Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Launched in 1987, the International Fine Print Dealers Association has continually set the bar for quality and ethics while promoting prints as original works of art to generations of collectors, curators and art lovers. With over 160 members in 13 countries, the IFPDA is a worldwide community of leading dealers and editions publishers who represent the full spectrum of printmaking. Each year, the IFPDA hosts the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, the only major fair dedicated to fine-art prints.
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Xiao Lu
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph/triptych, Ed. 25.
Hung Liu’s Xiao Lu triptych was inspired by the artist’s encounters with two fallen deer. In November of 2008, Liu was taking a morning walk in the Oakland hills...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
The Chrysler Building
By Laurence Winram
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is # 1 of an edition of 30
Laurence Winram is a Scottish photographer based in Edinburgh. His projects are diverse but the work most personally re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Photographic Paper
Standing Curve
By Herbert Bayer
Located in New York, NY
Herbert Bayer
Standing Curve, 1975
screenprint, edition of 50
32 x 32 in./81.3 x 81.3 cm
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
St. Astruell, England — 1910 watercolor
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever, 'St. Astruell, England', watercolor, 1910. Signed in pencil, lower right. Titled and dated on the original inside mat. A fine spontaneous work, with fresh colors, on cr...
Category
1930s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
UNTITLED
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in Portland, ME
Arnoldi, Charles (American, born 1946). UNTITLED. Etching and aquatint in colors, 1982. Edition of 5, printed at Teaberry Press, San Francisco, with their blindstamps, lower left and...
Category
1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled (Rendez-Vous) — 1920s modernism
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Rendez-Vous), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. From a suite of 10 lithographs published by the artist ...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Holiday Pine Cones
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Holiday wreath adorns the door of a Brooklyn Mansion
Frederick Mershimer (American, b. 1958)
Moody, mysterious, majestic – these are some of the ways to describe the mezzotint...
Category
1990s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
CALMNESS
By Junichiro Sekino
Located in Portland, ME
Junichiro Sekino (Japanese, 1914-1988). CALMNESS. Color woodblock print, 1954. Edition size not known. Signed in pencil and with the artist's chop. 13 x 17 inches (image), on a large...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Dog Circus Print
By Andrée Ruellan
Located in New York, NY
Color stencil print titled "Dog Circus" by Andrée Ruellan (1905-2006). New York, American Artists Group, Inc., circa 1936. Unsigned. Presented in an arc...
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Singer Needle
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's "Singer Needle" is a mezzotint issued in an edition of 100. It was originally designed to illustrate the step by step mezzotint process in the Abrams publication: "The Me...
Category
1980s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
California Salmon.
Located in New York, NY
Kilbourne, S.A.
Game Fishes of the United States.
This plate: California Salmon.
New York, Scribner & Sons, 1878-81.
Original chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Ship Rock
By Norma Bassett Hall
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NORMA BASSETT HALL (1889 - 1957)
SHIP ROCK, c. 1940
Color woodcut signed and numbered in pencil, edition 40 on stiff fibrous paper.
10 x 14 inches, Sheet size 11 1/8 x 15 inches...
Category
1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Bedside View (Sunlight streams through window across body of young woman)
By Brinley Ribando
Located in New Orleans, LA
a sexy young girl lies in bed bathed in sunlight
Category
2010s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Digital Pigment
El Vergponzoso (The Shamefaced One)
By Francisco Goya
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Vergponzoso (The Shamefaced One)
etching & aquatint, 1799
Unsigned (as are all Goya etchings)
From: Los Caprichos, Plate 54
From the First Edition, pri...
Category
1790s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
Robert Ker Porter
By Robert Ker Porter
Located in Storrs, CT
Mezzotint after the painting by Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842). 25 1/4 x 17 (plate). Text: 'Robert Ker Porter pinx.t. W.Say sculp.t. London Published as the Act directs, June 19 1802, by John P. Thompson, Printseller to his Majesty and their Royal Highness's the Duke and Duchess of York...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
'Commuters' — Early 20th-Century Modernism
By George Josimovich
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Josimovich, 'Commuters', linocut, 1922-23, edition 20. Signed, dated '22, titled, and annotated '9/20' in pencil. Initialed in the block 'G.J....
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Linocut
ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES
Located in Portland, ME
Michallet (attributed). ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES. Four Charcoal drawings, each on heavy wove paper, 19th Century. 24 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches (s...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Charcoal
Yellow Journal
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, 1982, on white Arches Cover, mould-made paper, signed and dated an AP aside the edition of 50, published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, NY, sheet: 133.5 x 97.8 ...
Category
1980s Minimalist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Mere
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mere
Etching and soft ground, 1970
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil
Printed in colors by Hector Saunier on BFK Rives paper
Published by Georgetown Graphics, Washington, D...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Man with Outstretched Arms
By Maurice Pasternak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maurice Pasternak has created a portrait of his signature figure with outstretched arms. He moves images around on the paper to create a sense of mystery and drama. This impression ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
Poppy Pochoir from Relais
By Edouard Benedictus
Located in New York, NY
Benedictus, Edouard.
"Relais."
Plate 14.
Paris, Éditions Vincent, Fréal et Cie, 1930.
Original pochoir, printed by J. Saudé.
Unsigned and unnumbered from an edition of presumabl...
Category
1930s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
UNTITLED
By George Hoehn
Located in Portland, ME
Hoehn, George (American, 1935 - ?) UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Gouache on heavy wove paper, 1969. Signed and dated, lower right. Tondo, 3 1/4 inches diameter, (image), 15 x 11 inches (shee...
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Gouache
California Poppies Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor illustration for a series of commercial seed packets. Printed by Stecher-Traung Lithograph Corporation, Rochester, NY, circa 1935. Some staining from tape to edges.
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
29.88 x 22.36 ins (75.9 x 56.8 cms)
Edition of 96
Signature:Signed "R. Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's chop mark lower right
...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Lower East Side Crowd
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lower East Side Crowd
Ink and ink wash on paper, c. 1910
Signed in ink lower center edge (see photo)
Signed with the initials lower right corner (see p...
Category
1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
Moses Breaking the Tablet of the Law (after Parmigianino. 1503-1540)
By Daniel Ramée
Located in Storrs, CT
Moses Breaking the Tablet of the Law. (after Parmigianino. 1503-1540.) Pencil drawing mounted onto paper. 12 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Collector's seal verso: Gustav Grunwald, (Lugt 1155b)...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pencil
The Beatles, George Harrison signing a book in the walled garden
Located in London, GB
Original silver gelatin print on Ilford Multigrade fibre base 255 gsm paper, numbered in black pen to verso from the edition of 35, artist’s name blindstamp lower right, publisher’s ...
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Silver Gelatin
OBSEQUIO á el MAESTRO (‘A gift for the master’)
By Francisco Goya
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCISCO de GOYA y LUCIENTES (1746 -1828)
OBSEQUIO á el MAESTRO (‘A gift for the master’) Plate 47 from the 1st edition of Los Caprichos (Blas, ...
Category
1790s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
UNTITLED
By George Hoehn
Located in Portland, ME
Hoehn, George (American, 1935 - ?) UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Gouache on heavy wove paper, 1969. Signed and dated, lower right. Tondo, 3 1/4 inches diameter, (image), 15 x 11 inches (shee...
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of a Woman
Located in New York, NY
Sadatora, Utagawa (active 1818-1844).
[Portrait of woman].
Japan, ca. 1825.
Original woodblock print.
Category
1820s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Hyde Park, England, 1904
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever 'Hyde Park, London, England, 1904', watercolor, 1904. Signed 'HL' in pencil, lower right. Titled and dated in pencil, in the bottom left margin....
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
The Beatles, Paul McCartney and George Harrison at Marylebone Station
Located in London, GB
Original silver gelatin print on Ilford Multigrade fibre base 255 gsm paper, numbered in black pen to verso from the edition of 35, artist’s name blindstamp lower right, publisher’s ...
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Beatles, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Norman Rossington on a platform
Located in London, GB
Original silver gelatin print on Ilford Multigrade fibre base 255 gsm paper, numbered in black pen to verso from the edition of 35, artist’s name blindstamp lower right, publisher’s ...
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Le Paradis Terrestre' (Paradise on Earth) — 1930s Symbolism
By Edouard Goerg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edouard Goerg, 'Le Paradis Terrestre' (Paradise on Earth), etching, 1931, edition 40. Signed, titled, and numbered '3/40' in pencil. A fine richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream w...
Category
1930s Symbolist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Silhouette of Rembrandt
Located in New York, NY
Silhouette lithograph by an unknown artist, circa 1910. Presented in a cream archival mat with an opening of 4.5"L x 3.25"W.
Category
Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Bengal Monitor and Iguana Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Seba, Albertus.
Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historiam.
Amsterdam, Wetsten, Smith, Jans...
Category
Mid-18th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Laid Paper
T is for The Beatles, from Alphabet Series
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category
1990s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
EARLY GUNNER
By Levon West
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEVON WEST (1900 – 1968)
EARLY GUNNER, c. 1930
Etching and drypoint signed and numbered in pencil,17. Image, 9 ½ x 15 inches. Full sheet 11 3/8 x 18 1/4 inches. With deckle ed...
Category
1930s Abstract Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
THE NEW FRENCH TOOLS 5 - BOULEVARD VICTOR DOUBLE SKY.
By Jim Dine
Located in Portland, ME
Dine, Jim. THE NEW FRENCH TOOLS 5 - BOULEVARD VICTOR DOUBLE SKY. D;Oench and Feinberg 175. Etching and aquatint and electric tools on two plates, with hand ...
Category
1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Marche aux Legumes a Pontoise
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO (French 1830- 1903)
MARCHE AUX LEGUMES A PONTOISE, 1891 (D. 97ii/ii)
Etching and aquatint, Unsigned as published in Le Peintre-graveur Illlustre: Pissarro, Sisley,...
Category
1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
The Waves: Squid
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen, lithograph, linoleum block with hand-colouring, marbling and collage, 1989, on T. H. Saunders and Somerset paper, signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 60, publi...
Category
1980s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Symbiosis
By Paolo Ciampini
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is signed and numbered in an edition of 50
Paolo Ciampini was born in Montopoli in Val d'Arno in 1941. After graduating from the Art Institute of Cascina (Pisa) in ...
Category
1990s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
THE RETURN
Located in Portland, ME
Pellew, Claughton (British, 1890-1966). THE RETURN. Ashmolean 17. Wood engraving, 1925. Edition of 25. Initialed in the block, and titled, signed, dated and...
Category
1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Chinese Butterflies and Silk Worms with Lychee Nuts
Located in New York, NY
Original Chinese Export School gouache.
Category
1810s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Handmade Paper, Gouache
'Scratchin' High' — early American rodeo
By Edward Borein
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Scratchin' High', etching, edition not stated, c. 1919. Signed in pencil. A fine, rich impression, in warm black ink, on cream wove paper, with margins (11/16 to 2 1/8 inches). Two small spots of toning in the bottom right margin, away from the image; barely visible printing creases in the top left margin and the middle right background, otherwise in very good condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
The cowboy's work of breaking wild horses into riding horses evolved into the competitive sport of professional rodeo in the 1880s. In 1919 at the Calgary Stampede in Alberta, Canada, Borein sketched a rider on the famous bucking horse named 'I-See-U'. He later made this etching of the dramatic scene, entitling it 'Scratchin' High'. ''Scratching'' refers to the rider's technique of maintaining balance on a bucking horse by a continuous movement of the feet in a kicking motion.
Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (online), and the Whitney Western Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
No other artist captured the "disappearing West" with the authenticity and spirit of John Edward Borein (1872-1945). A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Borein rode south in 1893 at the age of twenty-one, and over the next few years, worked his way through California and the vast stretch of Mexico. While on the range, the young cowboy sketched...
Category
1910s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Self Portrait
By Augustus Edwin John
Located in Storrs, CT
Self Portrait. 1920. Etching and drypoint. Dodgson 138. 6 1/8 x 5 (sheet 13 1/4 x 11). Edition 105. A rich impression with plate tone, printed on cream wove paper. Slight toning in ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Myra
By Marcus Harvey
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen, 2016, on Somerset wove, signed and numbered from the edition of 25, published by Shapero Modern, London, printed by K2 Screens, London, image size 39.5 x 48.5 cm (15.6 x 19.1 in), sheet 50 x 63.5 cm. (19.7 x 25 in.)
Marcus Harvey's 'Myra' was included in the controversial Sensation exhibition of Young British Artists at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1997. Norman Rosenthal, the Secretary of the Royal Academy, described it as the single most important painting in the show – "a very, very cathartic picture ... It is an incredibly serious and sober work of art that needs to be seen."[4] However, it provoked angry press and public comment before the exhibition opened, including the ironic comment in an editorial in The Sun: 'Myra Hindley...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Young British Artists (YBA) Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
Son avocat, en phrases creuses, clame sa totale inconscience (His lawyer, ...
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Son avocat, en phrases creuses, clame sa totale inconscience (His lawyer, in hollow phrases, proclaims his total indiffference)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922
Unsigned (as issued)
From: Miserere (Have Mercy), 58 plates
Plate 19
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure
1922-1927
Edition: 425 on Arches vellum with the Ambrose Vollard watermark
25 Hors commerce portfolios
All published impression are unsigned, as issued
Signed and numbered only on the colophon
Published by Societe d’Editions l’Etoile Filante, Paris, 1948
Printer: Jacquemin, Paris, 1922-1927
Reference: Chapon & Rouault 72 c/c
Condition: excellent
Image/Plate size: 21 1/16 x 15 7/8
Rouault’s Miserere...
Category
1920s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
The Drunkard in Spring —after Gustav Mahler's 'The Song of the Earth'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Paunzen, 'Der Trunkene im Frühling' (The Drunkard in Spring) from the suite 'Song of the Earth', etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1920. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/4 to 4 1/4 inches), in good condition. Image size 12 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches; sheet size 19 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Pauzen’s suite of six etchings 'Das Lied von der Erde' (The Song of the Earth), published in 1920, was inspired by Gustav Mahler...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, ...
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, the taste of bitterness)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922
Unsigned as issued
From: Miserere (Have Mercy), 58 plates
Plate 15
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure
1922-1927
Edition: 425 on Arches vellum with the Ambrose Vollard watermark
25 Hors commerce portfolios
All published impression are unsigned, as issued
Signed and numbered only on the colophon
Published by Societe d’Editions l’Etoile Filante, Paris, 1948
Printer: Jacquemin, Paris, 1922-1927
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 19 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches
Reference: Chapon & Rouault 68 d/d
Flora and Kang cite Lamentations 3:18-23 as a possible verbal equivalent: "my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; so I say, ‘Gone is my glory, and all that I had hoped for from the Lord.’ The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall! My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me."
Rouault’s Miserere...
Category
1920s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
Bonne Bay
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Lithograph and screenprint in colours, 1971, on Special Arjomari paper, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, one of 12 artist’s proofs, aside from the standard edition of 58, publis...
Category
1970s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
Chair & rooftoop
By Robert Kipniss
Located in New York, NY
“Chair & rooftop” is a mezzotint engraving created by Robert Kipniss in 2015. Printed in an edition of 30 this impression is signed in pencil and inscribed "27/30." The paper size i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
East Gloucester, Massachusetts — 1930's watercolor
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever 'East Gloucester, Massachusetts', watercolor, c. 1930. Signed 'HL' in pencil, lower left. A fine, spontaneous watercolor, with fresh, undiminished colors, on off-white w...
Category
1930s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
A CLEAN SHOT
By Levon West
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEVON WEST (1900 – 1968)
A CLEAN SHOT 1930
Etching and drypoint. Signed and numbered 26 in pencil.Signed and dated in the plate 1930. Image 10 5/8 x 13 ½ inches, sheet 12 x 18 inc...
Category
1930s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Cucumber Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Original watercolor by Nan Dedrick. Signed in pencil along the lower right edge of the main cucumber. Dedrick is a botanical artist who was a founding member of Art Botanica. This g...
Category
Early 2000s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
By John D. Muench
Located in Portland, ME
Muench, John (American, 1914-1993). THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY. Color Lithograph, not dated. Edition of 25. Signed, titles and numbered, all in pencil...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Pair of Horse Lithographs
By David Low
Located in New York, NY
"The Old-Irish Hunter." and "The Cleveland Bay." from "The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands." by David Low. London, Fairland, 1842.
Original lithograph hand-col...
Category
1840s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
By Frank Lemon
Located in New York, NY
Lemon, Frank.
Flights: Unforgettable Exploits of the Air.
This plate: With one beat of his wing, Charles Lindbergh goes to Paris! 1927.
Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 1928.
Origi...
Category
1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
'Foul Rope (Left)' — early American rodeo
By William Robinson Leigh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Robinson Leigh, 'Foul Rope (Left)', etching, c. 1920, edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove Umbria paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 14 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (378 x 303 mm); sheet size 20 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (518 x 391 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) became one of the foremost painters of the American West. His career spanning some seventy-five years, Leigh created some of the most iconic depictions of the western landscape, admirers referring to him as ‘The Sagebrush Rembrandt’.
The son of impoverished Southern aristocrats, Leigh took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as the best student in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama.
In 1896, Leigh began working as a magazine illustrator in New York City for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine, and he also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes.
Leigh's trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he made an agreement with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, to paint the Grand Canyon in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting, which led to more commissions and an extensive painting trip through Arizona and New Mexico. These travels inspired him to paint western subjects for the next 50 years, his primary interest being the Hopi and Navajo Indians.
In 1910, he traveled to Wyoming, where he painted in Yellowstone Park and created sketches, many of which he later converted into large canvases such as ‘Lower Falls of the Yellowstone’ (1915) and ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ (1911).
In 1926 he traveled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience wrote and illustrated 'Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa'. In 1933, he wrote and illustrated 'The Western Pony'. His adventures were chronicled in a number of popular magazines including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers.
For many years, his work was handled exclusively in New York by Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel. In 1953 Leigh was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, becoming a full Academician in 1955.
In March 1999, the Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, held an exhibition of his field sketches and finished works depicting his experiences near Cody in the early part of the century. These years, between 1910 and 1921, when he often painted in the Carter Mountain vicinity, were considered pivotal to his artistic development and his devotion to the western landscape.
Leigh's work is held in many museum collections of American western art...
Category
1920s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
CHANGING FLIES
By Levon West
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEVON WEST (1900 – 1968)
CHANGING FLIES c. 1930
Etching and drypoint, signed in pencil and no. 28. Image, 13 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches, sheet 17 1/4 x 11 5/8 full margins with deckle edge...
Category
1930s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
