1879
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American artist active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. Whistler was born on July 11, 1834, in Lowell. During his formative years in Paris in the 1850s, Whistler was influenced by the injunctions of the poet and theorist Charles Baudelaire that artists should take subjects from modern life and seek a new beauty in the teeming cities. Whistler's first major suite of prints, his French Set brought critical acclaim but disappointing sales. Seeking more generous patrons, he moved to London in 1859. Initially, under the influence of his brother-in-law Francis Seymour Haden, a pioneer of the etching revival, he began a series of superbly observed and finely detailed views of the River Thames with its shipping, thriving wharves and picturesque characters. In his Thames Set etchings, Whistler often introduced the figures of workmen, boatmen or loungers in the foregrounds. Whistler died on July 17, 1903, in London.
Watercolor Landscape Painting By J.H. Twachtman (1853-1902)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Watercolor Landscape Painting by American artist J.H. Twachtman (1853-1902) Watercolor on board Unframed 10" x 13.25"
Watercolor
Early 20th Century European Architecture Drypoint Etching c.1930
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 20th Century European Architecture Drypoint Etching c.1930 This fine etching is pencil signed in the lower right corner (illegible - see i...
Drypoint
John Marin "Clock Tower of Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice, Italy" Etching c.1907
By John Marin
Located in San Francisco, CA
John Marin "Clock Tower of Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice, Italy" Original Pencil Signed Etching c.1907 Rare pencil signed etching by listed American artist John Marin (1870-1953) Pl...
Etching
David Roberts "Approach to Alexandria" Original Lithograph w/Hand Coloring
By David Roberts
Located in San Francisco, CA
David Roberts "Approach to Alexandria" Original Lithograph w/ Hand Coloring c.1848 Published by F.G. Moon in London, 1848 with Colour Accentuation by D. Leslie, 1976. Dimensions 20...
Lithograph
Luigi Kasimir (1881-1962) Estate Signed Color Etching "Klosterneuburg"
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
Luigi Kasimir (1881-1962) Estate Signed Color Etching "Klosterneuburg" Early 20th century 16" x 24 unframed 26.5" x 32.5 framed
Etching
Early 20th-century Late Meiji~American Impressionist Signed Watercolor
Located in San Francisco, CA
This original watercolor landscape tells a fascinating story of cross-cultural artistic exchange between Japan and America at the turn of the 20th century. The painting is by Yamada Baske, who was born Fukawa Jin Basuke (1869–1934). COMPOSITION: The composition captures a serene rural Japanese landscape blanketed in a heavy spring mist. In the foreground, an elegant, leaning cherry blossom tree dominates the left frame. In the mid-ground, a quiet riverbank path leads the viewer's eye toward thatched-roof farmhouses nestled under a soft horizon. The cherry blossom tree symbolizes ephemerality, renewal and the beautiful, fleeting nature of life. Baske’s hallmark use of a bleached, light-blanched color palette heightens this sense of a dreamy, vanishing memory or a fleeting moment in time. ARTIST: Born in Tokyo, Baske immigrated to the United States in 1885. He studied at prestigious institutions like the Art Students' League in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, training under the renowned American Impressionist William Merritt Chase. Baske subsequently split his life between America and Japan, notably teaching watercolor classes in Minneapolis and at the Tokyo Fine Art School. In 1906, when this work was completed, he was a fully established, highly regarded artist working primarily in the Northeast—specifically around Philadelphia and New York. He became famous for his gauzy, light-infused watercolor landscapes that introduced Western impressionist...
Paper, Watercolor
The Little Putney
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler, The Little Putney, 1879, etching and drypoint, signed with the large butterfly lower right (also with the butterfly in the plate). Glasgow 187, third state (of 3). 12...
Drypoint, Etching
Limehouse
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903) Limehouse, from Notes lithotint, on cream Japan paper mounted to plate paper (as issued), 1878, Spink, Stratis & Tedesch 7, second state (of three)...
Lithograph
Old Putney Bridge
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), Old Putney Bridge, 1879, etching and drypoint, signed in pencil with a large, elaborate shaded butterfly, lower right and inscribed imp (also signed with the butterfly in the plate), printed in dark-brown/black ink on laid paper, watermark ProPatria, an impression in Glasgow’s seventh (final) state, published by The Fine Art Society, probably printed in 1881, 8x 11 3/4 inches, sheet 12 1/8 x 16 1/8 inches. Reference: Kennedy 178; Glasgow 185. Provenance: Kraushaar Gallery, New York A fine impression, with wide margins. The Fine Art Societys relationship with Whistler began with the new etchings of the Thames he made in 1879, following a visit from Ernest Brown who had joined the staff of the gallery. The plate is on a large scale and shows the change in the artists approach to the Thames since the etchings he had made in Wapping and the docks in the summer of 1859. The central motif is the old bridge, by this stage somewhat dilapidated. It was shortly to be demolished and replaced by the new bridge of Cornish granite...
Drypoint, Etching
Billingsgate
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching printed in dark brownish black ink on cream laid paper, 6 x 8 7/8 inches (152 x 226 mm); full margins. Extremely minor and unobtrusive band of toning along the top sheet edg...
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Battersea Morn (also Battersea Dawn)
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1830-1903), Battersea Morn (also Battersea Dawn), drypoint, 1875, Kennedy 155, signed in pencil with the butterfly and inscribed “imp”. Kennedy 155, first state (of ...
Drypoint
SAN BIAGIO
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M. SAN BIAGIO. Etching and Drypoint, 1880. Glascow 237, K.197; M.194; W.163. State 8 of 17. With the printed butterfly at left, and with the butterfly signature in...
Drypoint, Etching
