Frederick Mershimer Art
American, b. 1958
Frederick Mershimer received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, where he majored in painting and drawing. After moving to New York in 1983, he studied printmaking at the New School, Pratt Graphics Center (1984–87) and Manhattan Graphics Center (1988–92). Mershimer was initially drawn to the mezzotint process because it echoed his approach to drawing. In 2007, Stone and Press published a catalog raisonné of his work, titled Frederick Mershimer Mezzotints 1984–2006. Mershimer’s works are included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum, the Corcoran Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, Georgetown University, Library of Congress, the McNay Art Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum.
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Artist: Frederick Mershimer
Still Night (Brooklyn brownstones on 7th Avenue off Flatbush Avenue)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Still Night", Frederick Mershimer depicts a row of brownstone houses on Seventh Avenue near Flatbush Avenue between Park and Stirling Places. Mershimer remembers that as he was ...
Category
1980s American Modern Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Ascension (Traffic in front of St. Bartholomew / Park Ave bet 50th and 51s
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
An overflow of traffic in front of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Cathedral on Park Avenue between 50th and 51st
Category
1990s Contemporary Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Long Island City
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New York, NY
Long Island City
Contemporary artist Frederick Mershimer created this oil painting on a wooden panel in 2005. The painting (wood panel) is 10.25 x 21.25 inches (26 x 54 cm). This ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Above the Rush
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New York, NY
Fred Mershimer created "Above the Rush" in 2003 using mezzotint and aquatint printmaking techniques. The edition of 120 pieces is printed in color. It is signed, titled, and dated ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Across the Floor.
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New York, NY
Fred Mershimer created this piece using mezzotint and aquatint printmaking techniques with handpainted watercolor.
"Across the Floor" was printed in an edition of 120 in 2011. It ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Rooftops (the harbor and skyline of NYC from Brooklyn rooftop)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
Moody, mysterious, majestic – these are some of the ways to describe the mezzotints of Frederick Mershimer. His images travel through the serenity of a Brooklyn neighborhood on a sti...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Lafitte's Blacksmith House (a bar named for a pirate on Bourbon St, New Orleans)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a New Orleans landmark at 941 Bourbon St. Like most New Orleans legends, history of Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a gumbo of tru...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
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 Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Niagara
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New York, NY
NIAGARA
Contemporary artist Frederick Mershimer created the mezzotint engraving entitled “Niagara” in 2021. This impression is signed, titled, dated, and inscribed “5/45”- the 5th ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Into the Night (a lone male emerges from a subway stop by the Flatiron Building)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
A lone figure emerges out of bright lights streaming from a subway entrance at the corner of 23rd and Broadway near the Flatiron Building and Madison Square Park. He has just exited the uptown...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Crossings
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New York, NY
CROSSINGS
Contemporary artist Frederick Mershimer created the mezzotint engraving entitled "Crossings" in 1998. This impression is signed, titled, and dated in pencil. The printed ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Fire Dance (Flambeaux carriers light the path of Endymion parade in New Orleans)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is #109
Mershimer created a color mezzotint of the Mardi Gras scene in mid-city New Orleans. The parade was the Endymion crew marching on Canal Street near Jefferson ...
Category
1990s American Modern Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Late Night (Where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Late Night", Frederick Mershimer created a winter scene where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope. This image, the seventh in t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Cranes and Concrete (in the 80s, a boom saw buildings racing into the sky?
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Cranes and Concrete" is Frederick Mershimer's mezzotint of the construction scene on Broadway between 13th and 14th streets. Mershimer is no strang...
Category
1980s Contemporary Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Pylon (Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan side of East River near South St. Seaport)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
A "Pylon" of the Brooklyn Bridge with the Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge visible in the background is captured in this powerful image by Frederick Mershimer. It is #77 in t...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Destinations (Flatiron Bidg, 5th Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Destinations", Frederick Mershimer creates an image of taxis rushing by the Fuller Building, better known as Flatiron Building. The building is only six feet wide at its rounded...
Category
1990s Contemporary Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Aquatint, Mezzotint
Plymouth Street ( a twilight scene is set in the Brooklyn section of DUMBO)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This view of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges is looking down "Plymouth Street" to the intersection of Jay Street. It is #35 in the catalogue raisonne by Retif & Salzer and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of City of New York...
Category
1990s Contemporary Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Sanctuary (St. Anthony's Garden at rear of St. Louis Cathedral on Royal Street)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This French Quarter garden is a serene haven with a lighted statue of Christ that exists not very far from the raucous revelry of New Orleans' Bourbon S...
Category
1990s American Modern Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Aquatint, Mezzotint
New York Stock Exchange (Symbolic icon of Wall St.'s vast power and wealth)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This color intaglio of the "New York Stock Exchange" was issued in a limited edition of 100. This impression is one of the Artist Proofs from the edition. The Stock Exchange is seen from Federal Hall...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Frederick Mershimer Art
Materials
Aquatint, Mezzotint
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The Rising Sun (Lone man by 700 Burgundy in New Orleans at gay bar, Rawhide)
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Rawhide is a down-to-earth gay bar at 740 Burgundy Street. In this image the eye is drawn to a lighted window in a typical French Quarter house down the street...
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Fire Dance
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Color mezzotint and aquatint, 1995.
Edition of 120. 5 1/2 x 10 5/16 inches.
Signed and titled in pencil.
Also available unframed for $350.
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Surf Avenue (a nostalgic look at summer fun on Surf Avenue, Coney Island NY)
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Located in New Orleans, LA
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