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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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.

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

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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.

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.

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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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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Library

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

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

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Book Return

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

Gustavo Rivera

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

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Unique Monotype

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

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.

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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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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Charles Farr

Charles Farr is a contemporary artist known for his unique style and use of vibrant colors.

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Peaches and Sky

Simple use of lithography and color while arranging peaches on a table and cloth.

Trained as an ancient pottery restorer at the Met, Farr became a realist painter in the Bay Area influenced by Classical Renaissance and 17th Century Dutch artists. He is collected by the Smithsonian, Oakland Museum, MMFA.

A classical still life with peaches. The cloth references Veronica's Veil and makes this work a reminder of mortality, momento mori. In a sense, the ripe fruit is an offering to time, to the inevitable process of change.

Masterful piece of art and ideal for any aspiring collector.

Morris Graves

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

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Summer Sun Ripening Fruit

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Joan Mitchell

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

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Untitled II

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.

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.

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.

James Brown

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

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Salt Notes

This book uses rich papers and and extravagantly complex techniques to make the simple profound.

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.

"Salt" as a symbol of permanence, while "Notes" evoke both music and marks. Both these words are about essence as&nbsp;they penetrate and extract from whatever they encounter.

Brown has strong six figure auction records and this book calls to art collectors.

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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Small Pink Roses

The artist's love of lines is evident in the shadows that trace the petals and leaves.

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

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

Cooks' directness is a celebration of what-is in the world. One of the greatest etchers of this era.

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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.

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Smoke

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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Pomegranate I (Red)

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.

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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Diptych V

Each hand-painted print begins with a printed matrix from which Brown responds –&nbsp;dramatically painting on the plate creating a unique composition.

These two works were created with the intent to be the authority of paintings –&nbsp;singular, unique, indelible.

This one-of-a-kind pair by a six figure auction artist is a coveted collectible.

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Single XVI

This work was created with the intent to be the authority of paintings — singular, unique, indelible.

This one-of-a-kind Hero work by a six figure auction artist is a coveted collectible.

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Single XX

Harry Fonseca

Harry Fonseca (1946–2006) was a Native American artist of Nisenan Maidu, Hawaiian, and Portuguese descent, born in Sacramento.

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Coyote

Fonseca rose to prominence as a Native American artist with a unique brand of traditional values and a contemporary edge. His works have been globally exhibited in the likes of the Smithsonian, Oakland Museum, Vienna Anthropological Museum.

Fonseca creates a sparkling contrast with lithography and bold drawn lines against the stark white paper. The figures are presented centrally in the composition, referencing an study of Picasso and Chagall.

Coyotes are central figures in much of Native American culture – inventive, wise and tricky creatures. Fonseca brings the coyote into the contemporary realm in this lithograph series.

A 13-print series of dramatic Southwest iconography that can fill an entire wall.

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Coyote in the Mission

This color lithograph is a contemporary expression of the traditional mythic creature through vivid, etched hues.

Fonseca brings Coyote to the fabled San Francisco neighborhood, showing just how contemporary the spirit of Coyote is –&nbsp;ever in the thick of things.

Unique intersection of Southewestern history with contemporary Northern California landmarks.

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

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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.

Richard Anuszkiewicz

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

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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.

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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.