Gordon Cook

Gordon Cook was a renowned artist born in 1927 in the United States. He was known for his unique style of painting that combined abstract and figurative elements.

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Etching

Headland V

A rapprochement of sea and land –&nbsp;the harmony of both in Northern California.

Composition

Bay Area artist of real things, has an impressive reputation for printmaking and landscape painting. His etchings have been collected by the the Metropolitan, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago.

Cook establishes a language of visual meaning with etching lines that evokes light and substance.

Intent

Cook's directness is a celebration of what-is in the world. He is one of the greatest etchers of this era.

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Boathouse, Golden Gate Park

Cook once stated that his favorite subject contained land, water, and something man-made. Here they are masterfully together.

Bay Area artist of real things, has an impressive reputation for printmaking and landscape painting. His etchings have been collected by the the Metropolitan, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago.

Catherine Lee

Catherine Lee is a contemporary artist known for her vibrant and expressive paintings.

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Intaglio Aquatint

Tehama II

Postminimalist attention to material, process, and form.

A believer in the power of abstraction, Lee's irregular grids and monochrome colors have been exhibited in the MoMA, the Tate, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

These works embody a tension between the flat landscape of her childhood Texas and the verticality of NYC where she worked as an artist.

This female, contemporary artist has a distinct and powerful aesthetic.

James Brown

James Brown was an American painter born in Los Angeles, California in 1951.

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Salt Note Suite II

These forms of black ink etched onto hand-made paper exemplify the synthesis of simple materials and the human hand.

Rising to fame in the 1980s East Village art scene, Brown was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist. He has been exhibited in institutions like Centre de Pompidou, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago.

This bold series unfolds like a dance in its succession of six images.

Truly captivating collection made by a highly acclaimed artist.

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Spitbite Aquatint

Lithograph

Salt Note Black II

Brown created a base of lithographic forms by stamping ink with a fingerprint-like trace, varying the rhythm of the composition.

Using an antique hand-made paper intended for schools, Brown suggests that both the making and viewing of art is a process of learning.

Brown's strong six figure auction records only amplifies this stunning Hero work.

Gustavo Rivera

Gustavo Rivera is a contemporary artist known for his vibrant and expressive paintings.

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Pomegranate I (White)

Rivera works intuitively –&nbsp;using etching with collage of spontaneous color to create an energy that is uniquely his.

Internationally recognized Mexican artist who presides in San Francisco. His rich, cultural monotypes have been exhibited at the likes of Stanford Museum, de Young, Museo Felguerez.

This work is saturated with the richness of Rivera's life across San Francisco, Mexico, and Europe.

Rivera made only a few editions making his works rare to collect.

Ed Ruscha

He is widely recognized for his contributions to the Pop Art movement and his unique approach to painting, drawing, and photography.

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Book Return

He composes a visual verbalization of the scenes, objects, and texts he encounters in consumerist life in LA.

Connected to Pop Art becaue of his use of commercial art techniques, Ruscha's play on language has been highly influential. He has been exhibited in the Metropolitan, Centre Pompidou, and the Tate Modern.

Ruscha raises the ordinary to the monolithic in his tongue-in-cheek rendering of a book return box.

With a record auction price of $52M, Ruscha continues to be a coveted brand name.

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Pomegranate I (Red)

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Library

Ruscha echoes his famous gas station image in an architecutral elevation of a contemporary suburban library.

Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell was an American abstract expressionist painter born on February 12, 1925, in Chicago, Illinois.

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Smoke

A star of Abstract Expressionism at a time when female artists rarely achieved fame. Mitchell was a peer of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, and has been exhibited in the Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum.

A solution of sugar and ink painted onto copper is Mitchell's direct path from painting to etching. These diptych paintings are printed on Swiss linen paper in a portfolio of beautiful poems.

In this folio of poems, Smoke, Mitchell gives life to "air" and "tobacco"

The MOMA owns an edition of this Mitchell, and her works continue to hit auction records of $29M.

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Rosebush

Cook's etching encapsulates form and mass by bringing to life the contours and spirit of a living rosebush.

Bay Area artist with an impressive reputation for printmaking and landscape painting. His etchings have been collected by the Metropolitan, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago.

Cook details the beauty of a single rose and the mass of the rosebush, centering the thicket of stem and shadow.

Cooks' directness is a celebration of what-is. He is one of the great etchers of this era.

John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain was an American sculptor known for his innovative use of crushed and twisted automobile parts to create abstract sculptures.

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<ul><li>This compression of form on copper plate mirrors the folding of steel of Chamberlain's well-reknown sculptures. </li></ul>

<ul><li>Achieved critical acclaim in the 1960s as a three dimensional Abstract Expressionisst, later to explore printmaking. His work was given a retrospective at the Guggenheim.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Chamberlain considered printing all the plates in delicate colors to undercut the rigor of drypoint engraving, but instead opted for bold black ink to trace the vigor of his hand.</li></ul>

<ul><li>This artist was formidable in every medium he explored, with a record $5M auction price for a Chamberlain sculpture.</li></ul>

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Alex Katz

Alex Katz, born July 24, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, is celebrated for his distinctive style and lasting impact on contemporary art.

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Screenprint

Woodcut

Sunrise

Untethered to any movement, Katz embraced figurative clarity and rejected abstraction. This prolific artist has been exhibited in the Whitney, National Portrait Gallery, Guggenheim.

This 6-run color lithograph &amp; woodcut has rich, flat planes of pigment.

Katz honors Earth's majestic landscape, elevating nature in a quiet reverence here.

Highly influential artist with an auction record of $4M.

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Tree 8

This woodcut took three runs to build the blue background and define the tree. Then a final three runs through the press, for the orange, white, and black brushstrokes that create spring shadows on the trunk.

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Tree 10

A 10 color silkscreen that uses transparent inks to build density and create soft transitions in values for capturing depth of the tree.

Morris Graves

Morris Graves was an American painter and printmaker born on August 28, 1910, in Fox Valley, Oregon.

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Five Persimons, Five jewels, and Flowering Cabbage with Morning Glory

The subject matter here serve as offerings. Exemplary of Graves' finest and most characteristic work –&nbsp;a complex lithograph and silkscreen still life that speaks of a particular moment of light, human care, and something larger.

Modern artist whose first exhibtion at the MoMA was in 1942 and later became one of the Pacific Northwest’s most recognized artists.

In opposition to the modern world, Graves captured the sights and sounds of the natural world, aiming to draw you back to the beauty of the altar of visual reality and spirituality.

Important Modern artist with works of notoriety and commanding color pigments. Auction records of high six figures.

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Evening Light

Exemplary of Graves' finest and most characteristic work – a complex lithograph and silkscreen still life that is a reminder of the tour de force of beauty and transience.

Sandro Chia

Sandro Chia, an Italian artist born in Florence in 1946, gained fame in the 1980s as a leading figure in the Transavanguardia movement, reviving figurative painting.

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One of the most renown living Italian artists, Sandro borrows from his rich Florentine roots and the Neo-Expressionist movement. He's been exhibited in the MoMA, Guggenheim, Museum Bilbao.

Foremost a painter, Chia incorporates hand painting across a variety of his printmaking techniques

Rich Italian imagery and themes, reinterpreted for current day with a colorful, figurative style.

A favorite Italian artist with a strong eye for color.

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Monoprint

Unique Monotype

Rivera's monotype emanates energy through rich paint and collage.

A one-of-a-kind artwork saturated with vitalithy and color.

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Josiah McElheny

Josiah McElheny, born in 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts, explored art at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1989.

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Photogravure

Studies in the Search for Infinity

Conceptual artist recognized for his blown glass sculptures and influenced by minimalists with big ideas like Donald Judd. McElheny has been exhibited in the MoMA, Guggenheim, Reina Sofia.

Ten photogravures derived from blown glass discs, each print sets the disc against a black background to evoke an infinity pattern.

The glass is reminiscent of "Cristalloware" which was developed at a time wehn philosophers were debating the universe and its finiteness. This questioning laid the groundwork for the Big Bang Theory.

Well renown artist and this print series is perfect for a collector with an eye for the constellation.

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Gate

Using a vial of French lavender oil, Mitchell painted oil onto the four panel aquatint to lighten areas and bring an aroma of lavender.

Mitchell moves from painting to etching here, creating large and vigorous brush strokes in the lens of her highly renown paintings.

Mitchell is a highly coveted collection, her works continue to hit auction records of $29M.

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Untitled II

Mitchell's spitbite technique is painted on plates with an acid solution to produce this contemplative, fine mist of color with bold blue and black strokes.

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Sugarlift Aquatint

Salt Note Suite

Using two small brushes held in the same hand, Brown explored forms that are both abstract and figurative.

The variety of shape in this series of black and white images provides a small symphony of form that can fill a room.

Jumpstart a collection with these eight coveted lithographs.

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Salt Note Suite I

The antique Swedish Lessebo paper helps to generate light from Brown's' majestic ink.

The Cardinal red is punctuated by the vertically linear form of the page –&nbsp;here he connects painting to etching through sugarlift and spitbite techniques.

This series is not only visually sublime, but a single collection by a critically acclaimed artist.

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Drypoint

Suite 2

This compression of form on copper plate mirrors the folding of steel from Chamberlain's renown sculptures.

Chamberlain achieved critical acclaim in the1960s as an Abstract Expressionist later to explore printmaking. His work was given a retrospective at the Guggenheim.

Chamberlain considered printing all the plates in delicate colors to undercut the rigor of drypoint engraving, but instead opted for bold black to trace the vigor of his hand.

With a $5M auction record, this artist was formidable in every medium he explored.

Richard Anuszkiewicz

Richard Anuszkiewicz, born in 1930 in Erie, Pennsylvania, is celebrated for his pivotal role in the Op Art movement.

Grey Tinted Rainbow

Richard's optical art has included steel sculpture, print, and reliefs. He has been exhibited in the MoMA, Whitney, Brooklyn Museum

Contrast of bright, dimensional colors. Richard combines lithography and silkscreen, assembling cutouts in geometric shapes.

A study of the effects of fourteen colors on perception in the second and third dimension.

Color and size make this a very commanding piece of art.

Arturo Herrera

Arturo Herrera, born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1959, is renowned for his boundary-breaking works merging painting, sculpture, and collage.

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Fetch

South American artist known for intricate, mixed media compositions, Herrera has been shown in likes of MoMA, P.S.1, Art Institute of Chicago.

Series of six colored etchings that are both sparse and uniquely gestural and playful.

When looking at the six works, meaning is evoked from unconscious memories and recollection of the shapes.

Beautiful series of six 20 x 21 color etchings to engage a room.

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Hand painting

I Am For That

Blue ink on blue handmade paper, Brown's drawings probe the mystery of scale in which forms press against their constraining boundaries.

Each of these drawings have the sense of missives, sent by a traveler in an exotic land--in this case, Morocco-- to record his impressions of the place

Folio of five beautiful works saturated wtih color and boldness.

Squeak Carnwath

Squeak Carnwath is an American artist known for her colorful and expressive paintings, prints, and installations.

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Lotus

Carnwath brings to life the softness of the lotus through use of softground etching – her light pencil strokes are captured on the copper plate.

Female Bay Area artist who is a professor at UC Berkeley and whose collections are in the Metropolitan, American Academy of Arts, and SFMoMA.

Carnwath creates a harmonious world in her delicate, ambiguous forms.

Carnwath's delicate, conversational prints make great collection accents. This artist has an auction record of $30K.

Hivesong

Carnwath combines two etching techniques to imbue the print with a delicate entangelement of color and energy.

Nathan Oliveira

Nathan Olivera was an American artist born in Oakland, California in 1928.