'Body and Soul' — Mid-20th Century Surrealism
By Federico Castellon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Returning to the U.S. in 1964, Castellon held a solo exhibition at Terry Dintenfass Gallery in New York, exhibited at the New York World’s Fair, and received awards from the Philadel...
Lithograph
'By the Arks' — Mid-20th Century Surrealism
By Federico Castellon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Returning to the U.S. in 1964, Castellon held a solo exhibition at Terry Dintenfass Gallery in New York, exhibited at the New York World’s Fair, and received awards from the Philadel...
Lithograph
$1,200
California Abstract Expressionist Linocut Lithograph Ronald Reagan Political Art
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Surfside, FL
Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, From Pablo Picasso to Wayne Thiebaud: Modern & Contemporary Art, February 18 – June 20; An American Odyssey 1945 / 1980 (De...
Lithograph, Linocut
$2,800
Alabama Surreal Folk Art Oil Painting African American Woman, Flower Headdress
By Maltby Sykes
Located in Surfside, FL
William Paul Maltby Sykes was born in Aberdeen, Mississippi in 1911, but was raised in Birmingham, Alabama. A painter, print maker, and graphic artist, he was a long-time professor ...
Canvas, Oil
Adja Yunkers, "Drifting Whiteness", 1975, 68" x 50"
By Adja Yunkers
Located in Dallas, TX
That summer, he moved to New York and began teaching at the New School for Social Research.
Canvas, Wood, Paint
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H 20 in W 26 in
California Abstract Expressionist Linocut Lithograph Sepia Print Edition of 6
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Surfside, FL
Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, From Pablo Picasso to Wayne Thiebaud: Modern & Contemporary Art, February 18 – June 20; An American Odyssey 1945 / 1980 (De...
Lithograph, Linocut
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
To parents one had to hurt - For the Sake of A Single Verse Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
Partings long seen coming - For the Sake of A Single Verse Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
To childhood illnesses - For the Sake of A Single Verse Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
The sea itself - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
Many Cities - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
Beside the dead - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
One must know the animals - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
Spanish Landscape — Mid-century Surrealism
By Federico Castellon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Returning to the U.S. in 1964, Castellon held a solo exhibition at Terry Dintenfass Gallery in New York, exhibited at the New York World’s Fair, and received awards from the Philadel...
Lithograph
By the Arks — Mid-century Surrealism
By Federico Castellon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Returning to the U.S. in 1964, Castellon held a solo exhibition at Terry Dintenfass Gallery in New York, exhibited at the New York World’s Fair, and received awards from the Philadel...
Lithograph
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H 22 in W 30 in
California Abstract Expressionist Linocut Lithograph Ronald Reagan Political Art
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Surfside, FL
Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, From Pablo Picasso to Wayne Thiebaud: Modern & Contemporary Art, February 18 – June 20; An American Odyssey 1945 / 1980 (De...
Lithograph, Linocut
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H 31 in W 24.5 in
Alabama Surreal Folk Art Oil Painting African American Woman, Flower Headdress
By Maltby Sykes
Located in Surfside, FL
William Paul Maltby Sykes was born in Aberdeen, Mississippi in 1911, but was raised in Birmingham, Alabama. A painter, print maker, and graphic artist, he was a long-time professor ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 24 in W 32 in D 0.1 in
1999 After Diego Rivera 'Peasants' Modernism Switzerland Offset Lithograph
By Diego Rivera
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 24 x 32 inches ( 60.96 x 81.28 cm ) Image Size: 19 x 28 inches ( 48.26 x 71.12 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Det...
Offset
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H 36 in W 19.5 in
Diego Rivera 'Indigenous Woman with Corn Stalks' 1999- Offset Lithograph
By Diego Rivera
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Published and distributed by New York Graphic Society Paper Size: 36 x 19.5 inches ( 91.44 x 49.53 cm ) Image Size: 31 x 15.5 inches ( 78.74 x 39.37 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: V...
Offset
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H 20 in W 26 in
California Abstract Expressionist Linocut Lithograph Sepia Print Edition of 6
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Surfside, FL
Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, From Pablo Picasso to Wayne Thiebaud: Modern & Contemporary Art, February 18 – June 20; An American Odyssey 1945 / 1980 (De...
Lithograph, Linocut
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H 20 in W 26 in
California Abstract Expressionist Linocut Lithograph Print Small Edition of 12
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Surfside, FL
Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, From Pablo Picasso to Wayne Thiebaud: Modern & Contemporary Art, February 18 – June 20; An American Odyssey 1945 / 1980 (De...
Lithograph, Linocut
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
In rooms withdrawn and quiet - For the Sake of A Single Verse Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
Mornings by the sea - For the Sake of A Single Verse Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
Memories of many nights of love - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
Many Men - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
To roads in unknown regions - For the Sake of A Single Verse Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
Beside the dying - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer.
Lithograph
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H 40 in W 22 in D 1 in
Ben Shahn Lithograph of "Boy Playing Double Oboe from Hallelujah"
By Ben Shahn
Located in Hallowell, ME
This series gave Shahn the confidence to cultivate his personal style, regardless of society’s art standards. Shahn's subsequent series of California labor leader Tom Mooney won him...
Paper, Lithograph
$450,000
H 28 in W 24 in
Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) "Water Story" (Study for The History of Water) Tempera and o...
Oil, Egg Tempera, Board
$3,500
H 20 in W 26 in D 0.5 in
"Loading the Wagon", Important Regional Scene Ptg, Thomas Hart Benton Colleague
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This classic example of American Scene painting, depicting a group of four laborers loading the harvest onto a wagon amidst the fields, has the energy and dynamic of Thomas Hart Bent...
Paint
Surrealist Landscape Oil Painting, 20th Century, Framed, 30 x 24.25 in
Located in Beachwood, OH
Surrealist Landscape Oil on canvas 'R. Lee Glenn' verso 30 x 24.25 inches 31.75 x 26.75 inches, framed Surrealism aims to revolutionize human experience. It balances a rational visi...
Oil
'Plowing It Under' — WPA Era American Regionalism
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Hart Benton, 'Goin' Home', lithograph, 1937, edition 250, Fath 14. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white, wove pape...
Lithograph
$3,325Sale Price|25% Off
H 10.63 in W 9.85 in D 1.19 in
La Dame Étonnée Mixed Media Collage, Signed, Art Deco, 1950s Framed
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean COCTEAU ( 1889 - 1963 ) " LA DAME ETONNEE " . Mix Media découpage signed by Jean Cocteau . work : 10 x 10 cm Framed: 27 x 25 cm . Collage original , découpage d'une tasse ...
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
$900
H 18.88 in W 12.88 in
'Eyes for the Night' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Eyes for the Night', lithograph, 1947, edition 35, Fine and Looney 260. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. A fine impression, on heavy, cream ...
Lithograph
16th Century Italian Renaissance Pen and Ink Study of Figures
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Italian School, 16th Century Studies of Figures Pen and ink on paper, 23 × 24 cm Unsigned A finely executed sheet presenting vigorous figure studies, drawn with assured pen strok...
Ink
'Lot Cleaning, Los Angeles' — 1930s Modernism
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Lot Cleaning, Los Angeles', wood engraving, edition 60, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 69. Signed, titled and numbered '51/60' in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on Kitakata Japan pape...
Woodcut
Underwater — Mid-century Modern
By Charles Quest
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Underwater', 1948, chiaroscuro wood engraving, edition 12. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '3/12' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, in dark brown and war...
Woodcut
'Pipe and Brawn' — WPA Era American Realism
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'Pipe and Brawn,' 1937, lithograph, edition 40. Signed and annotated 'Ed/40' in pencil. A superb, richly inked impression on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margin...
Lithograph
'Unemployed Marchers' — American Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Unemployed Marchers', 2-color lithograph, c. 1938, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '2/25' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression on off-white, wove paper, w...
Lithograph
'Modern Music' — WPA Modernism, New York City El
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Albert Potter, 'Modern Music' also Twilight Melodies', linocut, c. 1935, from the posthumous edition of 20, printed in 1977, authorized by the artist’s widow. Estate authenticated in...
Linocut
Surrealist Nude Female Figure
By Federico Castellon
Located in Miami, FL
This is an important work that is loaded with Surrealist iconographies. The shape of her hands is echoed in the shape of her hair. Tiny man and woman figures running on a vast empty ...
Graphite, Archival Paper
The Beach - Surrealism Belgian
By Paul Delvaux
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph in colour is hand signed by the artist in pencil "P. Delvaux" at the lower right margin. It is also inscribed in pencil “H.C.” an Hors Commerce [out of trade...
Lithograph
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
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Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
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Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
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