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Settling II Homage to the Mezzotint (Self Portrait of Artist with his Tools)
By Francisco Souto
Located in New Orleans, LA
Francisco Souto has created his self portrait working on the plate of a mezzotint. This is impression #14 from an edition of only 23. Souto received a BFA from Herron School of Art ...
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Early 2000s American Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Young Man Rising up out of the Sea
Located in New Orleans, LA
A signed Certificate of Authority will be included with all photographs. A nude young man is seen rising from the sea after his swim. This impression is printed on Hahnemuhle archi...
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2010s Photorealist Nude Prints

Materials

Digital, Photographic Paper

Confident (profile of sensual young woman with wisps of hair on her neck)
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mikio Watanabe created "Confident", a side view of a sensuous female nude, exclusively for Stone and Press Gallery. The 2004 black and white mezzotint was issued in an edition of on...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Strangelove
Located in New Orleans, LA
Discover the warmth and depth of "Strangelove," an oil painting on linen by Alessandro Tomassetti. This artwork shows a person not facing the artist, wrapped up in ribbons, against a...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Mirrored XXXIII (muse of the 21st century – a neo-romantic young and lithe man.)
By Radek Husak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rad Husak, a contemporary process-driven mixed media artist, was born in Poland in 1984. With a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, his practice is firmly situated in the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Pigment

Choice I (Monochrome-Strong influence of Church's Baroque / Renaissance art )
By Radek Husak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Radek Husak, a contemporary process-driven mixed media artist, was born in Poland in 1984. With a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, his practice is firmly situated in th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Pigment

XGEN 2
Located in New Orleans, LA
XGen 2 / chromatic variation 5 is taken from a new set of drawings designed to explore, and riff on, the energy contained within a simple X form. I hope the edition captures some of the kinetic energy and life contained within the essence of the original form too. This is impression #23, a ten color pigment print on Hahnemuhle 340 gsm photo paper. The study builds on a simple X shaped grid that generates the underlying drawing, which I overlaid with experimental mark making, building up layers of texture and colour to work the piece up into something a little more painterly than many of my previous editions have been. I like the idea that the ink seems quite fluid, but also sits on a fairly rigid geometric grid. That combination would be hard to achieve off system I think, and as ever, I really enjoy seeing if I can make the digital speak with a little more soul, and just generally feel more haptic than might otherwise be the case. A lot of the joy, for me, is in the unexpected overlaps and misalignments in the final drawings. I feel there’s something of Sean Scully’s style here too, I’m drawn to his works, but always with a slight scepticism. I tend to feel there’s something a little suspect about that bravura level of underworking, but really I think I’m just envious of the raw confidence he brings to his mark making! Chuck Elliott (b. 1967, Camberwell, London) is a pioneer of digitally generated art. He claims to have used the first Apple Macintosh...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Photography

Materials

Pigment

Bon Fire Night (Body Terrain)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is number 1 from a limited edition of 12. London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga'ash, graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and De...
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2010s Surrealist Color Photography

Materials

C Print

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 ...
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1980s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

The Lonely Tower
By Percival Gaskell
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a fine aquatint etching by British artist Percival Gaskell. The title is: The Lonely Tower, Roman Campagna, it was created and printed in 1924 in an edition of 150. The ima...
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1930s English School Landscape Prints

Materials

Aquatint

The Oliver (This image is being used to promote an upcoming show at the MET )
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Oliver which is in several museum collections and has won numerous awards) is being used to promote the show, Printed Ladies, opening March 1st at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and will be reproduced on the cover of the upcoming revised second edition of Carol's book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique which is due out in early 2024 Thomas Oliver invented the first double-sided lateral top stroke machine. This was No. 9 introduced in 1916. With light focused on the machine it suggested the logo of the Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes series - giving off an anima-like aura. The print was issued in an edition of 75. Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Aleksandr Standing
Located in New Orleans, LA
The photograph, Aleksandr Standing, in this size is in an edition of only 5. This impression is #1 Born in Moscow in 1986, Alex Avgud is a Russian born phot...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Nude Man and Woman (Desire and sexual tension)
By Tom Leveritt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Is it lust? Is it love? A pencil drawing shows a nude man and a nude woman on the same page. Sexual tension and desire are paramount in this composition. Tom Leveritt...
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2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Twilight (an otherworldly nude reclines under a dusky moon)
By Paul Wunderlich
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul Wunderlich created a series of 12 lithographs,Twilight together with his wife, Karin Szekessy, a fine art photographer. This image is of an other worldly nude reclining on a tab...
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1970s Contemporary Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph

At Once I Knew I Was Not Magnificent
Located in New Orleans, LA
Printed on Photo Lustre. This is #5 of an edition of 8. A Certificate of Authenticity is included Murnaghan was well known for his striking underwater photography, capturing his subj...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Inkjet

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
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Bourbon Street, New Orleans
By Doris Barsky Kreindler
Located in New Orleans, LA
This rare lithograph is impression #36 out of a total of 50 Kreindler’s first solo exhibition was held at the Brooklyn Museum in 1935. Her travels became the basis for her later exhi...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Adele and the Ladies (Rochester's fashion conscious ward in Jane Eyre)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Adele, the 10 year-old girl who may be the daughter of Rochester and Celine in "Jane Eyre" is being scrutinized by three women. One is seated on an ornate sofa...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Wool, Engraving

Woman Walking Away from Gentleman
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in New Orleans, LA
A well dressed woman takes leave of a gentleman. Rudolf Bauer was born in 1889, in Lindenwald, Germany-Poland. The son of a wealthy engineer, Bauer became an essential part of the avant-garde movement and the birth of non-objective art in the early 1920's. Bauer began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin in 1905, where he learned the fundamentals and produced beautifully stylized figurative drawings. In 1912, Bauer met Herwarth Walden, a promoter of the avant-garde movement and founder of Der Sturm Art Gallery. Bauer became a member of Der Sturm, and was represented in group exhibitions along with Kandinsky, Picasso, Chagall, Klee et al. By 1922, Bauer had participated in 80 Der Sturm exhibitions in Belgium, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, et al. In 1917, Bauer had his first one-man show at Der Sturm Gallery, exhibiting 120 works. By 1921, with his many one-man and group exhibitions, and his significant publications of his theories on art, Bauer became Germany's leading abstract expressionist painter. In 1929, Bauer founded his own private museum, Das Geistreich-Bauer (The Realm of the Spirit). In 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of the German Republic and with that modern art was branded as "sub-human". Walden closed Der Sturm and fled Germany. The purge of modern artists and curators began, but at the same time Bauer was having his work exhibited at the new Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Despite Hitler's proclamations of the "degeneracy" of modern art, Bauer continued his mission, the free expression in art, writing dictums and creating art. Meanwhile, Solomon R. Guggenheim, the famous American philanthropist, had been acquiring Bauer's work; so many pieces in fact that that he could no long fit his work within the confines of his residential suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York. In 1936, Guggenheim decided to exhibit his entire collection of Bauer's work in one venue, at the Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery in Charleston, SC. Later that year, the famous Jeu de Paume, a division of the Louvre, in Paris, honored Bauer with a one-man exhibition. As a result of the show, the Louvre purchased one of Bauer's oil paintings. Upon his return from the show at Jeu de Paume, and despite the fact he was not Jewish, Bauer was arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Filippo Marinetti...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Lux Aeterna I (Eternal Light -The Requiem/ copters hover over fearful refugees)
By Ana Maria Pacheco
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ana Maria Pacheco portrays the fear and feelings of the displacement of refugees cowering beneath helicopters overhead. The title of the work refers ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint

Untitled 4 - Bird and Man in Nature
Located in New Orleans, LA
Self taught outsider art by African American artist from New Orleans with work in major museum and private collections. White created a bold c...
Category

1990s Outsider Art Animal Paintings

Materials

Foam Board, Felt Pen

Male Lying Nude
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a drawing from the artist's sketchbooks. This pencil drawing shows a nude male in repose, The drawing is dated November 30 '36 (1936). Clearly the works are authentic and this sketch is signed "Jackson Lee Nesbitt...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite

Untitled 5 - Herd Animals
Located in New Orleans, LA
Self taught outsider art by African American artist from New Orleans with work in major museum and private collections. White created a bold c...
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1990s Outsider Art Animal Paintings

Materials

Foam Board, Felt Pen

Untitled 6 - Animals in the Light
Located in New Orleans, LA
Self taught outsider art by African American artist from New Orleans with work in major museum and private collections. White created a bold c...
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1990s Outsider Art Animal Paintings

Materials

Foam Board, Felt Pen

Muse (a young novice in colorful swim suit struggles thru a pool of blue)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Muse is #43 of 45. It depicts a young woman in a colorful swimsuit doing her best to swim through the blue waters of the pool. Her mouth is pursed and the bubbles flow out. I sold ...
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Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

SK-Eight Key (Skates used to be dependent on a key that here is shown in shadow)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Skates are a subject of nostalgia in this piece from the museum collection of the University of Dallas. Skates did not work if the proper key were missing and in this image the key ...
Category

Early 2000s Post-Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Sommeil (a sensuous nude woman sleeps on her side)
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
In this mezzotint, the sensual profile of a young nude woman is seen sleeping with her torso stretched out. The mezzotint is signed, titled and dated by the artist in pencil, from a...
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1990s Contemporary Nude Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Waiting For My Train(track crossings that create Chicago EL / Merchandise Mart)
By Martin Levine
Located in New Orleans, LA
Waiting for my Train is #55 from edition of 100. "Waiting for my train" is the stop right before the tracks cross, and create Chicago's famous "Loop", on the above ground EL. The M...
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1980s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Kirill / Boy with Crossed Legs (peekaboo)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A signed Certificate of Authority will be included with all photographs. A nude boy faces the viewer siting in front of an open window. This impression is printed on Hahnemuhle arc...
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2010s Photorealist Nude Prints

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital

Scopes
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
The marriage between the art of science and the art of seeing was cemented by the invention of the lens. It is FIROS #48 in the catalogue raisonne. Carol Wax originally trained to b...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Chepstow Castle ( on a limestone cliff above the River Wye in Wales)
By Percival Gaskell
Located in New Orleans, LA
The magnificent printed works of the Yorkshire artist, Percival Gaskell have only been fully rediscovered in recent years. Percival Gaskell rose to prominence whilst working together with Sir Frank Short in the engraving school at the Royal College of Art in London during the first two decades of the 20th century. A true painter-printmaker, Percival Gaskell developed a sensitivity to atmospheric tone which is displayed in an air of timeless beauty throughout his printed works. (sheet 24 x 20 1/2). A fine impression with tone printed in warm brown/black ink on chine appliqué mounted on white wove paper, and a backing board. Signed in pencil. Superb signed proof impression printed in warm-brownish-black ink. One of Gaskell's best large scale mezzotints. The speed with which William the Conqueror committed to the creation of a castle at Chepstow is testament to its strategic importance. There is no evidence for a settlement there of any size before the Norman invasion of Wales, although it is possible that the castle site itself may have previously been a prehistoric or early...
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1940s English School Landscape Prints

Materials

Mezzotint, Etching

Dawn
By Percival Gaskell
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mezzotint. 8 x 9 7/8 (sheet 13 7/8 x 19 3/4). A fine impression with tone printed in dark brown ink on white wove paper. Signed in pencil.
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1930s English School Landscape Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Foggy Night (the way home or a Stephen King setting)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is #22 Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mez...
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2010s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving, Mezzotint

Bryce (View of Osaka, Japan from city's tallest building is in background)
By Sebastian Perinotti
Located in New Orleans, LA
THIS VINTAGE SILVER GELATIN PRINT IS FROM AN EDITION OF 3, Bryce was taken in Osaka, Japan at Abeno Harukas, Japan’s tallest building. The photograph was shot on 35mm film on a Contax T3 Sebastian...
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2010s Photorealist Nude Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Confident (profile of sensual young woman with wisps of hair on her neck)
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mikio Watanabe created "Confident", a side view of a sensuous female nude, exclusively for Stone and Press Gallery. The 2004 black and white mezzotint was issued in an edition of on...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Bambalina (Are ornaments, decorations mere backdrop for true Christmas story)
By Francisco Souto
Located in New Orleans, LA
Souto named this image Bambalina (backstage). It is an exclusive publication of Stone and Press Gallery Francisco Souto was born in Venezuela. He received a BFA from Herron School ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Delayed (suburban New Jersey commuter walks thru rain because bus is late)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Delayed" is an edition of 100. Art Werger creates a memory of his boyhood home in suburban New Jersey. It's late, cold and rainy as this woman raises her umbrella to brave the wal...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

The Bath #1 (Female nude squats near tub in an abandoned New Orleans row house)
By David Levy
Located in New Orleans, LA
David Levy created this vintage silver gelatin photograph in 1995. The image was taken in New Orleans, LA but not printed or editioned until 2010. It is signed in pencil, titled an...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Moon ( from the artist's Lunar Series)
By Ted Kincaid
Located in New Orleans, LA
An image from Kincaid lunar series. An edition of 10 Over the course of three decades, Ted Kincaid has systematically subverted the notion of an objective photographic record and examined the play between painting and photography. Kincaid has created multiple series...
Category

2010s Landscape Photography

Materials

Film, Digital

Paisaje de Memoria (The Landscape of Memory)
By Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco
Located in New Orleans, LA
A snail and the head of a horse figure prominently in the artist's landscape of memory. This image was published at Tamarind Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco, b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Wind
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anne Dykmans' "Wind" shows a multi color ribbon flapping in the wind. The flow of the wind is shown through the movement of the fabric. It is in an edition of just 10. Anne Dykman...
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Early 2000s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Looking Up (left profile of a man looking toward the heavens)
By Maurice Pasternak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maurice Pasternak has created a surreal landscape that includes several spirit-like creatures seeming to wander in an unknown landscape He moves images around on the paper to create ...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Landscape Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Congregational Church, Old Lyme, CT. (quintessential New England landmark)
By Walter DuBois Richards
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Old Lyme Congregational Church located on Ferry Road, a quintessentially New England landmark, was captured by Walter DuBois Richards. The church was a favorite subject of Old Ly...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Study For Nocturne 310
By Ted Kincaid
Located in New Orleans, LA
Digitally manufactured photograph on Moab Entrada Natural Plate. Image is 8 x 10 inches on 10 by 13 paper A beautiful maritime nocturne Ted Kincaid is one of the most recognized and respected artists from North Texas. He is exhibited and collected nationally and has received considerable critical attention for his photographically based work. He has been reviewed in ARTFORUM, ARTPAPER and ART ON PAPER and is included in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts in San Antonio, the Neiman Marcus Collection, American Airlines, the Belo Corporation, the Microsoft Corporation, Pfizer, Inc, Reader’s Digest Corporate Collection, the City of Seattle, Washington, the U.S. State Department and the Human Rights Campaign Headquarters in Washington, DC. His work is instantly recognizable to many Texans, both from his gallery exhibitions, museum and corporate collections, as well as a number of commissions, including designing the covers for a special double issue of Neiman Marcus’ The Book, a large 22 foot...
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2010s American Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital

Nude woman lying
By Tom Leveritt
Located in New Orleans, LA
A pencil drawing with ink wash Tom Leveritt (1976) was raised in Texas, sent to boarding school in the UK, got a first at Cambridge, an Army Scholarship i...
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2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Ink

X-ing ( Alone fish swims across the ocean)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "X-ing"", Anne Dykmans captures an image of solace with a swimming fish . This image is an artist's proof in an edition of 50 Anne Dykmans employs her superb command of engravin...
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1990s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Mizuhiki
By Katsunori Hamanishi
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Mizuhiki" is an exclusive publication by Stone + Press in an edition of 100. Katsunori Hamanishi was born in 1949 on Hokkaido island - Japan's second largest island. In 1973 he fi...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

D is for Dish (A fine whimsical work by a pioneer in the English Pop Art scene)
By Harvey Daniels
Located in New Orleans, LA
British Pop artist Harvey Daniels created this image in 1970 in a small edition of 20. This impression is #2 His work has described by art historian Norbert Lynton as a “visual carni...
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Man at Mast
By Rockwell Kent
Located in New Orleans, LA
A lookout starkly rendered in the art deco style straddles the mast of a ship as he surveys the landscape. Rockwell Kent's wood engraving issued in 1930 in an edition of 120. it is ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Wood, Engraving

Ocean Terminal I
By Craig McPherson
Located in New Orleans, LA
Craig McPherson captures a night view of the neon lights from commercial signs reflected in the water at Ocean Terminal in Kowloon, as seen from the terminal of the Star Ferry to cen...
Category

1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

OPHELIA (Jeunesse Dorée / Golden Youth - the artist's mistress / second wife)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in New Orleans, LA
This elegant etching titled the gilded youth is of the second wife of the artist The edition is 75 and is referenced as Fletcher #80 Gerald Brockhurst is best known for his portrai...
Category

1940s American Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching

Zebragram (a stylized circular design created by repeated imagery of a zebra)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the zebra. ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Trim Fit (Deconstructed Singer machine gives both steel and silk equal weight)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax deconstructs a Singer sewing machine in this mezzotint created in an edition of 75. The image gives equal weight to the steel of the machine and the silk of the fabric. It...
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Early 2000s American Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Sew What (the swells and swirls of the stripes are now in the hands of others)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Sew What" is a color mezzotint with burin engraving created in an edition of 35. This impression is #6. I love sumptuously designed textiles in both real life and art. Patterns metamorphosing over fabric folds appeal to my interest in modulating rhythmic forms, particularly the swells and swirls of calligraphic stripes. I’m also fascinated by articulated wooden hand models, which appear in many of my paintings. Combining these passions with sewing paraphernalia from my seamstress days provided inspiration for my color mezzotint engraving "Sew What". Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Rainy Day / Fifth Avenue in New York
By Levon West
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a rare New York image by Levon West Levon West, who also used the name Ivan Dimitri, was born on February 3, 1900 in Centerville, North Dakota. ...
Category

1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Open Air School (iconic image of indigenous teacher by Mexican muralist)
By Diego Rivera
Located in New Orleans, LA
An indigenous teacher, surrounded by her multi-generational students, sits at the edge of a field, open book in hand. In the distance, we see campesinos working the fields with their horses. A lone, armed horseman watches over the class, locating the lithograph in its historical setting, the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution...
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1930s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Commencement
By Caroline Durieux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Caroline Durieux's image captures a lone figure in her garden in this southern plantation in Louisiana. "Plantation Garden" is a lithograph created by Durieux in 1946 in an edition of 20. It is signed in pencil. Durieux shared her feeling about this piece with these reflections. “The spectrum analysis of satire runs from the red of invective at one end to the violet of the most delicate irony at the other.” David Worcester 16, "The Art of Satire". The feeling expressed in Plantation Garden is that of a dirge with ironic overtones; it is sad, nostalgic yet satirical. The bent figure of the old lady, the ancient trees, the static moss, all seem to belong to the past; even the lady is old. For contrast, a ray of late afternoon sun lights up the only young note in the picture: perennials in the foreground. When “we are satirical and we are friendly at the same time, the consciousness of the friendship gives a regretful and tender touch to the satire, and the sting of the satire makes the friendship a trifle humble and sad.” George Santayna 255, "The Sense of Beauty". This concept of satire mixed with friendship comes closer to humor because there is less censure involved. In "Plantation Garden", the satire is tempered by a feeling of empathy. Caroline Durieux (American, 1896 – 1989) Printmaker, painter, satirist, innovator, social activist, Caroline Durieux was born in New Orleans and was already making sketches by the age of four. Her formal art training was at Newcomb College (1912-1917) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1918-1920). Carl Zigrosser of the Philadelphia Museum of Art encouraged Durieux to try lithography. While living in Mexico, she learned lithography from Emilio Amero...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

September Morn
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in New Orleans, LA
Three women strolling on a beach. This impression is one of the rare impressions printed monochromatically. Hirsch natural inclination was to print in lack and white but reprinted ...
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1960s American Modern Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Fir Play
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
A series of prints was commissioned by the Met Museum in NY in a regular edition of 40 This impression is from an edition of 5 artist proofs. This impression is #4/5 Carol Wax origi...
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2010s American Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Intaglio

Girders (rainy night view of artist's former studio in Washington Heights
By Craig McPherson
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Griders" is Craig McPherson's rainy night scene showing the view from his former studio in Washington Heights in NYC. The image is the companion pi...
Category

1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

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