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WPA artist Gustave Baumann gave up painting to pursue printmaking in order to create original art that ordinary people could afford. Here are some of his woodblock prints.

Born in New York City in 1918, Irving Amen was drawing at the age of four. A scholarship to the Pratt Institute was awarded to him when he was fourteen years old. With Michelangelo as his idol, he spent seven years in life classes perfecting his drawing. From 1942 to 1945 he served with the Armed Forces. He headed a mural project and executed murals in the United States and Belgium. His first exhibition in woodcut was held at the New School for Social Research and his second at the Smithsonian Institute in 1949, and in 1949 he travelled to Paris to study for a year. On his return to the United States he had one man shows in New York and Washington DC. In 1953, Amen travelled throughout Italy. This resulted in a series of eleven woodcuts, eight etchings and a number of oil paintings. One of these woodcuts, Piazza San Marco #4 and its four woodblocks constitute a permanent exhibit of block printing in colour at the Smithsonian Institution. Travel in Israel, Greece and Turkey in 1960 led to a retrospective show at the Artist's House in Jerusalem. Piazza San Marco #4 40.6 x 61 cm Irving Amen has taught at Pratt Institute and at the University of Notre Dame. He had a show of woodcuts at the Artists Studio in NYC. Commissions include a Peace Medal in honour of the Vietnam War. He created designs for 12 stained glass windows 16 feet high depicting the Twelve Tribes of Israel, commissioned by Agudas Achim Synagogue in Columbus, Ohio. He is listed in Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers and the Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists by Paul Cummings. He was elected member of Accademia Fiorentina Delle Arti Del Disegno, an organisation to which Michelangelo belonged. 1948 Promenade woodcut 1950 Times Square #4 woodcut 1954 Piazza San Marco woodcut 1954 Rialto and Bridge of Sighs woodcut 1954 Slaughtered Houses woodcut 1974 Flight woodcut Babylon woodcut Bird Watcher woodcut Florence, Italy woodcut 1975c Playmates woodcut 25.4 x 17.8 cm Girl with a Ball woodcut In My Father's House Are Many Mansions woodcut Italian Landscape woodcut 1970c Many Children Dwell in My Father's House woodcut 40.6 x 53.3 cm 1970c Many Children Dwell in My Father's House (variation) woodcut 40.6 x 53.3 cm Miner woodcut Palazzo Vecchio woodcut Pensive Girl #6 woodcut Piazza San Marco #1 woodcut 1955c Shelley woodcut 42.9 x 30.5 cm The Basket Offering woodcut 1965 Afternoon Sun woodcut 64.8 x 49.3 cm 1976 Musician woodcut 40.6 x 52.1 cm 1977 Chess Players woodcut 50.8 x 66 cm Don Quixote woodcut 53.3 x 34.3 1960 Student woodcut The Open Book woodcut Three Graces Chess Players woodcut Chess Players woodcut

1931/34 Arie and Annie Zonneveld

Yamamoto, from " Modern Japanese Prints " This post is the first in a series about the artists of the sosaku hanga (creative prints) mo...

The Dutch graphic artist Wijnand Otto Jan van Nieuwenkamp was born in Amsterdam in 1874. He is celebrated particularly for his scenes in Java, Bali, and Lombok, which show a subtle sensitivity to Indonesian culture. Wijnand van Nieuwenkamp, Arabische Viertel in Semarang auf Java Etching, pre-1915 Having first travelled to Indonesia in 1898, W.O.J. van Nieuwenkamp made repeated visits to the area, including long trips to Bali in 1904, 1906-7, 1917-19, 1935 and 1937. Travelling on foot, on horseback, and by bike, Wijnand van Nieuwenkamp made an important record of Balinese art in drawings and prints, and books such as Bali en Lombok (1906-1910); he also gathered together a huge collection of Indonesian art and artefacts. Wijnand van Nieuwenkamp, Rhenen Woodcut, 1911 Van Nieuwenkamp also depicted European landscapes, as in these three woodcuts of Rhenen in the Netherlands, Le Puy-en-Velay in southern France, and Mechelen in Belgium (Mecheln is the German spelling). In these European scenes he allows himself an Expressionist vigour (noticeable in the skies of Rhenen, or the waters of Mechelen), whereas the Indonesian subjects tend to be marked by a restrained realism and a respect for the aesthetic values of the local culture. Wijnand van Nieuwenkamp, Le Puy in Velay (Südfrankreich) Woodcut, pre-1915 Wijnand van Nieuwenkamp, Brücke in Mecheln Woodcut, 1899 Although nicknamed "the Wanderer", after the name of his houseboat De Zwerver, Wijnand Otto Jan van Nieuwenkamp settled in the 1920s in the Villa Nieuwenkamp in Fiesole, just outside Florence, where he died in 1950.

Xiang Silou wood engraved print, these are truly remarkable, the skin and wrinkles are almost tangible, the show the fragility of the skin and the beauty of aging. The figures look similar to some of the amazing people I photographed in South East Asia, a man in Hoi An had similar wrinkles and visual evidence of a rich tapestry of life on his face.

Laser etched woodblock prints from Christopher Clark.

I’d been looking forward to this for years. Ever since we first had his wood engravings I’d been curious about where they came from. We usually get Howard’s prints in the post or …

I have just finished carving 5 out of 6 linos which are for wine lables at the Jack Russel Wine Company. I am really loving making the artwork for this project. Lino cut is about much more than jus…

After two years of preparation and meticulous carving, “Overlook” is an upcoming woodcut print from the minds and hands of Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth of Pittsburgh-based Tugboat Printshop (previously). The duo make some of the most stunning limited edition woodcut prints around, having churned out a number of new pieces since we last checked in including Woodcut Valley, Community, and Desert Island. More