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Art Subject: Bird
John Piper Capesthorne Hall 1977 screenprint Modern British Art
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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1970s Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

Sunlight across the fields, limited edition print, landscape print, animal print
Located in Deddington, GB
Sunlight across the fields [2023] limited_edition Linocut print Edition number 50 Image size: H:33 cm x W:45 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:49 cm x W:61 cm x D:0.2cm Sold Unfr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Linocut

Snowdrop Swathe and Blossom in the Wind diptych
Located in Deddington, GB
Snowdrop Swathe by Rob Barnes [2020] limited_edition Linocut Edition number 50 Image size: H:33 cm x W:44 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:49 cm x W:61 cm x D:0.2cm Sold Unframe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Clare Halifax, Bridge of Sighs Oxford, Contemporary Oxford Art, Cityscape Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax Bridge of Sighs Oxford Limited Edition 8 colour screen print Edition of 75 Sheet Size: H 38cm x W 37cm x 0.1cm Sold Unframed Hand printed by the artist onto somerset sa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

Rob Barnes, The Owl Post, Limited Edition Print, Landscape Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Rob Barnes The Owl Post Limited Edition Linocut Print Edition of 50 Image Size H 44cm x W 33cm Sheet Size H 49cm x W 61cm Sold Unframed mounted in Antique White mountboard Free Shipping Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look. The Owl Post by Rob Barnes is a limited edition linocut print using a Key Block and a Reduction Block resulting in several layers of printing. This landscape with an owl as its main feature was inspired by seeing barn owls locally. Rob has an owl box...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Champagne City, Slate Blue Thames, Print by Clare Halifax
Located in Deddington, GB
Champagne City, Slate Blue Thames, Painting by Clare Halifax Very limited edition of 10 prints featuring hand gilded champagne gold leaf 22.5ct with slate blue thames. This 2 colour screen print with hand finished gilding is printed by the artist and shows the view of the thames from sky garden Additional information: Image size 48x48cm, Paper size 56x56cm, Edition of 10, Printed onto somerset satin 300gms with deckle edge. Size: H:56 cm x W:56 cm Clare Halifax, artist. Clare Halifax is offering exclusive Cotswold screen prints as well as scenes of London and Oxford. Clare Halifax graduated from the University of Loughborough in 2000 with a BA Hons in Printed Textile design...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Prints

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Satin Paper, Screen

Twoturtle Doves, Kate Heiss, Contemporary art, Animal and Wildlife art
Located in Deddington, GB
TwoTurle Doves by Kate Heiss [2017] Limited edition Linocut Hand signed by the artist Edition of 30 Oil based inks on 300gsm Somerset Velvet soft white paper Image Size: H:30cm x W:30cm Complete size of unframed work (sold in mount) H:40cm x W:40cm x D:0.1cm Two visiting Turtle doves perched in a hawthorn bush who have survived their migratory journey to spend the summer in the English countryside. The Turtle Dove is now the UK’s fastest declining breed of bird. Between 1995 and 2004 the number of breeding turtle doves in the UK fell by 93%. This print is featured in a new book called “When Turtle Doves Fly” produced in conjunction with Operation Turtle dove (a branch of the RSPB dedicated to saving Turtle Doves from extinction) Kate Heiss is a textile designer and print-maker who has worked with a wide range of fashion brands including Fenchurch, Miss Selfridge and the Japanese fashion designer Michiko Koshino...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Paper, Linocut

Arching Elms, American Realist Lithograph by Gordon Grant
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gordon Grant, American (1875 - 1962) Title: Arching Elms Year: circa 1940 Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil Image Size: 9 x 11 inches Size: 11 in. x 16 in. (27.94 cm x 40....
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1940s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Anna Harley, Bluebird, Limited Edition Contemporary Landscape Print, Minimalist
Located in Deddington, GB
Anna Harley Bluebird Limited Edition Silkscreen Print Edition of 36 Size: H 38cm x W 38cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Landscape Prints

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Paper, Screen

On a Distant Planet, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: On a Distant Planet Year: 1978 Edition: H.C. 9; aside from the edition of 165 Medium: Silkscreen on Somerset paper Size: 26.5 x 20.75 inches Conditio...
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1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Sacred Grove
Located in Deddington, GB
Kit Boyd The Sacred Grove Unique hand-coloured etching and aquatint from the standard edition of 60. Imaginary coastal landscape with birds and a figure. hand printed on Hahnemuhle e...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Today s Last Dance, Seascape Art, Calming Art, Coastal Art, Pink Pastel Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Celebrating the moments where the light for the day draws to a close. Emma Reynolds, printmaker, is available for sale online and in our art gallery at W...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

The Paddleboarder, Cambridge Landscape Print, Figurative Art, Limited Edition
Located in Deddington, GB
The River Cam winds past St John’s College. Cambridge, a solitary paddle boarder is enjoying the view and a kingfisher is flying through the leaves of a willow tree. Printed in Prussian Blue. Discover more original artwork by Kate Heiss with Wychwood Art online and in our art gallery. Kate Heiss is a textile designer and print-maker who has worked with a wide range of fashion brands including Fenchurch, Miss Selfridge...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink

Evening Light Over Torcross
Located in Deddington, GB
Evening Light over Torcross by Ann Burnham [2021] limited_edition linocut Edition number 1 -10 Image size: H:15cm cm x W:35cm cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:55cm cm x W:75cm c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Linocut

Magnolia Angelic, Allan Forsyth, Contemporary Luxury Statement Art, Bright Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Allan Forsyth MAGNOLIA ANGELIC Limited Edition Floral Print Archival Chromagenic Photographic Print Edition of 25 Artwork Size: H 76cm x W 228cm x D 2cm Diasec Framed and Ready to Ha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Landscape Prints

Materials

Metal

Tim Southall, The Sea Eagle, Limited edition animal print
Located in Deddington, GB
The Sea Eagle by Tim Southall [2019] limited_edition Screen Print on Paper Edition number 50 Image size: H:40 cm x W:59 cm Complete Size of Unframed W...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Animal Prints

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Screen

Woodcocks return. 1970, Paper, linocut, print size 52x55 cm; total 70x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Woodcocks return. 1970, Paper, linocut, print size 52x55 cm; total 70x65 cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fiction publications. ...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Animal Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Autumn Berries, Norfolk Broads Marsh Harrier and Sheringham Park, Norfolk Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Autumn Berries by Joanna Padfield [2021] limited_edition Linocut Edition number 50 Image size: H:22.5 cm x W:16.9 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:29.7 cm x W:21 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Autumn Berries is a handmade limited edition linocut print by Joanna Padfield. The scene depicts Burnham Deepdale church, trees, and clouds in the sky, framed by berries and leaves. Printed in red and purple. Norfolk Broads...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper, Linocut

Rob Barnes, Ploughing the Furrows, Limited Edition Linocut Print, Landscape Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Rob Barnes Ploughing the Furrows Limited Edition Linocut Print Edition of 50 Image Size H 44cm x W 33cm Sheet Size H 49cm x W 61cm Sold Unframed mounted in Antique White mountboard ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Sea Birds and Beach Life diptych
Located in Deddington, GB
Sea Birds and Beach Life diptych Overall Image Size cm : H20 x W15 Tim Southall Sea Birds Limited Edition Print Edition of 75 Image Size: H 10cm x W 15cm Sea...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Monoprint

The Windmill on the Hill
Located in Deddington, GB
The Windmill on the Hill by Karen Keogh [2020] original Etching on Paper Image size: H:15 cm x W:20 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:29 cm x W:38 cm ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching

Morning Tide
Located in Deddington, GB
Morning Tide Rob Barnes [2021] limited_edition Linocut Edition number 50 Image size: H:35 cm x W:44 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:49 cm x W:61 cm ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Swallows over the Ley
Located in Deddington, GB
Swallows over the Ley by Ann Burnham [2021] limited_edition linocut Edition number 1-10 Image size: H:16cm cm x W:30cm cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:28cm cm x W:48cm cm x D:3...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Winter Shadows and Snow Trees
Located in Deddington, GB
Winter Shadows by Rob Barnes [2020] limited_edition Linocut Edition number 50 Image size: H:33 cm x W:44 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:49 cm x W:61 cm x D:0.2cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Working on snow scenes is always a challenge as there is no room for error keeping white paper unmarked. This is difficult because a lino block is almost empty, with few marks except the essential ones. In this linocut I have included a typical winter light, but the main event is the shadows changing shade and colour across the snow. Snow Trees...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Calder, Composition, A Bestiary (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Letterpress printing on spécialement fabriqué Curtis Rag vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.1875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, A Best...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Benevolent Cottagers /// English Landscape Figurative Village Scene Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (English, 1779-1844) Title: "Benevolent Cottagers" Year: 1816 Medium: Original Etching and Engraving on laid paper Limited edition: Unknown...
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1810s Old Masters Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving, Etching, Laid Paper, Intaglio

Kate Heiss, In the Sand Dunes, Limited Edition Print, Beach Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Kate Heiss In the Sand Dunes Linocut Edition of 50 Image Size 30 x 30cm Mounted size 40x 40cm Oil based inks on 300GSM Soft white Somerset Velvet Paper Signed and dated on the front ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Robert Greenhalf, Great White Egrets, Limited Edition Print, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Robert Greenhalf Great White Egrets Limited Edition Print Woodcut on Paper Edition of 100 Paper Size: H 48.5cm x W25.5 cm Image Size: H38.5cm x 16.5cm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

Kristjana Williams, Fugl Ne Fiskur - Circular Sea-Born, Seascape Art, Animal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Kristjana Williams Fugl Ne Fiskur – Circular Sea-Born Limited Edition Print Giclee print on Paper Edition of 275 Size: H 80cm x W 80cm Sold Unframed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints

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Paper, Giclée

Kate Heiss, Curlew On the Beach – Lulworth Blue Series, Seascape Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Kate Heiss Curlew On the Beach – Lulworth Blue Series Linocut Edition of 50 Image Size 30 x 30cm Mounted size 40x 40cm Oil based inks on 300GSM Soft white Somerset Velvet Paper Signed and dated on the front Mounted Unframed Edition numbers may vary from the photo. Linocut Print – A relief printing technique where lino is cut, inked and rolled to create an inverse relief print, generating the image as seen. This work is sold mounted but not framed. Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look. Printed in a soft chalky Lulworth Blue* this print depicts a Curlew on the beach in front of Orfordness Lighthouse in Suffolk. The lighthouse is framed by a medley of wild flowers; sea holly...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Jane Peart, Forest Glen, Limited Edition Etching Print, Woodland Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Jane Peart Forest Glen Limited Edition Etching Print Edition of 100 Image Size: H 24cm x W 34cm Signed Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints

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Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Miami
Located in Toronto, ON
12" x 8.5" Unframed Limited Edition Silkscreen of 100 Hand Signed by Diana Christiansen
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21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

Hope (unique screen print with gold leaf)
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique UV pigment print on a 6-colour silkscreen printed background 410gsm Somerset Tub-sized Radiant white 100% cotton paper, finished with hand-applied 24 carat gold leaf and ink. Hand signed lower left by Pejac. Hand numbered 723/1000 lower right corner. Artwork size 31.49 x 21.65 inches. Frame size 38 x 28 inches. The artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity by Pejac included. All reasonable offers will be considered. HOPE was born in 2020 when, at the height of the pandemic, Pejac painted a mural on a hospital in his hometown – Santander. Seen from afar, thousands of figures formed the illusion of large crevice. The artwork quickly went viral online, and became a symbol of hope for many. Begun in the middle of 2023, our collaboration is centered on the question of how hope is found or created. To create the original work, Pejac undertook a month-long residency at Make-Ready in London. HOPE is an unprecedented collaboration between artist and printmaker. With the edition, Pejac reinterprets his iconic crevice which, seen up close, you will be surprised to see is made up from a multitude of tiny, individually-painted people. Each one plays their part in an overarching story of humanity. In the first print, just three figures appear, in the second, there are six and so on until the final print in the series of 1000, which features several thousand figures – each one unique. About the Artist: Pejac, born in Santander in 1977 is a Spanish street artist known for his minimalist style whilst exploring sensitive social, environmental and political issues. His work is powerful and deliberately provocative about real-world issues and he uses a range of artistic styles and mediums to get his often critical message across. Pejac studied art in Barcelona and Milan where he became disillusioned with the elitist attitude of the art world he was studying; he left formal education and embarked on his street art career. To label Pejac as a street artist is only capturing one element of his work. Pejac works to such fine detail and is technically highly skilled; he is quite capable at getting his message across with silhouette paintings on a wall or floor as he is at producing work in a classical style with exquisite fine detail. Pejac’s art...
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2010s Street Art Figurative Prints

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Gold Leaf

Hambleden Orchard (Farm with chicken, ox and oxcart)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This engraving is from an edition of 60. It is signed and dedicated. A farmyard scene with barn, chicken and ox. It is in excellent condition and is a fine impression. There is a stain in the lower bottom margin away from the image and well below the mat line Wilfred Fairclough...
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1940s Modern Landscape Prints

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Engraving

The Mountain, 2018, landscape, wildlife, gold, blue, tan, orange, black, print
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"The Mountain" by Alexis Kandra is a limited edition signed and numbered giclée print on Moab paper based on an original oil painting with metallic gold foil and gold leaf pen. Edit...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée

Julian Trevelyan Gravesend Etching Modern British Art London Print UK Thames
Located in London, GB
We have seven of Julian Trevelyan's 'Thames Suite' of prints, plus other prints and oil paintings by him - and other Modern British Artists. To see the others, scroll down to "More f...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Original Japanese Watercolor and Woodblock Print of Orchid and Swallows
Located in Burbank, CA
Orchid and small swallows (Hokuri, kotsubame). Original preparatory watercolor next to the finished original Japanese woodblock print. This is a highly finished preparatory watercolo...
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1890s Art Deco Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Woodcut

Milwaukee Bay From Pumping Station
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Framed 19.38 x 16.50 in 8.88 x 12 inches (sheet), 8.88 x 11.88 inches (block) linoleum block print on green laid paper signed in plate
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1930s Landscape Prints

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Linocut

Nature Wildlife India Sunset Orange Golden Light Lake Palace Bird Photograph
Located in Norfolk, GB
Aditya Dicky Singh, Untitled, photograph on fine-art Hahnemuhle archival paper 28" x 42" unframed (71cm x 107cm) 2022 Edition 1/10 *Should you wish the photographs to be printed...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Julian Trevelyan St. James s Park London Etching Modern British Art Print UK
Located in London, GB
To see our other views of London and our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". Julian Trevelyan (1910-19...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Belgian Contemporary Art by Hugo Pondz - Le Confident Gonflable
Located in Paris, IDF
C-Print on Argentic paper Others sizes are available upon simple request Shipping of the artwork will be done in a tube or flat in a crate with or without American box frame. Additio...
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2010s American Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper, C Print

THE TRAWLERS
By George Elmer Browne
Located in Portland, ME
Browne, George Elmer (American, 1871-1946). THE TRAWLERS. Drypoint, not dated. Edition size not stated. Titled and signed in pencil. In excellent condition.
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20th Century Landscape Prints

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Drypoint

Dodge, American Realist Lithograph by Mel Hunter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Dodge, Year: 1973, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 110, Size: 22 in. x 29 in. (55.88 cm x 73.66 cm), Description:...
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1970s American Realist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Poppy
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Poppy by Pat Dunigan Signed on front, lower right Print, Poppy, Flora, Flower, Bright and Vivid Colors, Abstract Flower, Home Decor, Wall Hanging, Nature
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Archival Paper, Giclée

Max Ernst, The Pampas, from Natural History, 1972 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite collotype after Max Ernst (1891–1976), titled Les Pampas (The Pampas), from the album Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle (Natural History), originates from the 1972 edition...
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1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Ballade du Soldat, 34 Lithographies Originales de Max Ernst, 1972. P...
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1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Canards et Poules - Etching by Francisco Gimenez - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
Canards et Poules is a black and White etching realized by Francisco Gimenez in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 32x13. Very good impression with wide margins and a ve...
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1860s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Oiseaux #13, from a series on birds by Marjan Seyedin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Aquatint and drypoint Year: 2011 Edition of 21 Image Size: 7 × 3.54 inches Portrait of a bird from a series by Franco-Iranian artist Marjan Seyedin. In her works, the an...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint

Oiseaux #1, from a series on birds by Marjan Seyedin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Aquatint and drypoint Year: 2011 Edition of 21 Image Size: 7 × 3.54 inches Portrait of a bird from a series by Franco-Iranian artist Marjan Seyedin. In her works, the an...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint

Scène IX, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on Vélin de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire, 1958. Published by Tériade,...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Plants and Animals - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Plants and Animals is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the government, of t...
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1860s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Dialogue Nocturne, Owls in a night time discussion by Marjan Seyedin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Dialogue Nocturne is moody image of a group of owls in a nocturnal gathering, by Franco-Iranian artist Marjan Seyedin. In her works, the animal prese...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Etching

The Pretty Boats - Etching by Giovanni Omiccioli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The pretty boats is an artwork realized  by Giovanni Omiccioli (February 25, 1901 – March 1, 1975). Etching on cardboard. The artist wants to define a well-balanced composition, th...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

19th century color lithograph birds landscape nature grass sky water figure
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Shooting on the Prairie" is an original hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives. It depicts a hunter shooting at fowl in an open field. 8 1/2" x 12 1/2" art 20 1/4" x 23 3/4" frame Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
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