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Style: American Modern
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow - Modern Lithograph by Dorothy Dell Dennison
Located in Long Island City, NY
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow by Dorothy Dell Dennison, American (1908–1994)
Date: circa 1977
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 1...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Engraver
s Tools
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Engraver's Tools
Engraving, 1974
Signed and annotated in pencil by the artist (see photos)
This a "Trial Proof" impression with graphite additions
Regular Edition: 100
References And...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
The Cricket hand painted etching by George Nama 1978
By George Nama
Located in Paonia, CO
The Cricket is a hand painted etching by American artist George Nama edition A. P. hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. Believed to be from a collection of 9 etchings from the suite titled "The Origin of Language." This etching is raised at the six horizontal red lines and is touched by hand with watercolor in green, pink, white and red colors. It is in excellent condition.
George Allen Nama was born in Homestead near Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania in 1939. In the 1960’s he was part of an international artistic circle in Paris while working at the Atelier 17 with William Stanley...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$680 Sale Price
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Shabbas Candles, American Modern Lithograph by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Shabbas Candles by Sandu Liberman, Romanian/Israeli (1923–1977)
Date: circa 1970
Edition: 64/175
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Image Size: 20 x 13 inches
Size: 30 x 21.5 in. (76.2 x 5...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Sousaphone Player in Marching Band, Modern Print by Byron Browne
By Byron Browne
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Byron Browne (after), American (1907 - 1961)
Title: Sousaphone Player in Marching Band
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Collotype, signed in the plate
Image Size: 26.5 x 20.5 in. (67...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Early Spring Landscape, Signed Lithograph by Clarence Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Early Spring Landscape
Clarence Holbrook Carter
American (1904–2000)
Date: 1979
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of AP 30
Image Size: 18 x 25 inches
Size: 21 x 29 ...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Manufacturer
s Trust; Manhattan Nocturne, reworked
Located in Middletown, NY
An evening view of lower Manhattan rooftops, looking north towards Times Square and kleig lights in the distance.
New York: 1974. Etching on white wove paper, 7 1/8 x 11 15/16 inche...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Location Proposal Iris Print Ed. 12 Hand Signed Cyclone Racer (Coney Island, NY)
Located in Surfside, FL
Cindy Bernard’s career spans nearly three decades and she is best known for photographs and projections that explore the relationship between cinema, memory, and landscape including ...
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1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color
The Cat, Signed Modern Screenprint by Will Barnet
By Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Will Barnet, American (1911 - 2012)
Title: The Cat
Year: 1997
Medium: Screenprint on Arches, signed in pencil
Edition: AP
Image Size: 16 x 7 inches
Siz...
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1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Aardvark
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Aardvark
Engraving, 1951
Signed, dated, titled in pencil by the artist (see photo)
Annotated "To Jon from Ray" (see photo)
Printed by Jon Clemens, Master Printer, c. 1990
Condition: ...
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
"E" Albert Einstein Portrait #10
Located in Soquel, CA
Albert Einstein portrait, "E", a collotype print, watercolor by Lilya Vorobey (American, 21st C). Unsigned. From a collection of her works. On mat board. Image, 9.75"H x 7.75"W. Full...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Printer s Ink
$639 Sale Price
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Diana Raised 1
By Larry Rivers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Diana Raised 1
Lithograph from four stones, 1970
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Annotated "PP" for Printers Proof lower right (see photo)
Publisher: ULAE
ULAE blindstamp lo...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Picking Salt, Modern American Lithograph by Dorothy Dell Dennison
Located in Long Island City, NY
Picking Salt by Dorothy Dell Dennison, American (1908–1994)
Date: circa 1970
Lithograph, signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition of 100
Size: 24 in. x 36 in. (60.96 cm x 91.44 cm)
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Ethel Magafan “Corralled Horse” 1940s WPA-Era Modernist Etching, Artist’s Proof
Located in Denver, CO
Corralled Horse is a rare WPA-era modernist etching by acclaimed American artist Ethel Magafan, created in the 1940s. This artist’s proof depicts a lone dark horse within a wooden co...
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1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Acacia, American Modern Lithograph by Jon D
Orazio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jon D'Orazio, American (1942 - ) - Acacia. Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 45, Image Size: 24 x 31 inches, Size: 31 in. x 37 in. (78.7...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
American Nude, from 1¢ Life
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Tom Wesselmann
Title: American Nude
Portfolio: 1¢ Life
Medium: Lithograph in colors
Date: 1964
Edition: 2000
Frame Size: 20 3/4" x 28 1/2"
Sheet Size: 16 1/4" x 22 3/4"
Image...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Original The New Great Lakes in South Dakota travel and sports vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original The New Great Lakes in South Dakota vintage travel and sports poster. Promoting fishing, camping, boating, and swimming. Linen backed and ready to frame. Although hard...
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Censorship, Framed Pop Art Lithograph by Don Nice
By Don Nice
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Nice, American (1932 - )
Title: Censorship
Year: 1978
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 144
Size: 12 in. x 38 in. (30.48 cm x 96.52 cm)
Frame Si...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Road to Cripple Creek, Colo., " Wood Engraving by Gerhard H. Bakker
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Road to Cripple Creek, Colo." is an original woodcut print by Gerhardt H. Bakker. Lines full of expression and shape make up every bit of this print, fr...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled Still Life Hanging Plaid Shirt, Figurative Poetry Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed, numbered and dated limited edition lithograph print. The number might not match the photo as I had more than one.
George Schneeman (March 11, 1934 – January 27, 2009) was an...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"E" Albert Einstein, Modern Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Albert Einstein "E", a color collotype print, watercolor modern portrait by Lilya Vorobey (American, 20th C). Titled "E" lower left, signed and dated "L. Vorobey '89" lower right. On...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Color, Etching
$700 Sale Price
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"Albert" Albert Einstein Portrait #5
Located in Soquel, CA
Albert Einstein portrait, "Albert", a color collotype print, watercolor by Lilya Vorobey (American, 21st C). Titled "Albert with his wry smile and electrifying white hair" lower righ...
Category
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Color, Etching
$716 Sale Price
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"A E", Albert Einstein Portrait #8
Located in Soquel, CA
Albert Einstein portrait, "A E", a color collotype print, watercolor by Lilya Vorobey (American, 20th C). Titled "AE" lower left. Signed "L. Vorobey" and dated "89" lower right. On m...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Color, Etching
$639 Sale Price
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Vintage Art Etching Farm with Cow and Farmer, Famed Children
s Book Illustrator
Located in Surfside, FL
Medium: etching
Surface: paper
Country: United States
Signed in plate with initial G.
Black and white illustration of a landscape with farmhouse (old barn).
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Etching
"Untitled" Paul Resika, Modernist, Black and White, Abstracted Composition
By Paul Resika
Located in New York, NY
Paul Resika
Untitled
Signed lower right
Etching on wove paper
10 1/2 x 6 inches
Paul Resika (born 1928, New York, New York) is primarily recognized for his artwork featuring the di...
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1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching
Original Stan Phillips Lithograph of Ballerinas, c. 1970
Located in New York, NY
Stan Phillips (American, 1923-2012)
Jacob's Pillow, c. 1970
Lithograph
14 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.
Signed and inscribed
Phillips was born in Brooklyn, New York and spent most of his young l...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Winter Silhouettes,
offset lithograph by Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Winter Silhouettes,' a small and delicate print, is an original offset lithograph by the Milwaukee artist Schomer Lichtner. The composition displays registers of foliage, emerging from the white of the paper as though emerging from the snow-covered ground. The artwork is thus plays with the materials of printmaking; the paper is both the support and the primary indication of the season. The subtle texture of the tooth of the paper also adds life to the image, giving the snow a wind-swept, creature trodden surface. The free forms of the grasses and leaves resemble the lyrical mid-century works of the French artist Henri Matisse, which combined with these material concerns demonstrate Lichter's modern sensibilities.
3.75 x 2.75 inches, image
5.5 x 4.5 inches, paper
10 x 8 inches frame
Signed and dated in the stone, lower right
Framed to conservation standards in a shadow-box style mounting, using 100 percent rag matting, museum glass, and housed in a cherry wood moulding
Overall excellent condition; some toning to edges of paper; some minor abrasions to frame
Milwaukee artist Schomer Lichtner was well known for his whimsical cows and ballerinas and abstract imagery. He and his late wife Ruth Grotenrath, both well-known Wisconsin artists, began their prolific careers as muralists for WPA projects, primarily post offices.
Lichtner also painted murals for industry and private clients. Schomer was a printmaker and produced block prints, lithographs, and serigraph prints. His casein (paint made from dairy products) and acrylic paintings are of the rural Wisconsin landscape and farm animals. He became interested in cows when he and Ruth spent summers near Holy Hill in Washington County. According to David Gordon, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Schomer Lichtner had a tremendous joie de vivre and expressed it in his art.
Schomer Lichtner was nationally known for his whimsical paintings and sculptures of black- and white-patterned Holstein cows and elegant ballerina dancers. Lichtner also painted all sorts of combinations of beautiful women, flowers and country landscapes. James Auer, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel art critic, said that his art eventually "exploded into expressionistic design elements with bold, flat areas of color and high energy that anticipated Pop Art." Auer went on to describe Lichtner’s work as full of "wit, vigor and virtuosity."
As early as 1930, Lichtner’s work was shown at the prestigious Carnegie International Exhibition in New York and at museums throughout the Midwest. As a student, he was a protégé of another icon of 20th century American art, Gustave Moeller.
Lichtner and his wife, Ruth Grotenrath (1912-1988), are celebrated as Milwaukee’s first couple of painting and are regarded as major Wisconsin artists. Lichtner’s impressive production, perseverance, longevity, and positive approach to his life and art made him and his work distinctive and much loved by his many admirers. His work is currently represented in collections at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the John Michael Kohler Art Center, the West Bend Museum, and in the collections of many individuals. Books on the lives and art work of both Lichtner and Grotenrath are in progress and it is anticipated that they will be published next year.
Schomer Lichtner passed away on May 9, 2006 at the age of 101. He continued to amaze and create with his whimsical paintings of ballerinas...
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1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Black and White, Lithograph
Crucifixion
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Crucifixion
Engraving, 1958
Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Printers Proof II' in pencil
A printed by Master Printer Jon Clemens, c. 2000
A brilliant impression full of burr
Im...
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Night Light Signed Aquatint Etching California Modernist Woman Artist Susan Hall
By Susan Hall
Located in Surfside, FL
Susan Hall
Hand signed and numbered
Aquatint Etching
This piece has a Memphis Milano sort of vibe to it.
Susan Hall lives and works in Point Reyes Station, California, a town in the heart of the Point Reyes National Seashore. This pristine wilderness area is dominated by a mosaic of bays and ocean, rolling grass lands and forests. It is inhabited by a diversity of wildlife, including over 450 species of birds, mountains lions, deer, bobcats, foxes, and elk. Ms. Hall who is a native of this area returned after spending twenty years in New York City.
In her book, “Painting Point Reyes”, Hall says, “Point Reyes is the center of my painting life. Point Reyes has been my life and when I haven’t lived here, it has been an underground stream that spoke to me in dreams and visions.”
While living and painting in New York City, Ms. Hall exhibited her work widely in museums and galleries. Among them are the Whitney Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Trabia MacAfee Gallery, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago; Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles.
In addition, her work has been featured in group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, including in 2020 Bud Shark's Ink: The California Crew at BMoCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Colorado USA representing the panoply of aesthetics, cultural backgrounds, viewpoints, and talent held within the bounty of art “made in California.” This remarkable grouping of artists, Brad Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Roy De Forest, Amy Ellingson, Susan Hall, Don Ed Hardy, Mildred Howard, Robert Hudson, Hung Liu, Kara Maria, Rex Ray, Alison Saar, Italo Scanga, and William T. Wiley.
Women to the Fore, Hudson River Museum Yonkers 2021
A group of women artists working in oil painting and drawing, lithograph prints and photograph, collage and sculpture. Many icons of feminist art history. Judy Chicago, Judy Giera, Marisol, and Shanequa Benitez, Ann McCoy, Anna Walinska, Audrey Flack, Barbara Morgan, Berenice Abbott,
Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Hannelore Baron, Harriet, Judy Chicago, Louise Nevelson, Marisol, Mary Frank, Nancy Graves, Susan Hall, Yvonne Thomas...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Douglas Semivan Print "Abstract in Gold and Black"
Located in Detroit, MI
"Abstract in Gold and Black" is a well-balanced calm piece. The placement of the gold and white can be read as a distant landscape giving much imagined space to the heavier black area which contains a linear element and the color blue. Semivan is a Master Printmaker and sculptor. He often breaks his surfaces and extends beyond the perimeters in his sculptures. The particular placement of the black area in this piece suggests such a breakage beyond the edge where one imagines a continuation of the strokes or linear elements. This is an altogether extraordinary print.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Douglas Semivan...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Printer s Ink
Farmers Gardening Etching, (After Vincent Van Gogh) Famed Children
s Book Author
Located in Surfside, FL
Medium: Etching
Surface: paper
Country: United States
signed in plate with initial G.
Black and white illustration of a landscape with farmhouse (old barn).
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Girl
s Head - Woman
s Head (Harvard)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Girl's Head - Woman's Head (Harvard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned (as issued)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from the original zinc an...
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1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Fiesole: An Ancient Tower
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches (201 x 130 mm), full margins. Edition of 150. Printed by Federick Reynolds. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. Arms wa...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Andy Warhol - Halston Women
s accessories Advertising Campaign Poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Paper Size: 23 x 28.75 inches
Edition Size Unknown
Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Original Serigraph poster designed for an in-store advertising campaign printed in 1982.
...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Profile Bust of a Girl - Woman
s Head in Profile (Havard)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Profile Bust of a Girl - Woman's Head in Profile (Havard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned (as issued)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from ...
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1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Chicago Scene Modernist Architectural Lithograph, Nevada Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jim McCormick was born in Chicago in 1936. He attended the University of Tulsa where he received a bachelor’s degree in art in 1958, then a M.A. in paint...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Church of St. Francis and the Natizone – Cividale
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 10 x 14 13/16 inches (254 x 377 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil and inscribed "Ed. 100" (from a total edition of 128). Third state (of three...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
Andy Warhol - Halston fragrance and cosmetics Advertising Campaign Poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Paper Size: 23 x 28.75 inches
Edition Size Unknown
Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Original Serigraph poster designed for an in-store advertising campaign printed in 1982.
...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Safety Pin from George Nama
s suite " Tight Rope " 1974
By George Nama
Located in Paonia, CO
Safety Pin by American artist George Nama is from ” Tightrope ” a suite of ten lino-cuts published by Monument Press 1974. We see a stark image of a large safety pin with a wire binding it’s movement which changes the viewers concept of what they think they are perceiving. In this series of ten lino-cuts Nama takes ordinary household objects and makes them inoperable by wrapping a wire around the workable part of the object and presenting one object at a time. There seems to be a sense of humor and at the same time profundity with each image. All copies are individually signed and numbered by the artist. This is copy number 5/50 and is touched by hand with watercolor on Arches cover stock paper and printed by Monument Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This print is in excellent condition with the first two letters of the title having been smudged by the artist when he hand wrote it in pencil on the lower left side of the print.
George Allen Nama was born in Homestead near Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania in 1939. In the 1960’s he was part of an international artistic circle in Paris while working at the Atelier 17 with William Stanley Hayter...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
Whistle lino-cut from George Nama suite Tight Rope 1974
By George Nama
Located in Paonia, CO
Whistle by American artist George Nama is from ” Tightrope ” a suite of ten lino-cuts published by Monument Press 1974. We see a stark image of a large whistle with a wire binding it’s movement which changes the viewers concept of what they think they are perceiving. In this series of ten lino-cuts Nama takes ordinary household objects and makes them inoperable by wrapping a wire around the workable part of the object and presenting one object at a time. There seems to be a sense of humor and at the same time profundity with each image. All copies are individually signed and numbered by the artist. This is copy number 5/50 and is touched by hand with watercolor on Arches cover stock paper and printed by Monument Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This print is in excellent condition.
George Allen Nama was born in Homestead near Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania in 1939. In the 1960’s he was part of an international artistic circle in Paris while working at the Atelier 17 with William Stanley Hayter...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
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The Museum of Modern Art, Wrapped (Front), Project for New York
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Christo
Title: The Museum of Modern Art, Wrapped (Front), Project for New York
Portfolio: 1971 (Some) Not Realized Projects
Medium: Offset lithograph on Rives BFK and Special...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph of a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder
"Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper a reproduction lithograph after the drawings by the artist
Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's)
these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph.
James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor”
Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro.
These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great.
Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War.
Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work.
In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending.
Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles.
Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968).
In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale.
One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas."
Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Zen Minimalist Flowers Etching American Modernist Ed Baynard Pop Art Print
By Ed Baynard
Located in Surfside, FL
ED BAYNARD (American, 1940-2016)
Flowers, Flowers in a Vase, Etching.
1979/1980,
Hand signed, dated l.r.,
Hand numbered from small edition 12/24,
Dimensions: 23 by 19 in. Framed 25 by 21 in
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1940. Raised in Washington, D.C. and newly graduated from high school, he flew to Europe living off and on in Paris and London. During this time, he designed costumes for Jimi Hendrix, worked as a graphic designer for the Beatles as well as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Returning to New York, he dedicated his life to art after a surprise success with his first show in 1971 at the Willard Gallery in NYC. Ed's images are Zen-like in their simplicity and grace rendered in a flat, graphic style that recalls Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. His watercolors are luminous, like the rest of his representations regardless of the medium. The Japanese inspired ukiyo-e style woodblock prints and lithograph works he created at Tyler Graphics in 1980 contain a 20th century "floating world" sensibility. Ed's wish was to bring harmony, color, and a meditative stillness to this chaotic planet. He did so in a gentle and powerful way, always as an expression of his deep gratitude for the love and beauty, friendship, and concerns he held dearest. His first solo exhibition was in 1971 at New York's legendary Willard Gallery on the recommendation of Agnes Martin. Baynard went on to have exhibitions at galleries including Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (1973); Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (1977); John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (1980); and Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (1980/81).. Baynard manages to retain a simplicity of form inspired by a love of Japanese Woodblock prints. His new works reflect the same poetry of his earlier paintings, retaining his stylized compositions with their Zen like minimalism and Oriental calm, along with a new sense of rhythm and movement. Baynard uses familiar themes such as flowers, plants, pots, and vases, incorporating them into his delicate watercolor still lifes, thus creating stunning visual feasts. He was included in the 1972 Landscape exhibition at MoMA NY alone with other luminaries James Boynton...
Category
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Black Passion
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Black Passion
Aluminum plate lithograph from two plates, 1975
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
Edition 50
Published at Lakeside Studio with the Master printer Jack Lemon
Imagery depicts the Seven deadly Sins three Roman soldiers and Simon of Cyrene, who was forced to help Christ carry the cross
One of Pozzatti's favorite works
Condition: Otherwise very good condition Soft rippling bottom margin
Image size: 20 x 28 inches (50.80 x 71.12cm)
Sheet size: 24 x 32 inches
"Painter and printmaker Rudolph Otto "Rudy" Pozzatti was born in Telluride, Colorado, on January 14, 1925. Upon graduation from high school, he received a scholarship to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder where he enrolled as an art major. In 1943, his studies were interrupted by his induction into the U. S. Army. After his discharge in 1946, he re-enrolled in the University of Colorado where he studied under Wendell...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage Art Etching Farm with Cow and Farmer, Famed Children
s Book Illustrator
Located in Surfside, FL
Medium: Etching
Surface: paper
Country: United States
Signed in plate with initial G.
Black and white illustration of a landscape with farm, farmer and cow.
TIBOR GERGELY
Budapes...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Variation 30, Vol. II
— from the series
1 to 40 Variations
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Katherine S. Dreier, 'Variation 30, Vol. II' from '1 to 40 Variations', lithograph with pochoir and hand-coloring, 1934, edition 65. Stenciled signature and date, lower right. Annota...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Variation 8, Vol. I
— from the series
1 to 40 Variations
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Katherine S. Dreier, 'Variation 8, Vol. 1' from '1 to 40 Variations', lithograph with pochoir and hand-coloring, 1934, edition 65. Stenciled signature and date, lower right. Annotate...
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1930s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Past and Present, Abstract Geometric Lithograph by Remo Farruggio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Past and Present
Remo Farruggio, Italian/American (1904–1981)
Date: Circa 1979
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 300, AP 35
Image Size: 20.5 x 28 inches
Size: 27 i...
Category
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Windswept, American Modern Lithograph by Jon D
Orazio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jon D'Orazio, American (1942 - ) - Windswept. Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, HC 10, Image Size: 21.5 x 29.5 inches, Size: 25 in. x 33 in...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Home my Daddy Built, American Realist Collotype by Velox Ward
By Velox Ward
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Velox Ward, American (1901 - 1994)
Title: The Home my Daddy Built from the America: The Third Century Portfolio
Year: 1976
Medium: Collotype, signed a...
Category
1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Modern American Industrial Landscape
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original woodblock print dated 1965, titled "Our Town" but signed illegibly.
Category
1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Plate 2
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate 2
2 plate drypoint with hand coloring, 1984
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
From: Barcelona Suite (6 plates)
Edition: A/P 8/10 in pencil lower left
Signed in pen...
Category
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Ben Shahn Original Lithograph From Portfolio - Levana
Our Ladies Of Sorrow
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
SCARCE EARLY WORK. BEN SHAHN
Levana and our Lady's Sorrows.
lithograph printed in sepia on Papier Ancien, 1931. 13 1/8x9 7/8 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.
One of o...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Original
Blot it Out The Hun - his Mark
vintage 1918 WW1 postter
Located in Spokane, WA
Original The Hun ~ his Mark, Blot it Out with Liberty Bonds vintage American World War One poster. Archivail linen backed in mint condition, ready to frame. The images shown are...
Category
1910s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
American Modernist Sacsahuaman Landscape Aquatint Etching Philip Pearlstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Philip Pearlstein (American, 1924-)
Large Sacsahuaman Landscape Etching Aquatint, 1979
From the series Ruins and Landscapes.
Sugar-lift, aquatint and roulette on ivory wove paper.
Sacsayhuamán, often spelled Sacsahuaman or Saqsaywaman (from Quechua Saqsaywaman (pukara) '(fortress) of the royal falcon or hawk') is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital of the Inca Empire. The site is at an altitude of 3,701 m (12,142 ft).
The complex was built by the Incas in the 15th century, particularly under Sapa Incan Pachacuti and his successors. Dry stone walls constructed of huge stones were built on the site, with the workers carefully cutting the boulders to fit them together tightly without mortar.
In 1983, Cusco and Sacsayhuamán together were designated as sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List, for international recognition and protection.
Philip Pearlstein is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums.
Philip M. Pearlstein was born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Saturday morning classes at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942, at the age of 18, two of his paintings won a national competition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, and were reproduced in color in Life magazine. In 1942, he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology's art school, in Pittsburgh, where he painted two portraits of his parents now held by the Carnegie Museum of Art, but after one year he was drafted by the US Army to serve during World War II. He was initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit at Camp Blanding, Florida, where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams and signs. In this role, he learned printmaking and the screenprinting process, and subsequently was stationed in Italy making road signs. While in Italy, he took in as much renaissance art as was accessible in Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and also produced numerous drawings depicting life in the Army.
In 1946, sponsored by the GI Bill, he returned to Carnegie Institute, and first met Andy Warhol, who was attracted to Pearlstein because of his notoriety in the school, having been featured in Life magazine. During the summer of 1947, the three rented a barn as a summer studio. Immediately after graduating in June 1949 with a BFA, Pearlstein and Warhol moved to New York City, at first sharing an eighth-floor walkup tenement apartment on St. Mark's Place at Avenue A. He was eventually hired by Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar, mainly doing industrial catalog...
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1970s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Andy Warhol - Halston Women
s Wear Advertising Campaign Poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Paper Size: 23 x 28.75 inches
Edition Size Unknown
Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Original Serigraph poster designed for an in-store advertising campaign printed in 1982.
...
Category
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Late 20th century color lithograph prairie style Frank Lloyd Wright architecture
By Frank Lloyd Wright
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Prairie School Collection - Rug" is an offset lithograph poster with gold foil. This piece advertises an exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright's designs. Unsigned.
34 7/8" x 22" art...
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1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Portrait of JFK, Woodcut Print by Bob Forman
Located in Long Island City, NY
A portrait of John F. Kennedy by American artist, Bob Forman. The woodcut print is signed and dated 1963 in the plate. Nicely framed.
Category
1960s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Mid Century Modern Architecture Classic Corvette Palm Springs Tom Blachford
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited Edition photography by Tom Blachford. Mid Century Modern Architectural Design.
What began for Tom Blachford as a fateful discovery one night has developed into an ongoing s...
Category
2010s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Pigment
Arising
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arising
Mezzotint, 1942
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Publisher : Issued by the Miniature Print Collectors Society.
Edition: 200
Condition: Mint
Archival framing wit...
Category
1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
American Modern prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.
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