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AFTER THE VICTORY, PROPHECY OF ISAIAH, WPA ERA Circa 1930s
By Saul Rabino
Located in Surfside, FL
A wartorn composition of a soldier on the left, a Jewish blacksmith in the middle and a little shepherd on the right. This is a lithograph pastel and colored pencil on paper. Saul R...
Category

1930s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Pastel, Color Pencil, Lithograph

Prayer, Torah, and the Dove
By Lennart Rosensohn
Located in Surfside, FL
Ed. 54/180 Mauritz Lennart Rosensohn , born July 25, 1918 in Malmö, Denmark, died in 1994, was a Swedish artist and graphic artist . He was the son of merchant Viktor Rosensohn and A...
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Paris Review Lithograph Francesco Clemente Neo Expressionist Italian Avant Garde
By Francesco Clemente
Located in Surfside, FL
Francesco Clemente (Italian b. 1952), Lithograph 1990 From the edition of 250 Hand signed lower center Published by: The Paris Review Dimensions: 32" x 23" Frame measures 34" x 25"...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Sha ar Shchem Damascus Gate Old City Jerusalem 1930s Bezalel School
By Jacob Eisenberg
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Israeli Subject: Cityscape Medium: Etching, Drypoint Surface: Paper Country: Israel Dimensions: 11" x 14" Dimensions w/Frame: 11 3/4" x 14 3/4" Jacob Eisenberg (1897–1965) (a...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

The Rabbi 1977 Soviet Non Conformist Avant Garde Print
By Alek Rapoport
Located in Surfside, FL
Dimensions w/Frame: 25 3/4" x 20 3/4" Alek Rapoport (November 24, 1933, Kharkiv, Ukraine SSR – February 4, 1997, San Francisco) was a Russian Nonconformist artist, art theorist and ...
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1970s Post-Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

1971 Modernist Lithograph Redhead Pop Art Mod Fashionable Woman Richard Lindner
By Richard Lindner
Located in Surfside, FL
RICHARD LINDNER (American. 1901-1978) Hand Signed limited edition lithograph with blindstamp Publisher: Shorewood-Bank Street Atelier for the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpt...
Category

1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Goose-Market in Cracow, Vintage Print, 1869
By Aloïs Schönn
Located in Surfside, FL
Alois Schönn (born March 11, 1826 in Vienna , died September 16, 1897 in Krumpendorf , Austria ) was an Austrian historian and genre painter . He specialized in oriental genre pictur...
Category

19th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching

"Shabbat Comes and Joy Fills the House" Post Soviet Judaica Etching Hand Colored
By Eugene Abeshaus
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand-Colored Etching Ed. 19/110, signed l.r. in Hebrew, l.l. in English. EUGENE ABESHAUS Leningrad, Russia, b. 1939, d. 2008 Eugene Abeshaus (also spelled Evgeny Abezgauz, Евгений ...
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Etching

Profile of a Young Woman, Signed Aquatint Etching Print on Paper Jewish Artist
By Milton Goldstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Milton Goldstein, was a prominent Bayside artist, won many prestigious awards and taught at Adelphi University. Born in Holyoke, Mass., Goldstein began his career in the arts when h...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

A Fine Judaica Etching "Atonement" Yom Kippur in the Synagogue
By Samuel George Cahan
Located in Surfside, FL
In this copper plate etching, Cahan captures the religious ardor and penitent sentiment shared by the figures in the artwork. The piece is number seventy-six in a series of one-hundr...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Fauvist Lithograph Woman Portrait Marie Therese
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Portrait de Marie Therese" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 274/500 lower left From the estate of...
Category

20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

French Surrealist Lithograph Legendary Mime Marcel Marceau Third Eye Surrealism
By Marcel Marceau
Located in Surfside, FL
Le Troisième Oeil (The Third Eye) Lithograph on Arches paper Hand signed and numbered 1981 Dimensions: 21.5 X 30 inches Marcel Marceau (French: born Marcel Mangel; 1923 – 2007) was ...
Category

1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Andre Lanskoy Dada Lithograph Mourlot Calligraphic French Poetry Brut Abstract
By André Lanskoy
Located in Surfside, FL
ANDRE LANSKOY (French / Russian 1902-1976) 1966 Original color lithograph on watermarked Arches paper The title sheet was hand signed in pencil on the justification page by the arti...
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

French Surrealist Lithograph Legendary Mime Marcel Marceau Third Eye Surrealism
By Marcel Marceau
Located in Surfside, FL
Le Troisième Oeil (The Third Eye) Lithograph on Arches paper Hand signed and numbered 1981 Dimensions: 21.5 X 30 inches Marcel Marceau (French: born Marcel Mangel; 1923 – 2007) was ...
Category

1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Hand Colored Etching Cuca Romley Naive Folk Art Young Girl Period Frame
By Cuca Romley
Located in Surfside, FL
Cuca Romley, Spanish woman artist (born 1933) Color etching "Petite Fille" (young girl with blue eyes) Hand signed lower right, titled lower center, "epreuve d'artiste" lower left....
Category

20th Century Folk Art Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching

American Pop Art George Segal Color Expressionist Lithograph Woman in Red Kimono
By George Segal
Located in Surfside, FL
George Segal (American, 1924-2000) "Woman in Red Kimono," 1985 Lithograph in colors on wove paper Edition: 104/120 Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil in the lower margin: G. Sega...
Category

1980s American Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Vintage Pop Art 1997 Offset Lithograph Larry Rivers Music Poster Hamptons NY
By Larry Rivers
Located in Surfside, FL
Larry Rivers "The Music Festival of the Hamptons / July 18-27 1997" poster, Not hand signed. [Dimensions: 24" H x 18" W] Larry Rivers (born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg) (1923 – 200...
Category

1990s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Lithograph Screenprint Male Heroic Figures
By Ernst Neizvestny
Located in Surfside, FL
Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny (Russian: Эрнст Ио́сифович Неизве́стный) (born 1925) is a Russian sculptor. He lives and works in New York City. Non Conformist Post Soviet Avant Garde N...
Category

20th Century Post-Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Eve and the Snake in the Garden of Eden
By Eugene Abeshaus
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand-Colored Etching Ed. 11/89, signed middle in Hebrew, l.l. in English. EUGENE ABESHAUS Leningrad, Russia, b. 1939, d. 2008 Eugene Abeshaus (also spelled Evgeny Abezgauz, Евгений...
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20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Biblical Prophet
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw R...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

French Surrealist Lithograph Legendary Mime Marcel Marceau Third Eye Surrealism
By Marcel Marceau
Located in Surfside, FL
Le Troisième Oeil (The Third Eye) Lithograph on Arches paper Hand signed and numbered 1981 Dimensions: 21.5 X 30 inches Marcel Marceau (French: born Marcel Mangel; 1923 – 2007) was ...
Category

1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

French Surrealist Lithograph Legendary Mime Marcel Marceau Third Eye Surrealism
By Marcel Marceau
Located in Surfside, FL
Le Troisième Oeil (The Third Eye) Lithograph on Arches paper Hand signed and numbered 1981 Dimensions: 21.5 X 30 inches Marcel Marceau (French: born Marcel Mangel; 1923 – 2007) was ...
Category

1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Temple, Large Nude Woman with Rainbow Ralph Steadman
By Ralph Steadman
Located in Surfside, FL
Ralph Steadman (born 15 May 1936) is a British artist best known for his work with American author Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, and brought up in Aber...
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Marino Marini Etching "Miracle" Hand Signed and Numbered
By Marino Marini
Located in Surfside, FL
image 11.5X16.75 He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1917. Although he never abandoned painting, Marini devoted himself primarily to sculpture from about 1922. Fr...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Rare Vintage Art Deco "White Bottoms" Lithograph Pochoir
By Georges Goursat (Sem)
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is for the one plate. the cover is not included Lithographs part printed in colour, finished by hand This portfolio of lively loose pochoir plates sets its sights on pr...
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20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Rare Vintage Art Deco "White Bottoms" Lithograph Pochoir
By Georges Goursat (Sem)
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is for the one plate. the cover is not included Lithographs part printed in colour, finished by hand This portfolio of lively loose pochoir plates sets its sights on pr...
Category

20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Curators, Catherine Opie Signed Vintage Photograph
By Catherine Opie
Located in Surfside, FL
CATHERINE OPIE (b. 1961, OH), SIGNED Vintage limited edition Photograph Born in Sandusky, OH, Catherine Opie received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from the Cali...
Category

20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Macaques 4.35.
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Abramovitz, Albert 1879-1963 Born in Riga, Latvia, Abramovitz studied art at the Imperial Art School in Odessa and at the Grande Chaumière in Paris. In Paris, he became a member of ...
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20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Kappara, Ritual, Rare Judaica Print
By Jerome Kaplan
Located in Surfside, FL
Title: (Jewish) Ritual (Hebrew, Kapparot) Artist: Jerome Kaplan Publisher: Tamarind Lithography Workshop Inc. Printer:Joseph Zirker Date: 1962 Media: Three Color Lithograph From Two ...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Russian Mixed Media Pop Art Collage Painting Bumble Bee, Thinking, Hard Earned
By Konstantin Bokov
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in 1940 in Shostka, Ukraine, Konstantin Bokov immigrated to New York City in 1974.Born the son of Viktor Bokov, the well known poet who perished in the Soviet gulag, Konstantin ...
Category

20th Century Outsider Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Mixed Media

Portrait of a Girl
By Harry Sudman
Located in Surfside, FL
Harry Sudman is a realist painter and photographer who has worked out of Chicago for over twenty-five years. He grew up on the south side, and currently resides uptown. In the late 1...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Charcoal

Rare Judaica Cheder Test Hand Colored Etching after Kaufmann
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an etching with hand painted watercolor applied After Isidor Kaufmann (1853-1921) was an Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes. Having devoted his career to genre painti...
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20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Untitled (Monster, Better believe it)
By Konstantin Bokov
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in 1940 in Shostka, Ukraine, Konstantin Bokov immigrated to New York City in 1974.Born the son of Viktor Bokov, the well known poet who perished in the Soviet gulag, Konstantin ...
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20th Century Outsider Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Mixed Media

Erotic Etching from Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
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20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Female Nude Erotic Art Deco Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
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20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
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20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
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20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
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20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Figurative Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Figurative Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Erotic Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Erotic Female Nude - Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Erotic Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Israeli Expressionist Oil Painting Yosl Bergner Modernist Abstract Composition
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
Yosl Bergner (Israeli 1920-2017) Untitled, 1961 Oil on canvas Dimensions: 19 5/8 x 24 3/8 in. Framed, 32.25 x 28 inches Hand signed in Hebrew and dated lower left Bears gallery stamp...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Erotic Nude - Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Erotic Etching from Le Satyricon
By André Derain
Located in Surfside, FL
This lot is for one etching. --- Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that mee...
Category

20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Cabaret Dancer (ala Toulouse Lautrec)
By Marcel Vertès
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an original hand signed (I believe it is also hand colored but i am not positive) Artists Proof Lithograph of a Circus scene. This depicts a Cabaret Dancer. This came from a...
Category

1940s Art Deco Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Circus Trapeze Acrobat
By Marcel Vertès
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an original hand signed (I believe it is also hand colored but i am not positive) Artists Proof Lithograph of a Circus scene. This depicts a trapeze artist an acrobat on the ...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Pop Art Vincent Van Gogh Serigraph
By John Brower
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for a Silkscreen it is Titled Vincent Van Gogh, Expressionist, Dutch. John Brower worked in Chicago as a billboard designer for 12 years. He taught art at Alverno College of...
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1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Pop Art Paul Cezanne Serigraph, 1968
By John Brower
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a Silkscreen it is Titled Paul Cezanne, Post Impressionist, French. John Brower worked in Chicago as a billboard designer for 12 years. He taught art at Alverno College of M...
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1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Pop Art Jackson Pollock Serigraph, 1968
By John Brower
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a Silkscreen it is Titled Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist, American. John Brower worked in Chicago as a billboard designer for 12 years. He taught art at Alverno Col...
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1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Large Israeli Lithograph Moses with the Ten Commandments Reuven Rubin Mourlot
By Reuven Rubin
Located in Surfside, FL
Lithograph printed by Mourlot, Paris on Arches France paper. limited edition of 150. Pencil signed. Biblical themed Lithograph by Israeli Master. Reuven Rubin 1893 -1974 was a Roman...
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1970s Figurative Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Lithograph

Andre Lanskoy Dada Lithograph Mourlot Calligraphic French Poetry Brut Abstract
By André Lanskoy
Located in Surfside, FL
ANDRE LANSKOY (French / Russian 1902-1976) 1966 Original color lithograph on watermarked Arches paper The title sheet was hand signed in pencil on the justification page by the arti...
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Cloud Flute Moment
Located in Surfside, FL
With chopmarks and blindstamps. published by The Lakeside Studio (chopmark lower right). THE LITHOGRAPH IS SIGNED TITLED AND ANNOTATED BY THE ARTIST in pencil EXCELLENT condition. Will's formal art education began with classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. As a student at the city's Steinmetz High School, Petersen succeeded Hugh Hefner (of Playboy magazine fame) as the HS newspaper cartoonist, the Steinmetz Star. During this time, Petersen recovered from polio. In 1947 Petersen enrolled at Chicago's Wilbur Wright College. While there, he painted with oils for the first time. Two years later he enrolled at Michigan State University where he developed a strong interest in literature and writing and began printmaking. By 1951 he had begun to exhibit paintings and prints nationally. A year later he completed his master's degree. Petersen served in the United States Army from 1952-54, spending one year as an education specialist in Japan. This encounter with the Japanese culture affected his entire life. He became interested in calligraphy and Noh, classical Japanese Buddhist performance that combines elements of drama, music and poetry. Upon completion of his military service in Japan in 1955, Will Petersen settled in Oakland, California, where he met some of the most active poets of the Beat Generation: Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Phil Whalen, Mike McClure and others. Petersen was attracted to the group by their intelligence and belief in Zen Buddhism. In 1956 in his small studio in Oakland, he printed the poems of Jack Kerouac. He attended for the first time, the reading of Ginsberg's Howl at Six Gallery. His relationship with Gary Snyder had begun when both were in Kyoto, Japan; later Snyder wrote for the Plucked Chicken. Petersen returned to Japan in 1957, pursuing painting, printmaking and writing for eight years while living in Kyoto. In 1965 he accepted a faculty appointment at Ohio State University, teaching drawing, painting and printmaking. Four years later Petersen took his teaching skills to West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he concentrated on printmaking. He taught there until 1977 when he began publishing Plucked Chicken, a journal of art and poetry. In 1978 in Morgantown, Petersen and his wife, Cynthia Archer, established Plucked Chicken Press, which they later moved to Chicago and then Evanston. Petersen operated the Press until his death on April 1, 1994. 1956 In storefront studio in Oakland, California, creates serigraphs and lithographs. Prints poems of Jack Kerouac. 1961 Back in Japan, acquires a lithography press and stones and resumes printing lithographs. Exhibits regularly with Kyoto Printmakers. 1969 Resident lithographer at the Lakeside Studio, Lakeside, Michigan. Prints for the first time Richard Hunt lithographs. 1978 Establishes Plucked Chicken Press in Morgantown, West Virginia. Resident lithographer at Lakeside Studio in Michigan. 1980 Plucked Chicken Press moves to Chicago. Publishes lithographs by Don Crouch and Art Kleinman. 1982 Publishes Blossom, a lithograph/collage by Tom Nakashima. 1983 Series I of Plucked Chicken Press is published with work by Archer, Duckworth, Godfrey, Heagstedt, Himmelfarb, Hoff, Hunt, Martyl, Miller, Nakashima and Petersen. 1984 Plucked Chicken Press moves to Evanston. Series II of Plucked Chicken Press is published with works by Croydon, Ho, Archer, Torn, Osver, Middaugh, Roseberry, Petersen, Spiess-Ferris and Hoppock. 1985 Series III of Plucked Chicken Press is published with works by Driesbach, Hunt, Trupp, Gregor, Pattison, Conger, Evans, Weygandt, Archer, Ho and Petersen. Prints Suite I, Northern Illinois University Collectors Series, with lithographs by Renie Adams, David Bower, David Driesbach, Carl Hayano and Ben Mahmoud...
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1980s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

A Matter of Aesthetics
Located in Surfside, FL
Lithograph with Roman portrait bust. Will Petersen, a painter, master printer and a poet, was born in Chicago. (Amer. 1928-1994) created this limited edition LITHOGRAPH at the Lakeside Studio. The LITHOGRAPH PRINT is from a limited edition THE LITHOGRAPH IS SIGNED TITLED AND ANNOTATED BY THE ARTIST in pencil EXCELLENT condition. Will's formal art education began with classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. As a student at the city's Steinmetz High School, Petersen succeeded Hugh Hefner (of Playboy magazine fame) as the HS newspaper cartoonist, the Steinmetz Star. During this time, Petersen recovered from polio. In 1947 Petersen enrolled at Chicago's Wilbur Wright College. While there, he painted with oils for the first time. Two years later he enrolled at Michigan State University where he developed a strong interest in literature and writing and began printmaking. By 1951 he had begun to exhibit paintings and prints nationally. A year later he completed his master's degree. Petersen served in the United States Army from 1952-54, spending one year as an education specialist in Japan. This encounter with the Japanese culture affected his entire life. He became interested in calligraphy and Noh, classical Japanese Buddhist performance that combines elements of drama, music and poetry. Upon completion of his military service in Japan in 1955, Will Petersen settled in Oakland, California, where he met some of the most active poets of the Beat Generation: Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Phil Whalen, Mike McClure and others. Petersen was attracted to the group by their intelligence and belief in Zen Buddhism. In 1956 in his small studio in Oakland, he printed the poems of Jack Kerouac. He attended for the first time, the reading of Ginsberg's Howl at Six Gallery. His relationship with Gary Snyder had begun when both were in Kyoto, Japan; later Snyder wrote for the Plucked Chicken. Petersen returned to Japan in 1957, pursuing painting, printmaking and writing for eight years while living in Kyoto. In 1965 he accepted a faculty appointment at Ohio State University, teaching drawing, painting and printmaking. Four years later Petersen took his teaching skills to West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he concentrated on printmaking. He taught there until 1977 when he began publishing Plucked Chicken, a journal of art and poetry. In 1978 in Morgantown, Petersen and his wife, Cynthia Archer, established Plucked Chicken Press, which they later moved to Chicago and then Evanston. Petersen operated the Press until his death on April 1, 1994. 1956 In storefront studio in Oakland, California, creates serigraphs and lithographs. Prints poems of Jack Kerouac. 1961 Back in Japan, acquires a lithography press and stones and resumes printing lithographs. Exhibits regularly with Kyoto Printmakers. 1969 Resident lithographer at the Lakeside Studio, Lakeside, Michigan. Prints for the first time Richard Hunt lithographs. 1978 Establishes Plucked Chicken Press in Morgantown, West Virginia. Resident lithographer at Lakeside Studio in Michigan. 1980 Plucked Chicken Press moves to Chicago. Publishes lithographs by Don Crouch and Art Kleinman. 1982 Publishes Blossom, a lithograph/collage by Tom Nakashima. 1983 Series I of Plucked Chicken Press is published with work by Archer, Duckworth, Godfrey, Heagstedt, Himmelfarb, Hoff, Hunt, Martyl, Miller, Nakashima and Petersen. 1984 Plucked Chicken Press moves to Evanston. Series II of Plucked Chicken Press is published with works by Croydon, Ho, Archer, Torn, Osver, Middaugh, Roseberry, Petersen, Spiess-Ferris and Hoppock. 1985 Series III of Plucked Chicken Press is published with works by Driesbach, Hunt, Trupp, Gregor, Pattison, Conger, Evans, Weygandt, Archer, Ho and Petersen. Prints Suite I, Northern Illinois University Collectors Series, with lithographs by Renie Adams, David Bower, David Driesbach, Carl Hayano and Ben Mahmoud...
Category

1980s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph