Thomas French Fine Art
to
5
826
372
222
211
148
130
121
121
113
105
92
78
77
70
56
45
44
43
38
34
34
29
29
19
18
15
13
12
7
7
7
7
6
5
4
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
57
32
28
18
18
Bando Mitsugoro as a Servant with a Sword
By Natori Shunsen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bando Mitsugoro as a Servant with a Sword
Color woodcut, 1952
From The Series Shunsen Nigao-E Shu (Shunsen Portraits), Six Woodblock Prints
Publisher: Watanabe
Excellent condition
Im...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Eileen Lake
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Eileen Lake
Crayon on paper, early1930's
Initialed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled and annotated verso "Eileen Lake, early 1930s girlfriend"
Note: Eileen Hall Lake was an American poet and Adolf Dehn's girlfriend in the early 1930s.
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
By descent
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs. In many ways Dehn’s later artistic achievement was clearly a reaction against the grinding rural poverty of his childhood.
After graduating from high school in 1914 at the age of 19—an age not unusual in farming communities at the time, where school attendance was often irregular—Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art from 1914 to 1917, whose character followed strongly reflected that of its director, Munich-trained Robert Kohler, an artistic conservative but a social radical. There Dehn joined a group of students who went on to nationally significant careers, including Wanda Gag (later author of best-selling children’s books); John Flanagan (a sculptor notable for his use of direct carving) Harry Gottlieb (a notable social realist and member of the Woodstock Art Colony), Elizabeth Olds (a printmaker and administrator for the WPA), Arnold Blanch (landscape, still-life and figure painter, and member of the Woodstock group), Lucille Lunquist, later Lucille Blanch (also a gifted painter and founder of the Woodstock art colony), and Johan Egilrud (who stayed in Minneapolis and became a journalist and poet).
Adolf became particularly close to Wanda Gag (1893-1946), with whom he established an intense but platonic relationship. Two years older than he, Gag was the daughter of a Bohemian artist and decorator, Anton Gag, who had died in 1908. After her husband died, Wanda’s mother, Lizzi Gag, became a helpless invalid, so Wanda was entrusted with the task of raising and financially supporting her six younger siblings. This endowed her with toughness and an independent streak, but nonetheless, when she met Dehn, Wanda was Victorian and conventional in her artistic taste and social values. Dehn was more socially radical, and introduced her to radical ideas about politics and free love, as well as to socialist publications such as The Masses and The Appeal to Reason.
Never very interested in oil painting, in Minneapolis Dehn focused on caricature and illustration--often of a humorous or politically radical character. In 1917 both Dehn and Wanda won scholarships to attend the Art Students League, and consequently, in the fall of that year both moved to New York. Dehn’s art education, however, ended in the summer of 1918, shortly after the United States entered World War I, when he was drafted to serve in the U. S. Army. Unwilling to fight, he applied for status as a conscientious objector, but was first imprisoned, then segregated in semi-imprisonment with other Pacifists, until the war ended. The abuse he suffered at this time may well explain his later withdrawal from taking political stands or making art of an overtly political nature. After his release from the army, Dehn returned to New York where he fell under the spell of the radical cartoonist Boardman Robinson and produced his first lithographs. He also finally consummated his sexual relationship with Wanda Gag.
The Years in Europe: 1922-1929
In September of 1921, however, he abruptly departed for Europe, arriving in Paris and then moving on to Vienna. There in the winter of 1922 he fell in love with a Russian dancer, Mura Zipperovitch, ending his seven-year relationship with Wanda Gag. He and Mura were married in 1926. It was also in Vienna that he produced his first notable artistic work.
Influenced by European artists such as Jules Pascin and Georg Grosz, Dehn began producing drawings of people in cafes, streets, and parks, which while mostly executed in his studio, were based on spontaneous life studies and have an expressive, sometimes almost childishly wandering quality of line. The mixture of sophistication and naiveté in these drawings was new to American audiences, as was the raciness of their subject matter, which often featured pleasure-seekers, prostitutes or scenes of sexual dalliance, presented with a strong element of caricature. Some of these drawings contain an element of social criticism, reminiscent of that found in the work of George Grosz, although Dehn’s work tended to focus on humorous commentary rather than savagely attacking his subjects or making a partisan political statement. Many Americans, including some who had originally been supporters of Dehn such as Boardman Robinson, were shocked by these European drawings, although George Grocz (who became a friend of the artist in this period) admired them, and recognized that Dehn could also bring a new vision to America subject matter. As he told Dehn: “You will do things in America which haven’t been done, which need to be done, which only you can do—as far at least as I know America.”
A key factor in Dehn’s artistic evolution at this time was his association with Scofield Thayer...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon
Seated Female Nude (two studies)
By Pierre Saint-Ange Poterlet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recling Female Nude
Charcoal on tan paper
Signed: Poterlet bottom center (see photo)
Provenance:
Alfred Barrion, Lugt 76 lower right recto (see photo)
Eric G. Carlson, 1985
Very good...
Category
19th Century Romantic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Composition
By Bernard Mandeville
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Composition
Screenprint in colors, n.d.
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.
(see photos)
Edition: 200 (15/200)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: Image: 9-3/8 x 7-1/2" (24.3 x 19 cm.)
The painter Bernard Mandeville, whose artistic career began in 1935 and ended in 2001, was preceded in name and surname by a famous author...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Ilile D
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ilile D
Screen print, 1990
Signed lower right (see photo)
Numbered lower left (see photo)
Edition: 300 plus 50 EA
Published by Circle Art Gallery
Reference: Benavides 1116
Condition:...
Category
1990s Op Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
TallerOr
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Fairlawn, OH
TallerOr
Screen print printed on "card board" (cream poster board), 1968
Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150 (54/150), plus 11 for the Vasarely Fou...
Category
1960s Op Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
The Hold Up, First State
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil by the artist lower right
Titled "Hold Up" by the artist in pencil.
Signed by the printer Bolton Brown lower left.
Edition: 42 in this state
Note: In The Hold Up, se...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Plate 12
By Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate 12
From: 10 Origi, 1942
Signed in the block with the artist's initials lower left (printed)
From: 10 Origin
Not from the First edition 100, published by Allianz-Verlag, Zurich,...
Category
1970s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Fleditwerk
By Jurgen Peters
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Fleditwerk
Serigraph, 1970
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil by the artist.
Publisher: Kunstverein Braunschweig blindstamp lower left
Edition: 100 (66/100)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 22 x 22...
Category
1970s Op Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
In Search of New Beginnings
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
In Search of New Beginnings
Screen print, 2021
Signed in pencil with the artist's initials lower right
Titled lower right
Numbered lower center
Condition: Mint
Sheet size: 11 3/16 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
In Search of New Beginnings 3
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
In Search of New Beginnings 3
Puff pigment screen print with hand coloring, 2021
Signed with the artist's initials in the lower right corner (see photo)
Titled in the lower left corn...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Read the Signs, No. 13
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Read the Signs, No. 13
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2013
Signed lower right corner (see photo)
Series: Read the Signs (22 watercolors)
Exhibited: William Busta Gallery, Read the Signs, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Stolen Moments (4)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Stolen Moments (4)
Ink on Yupo paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 14 x 11 inches
Darius Steward is establishing hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bare Arms (The Practice #1)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bare Arms (The Practice #1)
Drypoint on Aluminum, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials (see photo)
The first plate from a proposed suite of 9 drypoints, all printed in an edition o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
O
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
O
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2018
Signed with the artist's initials (see photo)
Note: The Series MORE? is centered around the artist’s family.
There are two images of the artist’s s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study for “The Breaker of Chains”
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study for “The Breaker of Chains”
Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2018
Signed with the artist's initials lower right (see photo)
For the Midtown (Cleveland) Mural, located on 28th and Euc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Stolen Moments, Attitude Shift #1 (Emily and Sippy Cup Smiling)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Stolen Moments, Attitude Shift #1 (Emily and Sippy Cup Smiling)
Watercolor on Twinrocker Multi Purpose paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Signed with the ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Charles Harris ( Beni Kosh )
Located in Fairlawn, OH
aka Beni Kosh
Untitled (Abstraction)
Watercolor on paper, 1970's
Unsigned
Ben Kosh Estate Stamp verso, No. 754
Condition: Very good
Sheet size: 10 5/8 x 14 9/16 inches
Provenance: Es...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Les Fruits 2
By Charles Harris ( Beni Kosh )
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Fruits 2
Oil on masonite, 1967
Signed and titled lower right (see photos)
Signed with the estate stamp verso: Beni Kosh Collection #254 (see photo)
Condition: Good
Board size: 7 ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist landscape with skull and red daisy
By Charles Harris ( Beni Kosh )
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Surrealist landscape with skull and red daisy
Watercolor on paper, 1960-1970
Unsigned
Stamped with the artist's estate stamp verso (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Refere...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
untitled (Reclining Female Nude)
By Charles Harris ( Beni Kosh )
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Aka Beni Kosh
Still Life with Flowers
Colored pencil on paper
Unsigned
Signed with the estate stamp on reverse (see photo)
Estate No. 716
Condition: Soft fold through image, wri...
Category
1960s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Une Femme
By Charles Harris ( Beni Kosh )
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Une Femme
Oil on canvas, mounted on Masonite, 1965
Signed and dated lower right
Titled lower right recto
Signed with the estate stamp verso: Beni Kosh Collection #118
Condition: Or...
Category
1960s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Joe "I try to get something accomplished everyday. I ask the Good Lord...
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Joe "I try to get something accomplished everyday. I ask the Good Lord for Patience and Stregnth"
Verso: "I was in for a technical violation. I spent 65 days, but I thank the Lor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
America's Mom
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
America's Mom
Lithograph, 2016
Signed lower right (see photo)
Numbered lower left
From: America’s Family (Intended suite of five Images, only four produced)
Edition: 40, (20 of which...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Homme nu avec femme ivre et jeune flutiste
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Homme nu avec femme ivre et jeune flutiste
Etching, 1955
Signature stamp lower right (see photo)
Annotated in penci lower leftl: "epreuve d'artiste" (see photo)
Inventory number vers...
Category
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Morita Kanya XIII As Genta Kagesue in the play Genta Kando
By Natori Shunsen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Morita Kanya XIII As Genta Kagesue in the play Genta Kando
Color woodcut, 1928
Signed and stamped middle right edge
Natori stamp lower left image edge
Series: Collection of Creative...
Category
1920s Showa Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Le Resesquement a l'Advocats (The Legal Reservation)
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Resesquement a l'Advocats
(The Legal Reservation)
Pastel on paper, c. 1910
signed lower right
Image size: 10 3/4 x 14 inches
Frame size: 23-1/2 x 26-1/2 x 2-3/8 inches
Condition: ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
In the Fitting
By Mary Cassatt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
(after) Mary Cassatt
In the Fitting
Drypoint & aquatint printed in colors, 1991
Signed with the artist's initials in the bottom edge center
Note: This is a limited edition reproduct...
Category
1990s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
Color aquatint and etching, c. 1906
Signed in pencil in the image (see photo)
Edition: c. 100
Reference: Merrill Chase, Volume 1, No. 85
Condition: F...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Couple Embracing
By Ito Shinsui
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Couple Embracing
Sumi ink drawing, c. 1928
Signed lower right: Shinsui (early variant signature)
Most probably an illustration for one of the four volum...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Woodland (New Hope, Pennsylvania)
By Stow Wengenroth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woodlands (New Hope, Pennsylvania)
Lithograph, 1950
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Annotated: Ed/55 in pencil by the artist lower left (see photo)
Edition: 55...
Category
1950s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
ABS, Lithograph
Cypresses
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cypresses
Reductive color woodcut in colors, black, green & brown, 1982
Unsigned
From: Tramp Picture series
"The printer was Claude Jinchat at Imprimerie Arnéra, Vallauris. The set w...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Linocut
Staten Island
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Staten Island
Watercolor on paper, c. 1928
Signed with the Estate stamp lower left
Sheet size: 19 1/8 x 23 7/8 inches
Titled on verso
Part of small series of watercolors done of the ...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Enterieur (Outside)
By Jurgen Peters
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Enterieur (Outside)
Screen print, 1973
Signed lower right in pencil (see photo)
Edition: A.P., annotated lower left corner
Published by Edition Ltd., Indianapolis
Image size: 21 3/4 ...
Category
1970s Op Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Trees Over the Vineyard
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trees Over the Vineyard
Watercolor on heavy paper, c. 1930
Signed with the estate stamp verso (see photo)
Sheet size: 16 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches
Condition: Excellent
Illustrated: Marbell...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
St. Valentine's Day -- The Old Story in All Lands
By Winslow Homer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
St. Valentine's Day -- The Old Story in All Lands
Wood engraving, 1868
Published in: Harper's Weekly, February 22, 1868
Titled and signed in the block
Image size: 13 5/8 x 9 inches
C...
Category
1860s Hudson River School Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Poles and Cypresses
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Poles and Cypresses
Woodcut printed in black, 1982
Unsigned
From: Tramp Picture series
"The printer was Claude Jinchat at Imprimerie Arnéra, Vallauris. The set was published by Blum ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Linocut
Saint Tropez
By André Dunoyer de Segonzac
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Saint Tropez
Etching with aquatint, printed in colors, 1964
Signed in ink and numbered in pencil
Edition: 71/100
Issued for the album St. Tropez et la Provence, in 1966
Reference: Lo...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Plate LXXVIII Pears (Valley, Petit Russelet, Doyenne, or Saint Michael, ...
By George Brookshaw
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate LXXVIII Pears (Valley, Petit Russelet, Doyenne, or Saint Michael, and the Russselet de Rheims, or Gross Russelet varities).
Aquatint, engraving with some st...
Category
Early 1800s English School Still-life Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Big Momma's Still Life #2
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Big Momma's Still Life #2
Oil pastel on rag paper, 2007
Signed by the artist lower left: "Sedrick Huckaby III" (see photo)
Sheet size: 16 x 12 1/8 inches
Frame: 28 x 24 inches
Exhibi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Untitled (Standing Female Nude)
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Standing Female Nude)
Graphite on paper, c. 1930
Signed bottom right: Lorski (see photo)
Sheet size: 9 5/16 x 5 13/16 inches
From a sketchbook created while the artist was working in Paris
Condition: Good
Thin spots verso from previous mounting
Soft vertical fold running across image
Barely visible on recto
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Dawson's Auctioneers and Appraisers, 2001
Amity Art Foundation
Boris Lovet-Lorski
Lithuanian/Russian/American
1894-1973
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker, Boris Lovet-Lorski was born in Lithuania in 1894. His mother died when he was age three. His father was affluent and owned real estate. Boris grew up in a privileged environment. He studied architecture and then fine arts at the Imperial Academy of Art in Petrograd, Russia (now Saint Petersburg). Following the revolution in 1917 and its aftermath, Boris immigrated to Boston to live with his brother. In the 1920’s, his stylized, Art Deco inspired sculptures, lithographs, and paintings proved to be popular among the American elite. He exhibited frequently, holding his first solo exhibition in Boston, 1920. In the following years, Boris exhibited in New York at Marie Sterner Gallery, Jacques Seligmann Galleries and Wildenstein and Company. He lived in Paris from 1926 to 1932 where he befriended Joseph Hecht, and was exposed to the works of Pablo Picasso, Ossip Zadkine, Contantin Brancusi and Aristide Maillol. In 1932 he returned to America where he became a citizen later in the decade.
Lovet-Lorski exhibited in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists (New York), the National Academy of Design (New York), and the Lotos Club (New York), as well as several Parisian salons. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Musée Luxembourg, Bibliotèque Nationale, and the Petit Palais in France, the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (A more extensive list of his works in museums follows) He is considered one of the most successful and recognized sculptors of his generation. His creative influence can be seen in many of his contemporary artists.
He died in Los Angeles in 1973.
Regarding his iconic Art Deco sculptures of Cretan Dancers:
“The stylizing of the Cretan allegories, used in figures of animals such as horses and bulls, symbolizes the ancient power of the South. These figures reveal a spiritual sensuality as he strives to attain a symbol of the earth and universe endowed with musical values. If man is the center of his idea of life and nature, it is because of the laws that govern the movement of stars and history. The link binding his figures together has, in a sense, a Pythagorean harmony.”
Salvatore Quasimodo, Milan, 1967, quoted from Bush, Boris Lover-Lorski: The Language of Time, page 12.
Lovet-Lorski created sculptures of the following major figures
I.J. Paderewski, Prime Minister of Poland
Arturo Toscanini, Italian Conductor
Lilian Gish, Actress
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mrs. M. C. Niarchos, wife of Stavros Niarchos
President Abraham Lincoln
James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, First Secretary of Defense
Pope Pius XII
Dr. Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Albert Schweitzer, theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician
General Charles De Gaulle, President of the Fourth and Fifth Republic, France
John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, 1953-1959
President John F. Kennedy
Works by Lover Lorski are in the following public collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
British Museum, London
Boston University
Brooklyn Museum
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Sam Francisco...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Standing Male Nude
By Frank Duveneck
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Male Nude
Graphite on wove paper, c. 1890's
Unsigned
Sheet size: 9 5/16 x 6 inches
Provenance:
Rookwood Pottery Factory Collection, Cincinnati
Ira Spanierman, New York (labe...
Category
1890s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Connais-tu le Pays (Primavera) apres J. Rolshoven (Do you Know the Country)
By Theophile Narcisse Chauvel
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Connais-tu le Pays (Primavera) apres J. Rolshoven
(Do you Know the Country -Spring)
Etching, 1889
Signed "Julius Rolshoven...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Snow White
By Peregrine Honig
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Snow White
pen and ink with watercolor, 1999
Signed with the artist's initials and dated along the bottom edge (see photo)
Sheet size: 6 x 6 inches
Peregrine Honig (born 1976 in San Francisco, CA) is an American artist whose work is concerned with the relationship between pop culture, sexual vulnerability, social anxieties, the ethics of luxury and trends in consumerism. Honig appeared on season one of Bravo’s artist reality television show, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, which aired from June 9–August 11, 2010, finishing in second place.
Career
Born in San Francisco and raised in The Castro and in Project Artaud, Honig moved to Kansas City, Missouri, at 17 to attend the Kansas City Art Institute. At age 22, Honig was the youngest living artist to have work acquired by the Whitney Museum of Art’s permanent collection.
Honig’s work is included in private and public collections, including: The Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery, The Fogg Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Olympian Games
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Olympian Games
Engraving, 1957
Signed, dated, titled and numbered (see photos)
Edition: 25 (7/25)
From the first and only edition, probably less than 8 impressions printed
Printed by...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Aardvark
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Aardvark
Engraving, 1951
Signed, dated, titled in pencil by the artist (see photo)
Annotated "To Jon from Ray" (see photo)
Printed by Jon Clemens, Master Printer, c. 1990
Condition: ...
Category
1950s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Porcupine
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Porcupine
Engraving, 1949
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled and numbered lower left (see photo)
Created while the artist was completing the MFA in Printmaking at the Un...
Category
1940s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Walruses
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Walruses
Engraving, 1952
Signed, dated, titled and numbered (see photos)
Edition: 100, this from the second printing with the artist's initials in an edition of 25 (16/25)
Condition:...
Category
1950s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Vienna Lipizzaner
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Vienna Lipizzaner
Engraving, 1962
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled and numbered lower left (see photo)
This impression is from the second edtition printed c. 1992
1st ...
Category
1960s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Der Kuss The Kiss (plate facing page 116)
By Peter Behrens
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Der Kuss The Kiss (plate facing page 116)
Color lithograph, 1898
Signed with the artist's initials in the image (see photo)
Published in Pan, Volume IV.2 (Jul-Aug-Sept 1898)
Publishe...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
By Fletcher Martin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
(Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Pen and ink with wash on heavy wove sketchbook paper, 1938
Signed lower right: Fletcher Martin
Directly related to Martin's famous painting of 1942 entitled "Lullaby", which was also used in the lithograph of the same name. (see photo)
The drawing depicts the third and final knockdown of Max Schmeling in their rematch of 1938.
Condition: Mat staining at the edges of the sketchbook page edges
Toning to verso from previous framing.
Does not affect framed presentation
"It was here that Louis first used sport to bridge America's cavernous racial divide. With Hitler on the march in Europe and using Schmeling's victory over Louis as proof of “Aryan supremacy,” anti-Nazi sentiment ran high in the States. Louis had long grown accustomed to the pressures of representing his race but here the burdens were broader and deeper. Now he was shouldering the hopes of an entire nation.
A few weeks before the match Louis visited the White House and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose tenure lasted even longer than Louis' would, told him, “Joe, we need muscles like yours to beat Germany.”
Those muscles certainly beat Schmeling on fight night...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Plaster Works, Los Angeles, 1925
By Edward Weston
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plaster Works, Los Angeles, 1925
Toned silver print
Negative by Edward Weston
Print by Cole Weston (1919-2003)
From: Edward Weston Portfolio, 1971
Published by Witkin-Berley Ltd., Ne...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Programme poour Le Chariot de Terre Cutte
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Programme poour Le Chariot de Terre Cutte
Lithograph printed in blue on pink tint thin wove paper, 1895
Signed with the artist's "TL" monogram (see photo) lower center edge
Published...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Studies for a historic scene painting
By Daniel Maclise
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Studies for a historic scene painting
Graphite on paper, c. 1860's
Sheet size: 12 3/8 x 19 inches
Unsigned
Provenance: J S Maas & Co., London (see label)
Denys ...
Category
1860s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Transcendental Image (Sun God)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Transcendental Image (Sun God)
Encaustic on paper, 1944
Signed and dated lower right: Bisttram 44
Sheet size: 11 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches
Condition: Excellent
Provenance: Warren Shaull
"Em...
Category
1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Encaustic
Untitled (Tuscan Landscape)
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Tuscan Landscape)
Tissue paper collage on Fabriano support
Signed and dated lower right in ink
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Martha A. French Trust
Created while the art...
Category
1960s American Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
"Homo" Verne
By Geoffrey Archbold
Located in Fairlawn, OH
"Homo"Verne, (Still Life with wine bottle, wine glass, glass of beer and dice)
Pochoir printed on black textured colored paper, c. 1930
Signed and numbered in white pencil by the art...
Category
1920s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Foreign Soldiers from Five Countries at the Port of Yokohama
By Utagawa Yoshitora
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Foreign Soldiers from Five Countries at the Port of Yokohama
Color woodcut triptych, c. 1860's
Signed in the block lower left corner Signed: "Ichimosai Yoshitora ga"
Condition: Mounted to a rose colored silk backing (stable)
Staining (visible) in the joining of the right and center sheets
Colors very slightly faded
Image size: 15 3/8 x 31 3/8 inches (triptysch sheets joined to make one print)
The 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa opened Japan to the West. Curiosity about the never-before-seen foreigners spurred a market in Yokohama-e (Yokohama prints), named for the area to which foreign dignitaries and merchants were confined. Yoshitora became one of the best known and most active artists of the Yokohama-e school.
Utagawa Yoshitora (歌川 芳虎) was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1850 to about 1880. He was born in Edo (modern Tokyo), but neither his date of birth nor date of death is known. However, he was the oldest pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi who excelled in prints of warriors, kabuki actors, beautiful women, and foreigners (Yokohama-e). He may not have seen any of the foreign scenes he depicted.
Yoshitora was prolific: he produced over 60 print series and illustrated over 100 books. In 1849 he produced an irreverent print called Dōke musha: Miyo no wakamochi ("Funny Warriors—Our Ruler's New Year's Rice Cakes"), which depicts Oda Nobunaga, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Crucifixion
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Crucifixion
Engraving, etching, and ground printed in colors, 1947
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
From the second printing by Jon Clemens, master printer in the 1990's
Done while the artist was at the Iowa Print Group, MFA Program, University of Iowa .
Condition: excellent
Image/Plate size: 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H...
Category
1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Plate X, Le Cocu Magnifique
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate X, Le Cocu Magnifique
Etching & aquatint, 1968
Unsigned
Edition: From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions printed on Rives BFK paper
There is also a signed edition of 30 im...
Category
1960s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching