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Style: American Realist
Great Grey Owl (Winter), American Realist Lithograph by Mel Hunter
By Mel Hunter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Great Grey Owl (Winter), Year: 1973, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Size: 21.5 x 29 in. (54.61 x 73.66 cm), Description: Perched on ...
Category
1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Big Oak Farm, American Realist Lithograph by Mel Hunter
By Mel Hunter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Big Oak Farm, Year: 1994, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 950, Size: 19 x 26 in. (48.26 x 66.04 cm), Description:...
Category
1990s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Red Shouldered Hawk, American Realist Lithograph by Chris Forrest
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Red Shouldered Hawk, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 18 x 22 inches, Siz...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Stage Hound in Full Gale, American Realist Lithograph by Mel Hunter
By Mel Hunter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Stage Hound in Full Gale, Year: 1978, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Size: 21 in. x 29 in. (53.34 cm x 73.6...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Morning By The Bay" Colorful Harbor Street Scene In Old San Juan Serigraph
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Morning By The Bay" features a colorful street scene leading to the sparkling Caribbean sea, and is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful hand pull...
Category
2010s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Key West Beach
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Key West Beach" 1947 is an original lithograph on paper by noted American artist Adolf Arthur Dehn, 1895-1968. It is hand signed in penci...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Prize Rack, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Prize Rack, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 17.5 x 23 inches, Size: ...
Category
1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life #3
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Still Life #3" 1989 is an original color lithograph by American artist Audean Johnson. It is hand signed and numbered 227/275 in pencil by...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Corner Drugstore
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Corner Drugstore" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and num...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
"The World" Published by Cummings
Hilliard, No. 1, Cornhill, Boston
Located in Soquel, CA
"The World" Published by Cummings & Hilliard, No. 1, Cornhill, Boston
Early 19th century engraved double hemisphere Atlas Map, titled "The World." Hand colored original outlines. Pu...
Category
1820s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Printer s Ink, Etching
Olympia
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Titled "Olympia" c.1970 is an original etching by New Orleans artist David L. Abel, b.1940. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 9/150 in pencil by the artist. The ima...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
His Family, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - His Family, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 14.5 x 22.5 in., Size: 21.5 in. ...
Category
1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Dropping In
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dropping In
Drypoint, c. 1940
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left
Condition: Excellent
Brown paper tape around the sheet edges from
the printing and air dryi...
Category
1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Holiday in Camp -- Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Holiday in Camp -- Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball"
Wood engraving, 1865
After Winslow Homer
Unsigned
(Signed in text in title caption, see photo)
Published in Harper's Weekly July 15, 1...
Category
1860s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Along the Way, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Along the Way, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 17 x 22.5 inches, Size: 21.5 in. x ...
Category
1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
19th century etching black and white seascape print figure waves rocks signed
By James Fagan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Fisherman's Catch" is a signed (in pencil lower right and in plate lower left) etching by James Fagan. It depicts a fisherman walking on a beach in black and white. It is signed...
Category
1880s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
We Shall Not Talk of War, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - We Shall Not Talk of War, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 19 x 25 inc...
Category
1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Doctor
s Office
By Lee Dubin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Doctor's Office" 1976 is a color lithograph by American artist Lee Dubin, b.1933. It is hand signed and numbered 106/200 in pencil by the artist. The image size ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Middle of Nowhere, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Middle of Nowhere, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 16 x 23.5 in, Size: 20.5 i...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Curiosity Shop
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The curiosity Shop" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and numbe...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
A Twig Snapped, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - A Twig Snapped, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 40, Image Size: 19 inches x 23 inches, Siz...
Category
1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Harbor Rainbow" Colorful Boat With Deep Blue Water Reflections Serigraph
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Harbor Rainbow" with rippling water reflections of the blue boat floating in the sea is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This ...
Category
2010s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
An Old Friend
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "An Old Friend" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 5...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Dreamland Toys
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dreamland Touys" c. 1985 is an original sepia etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and numbered...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Some of 48 Tulips
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Some of the 48 Tulips" c.1990 is an original colors mezzotint by noted German/American artist Gatja Helgart Rothe, 1935-2007. It is hand signed, titled and numbe...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mezzotint
A Last Look Back, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - A Last Look Back, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 17.5 x 25 inches, S...
Category
1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Blanket Signals, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Blanket Signals, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 22.5 x 18 inches, Size: 25 i...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
A Helping Nose, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - A Helping Nose, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 19 inches x 25.5 inch...
Category
1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Harbor Rainbow" Colorful Boat With Deep Blue Water Reflections Serigraph
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Harbor Rainbow" with rippling water reflections of the blue boat floating in the sea is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This c...
Category
2010s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Four Corners Cafe, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Four Corners Cafe, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 18 x 22.5 in., Size: 20.5 ...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Checking The Stock, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Checking The Stock, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 18 x 22.5 inches, Size: 2...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Homage to the City - Day, Realist Triptych Etching by John Ross
By John Ross
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Ross
Title: Homage to the City, Day
Medium: Collagraph Triptych, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil
Edition: I 6/25
Size: 29.5 x 22 in. (74.93 x 55.88 cm) Each
Category
1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Lily
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Lily" C.1975 is an original colors serigraph by noted American artist Lowell Nesbitt, 1933-1993. It is hand signed, dated and numbered A.P. 6/30 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 23.75 x 26 inches, sheet size is 29.35 x 31.25 inches. It is in excellent condition, it has a very light printing ink soiling at the left margin, see picture #6 and a light crease at the lower center margin.
About the artist:
Lowell Nesbitt, who was born in Baltimore on Oct. 4, 1933, was a graduate of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and also attended the Royal College of Art in London, where he worked in stained glass & etching.
In 1964, the Corcoran Gallery or Art in Washington gave him one of his first museum exhibitions, and by the mid 1970's he had decided to leave the museum a bequest of more than $1 million. But in 1989, he publicly revoked the bequest after the Corcoran canceled a disputed exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, who was an old friend. Mr. Nesbitt named the Phillips Collection as a beneficiary instead.
He was frequently grouped with the Photo Realists, but his images were more interpretively distorted, somewhat loosely painted and boldly abbreviated. He had many subjects: studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes and groupings of fruits and vegetables. He also painted his dog, a Rottweiler named Echo, the Neoclassical facades of SoHo's 19th century cast-iron buildings and several of Manhattan's major bridges.
Despite such variety, Lowell Nesbitt was best known for gargantuan images or irises, roses, lilies and other flowers, which he often depicted in close up so that their petals seemed to fill the canvas. Dramatic, implicitly sexual and a little ominous, they earned the artist a popularity with the general public that tended to overshadow his reputation within the art world.
In 1980, the United States Postal Service issued four stamps based on Mr. Nesbitt's floral paintings. He also served as the official artist for the space flights of Apollo 9 and Apollo 13.
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
-Amerada Hess Corporation, New York, New York
-AT&T, New York, New York
-Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles, California
-Bank of New York, New York, New York
-Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France
-Celenese Corporation, New York, New York
-Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
-Citicorp, New York, New York
-Florists Trans World Delivery Collection of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan
-Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan
-General Mills, Minneapolis, Minnesota
-Hess Shoe Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland
-Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York
-Maryland National Bank, Baltimore
-Mutual of Omaha, Washington D.C.
-Neiman-Marcus, Atlanta, Georgia
-Northern Trust Company, Chicago, Illinois
-J.C. Penny Corporation, New York, New York
-Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey
-Schroeder Bank and Trust Company, New York, New York
SELECTED MUSEUM AND GOVERNMENT COLLECTIONS.
-American Embassies: Monrovia, Dar es Salaam, Tel Aviv, Sao Paulo
-The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
-Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
-Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Collection of Pope Paul II
-Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
-Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
-Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
-Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
-Enviromental Protection Agency, Washington D.C.
-Federal Reserve Bank, Baltimore, Maryland
-Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.
-Fort Worth Art Center, Texas
-The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
-Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
-International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C.
-Israel Museum, Jerusalem
-John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
-Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
-Loch Haven Art Center, Florida
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1958:
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1971:
-Gimpel Fils, London, England
-Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, New York, NY
1972:
-Kunstverein, Frieburg, Germany
-Galerie Arneson, Copenhagen, Denmark
-Gerlerie Aronovitsch, Stockholm, Sweden
1973:
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1974:
Gimpel Fils, London, England
1975:
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1976:
Hayden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1977:
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita KS
1978:
Kent State University, Kent, OH
1979:
Selby Botanical Gardens, Museum of Botany and the Art's, Sarasota, FL
1980:
Marion Koogler Mcnay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
1981:
Editions Inc, Houston TX
1982:
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1983:
Atlantic Center for the Art, New Smyrna Beach, FL
1984:
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
1989:
Tyler Gallery...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Henry Winzenreid Modernist Lithograph of Steamboats and Factories
Located in New York, NY
Henry Winzenreid (American, 1892-1981)
Untitled (Steamboats and Factories), 20th century
Lithograph
Sight size: 10 x 14 in.
Framed: 17 1/8 x 21 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: AP/60 Wi...
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20th Century American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
My Favorite Hat, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - My Favorite Hat, Year: 1981, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 18 x 23 inches, Size: 21 in....
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1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Apache Fire Light, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Apache Fire Light, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 17 x 22.5 in., Size: 21.5 ...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Three Tulips on Black, Floral Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Three Tulips on Black
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
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1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples
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Screen
A Long Rifle Awaits, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - A Long Rifle Awaits, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 17 x 26 inches, ...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Miguel, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Miguel, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 16.5 x 22 in., Size: 21 in. x 28.5 in...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Camouflage, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Camouflage, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 22.5 x 18 in., Size: 26.5 in. x 2...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Study Of Drapery
Located in New York, NY
Brush and black and gray inks and wash on cream wove paper. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower center. Titled in pencil, lower right. Inscribed with the artist's name and addre...
Category
1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Island of Flowers, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Island of Flowers
Year: 1980
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 85/200
Image Size: 24 x 40 inches...
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1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
"Still Life with Door", Monochrome Cyan Drypoint Etching
By Barbara B. Cohn
Located in Soquel, CA
Limited edition monochrome cyan drypoint etching of a potted plant and door by Barbara Cohn (American, 1923-2019). Numbered ("2/25"), titled ("Still Life with Door"), and hand signed...
Category
1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
$316 Sale Price
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Greta Garbo Swedish American Movie Film Star Goddess Hollywood Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Greta Garbo Swedish American Movie Film Star Goddess Hollywood Mid 20th Century
Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003)
Greta Garbo
Plate Size: 13 7/8 x 9 3/4
Paper Size:...
Category
1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
In th Bighorns (Wyoming)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
In th Bighorns (Wyoming)
Drypoint, c. 1930's
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled in the plate lower left
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 6 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches
Hans Kleiber (1887-1967)
Hans Norbert Kleiber, painter, etcher, illustrator, and naturalist, was born in Cologne, Germany on August 24, 1887. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1900, settling in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming. Kleiber first worked in lumber camps before working for the United States Forest Service from 1906 until 1924. One of his duties as a ranger was to monitor the logging camps in the Bighorn Mountains.
Kleiber was primarily self-taught as an artist and it was in the 1920s that he began devoting himself to art. It appears that he first began to work in watercolor and oil but was producing etchings and drypoints as early as 1924. He traversed the mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and his subjects are drawn from the pristine landscapes and wildlife.
Kleiber's first exhibition of his etchings was mounted in 1928 at Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. His etching, Crossing the Platte, was included in the 1939 New York World's Fair exhibition, American Art Today. There was an exhibition of fifty of his etchings at the National Museum in 1944, and an exhibition of his watercolors was mounted at the Grand Central Galleries in New York in 1950. Kleiber was a member of the Society of American Etchers and the California Society of Printmakers. He received a silver medal in 1931 from the Printmakers Society of California for his print, Leaving the High Country...
Category
1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
"Fishing Village" Joe Jones, Mid-Century, American Life, Small Town Scene
By Joe Jones
Located in New York, NY
Joe Jones
Fishing Village, 1949
Signed in pencil lower right margin
Lithograph on wove paper
Image 9 5/16 x 12 9/16 inches
Sheet 12 x 15 15/16 inches
From the edition of 250
The initial details of Jones' career are sparse, and this is intentional. The young artist was engaged in a process of self-reinvention, crafting a persona. When he submitted a work to the Sixteen Cities Exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art in 1933, he briefly characterized himself: "Born St. Louis, 1909, self-taught. " Jones intentionally portrayed himself to the art community as an authentic working-class figure, backed by a compelling history. He was the youngest of five children in a family led by a one-armed house painter from St. Louis, a Welsh immigrant, and his German American spouse. At the age of ten, Jones found himself in a Missouri reformatory due to authorities' concerns over his graffiti activities. After completing elementary school, he traveled by freight car to California and back, even being arrested for vagrancy in Pueblo, Colorado. Returning to St. Louis, he attempted to settle down by working alongside his father. Yet, Jones felt a profound restlessness and was drawn toward a more elevated artistic pursuit in his late teenage years. He discovered a local collective of budding artists that formed St. Louis’s "Little Bohemia," sharing a studio and providing mutual support until he managed to secure his own modest workspace in a vacant garage.
Jones’s initial creations comprised still lifes, landscapes, and poignant portraits of those close to him. These subjects were not only accessible but also budget-friendly, as hiring models was beyond his means. He depicted himself, his father, mother, and eventually, his wife. In December 1930, at the age of 21, Jones wed Freda Sies, a modern dancer and political activist who was four years older than him.
By 1933, Jones had started gaining noteworthy local recognition through a solo exhibition at the Artists’ Guild of Saint Louis. Of the twenty-five paintings on display, one, titled River Front (private collection, previously with Hirschl and Adler Galleries), was selected to illustrate a feature article about his show in The Art Digest (February 15, 1933, p. 9). Shortly before this exhibition, a young surgeon named Dr. Robert Elman took an interest in Jones’s art, purchasing several pieces and forming a group of potential patrons committed to providing the emerging artist with a monthly stipend in exchange for art. This group was officially known as the "Co-operative Art Society," but it was informally dubbed the "Joe Jones Club. " Jones became an active participant in the St. Louis artistic scene, particularly within its bohemian segments. He embraced modernism and was a founding member of the "New Hat" movement in 1931, a playful rebellion against the conservative and traditional mainstream art establishment.
The summer of 1933 marked a significant shift in Jones’s journey. Sponsored by a dedicated ally, Mrs. Elizabeth Green, Jones, along with Freda and Green, embarked on an eastward road trip. In Washington, D. C., they explored the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery (part of the Smithsonian Institution), the Library of Congress, and Mount Vernon. Following this whirlwind of art and American culture, they made their way to New York, where they visited various museums and galleries, including a stop at The New School for Social Research, which featured notable contemporary murals by fellow Missourian Thomas Hart Benton and the politically active Mexican artist, José Clemente Orozco. From June through August, Jones and Freda resided in the artist colony of Provincetown, Massachusetts, later returning home via Detroit to see Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry mural housed at the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts.
While Elizabeth Green allegedly hoped that Jones would refine his artistic skills under the guidance of Charles Hawthorne or Richard Miller in Provincetown, Jones followed a different path. Rather than pursuing conservative mentors, he connected with an engaging network of leftist intellectuals, writers, and artists who dedicated their time to reading Marx and applying his theories to the American landscape. Jones's reaction to the traditional culture of New England was captured in his statement to a reporter from the St. Louis Post Dispatch: “Class consciousness . . . that’s what I got of my trip to New England. Those people [New Englanders] are like the Chinese—ancestor worshipers. They made me realize where I belong” (September 21, 1933). The stark social divisions he witnessed there prompted him to embrace his working-class identity even more fervently. Upon returning to St. Louis, he prominently identified himself as a Communist. This newfound political stance created friction with some of his local supporters. Many of his middle-class advocates withdrew their backing, likely influenced not only by Jones’s politics but also by his flamboyant and confrontational demeanor.
In December 1933, Jones initiated a complimentary art class for unemployed individuals in the Old Courthouse of St. Louis, the same location where the Dred Scott case was deliberated and where slave auctions formerly took place. Concurrently, the St. Louis Art League was offering paid courses. Emphasizing the theme of social activism, with a studio adorned with Soviet artwork, Jones’s institution operated for just over a year before being removed from the courthouse by local officials. The school’s political focus and unconventional teaching practices, along with its inclusion of a significant number of African American students during a period marked by rigid racial segregation, certainly contributed to its challenges. Under Jones’s guidance, the class created a large chalk pastel mural on board, measuring 16 by 37 feet, titled Social Unrest in St. Louis. Mural painting posed no challenge for the former housepainter, who was adept at handling large wall surfaces. His first significant commission in St. Louis in late 1931 was a mural that celebrated the city’s industrial and commercial fortitude for the local radio station, KMOX. This mural, aimed at conveying optimism amid severe economic hardship, showcased St. Louis's strengths in a modernist approach. When Jones resumed mural work in late 1933, his worldview had evolved considerably. The mural produced for the school in the courthouse, conceived by Jones, featured scenes of modern St. Louis selected to highlight political messages. Jones had observed the technique of utilizing self-contained scenes to craft visual narratives in the murals he encountered in the East. More locally, this compositional strategy was commonly employed by the renowned Missouri artist...
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1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Spring (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Title: Four Ages of Love: Spring
Year: circa 1985
Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper
Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
Category
1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
$280 Sale Price
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20th century drypoint etching figurative animal print black and white signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Boy With Cows" is an original drypoint etching by John Edward Costigan. It depicts a young boy with three cows standing in a watering hole. The artist si...
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1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Fruits on Rug I, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Fruits on Rug I
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 175
Image Size: 26.5 x 30 inches
Siz...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
"City Park, Winter" Aaron Bohrod, Mid-Century, American Realist Nocturne
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod
City Park, Winter, circa 1945
Signed in pencil lower right margin
Lithograph on wove paper
Image 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches
From the edition of 250
Aaron Bohrod's work has ...
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1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Roses, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Roses
Year: 1981
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 40
Image Size: 28 x 20 inches
Size: 3...
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1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Shadows, Garage at Night
By Martin Lewis
Located in New York, NY
Martin Lewis (1881-1962, Shadows, Garage at Night, drypoint, 1928, signed in pencil lower right [also signed in the plate lower right]. Reference: McCarron 69, only state, from the t...
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1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Nantucket North Wharf Night Sky Blue Sailboat Seaside Silkscreen Cottages Sea
By Donn Russell
Located in Nantucket, MA
Donn Russell made his own screen and did his own inking of the prints. He had no assistants and used no computers. He captured the beauty and charm of Nantucket and created images th...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Union Pond, Williamsburgh, L. I. [sic].
Located in New York, NY
UNION POND, WILLIAMSBURGH, L. I. [sic] is a lithograph printed in color in circa 1862. It was published by Thomas & Eno, 37 Park Row, N.Y. The printed image size is 16 3/4 x 27 in...
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1860s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Large American Modern Stonehenge Landscape Aquatint Etching Philip Pearlstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Philip Pearlstein (American, 1924-2022)
Stonehenge Landscape Sugar Lift Aquatint Etching with Roulette on Rives BFK Paper, 1979
Series: Ruins and Landscapes
Printer: Orlando Condesso
Printer: Nancy Brokopp
Medium: Sugar-lift aquatint with roulette
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 Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Original Lithograph Hand Signed Old Women Riding First Airplane Flight Americana
Located in Surfside, FL
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) First Airplane Ride/ Old Women Riding Airplane, 1938 Originally created as cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post.
Media print lithography on paper, this twelve-color lithograph was hand proofed and printed at Atelier Ettinger in December 1976. A/P Artist Proof impression on papier d'Arches. Hand signed in pencil by Norman Rockwell. hand editioned and with publishers blindstamp.
Norman Percevel Rockwell (1894 – 1978) was an American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine in a modern folk art style over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With...
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1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"The Main Bridge, " Landscape Etching signed by William Goodrich Beal
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Main Bridge" is an etching by William Goodrich Beal, signed in the lower right. The etching shows a quaint scene of a small town. The foreground showed a muddy hill with some gr...
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1880s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Summer (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Title: Four Ages of Love: Summer
Year: circa 1985
Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper
Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
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1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
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Red and Yellow Parrot Tulips, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Red and Yellow Parrot Tulips
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Ed...
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1980s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Fissured
Located in Columbia, MO
Tobi C is a white, non-binary artist who grew up in San Diego and calls Columbia, Missouri home. Tobi holds a BA in both Structural Violence and Gender Studies from the Metropolitan University of...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
American Realist prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic American Realist prints and multiples available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add prints and multiples created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Lowell Nesbitt, Reginald Marsh, John Sloan, and Richard Haas. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Etching and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large American Realist prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 2.5 inches across are also available. Prices for prints and multiples made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $95 and tops out at $106,195, while the average work sells for $799.
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