Original Drypoint Etching by Harold Thornton Kings College Cambridge Old Gateway

Signed drypoint, line engraving by Kenneth Steel signed at bottom in pencil. Tilted "ELY". Medium is line engraving or drypoint on paper. Dark and foreb...

Rare, antique drypoint etching pencil signed by the artist whose name is illegible, circa mid-19th century, England.

Coveted portfolio containing 24 original lithographs by Ben Shahn in one of an edition of 950 with the one being numbered 234, see pics. Signed by the artist at front as shown in pics attached. Copyright 1968. Portfolio is complete with nothing missing and still in very good condition - see pics. Accompanied by the poet Ranier Maria Rilke - see pics. Ben Shahn (American, September 12, 1898 - March 14, 1969) was a painter, lithographer, and photographer best known for his left-wing political leanings, works of social realism, and The Shape of Content, a publication of his lectures. Shahn was born in Kovno, Lithuania, when the country was still occupied by the Russian Empire. In 1902, Shahn's father, Joshua Hessel, was exiled to Siberia. Shahn then moved to Vilkomir, Lithuania, with his mother, Gittel, and his two siblings. Their family moved to the United States in 1906 to join their father who had fled from exile. After settling in Brooklyn, NY, Shahn began to train in lithography and graphic design, and his favorite medium was egg tempera. In 1919, Shahn enrolled in New York University to study Biology before entering the City College in 1921 to study Art. He also studied Art at the National Academy of Design. In the 1920s, Shahn and his wife traveled around Africa and Europe to study the works of renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881- 1973) and Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953). In 1933, Shahn worked as an assistant of Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886 - 1957); at this time, Rivera was working on the mural at the Rockefeller Center in New York. Two years later, Shahn was recommended by Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975) to join the Farm Security Administration photographic group. One of the artist’s most famous works is the fresco mural he did for the Jersey Homesteads' community center. Shahn also worked on murals for the state on the Federal Security Building and the Bronx Central Annex Post Office. During the Second World War, Shahn made a series of paintings laced...

Stunning original oil on canvas abstract with multitudes of blue waves by the artist Arlene Carr. Signed at bottom. Frame appears to be new.

An original abstract portraiture titled "My Teacher" by listed artist Norman Liebman. Signed on back. Framed in black. Norman Liebman: Abstract Expressionist Painter Norman Liebman,...

Very large oil on canvas by Anne Johansen (American 1881-) depicting forest landscape by a stream. Signed on lower right. Displayed in a gold giltwood frame. Very large.

Framed etching "Bartholomew Close" / Old London by Sir Ernest George (1839-1922) of London flats with a graveyard. Ernest, George 1884 in the lower left. New frame and mat. Overall 1...

Framed etching by Don Swann Jr of Baltimore Skyline. Etched onto Cooper plates before printing. Swann Jr followed in the footsteps of his father who...

Presenting a very rare original etching by Alonzo C. Webb of the City of Chicago with a view of Downtown from 1930. This etching is in superb original condition. It is an origi...

Presenting a very rare original etching by Alonzo C. Webb of the City of Chicago with a view of Downtown from circa 1930. A visual and historic recording of 'the Windy City's' his...

The Root of Kings Evil, 1835 This dark image is in reference to an incident which occurred in the winter of 1821. Great Britain, struggling with economic distress after the strain of the Napoleonic Wars, was thrown into a period of intense social unrest. The middle class, who bore the brunt of the cost of the victory against France, was struggling under the newly imposed Corn Laws. Periods of famine ensued, and unemployment soared as soldiers returned from the continent looking for work. One such soldier was Arthur Thistlewood. In January of 1820, King George III died unexpectedly, precipitating a constitutional crisis, and creating the necessity of a general election. Thistlewood, aggrieved by the erratic behavior of the now dead King, and affronted by the lavish lifestyle of the prince regent, took advantage of the wave of national instability, and organized a group of 12 men to overthrow the government. They called themselves The Spenceans Philanthropists, after Thomas Spence, a schoolteacher who had been imprisoned for selling “radical” books. Now known as the Cato Street Conspiracy (named after the address of the conspirator’s den), the incident is primarily well known for having gone famously wrong, and it being the last major insurrection in Great Britain. Almost absurdly, the Spenceans planned to murder the entire cabinet, and Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, while they were all in attendance at a dinner in Grosvenor Square. Unfortunately for Thistlewood, along with his cronies, he was informed upon, and the group was arrested on their way to the Cato Street meeting place. The group was reportedly confronted with bags in their hands, which they had brought to carry the heads of the men they intended to assassinate. Thistlewood, along with co-conspirators Thomas Preston, John Hopper, and James Watson, was convicted of High Treason, and was publicly hanged and beheaded. The other conspirators were sent to Australia. In this ghoulish image by George Cruikshank, an apparition of a demon appears to King George III from the well of a censer, as he sits in his study, reading on the subject of the history of rebellion, and specifically, the etymology of the word “Radical.” Growing from a mangled root, the demon holds lances in both hands, one run through the Holy Bible, with the severed head of the Archbishop of Canterbury impaled upon its blade, the other run through the Magna Carta...

Arum (As Old as Time) Benjamin Sack Leesburg, VA; 2022 Ink and acrylic, gold leaf paint on toned paper 12 x 12 inches As part of our 'modern masters' series, OLD WORLD WONDERS...