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Lantern Flowers, May 10, 2012 (Coral)
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
This silkscreen with enamel inks and flocking on 2-ply museum board was created by the artist in 2012. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, from the edition of 50.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Still Life with Tropical Fruits, Contemporary Screenprint by Janet Fish
By Janet Fish
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Janet Fish, American (1938 - )
Title: Still Life with Fruits
Year: 1992
Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered, and dated in pencil
Edition: 75
Image Size: 36 x 42 inches
Siz...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
"Still Life"
By Kaiko Moti
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful modernist aquatint etching was realized by the esteemed Indian artist Kaiko Moti, circa 1975. It offers an abstracted and stylized tree branch (presumably that of a Ch...
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Multicolor Iris, Framed Photorealist Floral Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Multicolor Iris
Year: 1981
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 35/40
Size: 36 x 25 in. (9...
Category
1970s Realist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Blue Iris, Photorealist Etching on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lowell Blair Nesbitt was an American painter and printmaker who’s work consists of unique and vivid depictions of flowers.
Blue Iris
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993)
Date:...
Category
1980s Photorealist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Sacre Couer, Contemporary Still Life Lithograph by Ira Moskowitz
By Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Sacre Couer, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, Size: 33 in. x 24 in. (83.82 cm x 60.9...
Category
1970s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flowers on Blue, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Flowers on Blue
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 40
Image Size: 30 x 26.25 i...
Category
1980s American Realist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Spell III, Framed Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
A bright and vibrant still life by pop artist Hunt Slonem. The silkscreen print is hand-signed and numbered in pencil, nicely framed.
Spell III by Hunt Slonem, American (1951)
Date:...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Purple Spell, Pop Art Serigraph by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Purple Spell
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 29
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Category
1980s Pop Art New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Cubist Composition, Signed Lithograph by Will Mentor
By Will Mentor
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Will Mentor, American (1958 - )
Title: Cubist Composition
Year: 1990
Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 13/75
Paper Size: 33.5 x 24 in. (8...
Category
1990s Cubist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Rene Magritte
Le Seize Septembre
1998
By René Magritte
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction of the Magritte painting is the only authorized and approved copy in its current format. It has been sanctioned by the appropriate authorities managing Magritte’s e...
Category
1990s Surrealist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
Donald Sultan
Seven Silvers Jan. 24, 2024
- Limited Edition Silkscreen
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Donald Sultan's 'Seven Silvers Jan. 24, 2024' is a masterful color silkscreen featuring enamel inks, flocking, and tar-like textures, limited to an edition of 30.
Donald Sułtan
Seve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
My Parents, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: My Parents
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 30
Image Size: 24 x 30 inches
Size: 26 in. x 3...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Cream of Crop - Campbell
s Soup, Pop Art Screenprint by Mike McKenzie
By Mike McKensie
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mike McKenzie, American (1954 - )
Title: Cream of Crop - Campbell's Soup (Warhol Chef)
Year: circa 1992
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 15/30
Size...
Category
1990s Pop Art New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Little Italy, Gumball Machine - Photorealist Screenprint by Charles Bell
By Charles Bell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Bell, American (1935 - 1995)
Title: Little Italy
Year: 1981
Medium: Screenprint on White Somerset Satin, signed and numbered in pencil
Edi...
Category
1980s Photorealist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Teapot, Still Life Lithograph by Andrew Lord
By Andrew Lord
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Andrew Lord, British (1950 - )
Title: Teapot
Year: 1987
Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: PP II
Size: 44 in. x 30 in. (111.76 cm x 76.2 cm)
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Iron Flamingo, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Iron Flamingo
Year: 1979
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP 30
Size: 26 in....
Category
1970s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Iris
By Nall
Located in New York, NY
Signed edition 74/ 99
Line engraving in Arches paper
Image size 19 x 11 1/in
Paper size 26 x 19 1/2 in.
Matted 29.5 x 21 Inches
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
$1,100
Abstraction for Lincoln Center, Hand signed dated, inscribed by Thomas Nozkowski
By Thomas Nozkowski
Located in New York, NY
THOMAS NOZKOWSKI
Mostly Mozart (Hand signed and inscribed), 2007
Offset Lithograph. Hand signed dated 2016 and inscribed to Kevin
29 × 35 inches
Personally signed and dedicated by No...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
A Still Life at Millbank by Gordon House 1980 colorful abstract geometric
By Joe Tilson
Located in New York, NY
Colorful abstract geometric and playful screenprint in pink, red, green, yellow, tan, and blue. From a portfolio produced to commemorate the Kelpra Studio Exhibition at the Tate Gall...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Birds of Paradise (Yellow), Photorealist Lithograph by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lowell Blair Nesbitt was an American painter and printmaker who’s work consists of unique and vivid depictions of flowers.
Birds of Paradise (Yellow)
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American ...
Category
1970s Photorealist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Butterfly Cup, Folk Art Lithograph by Mary Faulconer
By Mary Faulconer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Butterfly Cup, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 35, Image Size: 16 x 11 inches, Size...
Category
1980s Folk Art New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fall Ferns, Folk Art Lithograph by Mary Faulconer
By Mary Faulconer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Fall Ferns, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 35, Image Size: 13 x 18 inches, Size: ...
Category
1980s Folk Art New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Set of Six Botanical Prints
Located in New York, NY
These colored engravings are from Edward Joseph Lowe's 1861 book "Beautiful Leaved Plants. Being a Description of the Most Beautiful Leaved Plants ...
Category
1860s New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Goyards ABC
By Libby Black
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information.
ABOUT THIS PIECE: If you were to buy a Goyard bag and have it monogrammed you would cho...
Category
2010s New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Plexiglass
Double Poppies Yellow
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Double Poppies Yellow
2025
Color silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking and sand on Rising 4-ply museum board
Sheet size: 52.5 x 30 inches (133 x 76 cm)
Image size: 48.5 x 26 inche...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Hotel St. Gothard Zurich.
By Otto Baumberger
Located in New York, NY
Hotel St. Gothard Zurich. 1917. Color lithograph, On linen. 50 x 36"
Otto Baumberger’s first posters were created in 1911. However, his most productive period for posters was from the 1920s to the mid-1930s. He created about 230 posters in all, many of which he lithographed himself. An important representative of Swiss Expressionism...
Category
1910s Art Deco New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Collection from Fruits and Flowers II
III
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Donald Sultan Fruits and Flowers II and III
Lemon, Apricots and Pears; Yellow Roses; and Lilies from Fruits and Flowers II 65/125
Yellow Peppers; Pomegranates; Acanthus; Five Lemon...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Lily Scent
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg
Lily Scent, 1981
Lithograph
32 x 24 inches
SPIII
Signed
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Sea Itself from the Rilke Portfolio, Minimalist Lithograph by Ben Shahn
By Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969)
Title: The Sea Itself from the Rilke Portfolio
Year: 1968
Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in the plate
Edition: 750
Size: 22.5 x 17.75 ...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Features from Currents, #57 - Pop Art Screenprint by Robert Rauschenberg
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg
Title: Features from Currents, #57
Year: 1970
Medium: Hand-Printed Screenprint on Aqua B 844 Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50
Paper Size:...
Category
1970s Conceptual New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Jacob
s Ladder
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Marc Dennis is an American artist renowned for his paintings of subtly staged and slightly voyeuristic images of contemporary American culture. Interested in the tr...
Category
2010s New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Deluxe Hand Signed Edition of 100, Pop Art Still Life from 1 Cent Life, Framed
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in New York, NY
Scarce Collectible - one of only 100 hand signed lithographs from the Deluxe Edition of the 1 Cent Life Portfolio, acquired from the Estate of Robert Indiana:
Tom Wesselmann
Deluxe ...
Category
1960s Pop Art New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$11,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Blue Iris, 1980 Color silkscreen on wove paper, Signed, dated AP 1/8, Framed
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt
Gorgeous silkscreen on wove paper
Signed, dated and numbered AP 1/8 on the front
This is a gorgeous violet/periwinkle colored print
Matted and framed in the original v...
Category
1980s Pop Art New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Gerald Gasiorowski- Pots De Fleurs #115/116 Urban Art Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction of Pots de Fleurs by Gérard Gasiorowski, numbered 115/116, is a finely crafted piece that beautifully captures the essence of the original work exhibited at the pre...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
Pots de Fleurs Offset Print, Contemporary Still-Life, 1980s, Unframed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pots de Fleurs showcases Gasiorowski’s distinct style, where the floral subjects are rendered with an expressive use of color and texture, breathing life into the composition. The fl...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
Island of Yellow Flowers, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Island of Yellow Flowers
Year: 1981
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 32 x 40 inch...
Category
1980s American Realist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
"Untitled (from Flower Quad A)"
By Donald Baechler
Located in Astoria, NY
Donald Baechler (American, 1956-2022), "Untitled (from Flower Quad A)", Stenciled Pigmented Handmade Linen Paper, 2011, one from a set of four, signed in pencil and dated lower right...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Stencil
Jonas Wood, Large Shelf Life, Lt. Ed. museum print Hand Signed
Dated by artist
By Jonas Wood
Located in New York, NY
Jonas Wood
Large Shelf Life (Hand Signed), 2018
Limited edition offset lithograph (uniquely hand signed by the artist)
23 × 23 inches
Boldly signed and dated in black marker on the f...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
$1,750 Sale Price
30% Off
JASPER JOHNS The Seasons, 1990 - Hand-Signed, Etching and Acquatint
By Jasper Johns
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"The Seasons" is a compelling artwork by Jasper Johns that delves into artifacts and seasonal symbols to represent the epochs of life and the cycles of growth and aging. This piece, ...
Category
1990s Pop Art New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Bag of Bananas, Aquatint Etching by Janet Fish
By Janet Fish
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Janet Fish, American (1938 - )
Title: Bag of Bananas
Year: 1996
Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100
Size: 24.5 x 30 in. (62.23 x 76.2 cm)
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Pa-Twaing
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Marc Dennis is an American artist renowned for his paintings of subtly staged and slightly voyeuristic images of contemporary American culture. Interested in the tr...
Category
2010s New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Thiebaud Paint Cans Vintage Pop Art
By (After) Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Reproduction of Paint Cans by Wayne Thiebaud exemplifies the artist's masterful ability to elevate everyday objects into vibrant works of art. Known for his bold use of color, textur...
Category
1990s Pop Art New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
$100 Sale Price
20% Off
"La Nouvelle" Tulip Hand-Colored Engraving
By Christoph Jacob Trew
Located in New York, NY
"La Nouvelle" is from Christoph Trew's Hortus Nitidissimis omnem per annum superbiens Floribus ... Der das ganze Jahr hindurch im schönsten Flor stehende B...
Category
Mid-18th Century New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
Nature Studies from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle
By Leonardo da Vinci
Located in New York, NY
Leonardo da Vinci
"Nature Studies from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle"
The J. Paul Getty Museum, November 15, 1980 - February 15, 1981
Exhibition Poste...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Renaissance New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
Still Life with Pear
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Still Life with Pear is a lithograph in colors on wove paper. Hand-monogrammed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 250, the a...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The First Word of Verse Arises from the Rilke Portfolio, lithograph by Ben Shahn
By Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969)
Title: The First Word of Verse Arises from the Rilke Portfolio
Year: 1968
Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in the plate
Edition: 750
Siz...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Exuberant Garden
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Dennis is known for his hyper naturalistic, highly detailed and obsessively delineated paintings that explore the subversive potential of beauty and pleasure. Fresh...
Category
2010s New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Double Decoy, Pop Art screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Double Decoy
Hunt Slonem, American (1951)
Date: 1980
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition AP 30
Image Size: 22 x 26.5 inches
Size: 26 in. x 30.5 in. (66.04 cm x 77.47 c...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
La Rose
By Nall
Located in New York, NY
Signed edition 44/ 99
Line engraving in Arches paper
Image size 19 x 11 1/in
Paper size 26 x 19 1/2 in.
Matted 29.5 x 21 Inches
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,100
Hole Punch (Jim Dine 30 Bones of My Body portfolio) tool dry point
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
The hand tool is undoubtedly Jim Dine’s most iconic motif. Meticulously catalogued in rows like scientific specimens or sketched individually, hammers, awls, brushes, saws and screwd...
Category
1970s Pop Art New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Kiki Smith, Toxicology, Linotype and engraving, Signed by artist
poet, Framed
By Kiki Smith
Located in New York, NY
Kiki Smith
Toxicology, 2009
Linotype and engraving in black, gray, and yellow on white wove paper. Printed from a magnesium engraving on Vandercook cylinder presses.
Hand signed by ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Linocut
Quiet Sunday, Impressionist Lithograph by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Quiet Sunday, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 45, Image Size: 30 x 25 inches, Size: 33 in. x 2...
Category
1980s Impressionist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled Flowers 18, Impressionist Hand-Painted Lithograph by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Untitled Flowers 18, Year: 1980, Medium: Hand-Painted Lithograph, signed lower right, Edition: I/I, Size: 35 in. x 26 in. (88.9 cm x 66.04 cm)
Category
1980s Impressionist New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tool Drypoint: Paintbrush by Jim Dine, black and white tool still life sketch
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine drew the plate for this image in the same period as his “Thirty Bones of My Body” 1972 portfolio of drypoint tool images. Crisbrook paper (30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 56 cm.) and p...
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Drypoint
The Lotus.
Located in New York, NY
Clark, A.H. The Lotus. Ca 1890.Original Lithograph. 22 3/4 x 13" sheet,
26 1/2 x 17" on linen. Rare.
Category
1890s Art Nouveau New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,650
"Sunny Day", Color Nature Print, Yellow Flowers, Graphic Design
Located in New York, NY
"Sunny Day" Color Nature Photography by Shooting Star Designs
Archival pigment print on museum fine art paper
Edition of 7
Includes certificate of authenticity. Signed and numbered ...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Horse Blinders (south) and Horse Blinders (east)
By James Rosenquist
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph and screenprint with collage (silver foil)
Prints are different sizes: 36 1/2 x 68 inches (92.7 x 172.7 cm) and 36 5/8 x 64 inches (93 x 162.6 cm)
Published by Multiples...
Category
1970s Pop Art New York City - Still-life Prints
Materials
Silver
Frogs and Toad, Signed lithograph (AP), from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness
By Jack Beal
Located in New York, NY
Jack Beal
Frogs and Toad, 1971
Hand signed in pencil by Jack Beal, annotated AP
One-color lithograph proofed by hand and pulled by machine from a zinc plate on Arches buff paper with deckled edges at the Shorewood Bank Street Atelier
Stamped, hand numbered AP, aside from the regular edition of 150 Stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY JACK BEAL, bears blind stamp
18 × 24 inches
Unframed
18 x 24 inches
Stamped on reverse: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY JACK BEAL, bears distinctive blind stamp of publisher (shown) Publisher: David Godine, Center for Constitutional Rights, Washington, D.C.
Jack Beal's "Frogs and Toads" is a classic example of protest art from the early 1970s - the most influential era until today. This historic graphic was created for the legendary portfolio "CONSPIRACY: the Artist as Witness", to raise money for the legal defense of the Chicago 8 - a group of anti-Vietnam War activists indicted by President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell for conspiring to riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (1968 was also the year Bobby Kennedy was killed and American casualties in Vietnam exceeded 30,000.) The eight demonstrators included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. (The eighth activist, Bobby Seale, was severed from the case and sentenced to four years for contempt after being handcuffed, shackled to a chair and gagged.) Although Abbie Hoffman would later joke that these radicals couldn't even agree on lunch, the jury convicted them of conspiracy, with one juror proclaiming the demonstrators "should have been shot down by the police." All of the convictions were ultimately overturned by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
This lithograph has fine provenance: it comes directly from the original Portfolio: "Conspiracy The Artist as Witness" which also featured works by Alexander Calder, Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Romare Bearden Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Poons, Peter Saul, Raphael Soyer and Frank Stella - as well as this one by Jack Beal. It was originally housed in an elegant cloth case, accompanied by a colophon page. This is the first time since 1971 that this important work has been removed from the original portfolio case for sale. It is becoming increasingly scarce because so many from this edition are in the permanent collections of major museums and institutions worldwide.
Jack Beal wrote a special message about this work on the Portfolio's colophon page. It says, "In 1956, shortly after Sondra and I moved to New York, two friends were arrested and jailed for protesting air-raid drills. From them and their friends came our education. This work is dedicated to them and their families. "In Memory of Patricia McClure Daw and AL Uhrie" - This print was made for their children.
Jack Beal Biography:
Early in his career Walter Henry “Jack” Beal Jr. painted abstract expressionist canvases, because he believed it was “the only valid way to paint.” By the early 1960s he totally altered his approach and fully repudiated abstraction. Turning to representation, he painted narrative and figurative subjects, often enhanced by bright colors and dramatic perspectives.
Beal was born in Richmond, Virginia, and from 1950 to 1953 he attended the Norfolk Division of William and Mary College Polytechnic Institute, (now Old Dominion University) where he studied biology and anatomy. Shifting gears, he sought art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he focused on drawing, and met his wife, artist Sondra Freckelton. His art history instructor encouraged her students to paint in the manner of established artists, and to that end he frequented the Institute’s galleries. For Beal this was significant: “Until I saw pictures of real quality I had tended to think of painting as just so much self-indulgent smearing around, but when I saw masterpieces by Cézanne and Matisse, and other painters of similar stature, I was bowled over; suddenly I realized the force of art.”
After spending three years (1953–1956) at the Art Institute, Beal concluded his studies there without getting a terminal degree, thinking it was only useful if he wanted to teach, which, at the time, he did not. He also took courses at the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. During this period he married Freckelton, a fellow student and sculptor who began her career working in wood and plastic. Together they moved to New York’s SoHo District before its transformation from a wasteland of sweatshops and small factories into an arts district. They were active with the Artist Tenants Association which was instrumental in getting zoning laws changed so that artists could live and work in the well-lit lofts.
Embracing what came to be called “New Realism,” Beal initially painted an occasional landscape as well as earthy-toned still lifes which consisted of jumbled collections filled with personal objects. His signature style started with a series of female nudes—all modeled by Freckelton—based on Greek mythology. These were large canvases with flat paint surfaces, dramatic foreshortening, and unusual perspectives. He further enlivened them with vivid colors, stark lighting, and dynamic patterns derived from textiles and overstuffed furniture. He stopped painting nudes after two episodes. The first came as he was loading a canvas of his naked wife onto a truck in lower Manhattan; several laborers walked by and started to fondle and kiss the painting. On the one hand he felt his wife had been violated, while on the other he was pleased that his realism was so convincing. The second occurred after a solo exhibition in Chicago at which the reception had been sponsored by Playboy magazine. A few days later he was approached by a publicist and asked if Playboy bunnies could be photographed in front of his paintings. He refused.
Some portrait commissions came Beal’s way, but he preferred only portraying friends. More significant were four large murals on the History of Labor in America, the 20th Century: Technology (1975), which he undertook for the headquarters of the United States Department of Labor in Washington. Following a historical timeline, the themes were: colonization, settlement, nineteenth century industry, and twentieth century technology. The unveiling ceremony was attended by government officials and Joan Mondale, an arts advocate and wife of the vice-president. The reviewer for the Washington Post wrote enthusiastically: “They’re heartfelt and they’re big (each is 12 feet square). Their many costumed actors (the Indian, the trapper, the scientist, the hardhat, the capitalist in striped pants, the union maid, etc.) strike dramatic poses in dramatic settings (a seaside wood at dawn, an outdoor blacksmith’s forge, a 19th-century mill, a 20th-century lab). The lighting is theatrical. Beal’s compositions, with their swooping curves and bunched diagonals, are as complicated as his interwoven plots.” To accomplish the murals Beal assembled a team of assistants and models, much in the manner of Renaissance masters, which included artist friends and Freckelton. who by then was painting brightly colorful still lifes.
A second mural commission ensued from New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority for two twenty-foot long installations for the Times Square Interborough Rapid Transit Company subway station. Beal’s designs for The Return of Spring (installed in 2001, three days after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, DC and Philadelphia) and The Onset of Winter (installed in 2005), Beal captured the appearance of his models in an oil painting made to the scale of the intended mosaic. A collaboration with Miotto Mosaics, the canvases were shipped to the Travisanutto Workshop, in Spilimbergo, Italy, where craftsmen fabricated the design to glass mosaics. The Return of Spring depicted construction workers and other New Yorkers in front of a subway kiosk and an outdoor produce market and in The Onset of Winter, a crowd watches a film crew recording a woman entering the subway as snow falls against the city’s skyline. Harkening back to some of his early nudes based on Greek myth, Persephone, goddess of fertility and wife of Hades, appears in both. The symbolism is pertinent, since she spent six months each year below ground.
Although he disparaged teaching early on, Beal and Freckelton offered four summertime workshops on their farm in Oneonta, New York. He was an instructor at the New York Academy of Art, a graduate art school he helped to establish in 1982. Returning to Virginia, he taught at Hollins College...
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1970s Realist New York City - Still-life Prints
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Lithograph
Birthday Cake
Strawberry Ice Cream
By Kendyll Hillegas
Located in New York, NY
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2010s New York City - Still-life Prints
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