San Francisco - Art

Copenhagen-born American artist Soren Edsberg (1945-2021) combined abstraction with impressionism in this vision of Armageddon. The son of a Danish painter, Edsberg converted in 1961...

This artwork titled "Brave Moor Gazul" from the suite "La Tauromaquia" engraved between 1815 and 1816, is a photogravure on creme wove paper after renown Spanish artist Francisco Jose De Goya...

At dawn on a beautiful morning, two pheasants take flight out of their roosting cover. Were they flushed out by sudden noise, or are they simply heading out to their feeding areas? T...

Here’s a man’s life in three volumes. In paint. On one canvas. And what a life! On the left, Volume 1, the labor movement against the monopolizing “Octopus” railroads and smoke-stack...

This artwork titled "Owl (Rose Ground)" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences" 1968 is an original color lithograph on Arches paper by renown British surrealist artist Gr...

This artwork titled "The Corner Store, Near Mendocino" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963.Signed at the lower right corner by th...

This artwork "Untitled" 1998 is in an original pastel on paper by noted American artist Pia Stern, b. 1953. It is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist. The artwork size is 16 x 8 inches, framed size is 26.25 x 17.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with off white matting and bevel. It is in excellent condition. The frame is in fair condition. It has some small scratches Please see pictures. About the artist: Pia Stern spent her junior year abroad in Aix-en-Provence, the town in the south of France where Paul Cézanne lived and worked. There she took her first painting course and felt instantly at home with her instructors’ philosophical and visual perceptions of the world. Returning to UC Berkeley as a senior, she enrolled in the art program and was greatly influenced by several artists who were integral to the Bay Area Figurative Movement including Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Joan Brown and most notably, Elmer Bischoff, with whom she worked very closely. Stern is primarily a process painter, and is known for her exploration of symbolic language. As stated by noted author and art critic Sister Wendy Beckett in "Contemporary Women Artists:" “Pia Stern…has an unusual power of transforming her ‘dreams’ into our own…The artist seeks out the great secrets of the heart and bodies them forth.” Using oil paints and drawing materials in an intuitive manner, she rarely approaches her work with a preconceived idea. She may put down a quick gestural stroke, a dab of color or a general shape, yet this is just a starting point for her. Like an archeologist, she approaches the canvas as if on a ‘dig’, adding and subtracting, waiting for the meaning of the piece to reveal itself through the mark making process. Her work is held in galleries, museums, public and private collections nationwide, and has been critically acclaimed in newspapers, books and journal reviews. She has a studio in Little Italy in San Diego, and her work is currently represented in San Francisco at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery and The Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, and in Honolulu by Fine Arts Associates. EDUCATION 1978 University of California, Berkeley, M.F.A. 1977 University of California, Berkeley, M.A. 1975 University of California, Berkeley, B.A. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Blue Azul Gallery, La Jolla, CA 2008 The Lobby Gallery, 455 Market, San Francisco, CA 2007 Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, N.Y., N.Y. Palette Café Art...

Artist: Joe Zucker - American (1941- ) Title: Ponce de Leon’s Flagship Year: 1984 Medium: Lithograph with acrylic and collage Size: 36 x 48 inches Signature: Signed, dated lower right Condition: Very good Edition: 18. This one: 10/18 Series: From a series of 5 lithographs on Ponce de Leon and his discovery of Florida Publisher: Solo Press This very fine print with acrylic and collage the collage elements are foil) is by the noted American artist Joe Zucker (1941-). It is in very good condition. I have included below Zucker’s biography and very extensive CV from his website. Biography 1941 Born in Chicago, Illinois Lives and Works in East Hampton, New York Education 1966 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1964 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Selected Solo Exhibitions 2022 Detritus 2020, The Madoo Conservancy, New York 2019 100-Foot-Long Piece, Marlborough, New York Forbidden Motion – Surface, Image and Metaphor, Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, Italy 2017 1000 Brushstrokes, Maccarone, Los Angeles Armada, National Arts Club, New York 2015 Life & Times of an Orb Weaver, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY 2013 Empire Descending a Staircase, Mary Boone Gallery, New York 2011 A Unified Theory, Mary Boone Gallery, New York The Grid Paintings, Corbett vs...

This artwork "Untitled III" 1973, is an original colors etching with with aquatint on Arches paper by noted American artist Charles Eckart, b.1935. It is hand signed and inscribe A.P...

You won’t find many wooden one-room schoolhouses these days—more likely utilitarian blocks of concrete and glass, fluorescents above, linoleum below, to do the job. The early schoolh...

This artwork titled "Window, The Afternoon" 1986 is an original mixed media with collage on museum board by American artist Daniel Joshua Goldstein, b.1950. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 76/100 in pencil by the artist. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Solo Exhibitions Gallery 443 PAS, NYC 2012 Durka Chang Gallery, San Francisco CA 2002 Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 1993 Neville/Sargent Gallery, Chicago, IL 1988, 1989 Portfolio Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 1988 Neville/Sargent Gallery, Chicago, IL 1986 Belle Arts Gallery, New York, NY 1986 Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 1985 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1984 Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 1983 Neville/Sargent Gallery, Chicago, IL 1983 The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 1983 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1982 Getler/Pall Gallery, New York, NY 1982 Spector/Brown Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA 1982 Art Forms, San Francisco, CA 1982 Smith Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA 1978 Getler/Pall Gallery, New York, NY 1977 ADI Gallery, San Francisco,CA 1977 Group Exhibitions (selected) “Art, AIDS, America” MOCA Los Angeles 2015 “Through the Eyes of Love” 2010 Miami International University of Art and Design, Miami, FL “Medicine Men” and “Through Positive Eyes” 2010 2010 International AIDS Conference, Vienna, Austria “Because We Are”, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX “Crossoverwise”, Manresa Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010 “Good Friday”, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St Louis, MO 2009 “Not Alone”, Durban Museum, Durban, South Africa and The Castle of Good Hope Museum, Cape Town, South Africa 2009 “Make Art/ Stop Aids, Fowler Museum, UCLA 2008 Los Angeles, CA Green Room Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2006 “The Visual Culture of American Religions”, Brauer Museum of Art, 2000 Valparaiso, Indiana Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO 1998 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 1998 Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO 1995 Cabrillo College Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA 1995 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 1994 Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Katzen Gallery, New York, NY 1991 California Crafts Museum, San Francisco CA 1990 Neville/Sargent Gallery, Chicago, IL 1989 Allport Gallery, San Francisco 1988 “Recent Bay Area Prints,” Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984 “Four Hundred Years of the Woodcut,” Palo Alto, CA 1983 “Four Bay Area Woodblock Artists,” World Print Council, San Francisco, CA “Subjective Realities: Seven Bay Area Artists”, Achenbach Foundation Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA 1982 The Brooklyn Museum National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY 1981 “Recent Acquisitions,” Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA 1980 “Four California Printmakers,” Associated American Artists, New York, NY 1979 “New Talent in Printmaking,” Associated American Artists, Ney York, NY 1977 Tokyo Central Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 1977 “Thirty Years of American Printmaking,” The Brooklyn Museum, NY 1976 “Prints, California,” The Oakland Museum of art, Oakland, CA 1976 Selected Publications Continuum, By Jason Lahman, Published by Daniel Goldstein Studio, 2011 In conjunction with the 433PAS exhibition, New York, NY“Art and Activism”, by Steven C. Dubin. Art in America, December 2009. Beyond Belief: Modern Art And The Religious Imagination, by Rosemary Crumlin. Published by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Australia. 1998. Reliquaries, by Richard Howard, Robert Atkins and David Maxim; Published by Foster Goldstrom Gallery, NY, 1994. The Folding Image, by Komanecky and Butera; Published by The Yale University Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Art, Washingtom, DC, 1984. Daniel Joshua Goldstein: Woodblocks and Paper Cut-outs 1974-1983, by Barry Walker and Richard Howard; Published by The Brooklyn Museum, 1983. Prints, A Collector’s Guide, by Ellen Kaplan; Published by Coward McCann, 1983. Subjective Realities, by Robert Flynn Johnson; Published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1983. Thirty Years of Printmaking, by Gene Baro; Published by The Brooklyn Museum, 1977. “Four West Coast Artists”, Graphics, August/September, 1977. Daniel Joshua Goldstein: An Interview With The Artist By Gene Baro Catalogue published by ADI and Getler/Pall, 1977. Selected Collections and Major Commissions Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Oakland Museum of Art Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO Art Institute of Chicago Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburg, PA University of California Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA IBM AT&T Kaiser Medical Center, Mountain View, CA City of, Reston, VA City of Mountain View, CA Hotel Eldorado, Sante Fe, NM The California Endowment, Oakland, CA Saks Fifth Avenue BART, Colma Station, Colma, CA Ernst and Young, Dallas, Texas Amoco, New Orleans, LA Pacific Telesis, San Francisco and San Ramon, CA SAP, Palo Alto, CA Alcoa, Pittsburgh, PA DFS, San Francisco, CA Blue Shield of California...

This artwork titled "Cantique du Singulier" 1977, is an original colors lithograph on Japan paper by noted French artist Aristide Caillaud, 1902-1990. It is hand signed and numbered ...

Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- ) Title: Petite Fleur Suite I Medium: Screenprint Image size: 11 x 14 inches Sheet size: 18 x 20 inches Signature: lower right Edition: 375 This one: 103/3...

On offer is a portrait of an unknown sitter who is rendered with profound dignity yet lifted from gloomy solemnity by a vibrant and intriguing background. Notably, artist Boris Deuts...

Artist: Clayton Anderson – American (1943- ) Title: Landscape With Two Spheres Year: 1989 Medium: Liquitex with Polymer on 300lbs Arches Sight size: 10.5 x 16.5 inches. Sheet size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches Framed size: 22.5 x 28.5 inches Signature: Signed lower left in image and incised lower left of sheet Condition: Very good Frame: Framed in original maple frame. Frame in fair to good condition The painting is in very god condition. The frame is in fair to good condition with some scratches on the side bars. Clayton Anderson is a surrealist painter and a prominent member of the California Visionary Artists Group. He has been on the spiritual path his entire adult life. The quiet meditative quality that permeates his work is a genuine expression of his transcendental quest. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and worked with Ben Kimihira, Walter Stuempfig...

Artist: Jack Wisby– American (1869 - 1940) Title: Hidden Valley, San Anselmo, Marin, California Year: 1909 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 20 x 28 inches. Fram...

This artwork "Landscape with People Fishing" 1978, is an oil painting on hard board by Polish/American artist Morris Katz, 1932-2010. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (Hard Board) size is 20 x 24 inches, framed size is 28 x 31.75 inches. Framed in original wooden gold frame, with fabric liner and gold trim. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition. About the artist: On May 9th, 1988, the New York artist set a new world record by painting a 12- by 16-inch canvas of a child in the snow in just half a minute. (It took an additional eight seconds to frame it.) And that wasn’t the only distinction granted to Katz by the Guinness Book of World Records—his name appeared alongside Pablo Picasso’s under the heading for “Most Prolific Painters.” The Spanish master is estimated to have completed some 13,500 paintings in his life; when Katz died in 2010 at age 78, he was credited with 225,000. Katz’s preposterously productive career began in the small Polish village where he was born in 1932. He started studying under a German painter at age 13, but following World War II he earned a diploma in carpentry instead. In 1949, at the age of 17, he travelled to the United States. It was there that he picked up a paintbrush again, while studying at the Art Students League of New York and showing in the Village. “Soon, I decided I was good enough—compared to others, excellent enough—to make my living as an artist,” he said. It was during those years that he developed the techniques that would eventually land him in the record books. He tossed out his paintbrushes and replaced them with palette knives and toilet paper, which he used to stipple the paint. “Soon I picked up speed,” Katz said. “If you know which way you’re travelling, then you can run.” He made art in bulk, buying up canvases by the thousands and paint by the gallon. He went through some 10,000 rolls of toilet paper per year; he often wore out palette knives. Katz branded his method as “instant art.” Charles Salzberg, writing in New York magazine in 1978, urged readers, “Think of him, if you will, as the McDonald’s of the art world”—fast, cheap, and ubiquitous. He wore a green beret, paint-splattered pants, and a shirt emblazoned with the words “Morris Katz - World’s Most Prolific Artist.” It was a title that came with a price—he worked 18-hour days into his 60s, sometimes from his Greenwich Village studio and other times as a performer at hotels across the Catskills. He would often visit three different hotels in the same day, waking up at 7 a.m. and returning home as late as 1 a.m. His show was as much about the painting as it was the one-liners: “These are the highlights—you can tell because they’re high up on the painting,” he might say. Audiences gobbled up the jokes and the works, often paying less than $50 for a painting. “I give them a fresh painting like a fresh bagel,” he said. Photographer David M. Spindel first met Katz on assignment. “They’d call him mashugana—that’s the Yiddish word for a little bit crazy,” he told Artsy. The pair soon became friends, and Spindel ended up attending several of the artist’s hotel shows. “There were a lot of people from the hotel who were sitting in the room and he set up his easel and his toilet paper and paints and knocked out paintings one after another,” Spindel said. “Just a couple of minutes for each painting, usually. If he was kibitzing with the people in the audience then it took a lot longer. He was always clowning around.” His act was ready-made for television; he appeared on 60 Minutes, David Letterman, and Oprah, among other programs. And Katz didn’t just make instant art—he taught it as well. In 1987, the New Yorker sent a writer to attend one of his speed-painting classes at the Notre Dame School on West 79th Street. A dozen eager students watched in admiration as he whipped up a mountain landscape, asking for advice on how, exactly, to hold their toilet paper for maximum artistic effect. For those who couldn’t make it to Manhattan for a lesson, he published a book—Paint Good & Fast (1985)—with a title as straightforward as his philosophy on art. “Life goes faster and faster,” he wrote. “The fine arts must keep pace. This art will one day be...

This artwork "Untitled, Two Birds" 1991, is an original woodcut monoprint on artisanal hand made paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed and dated in r...

This artwork titled "Interno" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Umberto Bianchini, 1934-1990. It is signed at the lower lef...

This artwork titled "North of Turku" Finland, c.1960 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist William Jack Laycox, 1921-1984. It is signed at he lower right corner by the ...

This artwork "Landscape" is an oil painting on canvas by noted German artist Bernhard Kretzschmar 1889-1972. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner. The canvas size is 17.25...

This artwork "Untitled" 1977, is an original etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Charles Eckart, b.1935. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 7/50 in pencil by the artist...

This artwork "Landscape with Trail" c.1930 is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Frederick Ernest Swedlun, AKA: Ernest Fredericks (18...

This artwork "Woman in interior" c.1990, is an original etching on Wove paper by noted Mexican artist Jose Esteban Martinez, b.1951. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The pl...

This artwork titled "Jonah on the Way" 1975, is an original colors wood block print on thin paper by noted Austrian artist Bernd Kroeber, b.1942. It is hans signed, titled, dated and...

This artwork titled "Black Geese" 1934 is an original color aquatint by noted British artist Winifred Marie Louise Austen, 1876-1964. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) is 9 x 13.75 inches, sheet size is 10.30 x 16.5 inches. Published by Arthur Greatorax LTD, Grafton street, London. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Born at Ramsgate, Kent on 12 July 1876, Winifred Austen only daughter of Josiah Austin, a Cornish naval surgeon, and his wife Fanny, née Mann. She amended the spelling of her surname from Austin to Austen from the time that she began to exhibit. In 1892 the family moved to Hornsey, London from where Austin attended the London County Council School of Arts and Crafts, studying under Cuthbert Swan, an animal painter. I n 1899 Austen exhibited a picture of a lion at the Royal Academy and in all exhibited more than seventy pictures at the Academy, the last in 1961. She worked in both oils and watercolor but Austen is most highly regarded as an etcher. In all she made some two hundred etched plates, beginning in 1906 with a series entitled The White Heron. She had particular feeling for birds and small mammals, and the naturalist Sir Peter...

Artist: Theo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012) Title: Mere Biblique Year: 1984 Medium: Color lithograph, with collage Edition: Numbered 172/175 in pencil Paper: Arches Image...

This artwork "Astres Egares (Lost Astral)" 1970, is an original colors lithograph on creme wove paper by noted Italian artist Berto (Roberto) Lardera, 1911-1989. Published by Les Bib...

This artwork "Merry Couple" c.1980 is an original etching by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed and numbered 157/300 in pencil by the artist. The image...

Artist: Beth Van Hoesen – American (1926- 2010) Title: Fresno Basket Date: 1974 Medium: Color aquatint and etching, hand colored with watercolor Image Size: 12.25 x 12.75 inches Fram...

Artist: Charles Arnoldi (American, born 1931) Title: Untitled Year: 2001 Medium: Off set lithograph Edition: Numbered XXVI 10/40 in pencil Image size: 17 x 17 inches Signat...

This artwork titled "Bouganvillia" c.1990, is an oil painting on Cardboard panel by noted Armenian/American artist Ovanes Berberian, b.1951. It is signed at the lower left corner by ...

Hand Printed Photograph by the artist Signed in pencil on recto Edition 30/75 Printed 2008 Comes with a limited edition hard bound slip case cover book 'Fractal Dreams' Signed, titl...

This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #2, 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is...

This beautiful monotype by Kirsten Stolle (1967-) is a simple, yet elegant composition with beautiful, harmonious colors. There is a wonderful warmth and richness to the surface; var...

Jacques Loiseau (French, b.1920) "Jarre aux Lupins" Original Oil on Canvas Brilliant bunch of colorful lupine displayed in a large yellow jar. Original o...

This artwork titled "Innsbruck" is an color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991 It is hand signed dated and dedicated in pencil. The plate mark (image) siz...

This artwork titled "Bali Princess" variant green, 1996, is an original color serigraph on thin rice paper taped to a sheet of wove paper for stabilization by noted Chinese artist Ting Shao Kuang...

This artwork titled "The Beginning of the end" c.1990 is a color lithograph by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed and numbered 49/300 in pencil by the ...

About the artist: Bay Area artist, Carson Gladon's "transparent collages" combine the elements of nature with a mix of computer graphics and traditional painting using vivid and pastel colors. Seeming, "to infuse the techniques of the European impressionists with a hint of the delicacy of a Chinese or Japanese silk screen...

The artist of this piece, William "Bill" Stephens Shields Jr. (1925-2010), was born in San Francisco and following the death of his father in 1931, the then-4 year-old grew up in Tex...

This artwork "Flying Man" c.1990, is an original colors etching with aquatint on Wove paper by noted Mexican artist Jose Esteban Martinez, b.1951. It is hand signed in pencil by the ...

This artwork titled "La Lettre du Fils" (The Son's Letter) 1938 is an original color woodcut by French artist Paul Jacoulet, 1896-1960. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist, wit...

Artist: Carlos Merida (Guatemalan, 1891-1984) Title: Estampas Del Popol Vuh Year: 1943 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Unumbered of 1000 Paper: Wove ...

This artwork "Sitting Woman" 1941 is a watercolor on paper by noted California (German/American) artist Ernst Stolz, 1901-1989. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by th...

This artwork titled "Maroon Lake, Colorado" 1945 is an original lithograph on paper by noted American artist Adolf Arthur Dehn, 1895-1968. It is hand signed, dated, titled, numbered ...

Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931) Title: Il ne Faut pas Oublier Year: 1918 Medium: Lithograph Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil Paper: Wove Size paper: 15 x 22....

This artwork "Ballet Dancer" 1989 is a color offset lithograph by American artist Robert Olson. It is hand signed and numbered 140/1275 in gold felt pen. ...

This artwork titled "SWing Screen" 1979 is an original colors etching with aquatint on Pescia Italia paper by renown American artist James Rosenquist, 1933-2017. It is hand signed, d...

Artist: Walter W. Nelson – American (1942- ) Title: Sweet Pea & Pincushion. From the Fleur portfolio Year: 1983 Medium: Dye transfer photograph Sight size: 16.25 x 11 inches. Sheet size: 21.25 x 16.5 inches Matted size: 26.75 x 21.25 inches Edition Size: 25. This one: 8/25 Signature: Reverse Condition: Very good Unframed In the 1980s, Walter Nelson...

This artwork "View of the Bay of Naples" c.1935 is a watercolor on paper by noted impressionist Italian artist Maria Ada Gianni, 1873-1956. It is si...

Subdued bronzes and saddle leather tones provide a rich background for a cluster of mysterious, ghostlike figures--"The Visitors" of the painting's title--imagined as weathered paint...

This colorful artwork ""Villa Schifanoia, Florence" 1984 is an oil painting on paper by American artist Patrice Lombardi. It is signed and dated at t...

Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- ) Title: Garden Moments II Medium: Screenprint Image size: 22 x 26.75 inches Sheet size: 22 x 26.75 inches Signature: lower right Edition: 375 This one: 35...

This artwork "Untitled" 1982 is an original color etching with aquatint on Arches paper by French artist Jean Solombre, 1948-2005. It is hand signed, dat...

This artwork titled "Paysage de Normandie" c.1910 Is an original color aquatint by noted French artist Maurice Levis, 1860-1940. It is hand signed and numbered 245/350 in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 17.5 x 24.85 inches, sheet size is 19.75 x 26.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age of the piece. About the artist: Born in Paris on 11 November1860, Maurice Levis was an accomplished landscape and genre painter for nearly sixty years. His career spanned not only the early years of modernism, but also the twentieth century developments of cubism and surrealism. Levis' artistic education began in the late 1870s at the Académie Julian where he studied with Jules Lefebvre. He also studied with Henri Harpignies and with Pierre Billet...