at Pont-Aven beginning in the fall of 1894, after Gauguin's return from his first trip to Tahiti and after he broke his ankle. They were at first roughly cut with a common carpenter's gouge, and the flat surfaces sandpapered and engraved with a sharp in-strument, perhaps an engraver's burin. A few trial proofs were printed in black ink only. Then the hollows were deepened with a woodcutter's gouge and highlights were added. An edition of thirty to fifty impressions of each subject, with the addition of color blocks (one, two or three), was made by Louis Roy...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Harvesting Young Cedars - Woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Harvesting Young Cedars is a lovely original woodcut print from the work of the famous Japanese master Utagawa Hiroshige from an early 19th century edition. It represents an agricult...
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19th Century Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Kabuki Actor - Woodblock Print attr. to Utagawa Kunisada - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Kabuki Actor is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19 century and attributed to Utagawa Kunisada. Beautiful colored woodblock print, included a cardboard passpartout. Includ...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Fruits, Modern Woodcut on thin tissue paper by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Fruits, Year: 1991, Medium: Woodcut on thin tissue paper, Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil, Edition: A/P, Image Size: 11.5 x 15.5...
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1990s Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Southampton, NY
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Southampton, NY
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Henry R. Diamond, Whaler
By Henry R. Diamond
Located in New York, NY
Really a wood engraving rather than a woodcut, Henry R. Diamond's Whaler is majestic. It is signed and titled in pencil.
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Early 20th Century American Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Bernard, Composition, Éloge de Émile Bernard (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Éloge de Émile Bernard, 1962. Published by Editions d'Art Ma...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Rare Sighting- Surfing Art
Located in Carmel, CA
Rare Sighiting - Surfing Art - Figurative - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman Limited Edition 01/04 This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Immerse yoursel...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Kabuki Scene - Woodblock Print by Utagawa Kunisada - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Kabuki Scene is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19 century by Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print. This wonderful modern artwork repr...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Composition (Morane, N° 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Françoise, Émile Bernard
Located in Southampton, NY
Wood engraving on vergé d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. François, 1928. Published b...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Allegro, Ukiyo-e landscape and sunset woodblock print, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Keiji Shinohara was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. After 10 years as an apprentice to the renowned Keiichiro Uesugi in Kyoto, he became a Master Printmaker and moved to the United ...
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2010s Impressionist Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Panorama d un Paysage - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This beautiful woodcut print in the tradutional "oban" format is the work of the great Japanese master Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). It represents the landscape from a high point o...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

"Ravanna s Palace Burning, " Woodcut Landscape signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ravanna's Palace Burning" is a woodcut signed by Carol Summers. The image combines landscape and architecture, which is typical of the works Summers produced during the 1980s and '90s. In the image, a dark building stands burning, bright red flames licking from the windows and rooftop. It stands beside an orange field framed in pink, probably representing a plaza. Beyond the plaza are multicolored trees, their branches reaching upward like the flames on the building. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Art: 24.5 x 37.25 in Frame: 30 x 42.75 in Numbered 53 of the edition of 125 Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MOMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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1980s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

"Nightrise" Public Works Art Color Woodcut
By Ruth Chaney
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold woodblock serigraph by Ruth Chaney (American, 1908-1973). Numbered (#17), titled, signed, and dated along the bottom edge. The Smithsonian American Art Museum has an edition of...
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1930s American Impressionist Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Paper, Ink, Woodcut

Red Monochromatic Abstract Woodblock Monoprint of a Web of Trees Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Red toned abstract woodcut monoprint by Japanese printmaker Joishi Hoshi. This work is a fantastic example of Hoshi's iconic interlocking web of bare trees. Signed and dated by artis...
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1970s Abstract Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut, Monoprint

Alhambra XII
Located in New York, NY
Antonio Frasconi created the color woodcut entitled “Alhambra XII” in 1963. This piece is signed titled, and dated in pencil. The edition is 12, and paper size is 18 x 24 inches. “...
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1960s American Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Oiso Station in the Rain - Woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige -1833
Located in Roma, IT
Oiso Station in the Rain is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in 1833-1834. Original Woodcut print Oban yokoe, lifetime impression. ...
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1830s Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Robert Greenhalf, Shoverlers, Limited Edition Print, Bird Print, Wildlife Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Robert Greenhalf Shoverlers Limited Edition Print Woodcut on Paper Edition of 100 Paper Size: H 38.5cm x W 41 cm Image Size: H 27.5cm x W 27.5cm Sold ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

Art Deco City Scene with Motor Car print by Gerald Mac Spink
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you ...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

"Plovers at Tamagawa" from "Six Jewel Rivers" - Woodblock Print on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Plovers at Tamagawa" from "Six Jewel Rivers" - Woodblock Print on Paper This print, sometimes titled "Chidori No Tamagawa" "Plovers at Tamagawa", is from the series Mu Tamagawa ("Six Views of Tama River", also known as "Six Jewel Rivers" or "Six Crystal Rivers") by Kubo Shunman...
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Late 18th Century Edo Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Paper, Ink, Woodcut

Three leaves (taro) - Landscape Print - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Minimal image in black ink on buff rice paper. Taro leaves are a simple form inspiring this woodcut print. Three leaves (taro) - Landscape Print - Woodcut Print By Marc Zimmerman T...
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2010s American Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

The Sea-Eight Scenic Spots in Kanazawa
Located in Roma, IT
The Sea-Eight Scenic Spots in Kanazawa is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century. Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japanese artist Utagawa H...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Kcho, Untitled I, 2019 Original Woodcut 45x31in landscape abstract povera art
Located in Miami, FL
Kcho (Alexis Leiva Machado) (Cuba, 1970) 'Untitled I', 2019 woodcut, silkscreen on paper Intaglio 300 g. 44.7 x 31.2 in. (113.5 x 79 cm.) Edition of 30 ID: KCH-121 Unframed
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut, Ink

Utagawa Kunisada - Woodblock Print by Utagawa Kunisada - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Samurai is an original Woodcut print realized in mid 19 century by Utagawa Kunisada. Beautiful colored woodblock print, included a cardboard passpartout. Includes frame: 45.5 x 35...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Fukuroi Dejaya No Zu - Orignal Woodcut by Utagawa Hiroshige - 1833
Located in Roma, IT
Fukuroi Dejaya No Zu (An Outdoor Tea Stall at Fukuroi), is a beautiful color woodblock print on paper, the plate n. 28 from the series Fifty-three Stations Along the Tokaido (Tokai...
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Mid-19th Century Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

Coin de Rue Dans Soho
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1947), Coin de Rue Dans Soho, woodcut, 1909, signed in pencil lower left and numbered (15/15) [also initials in the plate]. Reference: Sylvain Laboureur 64...
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Early 1900s Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

The House of Naiads - Woodcut Print by G. Verna - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimension 36.5 x 18 cm. Hand Signed. Edition of 100 pieces.
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1940s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Hans Jean Arp, Yellow, from Derriere le miroir, 1950
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite woodcut by Hans Jean Arp (1886–1966), titled Jaune (Yellow), from the folio Derriere le miroir, No. 33, originates from the 1950 edition published by Maeght Editeur, P...
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1950s Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Blue, Ukiyo-e landscape woodcut print, 2014
Located in New York, NY
Keiji Shinohara was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. After 10 years as an apprentice to the renowned Keiichiro Uesugi in Kyoto, he became a Master Printmaker and moved to the United ...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Tide Race, Japanese Woodcut Art, Ocean Art, Art for your Beach House, Coastal
Located in Deddington, GB
Tide Race by Artist Rod Nelson is a limited edition print. The scene captures the violently beautiful way in which waves crash. Rod Nelson is a printmaker w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

Wassily Kandinsky, Black Spot, from XXe siecle, 1938
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite woodcut by Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), titled Schwarzer Fleck (Black Spot), from the album XXe siecle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue Valette (5e), Directeur G. di San ...
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1930s Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

WARM DAY
Located in Portland, ME
Nagai, Kiyoshi (Japanese, 1911-1984). WARM DAY. Color woodblock, 1971. Edition of 252. Signed, datted, and numbered 156 - 252, all in pencil. 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches, framed to 20 1/2...
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1970s Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

KATSURA KYOTO I
Located in Portland, ME
Saito, Kiyoshi. KATSURA KYOTO I. Color Woodblock, 1962. Edition of 200. Titled, dated and numbered 84/200 in pencil. Signed in the block (prints from thi...
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1960s Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Adhesive, Woodcut

Keiji Shinohara, Accelerondo, Ukiyo-e woodcut print landscape, 2005
Located in New York, NY
Keiji Shinohara was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. After 10 years as an apprentice to the renowned Keiichiro Uesugi in Kyoto, he became a Master Printmaker and moved to the United ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

The Second Army Bombarding, Ukiyo-E Wooblock by Watanabe Nobukazu
By Watanabe Nobukazu
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Watanabe Nobukazu, Japanese (1872 - 1944) Title: The Second Army Bombarding and Occupying Port Arthur Year: 1894 Medium: Woodblock Triptych...
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1890s Other Art Style Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Page from "Spring View in Takanawa" Mid 18th Century Ukiyo-e Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Page from "Spring View in Takanawa" Mid 18th Century Ukiyo-e Print Left page from the triptych print "Spring View in Takanawa" by Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese b. 1786 d...
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1840s Edo Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Printer s Ink, Mulberry Paper, Woodcut

Boat (study for estuary)
Located in New York, NY
Richard Bosman (b. 1944) is a painter and printmaker known for his woodcuts depicting turbulent seascapes. He studied at Bryam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing in London, The New ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Blue Texas Modernist Abstract Surrealist Space Themed Landscape Block Print
Located in Houston, TX
Blue space themed surrealist block print by Texas modernist artist Josefa Vaughan. The yellow toned abstract forms create a whimsical landscape. Signed "Fo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Keiji Shinohara, Symphony (TP), Ukiyo-e woodcut print landscape, 2002
Located in New York, NY
In his "Symphony (TP)," 2002, Keiji Shinohara flattens a sunset landscape to its most essential visual elements in the tradition of Japanese woodcut, while updating the medium with t...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Archival Paper, Woodcut

Yoshida Hiroshi -- The Golden Pavilion 金阁
By Yoshida Hiroshi
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Title "The Golden Pavilion" 金阁 Date 1933; (posthumous edition, likely 1950's/60's). Publisher Yoshida Family Studio Image Size 9 5/8 x 14 3/4 Impression Very Fine. Sk...
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Early 20th Century Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

"Red, Yellow, Blue Green, " Color Woodcut Monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Red, Yellow, Blue & Green" is an original color woodcut by Carol Summers. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. This woodcut depicts four color fields. The edition number i...
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2010s Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Monotype, Woodcut

"Farewell, " Sunset Landscape Woodcut by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Farewell" is an original color woodcut by Carol Summers. The artist signed the piece. This woodcut depicts a river flowing through green hills beneath a blood-red sky. The edition number is 20/50. 24 1/4" x 37" art 32" x 45" frame Carol Summers has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of...
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1990s Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Opus 9, landscape Ukiyo-e monotype, 2008
Located in New York, NY
In his Ukiyo-e monotype, Opus 9, 2011, Keiji Shinohara uses the tradition of landscape as a playground for his dialogue between eastern and western tradition. Shinohara's flattened s...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Monoprint, Woodcut

19th century woodcut engraving print figurative American forest trees scene
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present woodcut engraving is an original print designed by Winslow Homer, originally published in Harper's Weekly on April 30, 1859. It is an excellent example of the many prints Homer produced of fashionable people engaged in leisurely activities, in this case along a picturesque countryside lane. The sign reading 'Belmont' on the left indicates this is probably near his home in Belmont Massachusetts. The image presents multiple figures, both men and women, riding horseback: Some in the distance gallop away, toward a town marked by a church steeple beyond. Three others in the foreground, including two equestrian women, gather around a group of children who have been gathering flowers and trapping birds...
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1850s Victorian Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut, Engraving

"Flood Waters, " Landscape Wood Engraving by Harold Wescott
By Harold Wescott
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Flood Waters" is an original wood engraving by Harold Wescott, It features a tree in the center, with its roots wrapping languidly over a form. High waters rise up from the back. Un...
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1930s American Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

"Arroyo, " Original Woodcut and Monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Arroyo" is an original woodcut and monotype by Carol Summers. The artist signed the piece. It is from an edition of 120 and depicts an abstract landscape in blues and greens. 14 1...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Monotype, Woodcut

"Diocletian s Retreat, " Woodcut and Monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Diocletian's Retreat" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. The image combines landscape and architecture, in this case a classical struc...
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1990s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Monotype, Woodcut

Trees
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Nicolas Party (b. 1980) is a critically acclaimed Swiss artist best known for his distinct brand of stylized fantasy figuration. One of the most successful and youngest artists in th...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Cove Variation Twelve, Lavender Trees, Water, Pale Yellow Sky Blue Forest
Located in Kent, CT
This woodcut print on paper evokes the peacefulness of looking across a stream towards a thicket of trees in a forest in shades of light yellow, very pale sky gray blue and soft lave...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype, Woodcut

Beyond The Obsession Lies The Connection - Surfing Art - Woodcut Print By Marc
Located in Carmel, CA
Beyond The Obsession Lies The Connection - Surfing Art - Woodcut Print By Marc Limited Edition 01/04 This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Immerse your...
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2010s Contemporary Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Actor as Samurai - 18th Century Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Actor as Samurai - 18th Century Japanese Woodblock Print Woodblock print depicting an actor, possibly Nakamura Denkuro II, as a samurai. The actor stands with his sword unsheathed a...
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Late 18th Century Edo Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut, Rice Paper

Elwood W. Bartlett, Water s Edge (Wisconsin), about 1945, mid-century wood eng.
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 Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Elwood W. Bartlett, Turtle Creek (Wisconsin), about 1945, mid-century wood eng.
Located in New York, NY
Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana. Turtle Creek (named of course for its many turtles,) is in the southeastern part of the Wisconsin. It is now ...
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1940s American Modern Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Composition, Description of a Masque, Jane Freilicher
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin Tosa Hanga à la main paper. Paper Size: 16 x 12 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Description of a Masque, 1998. Publis...
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1990s Academic Woodcut Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Woodcut landscape prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Woodcut landscape prints available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add landscape prints created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, yellow, green and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Marc Zimmerman, Eve Stockton, Carol Summers, and Utagawa Hiroshige. Frequently made by artists working in the Modern, Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Woodcut landscape prints, so small editions measuring 0.01 inches across are also available

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