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Item Ships From: Continental US
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan concubine
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire. circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on li...
Category

17th Century Rajput Continental US - Art

Materials

Gold

Antique American Impressionist Framed Winter Landscape Rare Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive early 20th century impressionist winter landscape. A view of the Palisades. Great color and a panoramic view. Nicely framed.
Category

1920s Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi gallery 1982 (set of 4 printed works)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi 1982: set of 6 printed works: A set of six, individual, double-sided lithographic inserts from the seminal, spiral bound 1982 Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi ca...
Category

1980s Pop Art Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Fantastic Mid-Century Mark Coomer Serigraph of Chicago River Wrigley Building
Located in Chicago, IL
You need this fantastic Mid-Century serigraph of Chicago's iconic Wrigley Building & Tribune Tower by artist Mark Coomer, in its original off-white panel f...
Category

1950s American Modern Continental US - Art

Materials

Masonite, Screen

Ornetta by Bai, African American Artisti, An Original Painting on Paper
By Bai (Carl Karni-Bain)
Located in New york, NY
The earthy tones, rich in texture in an acrylic and oil pastel by African American artist Bai is a portrait of an androgenous subject with Modigliani eyes, Ornetta, is an enigmatic p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Rag Paper, Ballpoint Pen

Jill, John Kacere
By John Kacere
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: John Kacere (1930-1999) Title: Jill Year: 1979 Edition: 166/300, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Waterford paper Size: 29.75 x 22.25 inches Inscription: Signed by the artis...
Category

1970s Pop Art Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jill, John Kacere
Jill, John Kacere
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Four Columns #1497
By Vasa Velizar Mihich
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional 4 column tower work by Vasa Mihich. Great colors used on this piece which tend toward the pastel. Great for an entryway or room that has a lot of natural light. On ...
Category

1980s Minimalist Continental US - Art

Materials

Acrylic Polymer

Zhenpeng Zhou Animal Original Oil On Canvas "Morning Owl"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Morning Owl Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19.5 x 23.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This pai...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

NASA Sun Visor by Neil Armstrong, Vintage Apollo 11 Photo of Buzz Aldrin 1960s
By Buzz Aldrin
Located in New york, NY
An 11 x 14 black and white print of Buzz Aldrin from the original negative before Nasa added “more” space on the top of the image, which is a more common version of Visor. The 11 x 1...
Category

1960s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Kumulipo, Source of Life - Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art
By Marguerite Blasingame
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic and surreal landscape with figure eminating life force by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Visage, Cubist Portrait Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Grabbing the faces of one another, the two women in this Pablo Picasso print tenderly kiss one another. Seen in profile view from the position of the viewer, the scene is loving albe...
Category

1980s Cubist Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Horn Island Landscape
Located in New Orleans, LA
Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-1965) is considered one of the pre-eminent artists of the 20th c. American south. Anderson’s artistic vision paire...
Category

Mid-20th Century Continental US - Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Lilting" (2025) Original Oil Floral Painting with Pink Roses
By Daniel Keys
Located in Denver, CO
Daniel Key's "Lilting" (2025) is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a fresh array of pink roses and assorted flowers. About the artist: Daniel J. Keys was born on Oct....
Category

2010s Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

1985 Martin Kippenberger Selling America and Buying El Salvador Offset Print
By Martin Kippenberger
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 33.75 x 24 inches ( 85.725 x 60.96 cm )?Image Size: 13 x 9 inches ( 33.02 x 22.86 cm )?Framed: No?Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling??Additional Details: Original exhibition poster for Martin Kippenberger...
Category

1980s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Offset

Degas, Melina Darde, Ten Ballet Sketches (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper Year: 1945 Paper Size: 17 x 13 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Degas, Ten Balle...
Category

1940s Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Paul Newman, Sebring - Racing, Sports, Race Car Driver, Black and White Portrait
By Al Satterwhite
Located in Denton, TX
Paul Newman, Sebring by Al Satterwhite is a black and white portrait of the iconic actor, director, race car driver and more, dressed in his racing gear as he prepares for his upcomi...
Category

1970s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Seeing Voices 1, Abstract Lithograph by Paul Jenkins
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the portfolio "Seeing Voices", a collection that also includes several poems. This abstract piece by Paul Jenkins is signed and numbered on the front of the print i...
Category

1960s Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Antique American Impressionist Flower Still Life Nicely Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist flower still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 30.5H by 21.5L.
Category

1920s Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chasing the Light- 60x40 Black White Photography Wild Horses Mustangs Unsigned
By Shane Russeck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of Northern California Wild Mustangs. "They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom" 60 x 40 Signed edition of 10...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Yohaku No Bi (The Beauty of Empty Space)
By Pauline Ziegen
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust, navy, blue Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kans...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

The Custody is as Barbarous as The Crime, Etching by Francisco de Goya
By Francisco Goya
Located in Long Island City, NY
Francisco de Goya, Spanish (1746 - 1828) - The Custody is as Barbarous as The Crime, Year: circa 1810, Medium: Etching and burin on cream laid paper, Image Size: 3.75 x 3 inches, Si...
Category

1810s Surrealist Continental US - Art

Materials

Etching

"La Entrade Vieja a Valparaiso" - Chilean Coastal Cityscape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"La Entrade Vieja a Valparaiso" - Chilean Coastal Cityscape in Oil on Canvas "The Old Entrance to Valparaiso" Bright and detailed coastal landscape by Chilean artist Jorge Chaves (C...
Category

1990s Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bob Dylan, "The Drawn Blank Series, " rare complete box set with two lithographs
By Bob Dylan
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Bob Dylan Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series, Drawings and Paintings Book Size: 13.5 x 10 inches November 2013 Included Lithographs on Somerset Satin: 1. Woman on a Bed 12 x 9 inche...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Sunset Impressionism Seascape Framed Water Texas Artist Marine Dawn
Located in Houston, TX
Sunset Impressionism Seascape Framed Water Texas Artist Marine Dawn Framed 11" x 13". Is part of newly released small works from V....Vaughan's collect...
Category

2010s American Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Lapis 286 - white 3D abstract floral geometric ceramic composition
By Marie Laforey
Located in New York, NY
Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with organic mediums and learning how to craft preserved moss, clay, feathers and other natural elements into beautiful abstract compositions. Primarily inspired by nature, repetition, patterns, texture and geometry are essential elements that are omnipresent in her works. About Lapis and Flos series: Laforey recent ceramic works are unique pieces that alter in patterns to give an illusion of movement and depth by using clay’s potential for building sculptural dimension. The repetitive use of a unique element, the circle is centered to her work. The circle has often been associated with the female and to Mother Earth. It has no beginning and no end, it is the whole, the essence of things. It symbolizes the ongoing energy found in nature. Laforey’s Lapis mural ceramic series...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Clay

1970 Signed Limited Edition Large Screen Print V
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Jimmy Ernst  Plate IV - 1970 Print - Screen Print on Heavy Paper 28'' x 37'' inches Edition: Signed in pencil and numbered 125/125 Jimmy Ernst’s artwork was influenced by a number of powerful talents and vital currents in the art of his time. Son of Max Ernst, Jimmy drew upon the biomorphic and surreal compositions of his father, as well as Arp, Klee, André Breton, and Lyonel Feininger. His mature oil paintings, which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, reflect the Atomic Age aesthetic of the period. Often, they resemble crystals or webs; many look like vast labyrinths and are interpreted as symbols of the unconscious mind. Ernst was always interested in spirituality and drew inspiration from indigenous American art...
Category

1970s Abstract Continental US - Art

Materials

Screen

Flowers (Hand-Colored)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol Title: Flowers (Hand-Colored) Medium: Screenprint hand-colored with watercolor on white wove paper Date: 1974 Edition: 238/250 Sheet Size: 40 7/8" x 27 1/4" Signa...
Category

1970s Pop Art Continental US - Art

Materials

Watercolor, Screen

Cloisters, Grand National Steeplechase Horse Racing Champion 1892
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Signed oil on canvas painting of steeplechase race star ‘Cloisters’, winner of the 1893 Grand National in Aintree, Mercyside, England with ab impressive 40 length lead. The horse is ...
Category

1890s English School Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jeu de la Cape (III), from A Los Toros Avec Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Jeu de la Cape (III) Portfolio: A Los Toros Avec Picasso Medium: Transfer lithograph Date: 1961 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 17 1/4" x 19 3/4" Sheet S...
Category

1960s Abstract Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Coecles Harbor, Golden Hour" Oil painting, impressionistic seascape with house
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Coecles Harbor, Golden Hour" is an Impressionist oil on linen painting by Viktor Butko. It depicts the Coecles Harbor with calm empty water, an empty blue sky, and a green grass lan...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Medusa Vase #4-hand made porcelain vase, blue-green purple-red color
By Irina Lakshin
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Medusa vase #4. Hand made porcelain vase. First thrown on the pottery wheel, then hand build and carved. This vase is one from Irina’s series called "Medusa". It's glazed with celado...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain

Contemporary Glass Sculpture, Minimalist Design, Optical, Color Laminated Inside
By Jiyong Lee
Located in St. Louis, MO
Contemporary Glass Sculpture, Minimalist Design, Optical, Color Laminated Inside Lee was born and raised in South Korea. He is a studio artist and an associate professor of art and ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Glass

Vintage Sausalito Landscape -- Golden Gate
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous Sausalito and the Golden Gate Bridge landscape oil painting by Calderon (Spain, 20th Century). Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "Calderon" lower right. Image size, 30"H...
Category

1980s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful floral still life by American artist Jane Piper (1916-1991) . Pastel, oil crayon and pencil on tracing paper. Image measuring 13 x 15.5 inches in ...
Category

1980s Abstract Continental US - Art

Materials

Parchment Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Pencil

Tracey Emin: My Photo Album (Hand signed, inscribed and dated by Tracey Emin)
By Tracey Emin
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin Tracey Emin: My Photo Album (Hand signed, inscribed and dated by Tracey Emin), 2013 Hardback monograph (hand signed, inscribed to Kevin and dated by Tracey Emin) Warmly signed, inscribed and dated by Tracey Emin on the title page 9 × 7 1/4 × 1 inches Warmly signed, inscribed to Kevin and dated by Tracey Emin on the title page Tracey signed this for the present owner at an official book signing in New York back in 2013, so provenance is direct. Publisher's blurb: My Photo Album is a journey through the life of British artist Tracey Emin using photographs from her personal collection. Edited from the albums she has kept from an early age, this visual autobiography contains some amazing images: Tracey sharing a pram as a baby with her twin Paul, her bus-pass photo aged 14, a ‘glamour’ shoot as a semi-naked art...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Gagosian Gallery hardback monograph (hand signed by Christopher Wool)
By Christopher Wool
Located in New York, NY
Christopher Wool (hand signed by Christopher Wool), 2006 Cloth hardback monograph (hand signed by Christopher Wool) Hand signed and dated 2017 by Christopher Wool on the half title p...
Category

Early 2000s Minimalist Continental US - Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Walking Buddhist Monks, Impressionist Oil Painting by Bui Van Hoan
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original painting of Buddhist Monks heading in a line through the forest by well-regarded contemporary artist Bui Van Hoan (1971 - ). The painting measures 38 x 27.5 inches and ...
Category

2010s Expressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

Chateau de Verneuil
By Matthäus Merian the Elder
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving with hand coloring and heightening in watercolor on two leaves of expertly conjoined handmade laid paper, one leaf with a large watermark a feathered dragon, 7 1/4 x 11 1/4...
Category

Mid-17th Century Old Masters Continental US - Art

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving

original lithograph
By Louis Bosa
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1951 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1951 Spr...
Category

1950s Continental US - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bodies at Rest #24 - Small Ceramic Abstract Sculpture - Matte Green
By Paige Stewart
Located in SEATTLE, WA
“Bodies at Rest” #24 is a one-of-a-kind, ceramic abstract figurative sculpture by Paige Stewart (in a soft matte green glaze) is a small scale sculpture that add class and personalit...
Category

2010s Abstract Continental US - Art

Materials

Ceramic

Unique portrait of Roy Lichtenstein, Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol Portrait of Roy Lichtenstein, 1975 Polaroid dye-diffusion print Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, bears the Foundation stamp verso Frame included: Framed in white wood frame with UV plexiglass; with die-cut window in the back to show official Warhol Foundation authentication stamp and text Measurements: 9 9/16 x 8 9/16 x 9/16 inches (frame) 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (window) 4.16 x 3.15 inches (Artwork) Authenticated and stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol/Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts An impressive piece of Pop Art history! A must-have for fans and collectors of both Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein: This is a unique, authenticated color Polaroid taken by one Pop Art legend, Andy Warhol, of his most formidable contemporary and, in many respects, rival, Roy Lichtenstein. One of only a few portraits Andy Warhol took of Roy Lichtenstein, during one tense photo shoot. Both iconic artists, colleagues and, perhaps lesser known to the public, rivals, would be represented at the time by the renowned Leo Castelli Gallery. The truth is - they were really more rivals than friends. (the rivalry intensified when Warhol, who was working with Walt Disney, discovered that Lichtenstein painted Mickey Mouse before he did!!) Leo Castelli was committed to Roy Lichtenstein, and, it's easy to forget today, wasn't that interested in Warhol as he considered Lichtenstein the greater talent and he could relate better with Roy on a personal level. However, Ivan Karp, who worked at Castelli, was very interested in Warhol, as were some powerful European dealers, as well as many wealthy and influential American and European collectors. That was the start of Warhol's bypassing the traditional gallery model - so that dealers like Castelli could re-discover him after everybody else had. Warhol is known to have taken hundreds of self-portrait polaroid photographs - shoe boxes full - and he took many dozens of images of celebrities like Blondie and Farrah Fawcett. But only a small number of photographic portraits of fellow Pop Art legend Roy Lichtenstein -- each unique,- are known to have appeared on the market over the past half a century - all from the same photo session. This is one of them. There is another Polaroid - from this same (and only) sitting, in the permanent collection of the Getty Museum in California. There really weren't any other collaborations between these two titans, making the resulting portrait from this photo session extraordinary. It is fascinating to study Roy Lichtenstein's face and demeanor in this photograph, in the context of the great sense of competition, but perhaps even greater, albeit uneasy respect, these two larger than life Pop art titans had for each other: Like Leo Castelli, Roy Lichtenstein was Jewish of European descent; whereas Warhol was Catholic and quintessentially American, though also of European (Polish) descent. They were never going to be good friends, but this portrait, perhaps even arranged by Leo Castelli, represents an uneasy acknowledgement there would be room at the top for both of them. Floated, framed with die cut back revealing authentication details, and ready to hang. Measurements: 9 9/16 x 8 9/16 x 9/16 inches (frame) 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (window) 4.16 x 3.15 inches (sheet) Authenticated by the Estate of Andy Warhol/The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Estate Stamped: Stamped with the Andy Warhol Estate, Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stamp, numbered "B 512536P", with the Estate of Andy Warhol stamp and inscribed UP on the reverse. Bears the Warhol Foundation unique inventory number. Roy Lichtenstein Biography Roy Lichtenstein was one of the most influential and innovative artists of the second half of the twentieth century. He is preeminently identified with Pop Art, a movement he helped originate, and his first fully achieved paintings were based on imagery from comic strips and advertisements and rendered in a style mimicking the crude printing processes of newspaper reproduction. These paintings reinvigorated the American art scene and altered the history of modern art. Lichtenstein’s success was matched by his focus and energy, and after his initial triumph in the early 1960s, he went on to create an oeuvre of more than 5,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, murals and other objects celebrated for their wit and invention. Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City, the first of two children born to Milton and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein. Milton Lichtenstein (1893–1946) was a successful real estate broker, and Beatrice Lichtenstein (1896–1991), a homemaker, had trained as a pianist, and she exposed Roy and his sister Rénee to museums, concerts and other aspects of New York culture. Roy showed artistic and musical ability early on: he drew, painted and sculpted as a teenager, and spent many hours in the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Modern Art. He played piano and clarinet, and developed an enduring love of jazz, frequenting the nightspots in Midtown to hear it. Lichtenstein attended the Franklin School for Boys, a private junior high and high school, and was graduated in 1940. That summer he studied painting and drawing from the model at the Art Students League of New York with Reginald Marsh. In September he entered Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus in the College of Education. His early artistic idols were Rembrandt, Daumier and Picasso, and he often said that Guernica (1937; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid), then on long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art, was his favorite painting. Even as an undergraduate, Lichtenstein objected to the notion that one set of lines (one person’s drawings) “was considered brilliant, and somebody’s else’s, that may have looked better to you, was considered nothing by almost everyone.”i Lichtenstein’s questioning of accepted canons of taste was encouraged by Hoyt L. Sherman, a teacher whom he maintained was the person who showed him how to see and whose perception-based approach to art shaped his own. In February 1943, Lichtenstein was drafted, and he was sent to Europe in 1945. As part of the infantry, he saw action in France, Belgium and Germany. He made sketches throughout his time in Europe and, after peace was declared there, he intended to study at the Sorbonne. Lichtenstein arrived in Paris in October 1945 and enrolled in classes in French language and civilization, but soon learned that his father was gravely ill. He returned to New York in January 1946, a few weeks before Milton Lichtenstein died. In the spring of that year, Lichtenstein went back to OSU to complete his BFA and in the fall he was invited to join the faculty as an instructor. In June 1949, he married Isabel Wilson Sarisky (1921–80), who worked in a cooperative art gallery in Cleveland where Lichtenstein had exhibited his work. While he was teaching, Lichtenstein worked on his master’s degree, which he received in 1949. During his second stint at OSU, Lichtenstein became closer to Sherman, and began teaching his method on how to organize and unify a composition. Lichtenstein remained appreciative of Sherman’s impact on him. He gave his first son the middle name of “Hoyt,” and in 1994 he donated funds to endow the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center at OSU. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Lichtenstein began working in series and his iconography was drawn from printed images. His first sustained theme, intimate paintings and prints in the vein of Paul Klee that poked lyrical fun at medieval knights, castles and maidens, may well have been inspired by a book about the Bayeux Tapestry. Lichtenstein then took an ironic look at nineteenth-century American genre paintings he saw in history books, creating Cubist interpretations of cowboys and Indians spiked with a faux-primitive whimsy. As with his most celebrated Pop paintings of the 1960s, Lichtenstein gravitated toward what he would characterize as the “dumbest” or “worst” visual item he could find and then went on to alter or improve it. In the 1960s, commercial art was considered beneath contempt by the art world; in the early 1950s, with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, nineteenth-century American narrative and genre paintings were at the nadir of their reputation among critics and collectors. Paraphrasing, particularly the paraphrasing of despised images, became a paramount feature of Lichtenstein’s art. Well before finding his signature mode of expression in 1961, Lichtenstein called attention to the artifice of conventions and taste that permeated art and society. What others dismissed as trivial fascinated him as classic and idealized—in his words, “a purely American mythological subject matter.”ii Lichtenstein’s teaching contract at OSU was not renewed for the 1951–52 academic year, and in the autumn of 1951 he and Isabel moved to Cleveland. Isabel Lichtenstein became an interior decorator specializing in modern design, with a clientele drawn from wealthy Cleveland families. Whereas her career blossomed, Lichtenstein did not continue to teach at the university level. He had a series of part-time jobs, including industrial draftsman, furniture designer, window dresser and rendering mechanical dials for an electrical instrument company. In response to these experiences, he introduced quirkily rendered motors, valves and other mechanical elements into his paintings and prints. In 1954, the Lichtensteins’ first son, David, was born; two years later, their second child, Mitchell, followed. Despite the relative lack of interest in his work in Cleveland, Lichtenstein did place his work with New York dealers, which always mattered immensely to him. He had his first solo show at the Carlebach Gallery in New York in 1951, followed by representation with the John Heller Gallery from 1952 to 1957. To reclaim his academic career and get closer to New York, Lichtenstein accepted a position as an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Oswego, in the northern reaches of the state. He was hired to teach industrial design, beginning in September 1957. Oswego turned out to be more geographically and aesthetically isolated than Cleveland ever was, but the move was propitious, for both his art and his career. Lichtenstein broke away from representation to a fully abstract style, applying broad swaths of pigment to the canvas by dragging the paint across its surface with a rag wrapped around his arm. At the same time, Lichtenstein was embedding comic-book characters figures such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in brushy, expressionistic backgrounds. None of the proto-cartoon paintings from this period survive, but several pencil and pastel studies from that time, which he kept, document his intentions. Finally, when he was in Oswego, Lichtenstein met Reginald Neal, the new head of the art department at Douglass College, the women’s college of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The school was strengthening and expanding its studio art program, and when Neal needed to add a faculty member to his department, Lichtenstein was invited to apply for the job. Lichtenstein was offered the position of assistant professor, and he began teaching at Douglass in September 1960. At Douglass, Lichtenstein was thrown into a maelstrom of artistic ferment. With New York museums and galleries an hour away, and colleagues Geoffrey Hendricks and Robert Watts at Douglass and Allan Kaprow and George Segal at Rutgers, the environment could not help but galvanize him. In June 1961, Lichtenstein returned to the idea he had fooled around with in Oswego, which was to combine cartoon characters from comic books with abstract backgrounds. But, as Lichtenstein said, “[I]t occurred to me to do it by mimicking the cartoon style without the paint texture, calligraphic line, modulation—all the things involved in expressionism.”iii Most famously, Lichtenstein appropriated the Benday dots, the minute mechanical patterning used in commercial engraving, to convey texture and gradations of color—a stylistic language synonymous with his subject matter. The dots became a trademark device forever identified with Lichtenstein and Pop Art. Lichtenstein may not have calibrated the depth of his breakthrough immediately but he did realize that the flat affect and deadpan presentation of the comic-strip panel blown up and reorganized in the Sherman-inflected way “was just so much more compelling”iv than the gestural abstraction he had been practicing. Among the first extant paintings in this new mode—based on comic strips and illustrations from advertisements—were Popeye and Look Mickey, which were swiftly followed by The Engagement Ring, Girl with Ball and Step-on Can with Leg. Kaprow recognized the energy and radicalism of these canvases and arranged for Lichtenstein to show them to Ivan Karp, director of the Leo Castelli Gallery. Castelli was New York’s leading dealer in contemporary art, and he had staged landmark exhibitions of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg in 1958 and Frank Stella in 1960. Karp was immediately attracted to Lichtenstein’s paintings, but Castelli was slower to make a decision, partly on account of the paintings’ plebeian roots in commercial art, but also because, unknown to Lichtenstein, two other artists had recently come to his attention—Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist—and Castelli was only ready for one of them. After some deliberation, Castelli chose to represent Lichtenstein, and the first exhibition of the comic-book paintings was held at the gallery from February 10 to March 3, 1962. The show sold out and made Lichtenstein notorious. By the time of Lichtenstein’s second solo exhibition at Castelli in September 1963, his work had been showcased in museums and galleries around the country. He was usually grouped with Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Indiana and Tom Wesselmann. Taken together, their work was viewed as a slap in the face to Abstract Expressionism and, indeed, the Pop artists shifted attention away from many members of the New York School. With the advent of critical and commercial success, Lichtenstein made significant changes in his life and continued to investigate new possibilities in his art. After separating from his wife, he moved from New Jersey to Manhattan in 1963; in 1964, he resigned from his teaching position at Douglass to concentrate exclusively on his work. The artist also ventured beyond comic book subjects, essaying paintings based on oils by Cézanne, Mondrian and Picasso, as well as still lifes and landscapes. Lichtenstein became a prolific printmaker and expanded into sculpture, which he had not attempted since the mid-1950s, and in both two- and three-dimensional pieces, he employed a host of industrial or “non-art” materials, and designed mass-produced editioned objects that were less expensive than traditional paintings and sculpture. Participating in one such project—the American Supermarket show in 1964 at the Paul Bianchini Gallery, for which he designed a shopping bag—Lichtenstein met Dorothy Herzka (b. 1939), a gallery employee, whom he married in 1968. The late 1960s also saw Lichtenstein’s first museum surveys: in 1967 the Pasadena Art Museum initiated a traveling retrospective, in 1968 the Stedelijk Musem in Amsterdam presented his first European retrospective, and in 1969 he had his first New York retrospective, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Wanting to grow, Lichtenstein turned away from the comic book subjects that had brought him prominence. In the late 1960s his work became less narrative and more abstract, as he continued to meditate on the nature of the art enterprise itself. He began to explore and deconstruct the notion of brushstrokes—the building blocks of Western painting. Brushstrokes are conventionally conceived as vehicles of expression, but Lichtenstein made them into a subject. Modern artists have typically maintained that the subject of a painting is painting itself. Lichtenstein took this idea one imaginative step further: a compositional element could serve as the subject matter of a work and make that bromide ring true. The search for new forms and sources was even more emphatic after 1970, when Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein bought property in Southampton, New York, and made it their primary residence. During the fertile decade of the 1970s, Lichtenstein probed an aspect of perception that had steadily preoccupied him: how easily the unreal is validated as the real because viewers have accepted so many visual conceptions that they don’t analyze what they see. In the Mirror series, he dealt with light and shadow upon glass, and in the Entablature series, he considered the same phenomena by abstracting such Beaux-Art architectural elements as cornices, dentils, capitals and columns. Similarly, Lichtenstein created pioneering painted bronze sculpture that subverted the medium’s conventional three-dimensionality and permanence. The bronze forms were as flat and thin as possible, more related to line than volume, and they portrayed the most fugitive sensations—curls of steam, rays of light and reflections on glass. The steam, the reflections and the shadow were signs for themselves that would immediately be recognized as such by any viewer. Another entire panoply of works produced during the 1970s were complex encounters with Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Surrealism and Expressionism. Lichtenstein expanded his palette beyond red, blue, yellow, black, white and green, and invented and combined forms. He was not merely isolating found images, but juxtaposing, overlapping, fragmenting and recomposing them. In the words of art historian Jack Cowart, Lichtenstein’s virtuosic compositions were “a rich dialogue of forms—all intuitively modified and released from their nominal sources.”v In the early 1980s, which coincided with re-establishing a studio in New York City, Lichtenstein was also at the apex of a busy mural career. In the 1960s and 1970s, he had completed four murals; between 1983 and 1990, he created five. He also completed major commissions for public sculptures in Miami Beach, Columbus, Minneapolis, Paris, Barcelona and Singapore. Lichtenstein created three major series in the 1990s, each emblematic of his ongoing interest in solving pictorial problems. The Interiors, mural-sized canvases inspired by a miniscule advertisement in an Italian telephone...
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1970s Pop Art Continental US - Art

Materials

Polaroid

Street After Rain (Santiago de Chile) Dominican Artist
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Alberto Ulloa Burgos (1 January 1950 – 1 October 2011). Street After Rain (Santiago de Chile), 1970. Oil on masonite panel measuring 20 x 24 inches; 26 x 30 inches framed. Signed and dated lower right. Original frame with export label stamp. Alberto Ulloa Burgos was a painter, sculptor, and poet from Altamira, Dominican Republic. He was a student of the distinguished Latin American painter Jaime Colson...
Category

1970s Abstract Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Hunt Slonem "Tulip Belle Terre" Floral
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Tulip Belle Terre Series: Floral Date: 2023 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14.25" x 12.25" Signature: Signed...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

Cityscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cityscape" c.1930 is an original color etching on wove paper by Austrian/American artist Tana Kasimir Hoernes, 1887-1972. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 12.75 x 9.15 inches, framed size is 19.35 x 15.25 inches. Custom framed in a silver with brown patina frame, with light grey matting and green and red filet. It is in excellent condition, About the artist: Tanna Kasimir...
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Continental US - Art

Materials

Etching

Salt Marshes, Cape Cod Landscape, Early 20th Century New York Female Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Kate A. Williams (American, 1877-1939) Salt Marshes, Cape Cod Oil on board Signed lower left 16 x 20 inches 21 x 25.25 inches, framed KATE ANTOINETTE WILLIAMS (December 15, 1877 – A...
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

Untitled (0673)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
This whimsical and sophisticated painting was realized by the esteemed contemporary painter, Hunt Slonem in 2016. It presents a stylized rabbit in profile, rendered with loose and ex...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Signed Impressionist Fishing Harbor Beach Scene Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist coastal seascape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 22H by 18L.
Category

1960s Abstract Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Still life with vase”
By Jim Rodgers
Located in Warren, NJ
Jim Rodgers Original Floral Still Life Oil on Board. In good condition measures 35x31
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

David Hockney The Road to York Through Sledmere 1997
By David Hockney
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In The Road to York Through Sledmere, David Hockney transforms a familiar Yorkshire scene into something luminous and almost enchanted. The brilliant red brick of the buildings aroun...
Category

1990s Continental US - Art

Materials

Offset

Madame Butterfly
By Margaret Keane
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Madame Butterfly" 1986, is an original color serigraph with gold addition by noted American artist Margaret Keane, 1927-2022. It is hand signed and numbered HH 109/150 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 24 x 24 inches, framed size is 39.5 x 38.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with green fabric matting, gold color bevel and three different colors fillet. It is in excellent condition, the frame have some minor restorations, barely visible. About the artist. Margaret D. H. Keane was born 1927 in Tennessee, and attributes her deep respect for the Bible and inspirations of her artwork to the relationship with her grandmother. She later became one of Jehovah's Witnesses, which she said changed her life for the better. In the 1960s, Margaret Keane's artwork was sold under the name of her husband, Walter Keane. He locked her in a room and forced her to paint,while taking credit for her work. Conflict over that issue was cited as one of the reasons they divorced. Neither wanting to relinquish rights to the artwork, Walter and Margaret's divorce proceedings went all the way to federal court. At the hearing, Margaret created a painting in front of the judge to prove that she was the artist. Walter declined to paint before the court, citing a sore shoulder. In 1986, the courts sided with her, enabling her to paint under her own name. Her works while living in her husband's shadow tended to depict sad children in a dark setting, but after divorcing, moving to Hawaii, and becoming one of Jehovah's Witnesses, her paintings took on a happier, brighter style. Keane is a fixture in popular culture. Some of her well-known fans over the years have included actresses Joan Crawford and Natalie Wood, whom she painted portraits of; filmmaker Tim Burton, who commissioned Keane to paint Lisa Marie; and animator Craig McCracken, whose characters the Powerpuff Girls are based on Keane's 'waifs'; additionally the Girls' schoolteacher is named "Ms. Keane". Cultural references • The American television comedy show Saturday Night Live once had a skit that featured her work, during the time when it was thought to be by her husband, as a parody of the reaction against modern art (e.g., Cubism or the New York Armory Show). "People don't look like that!" one comedian shrieks, before the picture in question was shown to the camera and audience as the punch line. • In Woody Allen's 1973 comedy Sleeper, the people of the future consider Keane to be one of the greatest artists in history, one of many references mocking the popular culture of the seventies. • Late Night with Conan O'Brien has "bumper" art in her style depicting a glum Conan O'Brien at his desk, next to a dog. • Weird Al Yankovic's song Velvet Elvis, in which the narrator says he needs "no pictures of Mexican kids with those really big eyes or dogs playing poker". • In season 3, episode 20 of 90210 (Women on the Verge), Annie is described as looking "like a Keane painting...
Category

Late 20th Century American Realist Continental US - Art

Materials

Screen

“Still Life with Fruit”
By Henry George Todd
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a late 19th century still life with fruit by the well known British artist, Henry George Todd. Signed lower left a...
Category

1890s Academic Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Brain of Hunter S. Thompson
By Ralph Steadman
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Ralph Steadman Title: Brain of Hunter S. Thompson Medium: One color silkscreen on White Rising Stonehenge Deckle Edge Paper Size: 11 x15 Inches Edition: of 800 Year: 2010 No...
Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Continental US - Art

Materials

Silk, Screen

Antique Black American Modern Artist Framed Interior Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American modernist portrait by Stephen H Booker (1933 - 2016). Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Finely framed. Measuring 24 by 28 inches overall and 16 by 20 paintin...
Category

1940s Modern Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid-Century Painting Drawing Framed Colorful Texture New York Orange Grey Green
Located in Buffalo, NY
A wonderful minimalist mixed media work Circa 1970. Though the artist is unknown this work was acquired along with pieces by well know artists Karel Appel and Robert Motherwell from...
Category

1970s Minimalist Continental US - Art

Materials

Coating, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Kate Moss during a night out, 2007
Located in New York, NY
Kate Moss is photographed during a night out at the Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden in London on the 16th of January in 2007. The British supermodel and businesswoman rose to fame ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Mark Rothko Untitled (1962) 1998
By Mark Rothko
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This impressive large-format poster features Mark Rothko’s evocative painting Untitled (1962), capturing the essence of his signature abstract expressionist style. Published by Unive...
Category

1990s Continental US - Art

Materials

Offset

Hunt Slonem "Daisies" Floral
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Daisies Series: Florals Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 20" x 17" Framed Dimensions: 21.25" x 18.25" Signature: Signed Edition...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Oil

Ensign No. 3
Located in Columbia, MO
A native of Upstate New York, Matt Ballou was educated at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2001) and Indiana University ( MFA 2005) before coming to The University of ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Art

Materials

Plastic, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker

Human Cubist Portrait 3- Limited Edition Textured Canvas Print 45x45 "
By Irena Orlov
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Experience the captivating allure of "Human Cubist Portrait 3," a mesmerizing artwork that takes inspiration from the innovative and visionary style of Cubism. This vibrant and thoug...
Category

2010s Cubist Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, C...

Colemere
By René Romero Schuler
Located in Napa, CA
René Romero Schuler is an American painter and sculptor who creates powerful images that speak to the complexities of the human condition and the spirit that connects all human being...
Category

2010s Contemporary Continental US - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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