Medium: Wood engraving Dimensions: 7 x 12 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1905 - 1985 Date finished: 1953 Edition: of 200 Condition: Some very light staining at edges of sheet, well away from printed area. Large margins.
#46881
Lynd Ward
Historic Christ Church at Middletown (Ward Church)
Series: Les Réincarnations du Père Ubu Medium: Wood engraving Dimensions: 9 x 8 inches Artist details: French, 1871 - 1958 Date finished: 1932 Edition: of 250 Reference: Wofsy 288 Printer: Georges Aubert Publisher: Ambroise Vollard, Paris Condition: Illustration in text, text verso, full sheet folded. Drawn and designed by Rouault. Block carved by Georges Aubert.
#8567
Series: 25 Prints of José Guadelupe Posada Medium: Wood engraving Dimensions: 5 x 3 1/2 inches Artist details: Mexican, 1852 - 1913 Date of impression: 1942 Publisher: La Estampa Mexicana
#10032
Series: 25 Prints of José Guadelupe Posada Medium: Wood engraving Dimensions: 1 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches Artist details: Mexican, 1852 - 1913 Date of impression: 1942 Publisher: La Estampa Mexicana
#10034
Series: Plate XXXVIII from Woodcuts: Examples of the Work of Clare Leighton Medium: Wood engraving Dimensions: 4 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches Artist details: English/American, 1898 - 1989 Date of plate: 1929 Date of impression: 1930 Edition: 427/450 Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co Condition: Toned.
#26003
Series: Plate VII from Woodcuts: Examples of the Work of Clare Leighton Medium: Wood engraving Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches Artist details: English/American, 1898 - 1989 Date of plate: 1927 Date of impression: 1930 Edition: 427/450 Publisher: Longmans,Green &Co Condition: Book signed in colophon. Toned. Individual prints unsigned.
#25999
Medium: Wood engraving on maple Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches (image) 10 7/8 x 12 1/8 inches (sheet) Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1882 - 1971 Date finished: 1933 Edition: of 250 Reference: Burne-Jones 92
#51818
Medium: Wood engraving Dimensions: 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1904 - 1997 Date finished: 1938 Edition: of 75
#31206
Medium: Wood engraving Dimensions: 7 x 3 3/4 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1914 - 1989 Date of impression: 1948 Edition: 34/110
#31285
Medium: Wood engraving Dimensions: 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1908 - 1992 Date of plate: 1985 Edition: 4/50
#43205
Medium: Wood engraving Dimensions: 5 x 7 inches Signature: Signed Artist details: American, 1908 - 1992 Date of plate: 1984 Edition: 5/50. This is the artist's final wood engraving.
#43207
Medium: Wood engraving Dimensions: 5 x 6 1/2 inches Artist details: Japanese, 1964 Date finished: 2007 Edition: of 50
Recommended by Paige (Collections Manager): "Toru Sugita is a California-based Japanese artist and teacher who creates a variety of landscape and city scene prints. He has spent years thinking about changing light and is an expert at capturing each specific type of light that is unique to a place and a moment. On My Balcony I is a beautiful, simple wood engraving that captures a very individual scene: "my" balcony. It isn't lavish or curated; it isn't full of lush plants or exciting people - it's simple and sincere. The intimate process of carving a wood block is felt in this small piece. I feel the block's texture and the quiet moments that the artist spent with it. Now that we often think about curating images of our lives to only present the very best and most exciting aspects of ourselves, I am fascinated by Sugita's emphasis on the ordinary."
Medium: Wood engraving Dimensions: 5 x 7 inches Artist details: British, 1946 Edition: of 75
Recommended by Suzannah (Marketing and Communications Manager):
"There is magnificent energy and spirit in Colin See-Paynton’s wood engraving ‘Nocturnal Encounters - Barn Owl and Hare,’ in which predator and prey are caught in a cosmic struggle of life and death. The owl swoops majestically with deadly precision while the hare leaps into the sky with huge feet, and eyes wild with panic. The textures of the feather and fur are lifelike in their detail and stylized in contrast, owing to the expertise of Colin See-Paynton’s masterful technique. These two creatures soar in mythic opposition, their momentary scene played against the vault of the night sky."
Series: Transmigration (Transferred Soul) Medium: Wood engraving with chine-collé Dimensions: 12 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (image) Signature: Signed Artist details: Japanese, 1944 Date finished: 1988 Edition: of 40
Recommended by Catherine (Collections Specialist):
Keisei Kobayashi's intricate wood engravings often explore themes around ecology and nature mysticism. His piece Roots B from the 'Transmigration' series is a beautiful depiction of the reciprocity between humans and nature within the process of death. At a quick glance, the image appears to be of a dead tree, its scraggly and bare branches inviting the company of crows. A closer look reveals a glowing figure, sitting within the roots of the tree and bringing new life through the trunk. A clear symbol of rebirth in light of death, it also conveys a feeling of peaceful renewal in the midst of grief.
Series: Animals and Plants in Colors Medium: Colored wood engraving Dimensions: 16 x 12 inches (image), 23 1/4 x 19 inches (sheet) Signature: Signed Artist details: Japanese, 1944 Date finished: 2016 Edition: of 70
Recommended by Nikki(Fine Print Photographer & Content Publisher): Kobayashi’s easily recognizable flora and fauna and color palette’s repeated pastel rainbow rolls lull his audience into a peaceful acceptance of this scene. Kobayashi has hypnotically pulled the viewer into his fantasy world where baby chicks and sea turtles emerge in the same space; and land and seascapes gently exist in a circular flow in the same plane. All of the birds, fish, frogs, etc are all observing the cock and hen. Cycles of life are in perfect balance in this imaginary space, where even one wrong step from the cock at the edge of the cliff can throw it into disharmony.
