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"First Stone" Lee Bontecou, Modernist, Abstract, Biomorphic, Black and White
By Lee Bontecou
Located in New York, NY
Lee Bontecou
First Stone, 1962
Signed, dated, and numbered lower right
Lithograph from one stone in black ink on cream laid paper
Image 12 3/16 x 15 11/16 inches
Sheet 19 1/2 x 25 13...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Lithograph
"Job" Alphonse Mucha, Art Nouveau, Female Form, Organic Flowing Design, Elegant
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in New York, NY
Alphonse Mucha
Job, 1896
Signed lower right in plate
Lithograph printed in colors and metallic ink on wove paper
Image 20 3/8 x 15 1/4 inches
Sheet 20 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches
Provenance...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
"Carnival" Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Modernist Figure, American Modernism, Expressive
By Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Located in New York, NY
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Carnival, 1949
Signed in margin lower right
Lithograph on paper
15 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches
23 1/4 x 16 mat
Born in Okayama, Japan, Yasuo Kuniyoshi had no intention of be...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"Nude Woman" Howard Daum, Modernist, Female Nude, Black and White, Elegant
Located in New York, NY
Howard Daum
Nude Woman, 1945
Signed and dated in pencil in the margin
Etching on paper
Plate 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches
Sheet 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches
The artist
Ashby Gallery, New York
Carl ...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
"L
Oiseau Multicolore" Georges Braque, Modernist Bird, Colorful, Cubist, Fauvist
By Georges Braque
Located in New York, NY
Georges Braque
L'Oiseau multicolore, circa 1950
Signed and numbered "30/200" in pencil
Aquatint in colors on BFK Rives wove paper
Image 10 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches
Sheet 17 5/8 x 24 5/8 i...
Category
1950s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Pastel Pink, Color Field, Abstract Expressionist Work
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, 1982
Monotype on handmade paper
33 1/4 x 33 inches
A noted figure in the New York School, Friedel Dzubas was associated with the Color Field painting movem...
Category
1980s Color-Field Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Monotype
"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Red, Green, Bright Pastel Colors, Color Field Work
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, 1982
Monotype on handmade paper
34 x 33 1/4 inches
A noted figure in the New York School, Friedel Dzubas was associated with the Color Field painting movem...
Category
1980s Color-Field Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Monotype
"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Pastel Colors, Intense Red, Color Field, Unique Work
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, 1981
Hand-painted monotype on pulp paper
30 1/4 x 24 3/4 inches
A noted figure in the New York School, Friedel Dzubas was associated with the Color Field p...
Category
1980s Color-Field Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Monotype
"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Hand-painted, Color Field, Earth and Primary Colors
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, 1987
Hand-painted monotype on paper
29 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches
A noted figure in the New York School, Friedel Dzubas was associated with the Color Field painti...
Category
1980s Color-Field Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Monotype
"Untitled" Donald Judd, Black and White, Stripes, Minimalist, Abstract Art
By Donald Judd
Located in New York, NY
Donald Judd
Untitled, 1980
Signed "Judd" in pencil lower right margin and numbered
Aquatint on etching paper
Image 24 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches
Sheet 29 1/8 x 34 inches
Edition 29/150
Pro...
Category
1980s Minimalist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
"Winter Wildfowling" Frank Weston Benson, Hunting Scene, Outdoors, Marshes
By Frank Weston Benson
Located in New York, NY
Frank Weston Benson
Winter Wildfowling, 1927
Signed lower left
Etching on paper
Image 8 1/2 x 7 inches
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, a descendant of a long line of sea captains, Benson first studied art at Boston’s Museum School where he became editor of the student magazine. In 1883, Benson enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris where artists such as Bouguereau, Lefebvre, Constant, Doucet and Boulanger taught students from all over Europe and America. It was Boulanger who gave Benson his highest commendation. “Young man,” he said, “Your career is in your hands . . . you will do very well.” Benson’s parents gave him a present of one thousand dollars a twenty-first birthday and told him to return home when it ran out. The money lasted long enough to provide Benson with two years of schooling in Paris, a summer at the seaside village of Concarneau in Brittany and travel in England.
Upon returning to America, Benson opened a studio on Salem’s Chestnut Street and began painting portraits of family and friends. An oil of his wife, Ellen Perry Peirson, dressed in her wedding gown is representative of this period. It demonstrates not only the academic techniques he learned at the Academie Julian but also his own growing emphasis on the effects of light. And yet, despite all the technical mastery displayed in the work, the painting exudes the warmth that existed between model and artist. More than a likeness, it is a study in serenity. Perhaps it was of a work such as this that Benson was thinking when he said, “The more a painter knows about his subject, the more he studies and understands it, the more the true nature of it is perceived by whoever looks at it, even though it is extremely subtle and not easy to see or understand. A painter must search deeply into the aspects of a subject, must know and understand it thoroughly before he can represent it well.”
Following a brief stint as an instructor at the Portland, Maine, Society of Art, Benson was appointed as instructor of antique drawing at the Museum School in Boston in the spring of l889. Benson’s long association with the school was particularly fruitful. Under the leadership of Edmund Tarbell and Benson the Museum School became a national and internationally recognized institution. The students won numerous prizes, enrollment tripled, a new school building was erected and visiting delegations from other schools sought the secret of their success. Benson cherished his role as teacher and was held in high esteem by his students, many of whom called him “Cher Maitre.” Reminiscing about his long career with the school Benson once said, “I may have taught many students, but it was I who learned the most.”
In 1890, Benson won the Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy in New York. It was the first of a long series of awards, that earning for him the sobriquet “America’s Most Medalled Painter.” In the early years of his career, Benson’s studio works were mostly portraits or paintings of figures set in richly appointed interiors. Young women in white stretch their hands out towards the glow of an unseen fire; girls converse on an antique settee in a room full of objets d’arts; his first daughter, Eleanor, poses with her cat. Works of this sort, together with a steady influx of portrait commissions, earned Benson both renown and financial rewards, yet it was in his outdoor works that gave Benson his greatest pleasure.
In the latter half of the 1890s, Benson summered in Newcastle, on New Hampshire’s short stretch of seacoast. It was here, in 1899, that Benson made his first foray into impressionism with Children in the Woods and The Sisters, the latter a sun-dappled study of his two youngest daughters, Sylvia and Elisabeth.
This painting was one of the first works that Benson hung at an exhibition with nine friends. The resignation of these ten illustrious artists rocked the American art establishment but, the catalogue for their first exhibition was titled, simply, “Ten American Painters.” When, in 1898, the three Bostonians and seven New Yorkers began to exhibit their best work in exquisitely arranged small shows, the group (dubbed by newspapers, “The Ten” ) quickly became known as the American Impressionists, a bow to the style of their French predecessors. The Ten’s annual shows soon became an eagerly awaited part of the annual exhibition calendar and were always well reviewed. Held annually in New York City, the group’s yearly exhibitions usually traveled to Boston and were occasionally seen in other cities. Benson’s association with other members of the group such as Childe Hassam, Thomas Dewing, William Merrit Chase and J. Alden Weir, only reinforced his growing emphasis on the tenets of Impressionism. As he later said to his daughter Eleanor, “I follow the light, where it comes from, where it goes.”
The principles of Impressionism began to dominate Benson’s work by 1901, the year that the Bensons first summered on the island of North Haven in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. His summer home “Wooster Farm,” which they rented and finally bought in 1906, became the setting for some of Benson’s best known work and there, it seemed, he found endless inspiration. Benson’s sparkling plein-air paintings of his children–Eleanor, George, Elisabeth and Sylvia–capture the very essence of summer and have been widely reproduced: In The Hilltop, George and Eleanor watch the sailboat races from the headland near their house.
As a boy, Benson dreamed of being an ornithological illustrator. In mid-life, he returned to the wildfowl and sporting subjects that had remained his lifelong passion. Using etching and lithography, watercolor, oil and wash, Benson portrayed the birds observed since childhood and captured scenes of his hunting and fishing expeditions.
Together with his two brothers-in-law, Benson bought a small hunting retreat on a hill overlooking Cape Cod’s Nauset Marsh. Here, in the late 1890s, he began experimenting with black and white wash drawings. These paintings became so popular that Benson was not able to keep up with the demand. He turned to an art publishing company to have several made into it intaglio prints; twelve wash drawings are known to have been reproduced in this manner. At least two of them were given as gifts to associate members of the Boston Guild of artists, of which Benson was a founding member.
Benson was also an avid fisherman and his salmon fishing expeditions to Canada’s Gaspé Peninsula where one of the high points of his summer. There, in 1921, he began the first in a series of watercolors that would eventually over 500 works.
Benson’s watercolors conveyed the joy and beauty of a sportsman’s life whether in a painting of a hunter setting out decoys, a flock of ducks coming in for a landing or a grouse flushed from cover. The critics favorably compared Benson’s watercolors to those of Homer. “The love of the almost primitive wilderness which appears in many of Homer’s landscapes and the swift, sure touch with which he suggests rather than describes–these also characterize Benson’s work,” one critic wrote. “The solitude of the northern woods is very much like Homer’s.”
Like the wash drawings before them, Benson’s watercolors proved...
Category
1920s Academic Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
"The Fish" Ida Ten Eyck O
Keeffe, Trout, Black and White, Water, Animal Art
Located in New York, NY
Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe
The Fish, 1935
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Monotype on paper
Image 6 x 8 1/2 inches
Exhibited
Dallas Museum of Art, Ida O'Keeffe: Escaping Georgia's...
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Monotype
"Which Way?" Martin Lewis, Atmospheric, Snowy 1930s Setting, Outdoor Scene
By Martin Lewis
Located in New York, NY
Martin Lewis
Which Way?, 1932
Signed lower right
Aquatint etching on pale blue paper
Plate 10 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Sheet 14 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches
Edition of approximately 53
Provenance...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
"Light Bulb" Jasper Johns, Mid-Century, Pop Art, Dada, Black Silhouette
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns
Light Bulb, 1966
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered "36/45" in lower margin
Lithograph on J. Whatman paper
Image: 8 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches
Sheet: 19 1/2 x 24 1/4 inches
...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"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 ...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"Fishing Village" Joe Jones, Mid-Century, American Life, Small Town Scene
By Joe Jones
Located in New York, NY
Joe Jones
Fishing Village, 1949
Signed in pencil lower right margin
Lithograph on wove paper
Image 9 5/16 x 12 9/16 inches
Sheet 12 x 15 15/16 inches
From the edition of 250
The initial details of Jones' career are sparse, and this is intentional. The young artist was engaged in a process of self-reinvention, crafting a persona. When he submitted a work to the Sixteen Cities Exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art in 1933, he briefly characterized himself: "Born St. Louis, 1909, self-taught. " Jones intentionally portrayed himself to the art community as an authentic working-class figure, backed by a compelling history. He was the youngest of five children in a family led by a one-armed house painter from St. Louis, a Welsh immigrant, and his German American spouse. At the age of ten, Jones found himself in a Missouri reformatory due to authorities' concerns over his graffiti activities. After completing elementary school, he traveled by freight car to California and back, even being arrested for vagrancy in Pueblo, Colorado. Returning to St. Louis, he attempted to settle down by working alongside his father. Yet, Jones felt a profound restlessness and was drawn toward a more elevated artistic pursuit in his late teenage years. He discovered a local collective of budding artists that formed St. Louis’s "Little Bohemia," sharing a studio and providing mutual support until he managed to secure his own modest workspace in a vacant garage.
Jones’s initial creations comprised still lifes, landscapes, and poignant portraits of those close to him. These subjects were not only accessible but also budget-friendly, as hiring models was beyond his means. He depicted himself, his father, mother, and eventually, his wife. In December 1930, at the age of 21, Jones wed Freda Sies, a modern dancer and political activist who was four years older than him.
By 1933, Jones had started gaining noteworthy local recognition through a solo exhibition at the Artists’ Guild of Saint Louis. Of the twenty-five paintings on display, one, titled River Front (private collection, previously with Hirschl and Adler Galleries), was selected to illustrate a feature article about his show in The Art Digest (February 15, 1933, p. 9). Shortly before this exhibition, a young surgeon named Dr. Robert Elman took an interest in Jones’s art, purchasing several pieces and forming a group of potential patrons committed to providing the emerging artist with a monthly stipend in exchange for art. This group was officially known as the "Co-operative Art Society," but it was informally dubbed the "Joe Jones Club. " Jones became an active participant in the St. Louis artistic scene, particularly within its bohemian segments. He embraced modernism and was a founding member of the "New Hat" movement in 1931, a playful rebellion against the conservative and traditional mainstream art establishment.
The summer of 1933 marked a significant shift in Jones’s journey. Sponsored by a dedicated ally, Mrs. Elizabeth Green, Jones, along with Freda and Green, embarked on an eastward road trip. In Washington, D. C., they explored the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery (part of the Smithsonian Institution), the Library of Congress, and Mount Vernon. Following this whirlwind of art and American culture, they made their way to New York, where they visited various museums and galleries, including a stop at The New School for Social Research, which featured notable contemporary murals by fellow Missourian Thomas Hart Benton and the politically active Mexican artist, José Clemente Orozco. From June through August, Jones and Freda resided in the artist colony of Provincetown, Massachusetts, later returning home via Detroit to see Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry mural housed at the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts.
While Elizabeth Green allegedly hoped that Jones would refine his artistic skills under the guidance of Charles Hawthorne or Richard Miller in Provincetown, Jones followed a different path. Rather than pursuing conservative mentors, he connected with an engaging network of leftist intellectuals, writers, and artists who dedicated their time to reading Marx and applying his theories to the American landscape. Jones's reaction to the traditional culture of New England was captured in his statement to a reporter from the St. Louis Post Dispatch: “Class consciousness . . . that’s what I got of my trip to New England. Those people [New Englanders] are like the Chinese—ancestor worshipers. They made me realize where I belong” (September 21, 1933). The stark social divisions he witnessed there prompted him to embrace his working-class identity even more fervently. Upon returning to St. Louis, he prominently identified himself as a Communist. This newfound political stance created friction with some of his local supporters. Many of his middle-class advocates withdrew their backing, likely influenced not only by Jones’s politics but also by his flamboyant and confrontational demeanor.
In December 1933, Jones initiated a complimentary art class for unemployed individuals in the Old Courthouse of St. Louis, the same location where the Dred Scott case was deliberated and where slave auctions formerly took place. Concurrently, the St. Louis Art League was offering paid courses. Emphasizing the theme of social activism, with a studio adorned with Soviet artwork, Jones’s institution operated for just over a year before being removed from the courthouse by local officials. The school’s political focus and unconventional teaching practices, along with its inclusion of a significant number of African American students during a period marked by rigid racial segregation, certainly contributed to its challenges. Under Jones’s guidance, the class created a large chalk pastel mural on board, measuring 16 by 37 feet, titled Social Unrest in St. Louis. Mural painting posed no challenge for the former housepainter, who was adept at handling large wall surfaces. His first significant commission in St. Louis in late 1931 was a mural that celebrated the city’s industrial and commercial fortitude for the local radio station, KMOX. This mural, aimed at conveying optimism amid severe economic hardship, showcased St. Louis's strengths in a modernist approach. When Jones resumed mural work in late 1933, his worldview had evolved considerably. The mural produced for the school in the courthouse, conceived by Jones, featured scenes of modern St. Louis selected to highlight political messages. Jones had observed the technique of utilizing self-contained scenes to craft visual narratives in the murals he encountered in the East. More locally, this compositional strategy was commonly employed by the renowned Missouri artist...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"The Slope Near the Bridge" Paul Sample, Mid-Century, American Snowy Landscape
By Paul Sample
Located in New York, NY
Paul Sample
The Slope Near the Bridge, 1950
Signed in pencil lower left
Lithograph on wove paper
Image 8 15/16 x 12 15/16 inches
Sheet 11 5/16 x 15 1/16 inches
From the edition of 25...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"Windy Hill" Lawrence Beall Smith, Mid-Century Realist Scene, American Life
By Lawrence Beall Smith
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Beall Smith
Windy Hill, 1948
Signed in pencil lower right margin
Lithograph on wove paper
Image 10 3/8 x 13 1/16 inches
Sheet 11 15/16 x 16 inches
From the edition of 250
...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"9 Concert Tickets designed by John Cage and Earle Brown" John Cage
By John Cage
Located in New York, NY
John Cage
9 Concert Tickets designed by John Cage and Earle Brown, August 1953
Letterpress print without ink
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Provenance
Estate of Carolyn Brown, New York 2025.
B...
Category
1950s Conceptual More Prints
Materials
Newsprint
"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...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
"Dawn Inside the Yoshiwara" Utagawa Hiroshige, Japanese Landscape, Ukiyo-e
By Utagawa Hiroshige
Located in New York, NY
Utagawa Hiroshige
Dawn Inside the Yoshiwara, circa 1857
Woodblock print
11 x 7 inches
Utagawa Hiroshige is recognized as a master of the ukiyo-e woodblock printing tradition, havin...
Category
1850s Naturalistic Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
"Kuhn Family Holiday Card" Walt Kuhn, Greeting Card by American Modernist
By Walt Kuhn
Located in New York, NY
Walt Kuhn
Kuhn Family Holiday Card
Lithograph on paper
6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches
Walter Kuhn was born on October 27, 1877 in Brooklyn, NY. His father, Francis Kuhn, was the owner of a s...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Kuhn Family Holiday Card" Walt Kuhn, Greeting Card by American Modernist
By Walt Kuhn
Located in New York, NY
Walt Kuhn
Kuhn Family Holiday Card
Lithograph on paper
5 1/2 x 4 inches
Walter Kuhn was born on October 27, 1877 in Brooklyn, NY. His father, Francis Kuhn, was the owner of a ship ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Roma (from Urban Landscapes III)" Richard Estes, Photorealist Screenprint
By Richard Estes
Located in New York, NY
Richard Estes
Roma (from Urban Landscapes III), 1981
Signed and numbered "33/250" in pencil, lower margin
Color screenprint on white wove paper
14 x 20 inches
Edition 33/250
Richar...
Category
1980s Photorealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
"Birth Tear/Tear" Judy Chicago, Abstracted Surreal Figure, Feminist Art
By Judy Chicago
Located in New York, NY
Judy Chicago
Birth Tear/Tear, 1985
Signed, dated, and numbered in margin
Serigraph on Stonehenge Natural White
Image 25 x 35 inches
Sheet 30 x 40 inches
Judy Chicago’s “Birth Tear/T...
Category
1980s Feminist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
"Newport Beach" Currier
Ives, Hand-Colored Lithograph of Newport Beach
By Currier
Ives
Located in New York, NY
Currier & Ives
Newport Beach
Hand-colored lithograph
Sheet 10 x 13 1/4 inches
After undertaking apprenticeships in Boston and Philadelphia, Currier set up a print publishing compan...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"The Great Fire of Boston" Currier
Ives, Urban landscape late 19th century
By Currier
Ives
Located in New York, NY
Currier & Ives
The Great Fire of Boston , 1872
Hand-colored lithograph
7 5/16 x 12 11/16 inches
After undertaking apprenticeships in Boston and Philadelphia, Currier set up a print...
Category
1870s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"New York - Taken from the Northwest angle of Fort Columbus, Governor
s Island"
Located in New York, NY
New York - Taken from the north west angle of Fort Columbus Governor's Island, 1846
Engraved by Henry Papprill after a sketch by F. Catherwood, published by Henry J. Megarey
Hand-colored engraving on paper
Image 16 x 26 1/2 inches
Henry A. Papprill (1816–1903) was a British engraver. Noted as an aquatint engraver from 1840. His plates were published from 1840 till 1883 mainly by Ackermann of the Strand.
Papprill was born in Holborn, London. Lived for much of his life at Wharton Street, Lloyd Square, London. Papprill is thought to have been based in New York City for brief period in the mid-1840s. His work in the USA appears to classify him as an American engraver but he was based and gained his reputation and bulk of his work in England.
He produced a series of works for Ackermann & Co from 1840 beginning with four plates called "The Jolly Squire", with verses, after James Pollard.
In the following years Papprill engraved a number of military plates for Ackermann as well a series of engravings of New York (1846-9) for H.I.Megarey (published in New York). The most notable of these are: "The North West Angle of Fort Columbus, Governor's Island" (the Catherwood-Papprill view) and New York from the Steeple of St. Paul's Church, Looking East, South & West." (The Hill-Papprill view) listed in the American Historical Prints - Early Views of American Cities, etc: I.N.Phelps Stokes & Daniel C. Haskell. New York Public Library 1932.
Papprill also produced for Ackermann a series of sporting prints after G. H. Laporte between 1860 and 1865. These were entitled: Racing, Hunting and Coursing. He also produced a series of shipping prints...
Category
1840s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving, Aquatint
"Business-Men
s Class, Y.M.C.A." George Bellows, Ashcan School Print
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in New York, NY
George Bellows
Business-Men's Class, Y.M.C.A, 1916
Signed, numbered "No. 41" and titled lower margin
Lithograph on wove paper
11 1/2 x 17 1/8 inches
Edition of 64
Provenance:
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Private Collection, Ohio
Literature:
Mason, 20.
After his arrival from Columbus, Ohio in 1904, Bellows lived at the West Side YMCA. It was there that he met Eugene Speicher, another aspiring young artist who was to become his lifelong friend. Always interested in the anatomy of the human body, Bellows often satirized the various types who, while leading a sedentary life, feel compelled to devote a portion of their daily routine to physical self-improvement.
Throughout his brief but illustrious career, George Wesley Bellows created striking scenes that documented ordinary American life in all its beauty and banality. Considered an American Realist, the artist eschewed embellishment, finding inspiration in the gritty boroughs of New York City, the rocky coastline of Maine, and, later, in his friends and family. Bellows garnered early recognition for his arresting portrayals of illegal prizefighting, dramatic works executed in dark tonal palettes that underscore the brutality of the violent sport.
Bellows’ elderly Methodist parents hoped their son might pursue the ministry, a calling the extroverted athlete never received. The Columbus native competed on the baseball team at Ohio State University and also served as an illustrator for the college yearbook. In the fall of 1904—just months shy of his expected graduation—Bellows defied his father’s wishes and boarded a train to New York City in hopes of becoming a magazine illustrator like his idols Howard Chandler Christy and Charles Dana Gibson. Before leaving, he reportedly turned down an offer to play professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds...
Category
1910s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"Wood, " Christine Tarkowski, Contemporary Female Artist, Urban Text Art
By Christine Tarkowski
Located in New York, NY
Christine Tarkowski (American, b. 1967)
Wood, 2007
Screenprint in colors on wood veneer
36 x 24 inches
From the edition of 3
Provenance:
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York
Christ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Wood, Screen
"Hommage a Nobutaka Shikanai, " Zao Wou-Ki, Abstract Lithograph Mid-century Print
By Zao Wou-Ki
Located in New York, NY
Zao Wou-Ki (1920 - 2013)
Hommage a Nobutaka Shikanai - 1991, (Agerup 354)
Color lithograph on BFK Rives watermarked paper, full margins
24 x 18 1/4 inches
Signed and titled in the sheet
Published by Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Zao (Zhao) Wou Ki combines Oriental landscape abstraction with French influence. He was born in Beijing on February 13, 1921, and from the age of ten, Zao drew and painted with great freedom. He learned from his grandfather that calligraphy is an art when it transmits an emotion to the person looking at it. At age fourteen he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, where he remained for six years. He studied and then taught at the Hongchow National Academy of Fine Arts. In 1942, he organized an exhibition of works by his teacher, Wu Dayu, along with some of his own.
In 1948, he moved to Paris where he has lived and worked ever since, although he has exhibited in New York City. He attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and lived at Rue du Moulin Vert nearby Alberto Giacometti's studio. Making the acquaintance of Hans Hartung, Nicolas de Staël, Pierre Soulages, Viera da Silva...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"La Danse Barbare (from Les Saltimbanques), " Pablo Picasso, Figurative Print
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
La Danse Barbare (from La Suite des Saltimbanques), 1905, printed 1913
Etching on Van Gelder Zonen wove paper
Sheet 13 x 20 inches
From the edition of 250...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
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