All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1419052 (stock #Milne1)
Original drypoint etching printed in two colors by David B. Milne (Canada, 1882-1953). In excellent original condition. Pencil signed lower left. Circa 1929-1930. As issued in The Colophon, New York, 1931. David Milne is an important Canadian modernist.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1419044 (stock #JB01819)
Etching in dark brownish-black ink, 14 3/8" by 10 1/2" inside the mat (19 3/4" by 15 1/2" as framed), the print numbered at lower left 37/100, while additionally signed and dated there as well in the plate, while titled in the plate "Notre Dame #2" at lower right. This is likely by an artist considered Canadian, CAROLINE HELENA WILKINSON ARMINGTON (1875-1939) rather than by American CAROLINE ARMINGTON (1898-1986), though records for the two seem to be hopelessly entangled...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1419035 (stock #JB01792)
Etching on paper, 5 1/4" by 6 3/4" (10 1/4" by 14 3/8" as framed), the subject the old downtown of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England, including a church and medieval buildings, by the important American printmaker JOHN TAYLOR ARMS JR. (1887-1953). Arms was one of the best known and most highly respected American printmakers of the first half of the twentieth century...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1419034 (stock #JB01742)
Etching on paper, 10 1/2" by 13" and a narrow simple wood frame, the subject three generations of women by a 19th century style hearth in which a pot is boiling, the print signed in pencil at lower right by the artist EDWILL FISHER. I have looked extensively online and have found some other examples of his art, all graphic art, the subject matter including European scenes of castles and cities, and the American subjects including scenes on the Ohio River...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1960 item #1419033 (stock #JB01789)
This is a color aquatint, 9 7/8 by 12 7/8" as framed, the subject a monumental Paris building in the autumn twilight, (the Pantheon, I believe?), numbered at lower left 248 of 500 and signed at lower right in pencil by the noted French 20th century impressionist painter CHARLES BLONDIN (1913-1991). Blondin was active in Paris in the post war years, painting and creating editions of prints which he numbered and hand signed. This example has not been examined outside the frame...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1900 item #1419029 (stock #JB01628)
Wood engraving on paper, unframed and in a shrink wrap sleeve, 14" by 9 1/4" inside the present mat, signed in the print at lower left and titled at bottom "Approach of the British Pirate Alabama", by the famed American artist WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910). The well-known image was published on April 25, 1863...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1990 item #1419028 (stock #JB01614)
Color offset print, 19" by 14 1/8" inside the present mat (30" by 22 1/4" as presently found without glass in simple metal modern frame), pencil signed at lower right, with notation "E.A." (epreuve d'artiste) at lower left, and signed again and dated '88 in the print itself. The subject is an idealized man in motion, with dynamic planes and shapes superimposed upon and behind the figure, creating a most interesting, complex, modern composition...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1900 item #1419027 (stock #JB01609)
This is an original hand-colored, mid 19th century lithograph print by the iconic American ornithologist and naturalist artist JOHN J. AUDUBON, from the nineteenth century (circa 1849) quadrupeds mammals series in the small octavo size. It is not a late restrike/reprint. Inside the present mat, dimensions are 6 1/4" by 9 1/4" (13" by 15 1/2" as framed). The title is "Carolina Shrew" and this is Plate number 75 in the long series...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1800 item #1419023 (stock #JB01511)
Hand colored botanical print, 8 3/8" by 4 3/8" inside the mat (the actual print as trimmed just a bit larger), 16" by 11 3/4" as framed, the words "Pub. by Wm. Curtis St. Geo: Crescent Aug. 1. 1798. S. Edwards del. ESansom sculp" below and "No. 417" at upper right corner. This is a decorative work with fresh colors, in the tradition of 18th century botanical engravings and etchings, by a noted artist...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1837 VR item #1419019 (stock #JB01438)
This print is by John Woodhouse Audubon, the younger son of the famed naturalist John James Audubon, and very much an active part of the family of talented artists documenting the botany and the animals native to North America. The work is one of the larger size original prints, plate number 139, titled "Large-Tailed Spermophile" (Latin name "Spermophilus macrourus, Bennett"). The subject is a male weasel-like North American small mammal in its natural habitat. The print is not a reproduction...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1419017 (stock #JB01375)
This is an etching on laid paper, the sheet 10 1/2" by 14", simply framed, pencil signed by listed American early 20th century artist HORACE DEVITT WELSH (1888-1942). The subject appears to be a coastal location in Maine, judging from the sails in the distance and the mountainous coast. Welsh was a student of William Merritt Chase, Thomas Anschutz, and Joseph Pennell...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1837 VR item #1419016 (stock #JB01374)
Stipple engraving with hand coloring, titled "Ambrette d'hiver", with names of artists "Poiteau pinxt." at lower left and engraver "Bocourt sculpt." at lower right...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1419011 (stock #JB01262)
If you admire the work of Norman Rockwell, and millions do, as evidenced by spectacular auction records over $30 million, but you cannot quite afford that-----yet, would love to own something that Rockwell touched, then consider this beautiful print, (**ONE OF TWO SIMILAR PRINTS I HAVE CURRENTLY IN MY SHOP**), the title being "Springtime in Stockbridge", measuring 16 1/2" by 32". The original was painted for LOOK magazine and this poster was issued in 1971 by Cowles Communications, Inc. Rockwell...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1950 item #1419010 (stock #JB01209)
This is a pencil signed etching, 6 1/2" by 5" inside the overmat, (12 1/2" by 10 1/2" as framed), not titled, but depicting waterfront shacks and piers with a working boat in an industrial area, by noted San Francisco Bay area artist HERBERT IMRIE (1885-1976). Imrie, born in Napa and deceased in Marin County, was for many years associated with the Berkeley area. Exhibited in the 1939 Golden Gate exposition, he was president of the California Society of Etchers. Imrie is little known but was o...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1960 item #1419009 (stock #JB01065)
Offered for the collector of Picasso's posters is an example of 1957's "Pates Blanche", created for Cannes' Galerie 57, printed by Devaye Imprimeur. Measuring 22 1/4" by 17 1/4", the poster is technically described as an offset lithograph. The blue areas look like a traditional lithograph process, while the image in gray within the circle has the tiny dots of traditional printing. The poster is scarce, with a total edition of only 500 printed, and that over 60 years ago. Examination out of ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1419001 (stock #JB0776)
For the collector of wildlife and sporting art, here is a large (19" by 33 1/2" inside the mat), offered UNFRAMED*** pencil signed print, by renowned wildlife artist DAVID SHEPHERD (1931-2017), the oils of whom have sold for over $100,000 at Sotheby's auctions. This print is not numbered as in a limited edition, though obviously the artist hand signed a limited number. The painting from which it was made is dated 1979 and is titled "Three Happy Jumbos". It is issued by Solomon and Whitehead U...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1418959 (stock #JB02694)
Scarce print, "Coal--Mahanoy City--The Main Street", so titled and pencil signed by the artist, Joseph Pennell, in the lower margin, with notation "Trial Proof" at lower left. This is a scene of a gritty small town in east-central Pennsylvania's anthracite coal belt, Mahanoy City, about 50 miles northwest of Reading. The total edition is said to have been 50 impressions. Pennell was actually born in Pennsylvania to Quaker parents, and he studied in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1950 item #1418957 (stock #JB02092)
This is an original etching, 11" by 16 1/2" (17" by 21" as framed), by American artist Kerr Eby (1889-1946). The title of the work is "Cattle Ford", and it was executed in 1945, in an edition of 100 apparently. Eby was born in Tokyo to Canadian missionaries but was in the United States by age 3. At 18 he went to New York City for art education, working for a lithographic firm to enhance his financial situation, gaining valuable experience that served him well later in life. Eby studied at th...