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Bougival
By Maurice de Vlaminck
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bougival
Woodcut, 1914
Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition 30, this numberd 22
Printed on laid Van Gelder Zonen paper
Published by Henri Kanweiler, Paris
Printed by Paul Birault, Paris
Bougival is located west of Paris, on the left bank of the River Seine.
This woodcut was inspired by Vlaminck's 1905 Fauvist masterpiece of the same title in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Art.
An impression of this image is in the Yale Univeristy Art Gallery,
Condition: Very slight sun staining, otherrwise very good
Image/block size: 13 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches
Sheet size: 19 1/8 x 22 1/8 inches
Reference: Walterskirchen 11b
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 – 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour.] Vlaminck was one of the Fauves at the controversial Salon d'Automne exhibition of 1905.
Life
Maurice de Vlaminck was born on Rue Pierre Lescot in Paris. His father Edmond Julien was Flemish and taught violin and his mother Joséphine Caroline Grillet came from Lorraine and taught piano His father taught him to play the violin.[3] He began painting in his late teens. In 1893, he studied with a painter named Henri Rigalon on the Île de Chatou In 1894 he married Suzanne Berly. The turning point in his life was a chance meeting on the train to Paris towards the end of his stint in the army. Vlaminck, then 23 and already active in anarchist circles in Paris, met an aspiring artist, André Derain, with whom he struck up a lifelong friendship.] When Vlaminck completed his army service in 1900, the two rented a studio together, the Maison Levanneur, which now houses the Cneai,[6] for a year before Derain left to do his own military service. In 1902 and 1903 he wrote several mildly pornographic novels illustrated by Derain. He painted during the day and earned his livelihood by giving violin lessons and performing with musical bands at night.
Vlaminck participated in the controversial 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition. After viewing the boldly colored canvases of Vlaminck, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Kees van Dongen, Charles Camoin, and Jean Puy, the art critic Louis Vauxcelles disparaged the painters as "fauves" (wild beasts), thus giving their movement the name by which it became known, Fauvism.
In 1911, Vlaminck traveled to London and painted by the Thames. In 1913, he painted again with Derain in Marseille and Martigues. In World War I he was stationed in Paris, and began writing poetry. Eventually he settled in Rueil-la-Gadelière, a small village south-west of Paris. He married his second wife, Berthe Combes, with whom he had two daughters. From 1925 he traveled throughout France, but continued to paint primarily along the Seine, near Paris. Resentful that Fauvism had been overtaken by Cubism as an art movement Vlaminck blamed Picasso "for dragging French painting into a wretched dead end and state of confusion". During the Second World War, Vlaminck visited Germany and on his return published a tirade against Picasso and Cubism in the periodical Comoedia in June 1942. Vlaminck wrote many autobiographies.
Vlaminck died in Rueil-la-Gadelière on 11 October 1958.
Artistic career
Two of Vlaminck's groundbreaking paintings, Sur le zinc (At the Bar) and L'homme a la pipe (Man Smoking a Pipe) were painted in 1900.
For the next few years Vlaminck lived in or near Chatou (the inspiration for his painting houses at Chatou), painting and exhibiting alongside Derain, Matisse, and other Fauvist painters. At this time his exuberant paint application and vibrant use of colour displayed the influence of Vincent van Gogh. Sur le zinc called to mind the work of Toulouse-Lautrec and his portrayals of prostitutes and solitary drinkers, but does not attempt to probe the sitter's psychology—a break with the century-old European tradition of individualized portraiture. According to art critic Souren Melikian, it is "the impersonal cartoon of a type. In his landscape paintings, his approach was similar. He ignored the details, with the landscape becoming a vehicle through which he could express mood through violent colour and brushwork. An example is Sous bois, painted in 1904. The following year, he began to experiment with "deconstruction," turning the physical world into dabs and streaks of colour that convey a sense of motion. His paintings Le Pont de Chatou (The Chatou Bridge), Les Ramasseurs de pommes de terre (The Potato Pickers...
Category
1910s Fauvist Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Trompe-l'Oeil Study
By Eugene Berman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trompe-l'Oeil Study
Watercolor on heavy wove paper, 1943
Signed with the artists initials, lower center of image; Dated 1943, lower center of image
Provenance:
Swann Galleries, 2007, realized $2,640
Condition: Excellent. Fresh colors. Framed with conservation glass.
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 11 1/4"
Frame size: 20 3/4 x 17
Berman brothers (painters)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eugene Berman in Italy in the 1960s
Eugène Berman (Russian: Евгений Густавович Берман; 4 November 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 14 December 1972, Rome) and his brother Leonid Berman...
Category
1930s Surrealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rainy Night in Rome
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Rainy Night in Rome
Drypoint, 1913
Signed in pencil and titled in the lower margin by the artist
(see photo)
Provenance:
Kennedy Galleries, Stock # A6538
Reference; Doddgson 299 _/X
Total edition in 10 states 125 printed
Note: The scene depicts the Church of San Rocco on the right at the intersection of via Schiavoria and via di Ripetta. Guichard considers this image to be among the artist's most desirable.
Condition: Exceptional, rich impressions, printing with extensive burr. Printed on a medium weight Japanese paper.
Image/Plate size: 12 x 9 inches
Sheet size: 15 7/8 x 11 inches
Sir Muirhead Bone (23 March 1876 – 21 October 1953) was a Scottish etcher and watercolourist who became known for his depiction of industrial and architectural subjects and his work as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars.
A figure in the last generation of the Etching Revival, Bone's early large and heavily-worked architectural subjects fetched extremely high prices before the Wall Street Crash of 1929 deflated the collectors' market. He was well known, if not notorious, for publishing large numbers of different states of etchings, encouraging collectors to buy several impressions.
Bone was an active member of both the British War Memorials Committee in the First World War and the War Artists' Advisory Committee in the Second World War He promoted the work of many young artists and served as a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, the National Gallery, and the Imperial War Museum.
Early life
Muirhead Bone was born in Partick, Glasgow. His parents were journalist David Drummond Bone (1841–1911 and Elizabeth Millar Crawford (1847–1886).
The Bone and his siblings attended the local Board school and were placed in apprenticeships from the age of fourteen. James Bone...
Category
1910s English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Rue Caulaincourt
By Louis Marcoussis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Rue Caulaincourt
Etching and engraving, 1931
Initialed in the plate (see photo)
Edition: 77
Plate 10 from "Plaches de Salut"
Published by Aux Editions Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Rue Caulai...
Category
1930s Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Untitled (seated female nude)
By Henry Keller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Femake Nude
Graphite and chalk on tan paper, c. 1920
Signed "Keller" and signed again with the artist's initials in a cypher
A finished life drawing most probably exhibited at...
Category
1920s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Moon Rays
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Moon Rays
Graphic Construction (three sheets layered in a shadow box presentation), 1967
Signed lower right. Editioned lower left. (see photos)
Edition: 60 from the second printing c...
Category
1960s Op Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Other Medium
The Art of Conversation (Three characters on...)
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Art of Conversation (Three characters on...)
Etching, 1958
Signed in pencil lower right: “Gromaire” (see photo)
Edition: 110 (18/110) see photo
Printed on RIVES paper
Publisher: ...
Category
1950s Cubist Interior Prints
Materials
Etching
Terres de Grand Feu, (Land of Great Fire)
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derriere le miroir, no. 87-88-89. Pages 6-7
Terres de Grand Feu, (Land of Great Fire)
Color lithograph, 1956
From: Derriere le Miroir, Volume 87-8...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Poem 71-25 (Me)
By Haku Maki
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Poem 71-25 (Me)
Color woodcut with cement mold embossing, 1971
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition 100 (55/100) (see photo)
Signed with the artist's stamp lower right of image (see photo)
COVER IMAGE, The Life and Works of Haku Maki, Daniel Tretiak, 2007, hence an imnportant print by the artist
Conditon: Excellent
Never framed
Colors very fresh and vibrant
Soft folds in the small upper margin (usual)
Image size: 30 x 19 1/4 inches
Reference: Haku Maki No. 942
Haku Maki (1924-2000)
Born in Asomachi, Ibaraki prefecture, in 1924, Haku Maki 巻 白 served in the WWII before becoming a high school teacher in 1950. Around this time he began to produce his mixed media-prints. While his process began with carving a woodblock, he would the add cement around the carved areas. Once the cement had dried, he would carve over his original lines. This process produced the deep embossing so characteristic of his works. In terms of subject matter, Maki explored abstracted Chinese characters, though also ceramics and persimmons later in life. After 1960, he began to add spots of color to his compositions. A master of modern Japanese abstract printmaking, Maki's work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the British Museum.
“The artist was born with the name Maejima Tadaaki in 1924 in the small town Asomachi in the Ibaraki Prefecture of Japan. He graduated at Ibaraki Teachers' College and became vice-principal of an elementary school there. In 1945 he was in a special squadron of kamikaze pilots and his life was to be ended. However, with the surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945 his life was spared, and he became a teacher at a high school. He studied printmaking at the Modern Print Research Society with Koshiro Onchi andi, in 1950 he changed his name to Haku Maki. His work has a few characteristic design elements for which he became famous - deep embossing and the use of distorted Chinese characters.
Maki developed his own process of relief printmaking, applying mixed media printing techniques. The artist first carved a conventional woodblock. Then he put cement around the carved areas. When the cement had dried out, Haku Maki carved and chiseled the cement into the shape he wanted to have. Then a wet, double-layered paper was used for the printing. Thus prints made in this technique show strong embossing. Haku Maki's works look nearly three-dimensional. In 1969, Maki designed 21 block prints to accompany the book Festive Wine, ancient poetic songs from the 5th to the 9th century and published by John Weatherhill, Inc. His later works are composed of a broad range of variations on the use of calligraphic shapes.
In later life health problems made it often difficult for him to create his art works and he was assisted by his wife in the printing of the editions. Haku Maki died of cancer in 2000.”
Courtesy Annex Galleries
References:
James A. Michener, The Modern Japanese Print...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Standing Lincoln: The Man, Lincoln Park, Illinois
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Lincoln: The Man, Lincoln Park, Illinois
Watercolor and graphite on paper , c. 1895
Signed in script lower right (see photo)
The scene depicts the Augustus Saint-Gaudens bro...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Basilica of Madeleine, Vezelay
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Basilica of Madeleine, Vezelay
Etching, 1929
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Annotated: "Third State" lower left
Printed on a sheet of old book paper
From: French Church Ser...
Category
1920s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
View of the Ancient Structure built by Tarquinius Superbus called the Bel Lido
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
View of the Ancient Structure built by Tarquinius Superbus called the Bel Lido, and like others built by Marcus Agrippa in the time of Augustus when he ...
Category
1750s Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Abstract Animal)
By Ulfert Wilke
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Abstract Animal)
Collage with watercolor, 1981
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Condition: excellent
Image size: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Frame size: 16 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches
Archival framing with Conservation Clear glass
Provenance: Distinguished Private Midwest Collection
Ulfert Wilke (1907–1987) was an internationally recognized painter, calligrapher and art collector connected to the abstract expressionism movement. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1938. He is best known for his large canvas paintings...
Category
1980s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Watercolor
Calligraphy
By Ulfert Wilke
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Calligraphy
Lithograph, 1969
Edition: 260
Signed in script by the artist (see photo)
Signed with initials and dated by the artist (see photo)
Publication for the Print Club of Cleveland, No. 47 for 1969
Printer: Hollander Workshop, New York, with their chopstamp (see photo)
Ulfert Wilke (1907–1987) was an internationally recognized painter, calligrapher and art collector connected to the abstract expressionism movement. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1938. He is best known for his large canvas paintings...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (West Virginia fam valley and blue hills)
By William C. Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
After creating murals for the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia in 1932, together Grauer and his wife founded and co-directed the successful Old White Art Colony, School and Gallery, which they continued to frequent during the summer months in the 1930s and 1940s. Grauer’s involvement in West Virginia also included his West Virginia murals for the West Virginia exhibitions at the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago and the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City.
William C. Grauer (1895-1985)
William C. Grauer (1895-1985) was born in Philadelphia to German immigrant parents. After attending the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, Grauer received a four year scholarship from the City of Philadelphia to pursue post graduate work. It was during this time that Grauer began working as a designer at the Decorative Stained Glass Co. in Philadelphia.
Following his World War I service in France, Grauer moved to Akron, Ohio where he opened a studio in 1919 with his future brother-in-law, the architect George Evans Mitchell. Soon, the Rorimer-Brooks design company, the developer Van Swerngen brothers, as well as the Sterling Welch and Halle Bros. department stores realized the extent of Grauer's talent and eagerly employed him. Grauer’s work during this time included architectural renderings for Shaker Square, Moreland Courts, and other many other projects commissioned by Cleveland architects. Grauer also remained true to his roots as a master designer of stained glass windows. With his work in such high demand, Grauer received a commission in 1921 to paint murals for the French Grill Room of the Kansas City Club...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Second Wave, Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Clifts Wilderness, AR
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Second Wave, Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Clifts Wilderness, Arizona
Photograph on Kodak Professional Paper, c. 1980's
Unsigned
Condition: Excellent
Mi...
Category
1980s Naturalistic Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Summer in Venice
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Summer in Venice
Lithograph printed in colors from five stones on Italian "Pascia" paper, 1966
Signed and dated lower left in pencil (see photo)
The Print Club of Cleveland Publication No. 43 for 1965
Printed by Emiliano Sorini, New York
Condition: Mint
Image size: 13 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches
Sheet dimensions: 18 1/8 x 13 7/8 inches
Original PCC label included (see photo)
Verso: Print Club of Cleveland publsihers stamp,
Lugt 2049b
Adja Yunkers
(1900-1983)
A major twentieth century abstract painter and printmaker, Adja Yunkers studied art in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris and London. His first solo exhibition took place in Hamburg in 1921. For a period of fourteen years, Yunkers lived and worked in Paris. At the outbreak of World War II (1939), he moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he edited and published the arts magazines, ARS and Creation.
Adja Yunkers settled permanently in the United States in 1947. During the following years important exhibitions of his woodcuts, lithographs and paintings were held at the Smithsonian Institute, the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The prints of Adja Yunkers are today included in the following collections: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Hamburg Kunsthalle, the Stockholm National Gallery, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Corcoran Museum, Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Before 1960, the majority of Yunkers's graphic art was in the medium of the color woodcut. During the 1950's decade, he established himself at the forefront of American woodcut...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Echo in Grey
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Echo in Grey
Mixed media intaglio with embossing, c. 1980's
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photo)
Edition: 25 (24/25)
Condition: Soft handling issues in top and bottom margin.
Do...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Mixed Media
Light Struck
By Sandro Chia
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Light Struck
Etching & Drypoint, 1984
Signed, dated and numbered in red pencil (see photos0
The artist's chop stamp (CS) lower right corner
Edition: 25 (18/25), 5 artist's proofs, B....
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Passage du Mont Saint-Bernard
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Theodore Gericault (1791-1824)
Passage du Mont Saint-Bernard
Lithograph, 1822
Signed and titled in the stone
As published in Arnault "Vie politique et militair...
Category
1820s Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Calm Sea
By Ernest Haskell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Calm Sea
Oil on mahogany panel, 8 7/16 x 6 1/2 inches
Signed lower left (see photo)
This work was inspired by Haskell's frined, teacher and mentor, James ...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Bloques (Road Block)
By Georges Meunier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bloques (Road Block)
Color lithograph, 1905
Signed and numbered in pencil lower right; signed and dated in the stone lower right (see photo)
Edition: 100, first edition (33/100)
Published by Edmund Sagot, Paris
Printed by Atelier Chaix, Paris
Deluxe edition with artist's signature and penciled edition, as well as Sagot blindstamp
There is an unlimited edition with title and publisher, printer text below the image. (state ii/II)
Condition: Excellent, never matted or framed
Image size: 13 x 19 5/8 inches
Sheet size: 18 x 24 3/4 inches
Provenance: Edmund Sagot (1857-1917) publisher
Sagot Heirs
Georges Meunier (1869-1934)
Meunier was born in Saint-Cloud, France in 1869. He moved to Paris as a young man and studied at the National School of Fine Arts; there, he was a student of artist Joseph-Robert Fleury. Following this training, Meunier attended The School for the Decorative Arts where he was trained in both classical and modern design, these skills would later influence his poster graphics. Subsequent to his education, Meunier's posters were exhibited in salons throughout Paris, giving his work notoriety. George Meunier was a prolific artist at the turn-of-the-century influenced greatly by Cheret, the founder of the advertising poster movement. Meunier succeeded Cheret at the Chaix printing house as principal artist and director. He worked as a poster artist for only a short time, making a career change to a book illustrator, which he pursued until the end of his life.
Regarding the publisher Edmund Sagot (1857-1917)
Edmond-Honoré Sagot , born in 1857 and died on April 6 , 1917, is a bookseller , art dealer , publisher of prints and original posters . In 1881 he founded the house “Ed. Sagot” in Paris. This establishment still exists under the name “ Sagot - Le Garrec ” and is one of the oldest art galleries still in operation.
Edmond Sagot is the first contemporary art dealer...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miniatures with Text from the "Legend of Phra Malai"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Artist, Thailand, 19th century
Miniatures with Text from the "Legend of Phra Malai"
Double folio; ink, color and gold leaf, c. 1900
Unsigned
Script: Khmer (Cambodian) These texts are written in Khom script, a variant of Khmer script often used in Central Thai religious manuscripts.
Paired devas (lesser gods) on throne-like plinths addorse Khmer (Cambodian) script containing tales of Phra Malai, a Sri Lankan arhat or Buddhist saint known for his travels to hell. There, the compassionate monk gave teachings and comfort to sufferers. Phra Malai stories taught the karmic effects of human actions to the faithful as well as conveying Maitreya's message of hope for attaining nirvana.
Though known in neighboring countries, the stories of Phra Malai achieved their greatest popularity and influence in Siam (present day Thailand)
Condition: Very good
Sight window) size: 11-1/8 x 27 inches
Frame size: 19-5/8 x 34-7/8 x 3/4 inches
The legend of Phra Malai, a Buddhist monk of the Theravada tradition said to have attained supernatural powers through his accumulated merit and meditation, is the main text in this 19th-century Thai samut khoi (folding book) held in the Thai, Lao, and Cambodian Collections of the British Library. Phra Malai figures prominently in Thai art...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pigment
Two Miniatures and text from the "Legend of Phra Malai"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Artist, Thailand, 19th century
Two Miniatures and text from the "Legend of Phra Malai"
Ink and color on paper, c, 1900
Unsigned as usual
Script: Aksar Chrieng or Khmer These texts are written in Khom script, a variant of Khmer script often used in Central Thai religious manuscripts.
Phra Malai was a Budhist monk whose meditations permitted him to travel to heaven and hell.
Condition: Good, with minor staining to text
Sight (window) size: 11-1/8 x 27 inches
Frame size: 19-3/4 x 35 x 3/4 inches
Framed in solid cherry wood with archival, acid free materials
The legend of Phra Malai, a Buddhist monk of the Theravada tradition said to have attained supernatural powers through his accumulated merit and meditation, is the main text in this 19th-century Thai samut khoi (folding book) held in the Thai, Lao, and Cambodian Collections of the British Library. Phra Malai figures prominently in Thai art...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pigment
Le Groupe
By Alexander Archipenko
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Groupe
Lithograph, 1963
Signed and numbered in pencil, lower right
Edition: 75 (68/75) see photo
Publisher: Erker Presse, St. Gallen blindstamp lower left. see photo
From the suit...
Category
1960s Cubist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Moto-Flirt
By Georges Meunier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Moto-Flirt
Color lithograph, c. 1902
Signed in the stone lower right (see photo)
Published by Edmund Sagot (1857-1917), Paris
Printed by Atelier Chaix, Paris
Large edition with title and text
Part of a series of two humorous auto related images depicting Brass Era French
automobiles.
Titled center lower margin (see photo)
Lower left in margin: "Imp. CHAIX, Paris" (see photo)
Lower right in margin: "Ed. Sagot, Editeur: (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Never matted or framed
Colors fresh and unfaded
Image size: 19 5/8 x 13 inches
Sheet size: 27 x 18 1/4 inches
Provenance: Edmund Sagot (1857-1917), publisher
Sagot Heirs
Georges Meunier (1869-1934)
Meunier was born in Saint-Cloud, France in 1869. He moved to Paris as a young man and studied at the National School of Fine Arts; there, he was a student of artist Joseph-Robert Fleury. Following this training, Meunier attended The School for the Decorative Arts where he was trained in both classical and modern design, these skills would later influence his poster graphics. Subsequent to his education, Meunier's posters were exhibited in salons throughout Paris, giving his work notoriety. George Meunier was a prolific artist at the turn-of-the-century influenced greatly by Cheret, the founder of the advertising poster movement. Meunier succeeded Cheret at the Chaix printing house as principal artist and director. He worked as a poster artist for only a short time, making a career change to a book illustrator, which he pursued until the end of his life.
Publisher: Edmund Sagot Courtesy of French Wikipedia
Edmond-Honoré Sagot , born in 1857 and died on April 6 , 1917, is a bookseller , art dealer , publisher of prints and original posters . In 1881 he founded the house “Ed. Sagot” in Paris. This establishment still exists under the name “ Sagot - Le Garrec ” and is one of the oldest art galleries still in operation.
Edmond Sagot is the first contemporary art dealer...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Moto-Fuite
By Georges Meunier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Moto-Fuite
Color lithograph, c. 1902
Signed in the stone lower right (see photo)
Published by Edmund Sagot (1857-1917), Paris
Printed by Atelier Chaix, Paris
Large edition with title and text
Part of a series of two humorous auto related images depicting Brass Era French automibiles
Provenance: Edmund Sagot (1857-1917), publisher
Sagot Heirs
Condition: Excellent
Never matted or framed
Colors fresh and unfaded
Image eize: 19 5/8 x 13 inches
Sheet size: 27 x 18 1/4 inches
Georges Meunier (1869-1934)
Meunier was born in Saint-Cloud, France in 1869. He moved to Paris as a young man and studied at the National School of Fine Arts; there, he was a student of artist Joseph-Robert Fleury. Following this training, Meunier attended The School for the Decorative Arts where he was trained in both classical and modern design, these skills would later influence his poster graphics. Subsequent to his education, Meunier's posters were exhibited in salons throughout Paris, giving his work notoriety. George Meunier was a prolific artist at the turn-of-the-century influenced greatly by Cheret, the founder of the advertising poster movement. Meunier succeeded Cheret at the Chaix printing house as principal artist and director. He worked as a poster artist for only a short time, making a career change to a book illustrator, which he pursued until the end of his life.
Publisher: Edmund Sagot Courtesy of French Wikipedia
Edmond-Honoré Sagot , born in 1857 and died on April 6 , 1917, is a bookseller , art dealer , publisher of prints and original posters . In 1881 he founded the house “Ed. Sagot” in Paris. This establishment still exists under the name “ Sagot - Le Garrec ” and is one of the oldest art galleries still in operation.
Edmond Sagot is the first contemporary art dealer...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Three Graces
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three Graces
Pentel marker on paper, 1965
Signed and dated by the artist lower left (see photo)
Part of a series of 100 drawings, this number 97 (annotated lower right corner)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet/Image size: 20 x 15 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Martha A. French Trust
Ray H. French: The Evolution of an Artistic Innovator
Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H. French was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on May 16, 1919. Terre Haute was a cultural wasteland before the opening of the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in 1942. Thus, with a father as a coal miner and carpenter, art remained a luxury for Ray. Nevertheless, local art teachers Mabel Mikel Williams and Nola E. Williams helped to foster his creativity and unshakable drive to create things of beauty.
After high school, Ray attended the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. His studies there were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, during which he developed surveillance photographs for the Army Air Force. After the war, Ray transferred to the University of Iowa on the G.I. Bill, where he received both his BFA and MFA degrees. The University of Iowa during the 1940s was a cultural mecca with many major art historians and artists. While in Iowa, Ray played an important role in this culture by becoming a founding member of the Iowa Print...
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1960s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
red ballboy or Studies for "Tennis Tournament"
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
red ballboy or Studies for "Tennis Tournament"
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist, 1925
Emma S. Bellows (widow(
Emma S. Bellows Trust
Allison Galleries, New York Representing the Bellows Trust. Stock HVA 34
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Thomas French Fine Art
Ronald Slotter, Columbus, Ohio
Columbus College of Art and Design, de-accessed 2010
Annotated by the artist:"red ballboy"
Study sketches...
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1910s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Seated Nude
By August F. Biehle
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Nude
Match Stick ink drawing, c. 1925
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right: A. Biehle
Created at the Kakoon Arts Club, Cleveland. Influenced by friend and fellow artist...
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1920s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Irish Sea
By Edward Dobrotka
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irish Sea
Watercolor, 1947
Signed and dated by the artist lower right
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 x 18 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
...
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1940s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nightfear
By Karel Appel
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nightfear
Color lithograph, 1958
From: Rhapsodie de ma nuit, (seven plates)
Signed, dated and numbered in pecnil lower left (see photos)
Edition: E.A. edition of 25, (there were also 75 impressions numbered)
Condition: Excellent, fresh colors and condition
Thin spots on reverse from previous hinges
Provenance: Martha Jackson Gallery
David Anderson Gallery
David Anderson granndchildren Trust
References And Exhibitions:
This portfolio is considered to be one of the greatest-and rarest-illustrated book of the Cobra movement. A copy of this livre d’artiste is in the collection of MOMA. This lithograph is one of four works in color in the portfolio. The book was authored by Emmanuel Looten and published by S.I. (Paris).
VERY IMPORTANT EARLY COBRA WORK OF ART
Karel Appel
B. 1921, AMSTERDAM; D. 2006, ZURICH
Karel Appel was born on April 25, 1921, in Amsterdam. From 1940 to 1943 he studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. In 1946 his first solo show was held at Het Beerenhuis, Groningen, Netherlands, and he participated in Jonge Schilders (Young painters) at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. About this time, Appel was influenced first by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, then by Jean Dubuffet. He was a member of the Nederlandse Experimentele Groep (Dutch Experimental Group, 1948) and established the Cobra group (1948–51) with Constant (Constant Nieuwenhuys), Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis Beverloo), and other painters from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam. The style distinguished itself through bold, expressive compositions inspired by folk and children's art, as well as by the work of Paul Klee and Joan Miró. In 1949 Appel completed a fresco for the cafeteria of the city hall in Amsterdam, which created such controversy that it was covered for ten years.
In 1950 the artist moved to Paris; there the writer Hugo Claus...
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1950s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Dead Tiger
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Dead Tiger
Ink and watercolor on paper, 1955
Signed and dated in ink (see photo)
Condition: Aging to the entire sheet (it's 78 years old)
Image/Sheet size: 18 1/4 x 23 inches
One of a series of watercolors Dehner created in the Hudson Valley and gave to a patron. They are variations of the same composition with differing colors.
Titled by the artist in pencil verso.
Provenance: Gift of the artist
Private Collection, Hudson Valley, NY
Dorothy Dehner (1901-1994)
Painter, sculptor, art writer, and poet, Dorothy Dehner explored abstraction, cubism, realism and surrealism during her artistic journey. Early in her career she was known for painting and for large-cast metal sculptures, but in the 1950s and 1960s, turned increasingly to wood cut into hard-edge geometric shapes.
From 1950, she lived primarily in New York City. Dorothy Dehner was born in 1901 in Cleveland, Ohio, but, as a teenager in 1916, moved to Pasadena, California when her parents died. Her artistic interests were initially in acting. She majored in drama at UCLA for the school year of 1922-1923, then moved to New York City to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Art.
After travel to Europe in France, Italy and Switzerland in 1925, where she saw Cubist and Fauve paintings as well as the great art of the ages, Dehner entered the Art Students League to study sculpture, but switched to painting because she felt the former was bound in academic formula.
She studied drawing with Kimon Nicolaides...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Animal Kingdom (Magnificent Jungle Cats)
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Animal Kingdom (Magnificent Jungle Cats)
Etching, 1953-1955
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Annotated: "First Proof" (see photo)
Estate stamp verso (see photo)...
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1950s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Chorus Line
By Sam Spanier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chorus Line
Oil pastel on paper, c. 1960's
Signed (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Estate of the artist (Estate No. 745)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 5 3/4 x 4 inches
Sam Spanier (1925-2008)
Born in Brooklyn New York, Sam Spanier studied painting with Hans Hofmann (1949–50) and also at the Taos Valley Art School (1951). His formative years as a working artist were spent in Paris (1951–52), where he also became involved with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff, through his disciple, Mme. Jeanne de Salzmann.
By 1953, Spanier’s work had already begun to meet with critical acclaim. That year, he had his first solo gallery show, and was selected by Milton Avery and Hans Hofmann to receive the prestigious Lorian Fund Award. His second solo exhibition, in 1955, was curated by renowned museum director, Gordon Washburn. Spanier’s early work was reviewed by Dore Ashton, Donald Judd, Fairfield Porter, Stuart Preston, and Irving Sandler, among other significant critics of the period.
Spanier’s spiritual path increasingly became the central focus of both his life and his art. In 1960, he was introduced to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, which led to visits to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, in 1962 and 1964, during which he was inspired to leave New York City and found Matagiri (in 1968)—a spiritual center in Woodstock, New York—with his lifelong partner, Eric Hughes. The work he embarked upon there bifurcates his life as an artist, separating him from New York’s art world, and radically altering the trajectory of his career. From that point forward, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to consider his artistic endeavor apart from the life of dedication he had undertaken, and to which he remained committed.
As early as 1954, Dore Ashton had recognized in Sam Spanier a “haptic visionary;” in 1960, Irving Sandler wrote that the people in Spanier’s paintings “seem to have witnessed some transfiguring event.” In his later paintings—usually worked in oil pastel on panel or paper—made during intermittent creative periods, from the mid-1970s to the final years of his life, the artist’s inner life remains always apparent in his subject matter; and from the portraits and abstract Buddha-like figures and heads, to the fantasy landscapes, the paintings are redolent with a rich intensity of color and light that can only be described as inspired.
Sam Spanier’s works are in the collections of the Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. He received the Woodstock Artists Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Urban Gallery, New York (1954, 1955, 1956); Wittenborn Gallery, New York (1958); Gallery Mayer, New York (1958, 1959, 1960); Unison Gallery, New Paltz (1986, 1995, 2009); Limner Gallery, New York (1988); Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, New York (1999).
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Salon des Comparaisons, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France (1952); October Exhibition of Oil Paintings, New York City Center Gallery, New York (1954); Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Centre Culturel de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France (1954); Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1955); Les Plus Mauvais Tableaux, Galerie Prismes, Paris (1955);
Première Exposition Internationale de l’Art Plastique Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (1956); Recent Paintings USA: The Figure, The Museum of Modern Art (1960); Winter’s Work, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1985); Juried Group Show, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1986); Woodstock Artists, Self-Portraits, Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, Woodstock, New York (1988); Portraits, Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, New York (2003); The World We Live In, Upstate Art, Phoenicia, New York (2003); Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, New York (2004).
Selected Writings on the Artist:
Dore Ashton, “Sam Spanier,” Art Digest (May 1, 1954) and “Sam Spanier,” The New York Times (March 16, 1960); Cassia Berman, “Sam Spanier: A Divine Calling,” Woodstock Times (February 7, 2008); Lawrence Campbell, “Sam Spanier: Exhibition of Paintings at Urban Gallery,” Art News (April 1, 1954); Sam Feinstein, “Sam Spanier: Exhibition of Paintings at Urban Gallery,” Art Digest (March 1, 1955); Pat Horner, “Big Heart, Timeless Art —Sam Spanier Retrospective at Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock Times (July 1, 1999); Donald Judd, “In the Galleries: Sam Spanier,” Arts Magazine (April 1960); Liam Nelson, “Human Force...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
Glowing Tree
By Gabor F. Peterdi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Glowing Tree
Etching, engraving & lift ground, 1958
Signed, titled and annotated in pencil (see photos)
Edition: Artist Proof (there was a published addition of 30 with five stencil ...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Muriel (Mad Meg)
By Herbert L. Fink
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Muriel (Mad Meg)
Etching, 1973, printed 1976
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil (see photos)
The image was first created as an illustration for John Gardner's "The King's Indian" in 1973.
An illustration for the book "The King's Indian", a collection of short stories by author John Gardner (1933-1982), published in 1973. "Mad Meg" was most likely inspired by a figure from Flemish folklore, Dulle Griet, who led an army of women to pillage Hell. "Mad Meg" was the subject of a painting by Pieter Bruegal the Elder, done in 1564.
References: Carter 174, page 108
Illustration for "The King's Indian", pages 174-17
Condition: excellent
Image/Plate size: 13 3/8 x 9 13/16 inches
Sheet size: 15 7/16 x 12 1/4 inches
Herbert Lewis Fink, painter, printmaker, sculptor, and educator, born was in Providence, Rhode Island on September 8, 1921. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1941, he received is B.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1949, his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1956, and he also studied for a year at the Art Students League and with John Frazier...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone
Color photograph, n.d.
Signed, titled and numbered in ink on reverse (see photo)
Edition: 50 (4/50)
Morning Glory Pool is a hot spring in the Yellowstone Upper Geyser Basin of the United States.
Long a favored destination for park visitors, Morning Glory Pool was named in the 1880s for its remarkable likeness to its namesake flower.
The distinct color of the pool is due to bacteria which inhabit the water. On a few rare occasions the Morning Glory Pool has erupted as a geyser, usually following an earthquake or other nearby seismic activity.
Westgate was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 1976 and in 1990, obtained Mastership of the International Federation of Photographic Art (MFIAP) - at the time only the second British photographer to earn this distinction. More recently, he was awarded Mastership of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (MPAGB). He is also a Member of the London Salon...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
My Bicentennial Print
By Herbert L. Fink
Located in Fairlawn, OH
My Bicentennial Print
Photo etching, 1976
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled and numbered in pencil loer left (see photo)
Edition: 21 (16/21) There also appears to be an additon of 100.
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 14 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 22 1/8 X 30 inches
The artist's commentrary on the Bicentennial Year of 1976
In 1965 Fink was awarded a Gugenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Fine Arts.
Herbert Lewis Fink, painter, printmaker, sculptor, and educator, born was in Providence, Rhode Island on September 8, 1921. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1941, he received is B.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1949, his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1956, and he also studied for a year at the Art Students League and with John Frazier...
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1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Saint-Tropez-Le Port
By Paul Signac
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Saint-Tropez-Le Port
Color lithograph, 1897-1898
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Numbered in pencil lower right: No. 68 (see photo)
From: Album des Peintres-Gravures, 1898
Published by Ambrose Vollard, Paris
Printer: Auguste Clot, Paris
Edition: 100
Numbered: No. 68
Reference: Una Johnson, Vollard, No. 188, reproduced pale 35
Kornfeld & Wick, No. 19 b/b
Condition: Very fresh colors
One tiny spot in the upper margin above the image (see photo)
Image size: 17 1/8 x 13 inches
Frame size: 32 3/4 x 27 1/4 inches
Archival framing by Galerie Maximilian, Aspen, CO
Museum glass
22K Gold leaf hand carved frame...
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1890s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Western Hills Viaduct Under Construction
By Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Western Hills Viaduct Under Construction
Drypoint, June 1931
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Initialed and dated in the plate lower right above pencil signature (see photo)
From: Cincinnati Series, 1930-1931, 8 plates, this No. 5
Small edition, not specified
From Greenfield Hill
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 8 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches
Sheet size: 11 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches
Louis Conrad Rosenberg
1890-1983
An American architectural etcher...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Cincinnati Union Terminal, Perspective From East
By Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cincinnati Union Terminal, Perspective From East
Drypoint, 1930-1931
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Initialed and dated the the plate above the pencil signature
From: Cincinnati Series (8 Plates), this No. 2
Edition: 155, completed May 4, 1931
Delivered to Fellheimer & Wagner, 1931
Louis Conrad Rosenberg
1890-1983
An American architectural etcher and engraver of the 1920's and 1930's era, Louis Conrad Rosenberg first studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Portrait of Young Woman (Self Portrait of the Artist?)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of Young Woman (Self Portrait of the Artist?)
Oil on canvas, pre 1963
Signed lower left edge (see photo) also see photo of signature from another work by the artist
Newman Galleries label verso (a leading art gallery in Philadelphia, founded 1860
Condition: Excellent
Canvas size: 30 1/16 x 18 1/8 inches
Frame size: 32 x 20 inches
Exhibited: Newman Gallery, Philadelphia
Note: Tatiana was a talented portrait painter and baroness from a wealthy and aristocratic Italian family, who married the American artist Cy Towmbly in 1959.
Tatiana married Cy Twombly in April of 1959. They had a son, Cyrus Alessandro, made famous in his painting The Age of Alexander, 1959-1960. Tatiana's brother, Baron Giorgio Francehtti, purchased the famous Venetian landmark, Ca' D' Oro, located on the Grand Canal. He formed a major collection of art. The Baron was a backer of the noted Roma art...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
New York #121
By Jed Fielding
Located in Fairlawn, OH
New York #121
Silver Gelatin print, 1980
Signed in ink below the image (see photo)
Annotated verso in pencil: "New York #121 ©, New York, 1980" (see photo)
Provenance: Reader's Digest Association Collection #23214 (label)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 12-5/8 x 18-3/4" (32 x 47.6 cm.)
Mat size: 19-1/2 x 25-1/2"
Photographs by Fielding are in the collections of:
Museum of Modern Art
Brooklyn Museum
International Center of Photography (New York)
Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)
Center for Creative Photography (Tucson)
Fielding was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied with photographers Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan; he received his BFA in 1975. He received his MFA in 1980 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied with photographer Kenneth Josephson.
He has photographed in such countries as Italy, Peru, Spain, Greece, Egypt, Mexico, Portugal and the United States. His work has particularly concentrated on the Italian cities of Rome and Naples, as well as Mexico City.
Of Fielding's City of Secrets, critic Vince Aletti wrote:
[Naples'] citizens, from wiseass kids in diapers to weathered old men, loom into the frame like characters out of Fellini, bursting with antic, earthy energy. Fielding confronts and embraces his subjects, building up a portrait of a place that's as visceral as it is cinematic--a true theatre of the streets.
Photography curator and collector W. M. Hunt wrote about the book:
Jed Fielding is from the old school: a photographer with vision and technique. I've been to Naples twice in my lifetime; once by ship, and, even more lastingly, through Jed Fielding's astonishing images.
At the time of a 2009 New York City exhibition of Fielding's photographs from Look at me, a New Yorker review[who?] said:
Fielding's photographs of the blind children he met at schools in Mexico City are not in the tradition of photojournalistic muckraking. Like his terrific earlier series from the streets of Naples, these images are vivacious, audacious, and in your face. His subjects are not pitiable victims; they're rambunctious, apparently happy kids at play, responding to Fielding's attention with curiosity and delight. They may be cut off from the visual world, but they relish physical contact, both with one another and with the patient photographer. The best of the work was made at close range, where that connection was most tangible, and young faces fill the frames with fragile, vivid life.
He has had solo exhibitions at venues including the Andrea Meislin Gallery...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Keresan Dancers
By Gene Kloss
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Keresan Dancers
Etching & drypoint, 1962
Signed lower right (see photo)
Inscribed lower left: "Artist's Proof Keresan Dancers"
Depicts Keresan speaking peoples at Sam Felipe Pue...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Skid-Row Self Portrait
By Robert Indiana
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Skid Row-Self Portrait
Color lithograph, 1973
Unsigned (as usual)
From: XXe Siecle, Volume XXVV, December 1973
Published by G. di San Lazzaro for A. Maeght, P...
Category
1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Farm Horse Drunking
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Farm Horse Drunking
Charcoal and pastel on artist's board, c. 1920
Signed lower right in pencil (see photo)
Titled in ink lower center, as are all the illustration for At the Farm (s...
Category
1920s English School Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Early Speed
By Clarence W. Anderson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Early Speed
Lithograph, 1953
Signed lower right
Edition 250
Published by Associated American Artists
Illustrated: AAA catalog 1953-03
Reference: AAA Index 1187
Condition: The sheet i...
Category
1950s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude on a Stool
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude on a Stool
Ink on paper, c. 1970-80
Signed in red ink lower right
Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, page 232 A copy of this hardbound books accompanies purchase
Condition: Excell...
Category
1970s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Woods
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woods
Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1985
Signed, titled & numbered in pencil
Edition: 15 (12/15)
Printed on BFK RIVES paper
Provenance: GE Art Program, (label included), se...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Undertow Variant)
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Undertow Variant)
Etching and aquatint printed in colors
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 30 (9/30) see photo
Condition: Excellent
Image: 7 7/8 x 7"
She...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Birthday 3-7-65
By Jim Dine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Birthday 3-7-65
Lithograph, 1965
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 23
Published by ULAE, their chop stamp lower left (see photo)
Printed by Ben Berns...
Category
1960s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Seated Couple
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Inspiration (Seated Couple)
Graphite on paper, c. 1967
Signed twice in pencil by the artist on recto (see photos)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 x 16 inches
Note: Although not t...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Pastel on paper, 1922
Initialed and dated lower right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
The Orange Chicken...
Category
1920s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Pastel on paper, 1922
Initialed lower right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014.
Condition: excellent
Image size: 11 8 7/8 inches
Frame size: 18 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
The Orange Chicken...
Category
1920s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Provincetown (Sunbathing)
By Peter Grippe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Provincetown (Sunbathing)
Sepia ink on tan paper, 1966
Signed in ink lower center (see photo)
Exhibited: Art from Lexington Homes, Lincoln Massachusetts...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Iron Point
By Mel Bochner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Iron Point
Aquatint, 1985
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Annotated: AP 4/6 lower center (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Annotated: AP 4/6 (There was also a regula...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Matsu (Pine)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Matsu (Pine)
Woodcut, 1968
Signed: "'Matsu' Naoko Matsubara" in pencil by the artist (see photo)
Annotated in pencil "Ed 25" (see photo)
Edition: 25
Condition: 7" long waterstain at bottom edge of sheet starting ca. 6" in from lower left corner. Does not effect image. Light foxing throughout, especially in margins. Matting covers the foxing up.
Image size: 22 x 43 1/4 inches
Naoko Matsubara (1937 - )
Matsubara Naoko (松原直子) was born in 1937 on Shikoku Island into an old Shinto family, and grew up in Kyoto, where her father was a senior priest. She was educated at the Kyoto Academy of Fine Art (BFA, 1960); and was a Fulbright Scholar at what is now Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (MFA, 1962). She was also a Special Invited Student at the Royal College of Art in London (1962).
After travelling extensively in Europe and Asia, Naoko Matsubara returned to Japan for two years, before being lured back to the United States. There she worked as personal assistant to the late Prof. Fritz Eichenberg, and also taught at the Pratt Institute of Graphic Art in New York, as well as at the University of Rhode Island. Subsequently she lived in Cambridge, Mass.
In 1972 Naoko Matsubara moved to Canada, and now lives in Oakville, Ontario. She has continued to be extremely active as an artist: locally, nationally and internationally. Since 1960 she has had some 75 solo exhibitions, in the USA, Canada, Japan, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Mexico. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions.
Public collections owning work by Naoko Matsubara include: Albertina, Vienna; Art Institute of Chicago; British Museum; Carnegie Institute; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; Detroit Institute of Art; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Haifa Museum, Israel; Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art; Royal Ontario Museum; The White House, Washington DC; Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art; Yale University Art Gallery.
Naoko Matsubara has published some 20 books and portfolios of her work, including most recently Tibetan Sky (Calgary: Bayeux Arts Publishers, 1997; Preface by the Dalai Lama); Tokonoma (Bath, England: Old School Press, 1999); and Konjaku monogatari (Tokyo: ALIS, 2002). Her work also includes a large mural and donor pillar for the new YMCA building in Oakville, Ontario (2003); mixed-media screens; and paintings. In 2005, the Royal Ontario Museum commissioned two large works from Naoko Matsubara for the Museum's Bloor Street window case. The artist generously donated a third work, Emerald Summer (2006). The three works (each 195 cm. high by 95 cm. wide) will be rotated at regular intervals into the outside window. This is the first commissioned artwork to be displayed on the Museum’s Bloor Street Plaza.
Recent major exhibitions have been in Tokyo, Kyoto, Indiana, and Toronto (Royal Ontario Museum). Further exhibitions are currently being planned in Seattle and Tokyo; new books in process include In Praise of Hands. She also continues to travel widely; is frequently invited to speak about her work; and also publishes essays, in both English and Japanese.
Naoko Matsubara’s work has been the subject of countless articles and reviews; documentary films (including two from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation); and several book-length publications: notably Mokuhan: The Woodcuts of Munakata and Matsubara (text by Joan Stanley-Baker; Victoria, BC: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1976); Naoko Matsubara: Development of Artistic Style and Technique (text by Barbara Woodworth; MFA thesis, Harvard University, 1985);.and Tree Spirit...
Category
1960s Abstract Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Xylon 21 Naoko Matsubara USA
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Xylon 21 Naoko Matsubara USA
Woodcuts, two which are printed in color, 1970
2 of the 5 woodcuts signed in pencil (see photos)
Five original woodcuts, two of which are signed in pencil
With introduction entitled Honest Pinetree by Frizt Eichenberg
The images are:
The Quaker’s Meeting, double page woodcut cover on grey/green paper, signed in pencil, with usual centerfold
Publisher: Sekton Schweiz de Xylon, Zurich
Date: August 1970
Edition: 500
Sylvan Snow, double page woodcut (with usual centerfold), signed in pencil, dedicated and dated, depicting a forest
Verso: Dragon, double page woodcut, with usual centerfold, depicting a dragon
Indian Dancer, double page woodcut in black and green (with usual centerfold), depicting dancer
Verso: Chinese Dancer. woodcut in red, depicting a dancer
Condition: Very good, usual handling issues for paper portfolio
Centerfolds as issued
Signle filio: 19 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches
Double folio: 19 3/8 x 27 inches
Publisher: Sekton Schweiz de Xylon, Zurich
Date: August 1970
Edition: 500
Provenance: Amity Art Foundation, Inc.
A rare dedicated example with a dedication in pencil “For Frank” and dated 1970
Note: Matsubara graduated from the Kyoto University of Applied Arts in 1960. She then pursued an MFA in the School of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on a Fulbright Travel Grant, and since then has traveled extensively and taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn—a rare distinction for a Japanese woman. She also studied one year at the Royal College of Art, London. Currently she lives and works in Oakville, Canada.
Naoko Matsubara’s style is influenced by her teacher Munakata Shiko (1903–1975), who worked in the mingei (folk art) tradition. Her works are part of the collections of many museums around the world such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Albertina in Vienna, the British Museum in London, the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress in Washington, the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts, the Haifa Museum in Israel and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. She was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
(Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Naoko Matsubara (1937 - )
Matsubara Naoko (松原直子) was born in 1937 on Shikoku Island into an old Shinto family, and grew up in Kyoto, where her father was a senior priest. She was educated at the Kyoto Academy of Fine Art (BFA, 1960); and was a Fulbright Scholar at what is now Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (MFA, 1962). She was also a Special Invited Student at the Royal College of Art in London (1962).
After travelling extensively in Europe and Asia, Naoko Matsubara returned to Japan for two years, before being lured back to the United States. There she worked as personal assistant to the late Prof. Fritz Eichenberg, and also taught at the Pratt Institute of Graphic Art in New York, as well as at the University of Rhode Island. Subsequently she lived in Cambridge, Mass.
In 1972 Naoko Matsubara moved to Canada, and now lives in Oakville, Ontario. She has continued to be extremely active as an artist: locally, nationally and internationally. Since 1960 she has had some 75 solo exhibitions, in the USA, Canada, Japan, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Mexico. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions.
Public collections owning work by Naoko Matsubara include: Albertina, Vienna; Art Institute of Chicago; British Museum; Carnegie Institute; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; Detroit Institute of Art; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Haifa Museum, Israel; Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art; Royal Ontario Museum; The White House, Washington DC; Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art; Yale University Art Gallery.
Naoko Matsubara has published some 20 books and portfolios of her work, including most recently Tibetan Sky (Calgary: Bayeux Arts Publishers, 1997; Preface by the Dalai Lama); Tokonoma (Bath, England: Old School Press, 1999); and Konjaku monogatari (Tokyo: ALIS, 2002). Her work also includes a large mural and donor pillar for the new YMCA building in Oakville, Ontario (2003); mixed-media screens; and paintings. In 2005, the Royal Ontario Museum commissioned two large works from Naoko Matsubara for the Museum's Bloor Street window case. The artist generously donated a third work, Emerald Summer (2006). The three works (each 195 cm. high by 95 cm. wide) will be rotated at regular intervals into the outside window. This is the first commissioned artwork to be displayed on the Museum’s Bloor Street Plaza.
Recent major exhibitions have been in Tokyo, Kyoto, Indiana, and Toronto (Royal Ontario Museum). Further exhibitions are currently being planned in Seattle and Tokyo; new books in process include In Praise of Hands. She also continues to travel widely; is frequently invited to speak about her work; and also publishes essays, in both English and Japanese.
Naoko Matsubara’s work has been the subject of countless articles and reviews; documentary films (including two from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation); and several book-length publications: notably Mokuhan: The Woodcuts of Munakata and Matsubara (text by Joan Stanley-Baker; Victoria, BC: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1976); Naoko Matsubara: Development of Artistic Style and Technique (text by Barbara Woodworth; MFA thesis, Harvard University, 1985);.and Tree Spirit...
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