Litho - VI

Georges Braque
Helios
ca. 1947
lithograph
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Harald Sallberg
Stockholm Spring
1948
lithograph
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Reinhold Ljunggren
Still Life with Azalea
ca. 1950
lithograph
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Esaias Thorén
Composition
ca. 1950
lithograph
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Ralston Crawford
Third Avenue Elevated #1
1951
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Wilhelm Kåge
Sv. Författareförenings Lotteri
(Swedish Writers' Association Lottery)
1952
lithograph (poster)
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg

Bertil Kumlien
Swedish Glass - Nationalmuseum
1954
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Emile Gilioli
Composition
ca. 1955
lithograph
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Tore Ahnoff
On the Stove
1956
lithograph
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Jan Forsberg
Brev fran en stad
1965
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Robert Cremean
#2
(series, Fourteen Stations)
1966
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

William Turnbull
Orange
(series, Sextet)
1966
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Pål-Nils Nilsson
Hantverkets - 60 tal - Nationalmuseum
1968
lithograph (poster)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

James Strombotne
Self Portrait
1968
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Jean Dubuffet
J. Dubuffet - C.N.A.C. Paris
1974
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Anonymous Swedish Designer
Gerhard Richter - Moderna Museet
1994
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

These things done by the Grecians one against another or against the barbarians came to pass all within the compass of fifty years at most, from the time of the departure of Xerxes to the beginning of this present war.  In which time the Athenians both assured their government over the confederates and also much enlarged their own particular wealth.  This the Lacedaemonians saw and opposed not, save now and then a little, but, as men that had ever before been slow to war without necessity and also for that they were hindered sometimes with domestic war, for the most part of the time stirred not against them; till now at last, when the power of the Athenians was advanced manifestly indeed and that they had done injury to their confederates, they could forbear no longer, but thought it necessary to go in hand with the war with all diligence and to pull down, if they could, the Athenian greatness.  For which purpose it was by the Lacedaemonians themselves decreed that the peace was broken and that the Athenians had done unjustly; and also having sent to Delphi and enquired of Apollo whether they should have the better in the war or not, they received, as it is reported, this answer: "That if they warred with their whole power, they should have victory and that himself would be on their side, both called and uncalled." 

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)

Constellations

Philippe Apeloig
Des Bibliothèques à Vivre - Usages, Espaces, Architectures
2009
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Philippe Apeloig
Octobre Fait Danser la Saison
(Octobre en Normandie)
1995
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Philippe Apeloig
New Year Greeting Card
1995
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Trans-Lumina with Turquoise
1986
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Greeting Card
before 1982
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Greeting Card
before 1982
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Greeting Card
1978
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Greeting Card
1969
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Banner
1963
appliquéd felt
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Hans Arp (Jean Arp)
Sculpture Study
1964
graphite and watercolor on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Hans Arp (Jean Arp)
Constellation
1960
painted paper collage
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Hans Arp (Jean Arp)
Amega dans l'Omega
1960
relief of wood, suede and silk, mounted on board
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Anonymous American Designer
Chickens (Kitchen)
ca. 1950-60
machine-printed wallpaper sample
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous American Designer
Undulating Grid
ca. 1950
screenprinted wallpaper sample
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Parrots
ca. 1905-1910
block-printed wallpaper sample
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Persian Printmaker
Scene from the Shahnama (Book of Kings)
ca. 1890
hand-colored woodcut
National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC

Anonymous French Designer
Offering to Cupid
ca. 1800
block-printed wallpaper sample
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead

Every time I sleep I leave a stain.

When I wake up I climb out of a drain

And step into my feet and it is plain

That when I walk away I leave a lane

Of garbage on the carpet in the train.

Francisco Franco (El Caudillo) pokes his head up from the drain

Where he's been hiding with Saddam Hussein.

He waterboards the peasants with champagne.

Now maybe they'll vote to give this madly inane

Hitler-buffoon his very own nuclear codes, let democracy reign!

Make Spain great again! I shouldn't touch it but I can't refrain

And don't restrain

Myself so what was once a tiny grain

Of pain

Is now a roaring lion with a mane.

Franco needs water for his golf courses so we can't complain

Out loud but it's insane – insane

Monsoons of rain

Drowning the automatic sprinkler systems that maintain

The greens, blinding windshields worldwide, Spain to Maine.

I can't stop rhyming! I can't. It's my domain!

Making more or less musical noise out of my fascist disdain.

I choose Francisco Franco, weakling strong man of Spain,

As my alter ego, bearer of my terror over what I can't attain

In the few years I have left, the minutes that remain.

Lacking tenderness, not something you can go to the store and obtain,

But which anyway does not pertain

To piloting an airplane

Dropping bombs on innocent civilians who remain

In pieces in the street under the boiling sun, Spaniards, pieces of Spain.

Don't drink and drive. Don't text while driving. Don't kill Lorca. Maintain

The good health of your car and tires and don't explain

To anyone when you're in the red-light district but remain

Alert also on the subway and don't feign

Ignorance because, though Franco is still dead, long may Franco reign!

– Frederick Seidel (2018)

Litho - V

Ernst Deutsch (called Dryden)
Weihnachts-Ausstellung in Alt-Berlin
1913
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ernst Deutsch (called Dryden)
Richard's Grill Room, Berlin
1913
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Leonhard Fries
Albert Rosenhain Luggage, Berlin
1913
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Gerhard Marggraff
Freudenberg Elberfeld - 1863-1913
1913
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Emil Orlik after Jacopino del Conte
Portrait of Michelangelo at age 65
1913
lithograph
Národní Galerie, Prague

Franz Wacik
Vienna Secession - Spring Exhibition
1913
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Johanna Kampmann-Freund
Hofmann and Czerny, Vienna
1920
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

George Bellows
Self Portrait
1921
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Otto Mueller
Five Yellow Nudes by the Water
1921
lithograph
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Leopoldo Metlicovitz
Giovanni Gallurese
ca. 1924
lithograph
(poster for theatrical production)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Jacques Debut
Pneumatici Pirelli
1925
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Artist (Italian)
Basilica di San Giovanni Laterano
ca. 1930
lithograph
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome

Anonymous Artist (Russian)
Install and Use Safety Guards
1930
lithograph (poster)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

John Jon-And
Palos Brud (Palo's Wedding)
1934
lithograph (film poster)
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg

Theodore Roszak
Staten Island
1934
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Edith Newton
Parlor Organ
1936
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

All this while the Athenians stayed still in Egypt and saw much variety of war.  First the Athenians were masters of Egypt; and the king of Persia sent one Megabazus, a Persian, with money to Lacedaemon to procure the Peloponnesians to invade Attica, and by that means to draw the Athenians out of Egypt.  But when this took no effect, and money was spent to no purpose, Megabazus returned with the money he had left into Asia.  And then was Megabazus the Zopyrus, a Persian, sent into Egypt with great forces, and coming in by land overthrew the Egyptians and their confederates in a battle, drave the Grecians out of Memphis, and finally inclosed them in the isle of Prosopis.  There he besieged them a year and a half, till such time as having drained the channel and turned the water another way, he made their galleys lie aground and the island for the most part continent, and so came over and won the island with land soldiers.

Thus was the army of the Grecians lost after six years' war; and few of many passing through Africa saved themselves in Cyrene, but the most perished.  So Egypt returned to the obedience of the king [of Persia] except only Amyrtaeus that reigned in the fens.  For him they could not bring in, both because the fens are great, and the people of the fens of all the Egyptians the most warlike.  But Inarus, king of the Africans and author of all this stir in Egypt, was taken by treason and crucified.  The Athenians moreover had sent fifty galleys more into Egypt for a supply of those that were there already, which putting in at Mendesium, one of the mouths of the Nilus, knew nothing of what had happened to the rest, and being assaulted from the land by the army and from the sea by the Phoenician fleets, lost the greatest part of their galleys and escaped home again with the lesser part.  Thus ended the great expedition of the Athenians and their confederates into Egypt.

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)

Litho - IV

Anonymous German Artist
No. 4711 Face Powder
ca. 1905
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Moriz Jung
Plastische Posen
c. 1905-1915
lithograph
(postcard produced by Wiener Werkstätte)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Maximilian Liebenwein
Pallas Athena
1906
lithograph
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Leopoldo Metlicovitz
Opening of the Simplon Tunnel
1906
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Julius Klinger
Lustige Blätter (magazine)
1909
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Hans Günther Reinstein
Mozart Pianos
1909
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anonymous Austrian Artist
Veteran Artists of the Chat Noir, Paris -
Three Performances at Saal Ehrbar, Vienna
1910
lithograph (poster)
Graphische-Sammlung-Albertina-Vienna

Hans Rudi Erdt
Die Woche (magazine)
1910
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Géza Faragó
Digestol Glück
1910
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Hollerbaum & Schmidt (printers)
Hohlfeld Roller
(ledger-supporting platform on wheels)
ca. 1910
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Rudolf Kalvach
Inspiration
ca. 1910
lithograph
(postcard produced by Wiener Werkstätte)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Aristide Maillol
Juno
ca. 1910
lithograph
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Emil Ranzenhofer
Cig Shoe-Polish Stick
1910
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Oskar Kokoschka
Der Sturm (magazine)
1911
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ewald Dülberg
Aida - Hamburger Stadt Theater
1912
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Egon Schiele
Self Portrait
1912
lithograph
Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig

But the Athenians stirred not from Aegina; but those that remained at Athens, both young and old, under the conduct of Myronides went to Megara; and after they had fought with doubtful victory, they parted asunder again with an opinion on both sides not to have had the worse in the action.  And the Athenians, who notwithstanding had rather the better, when the Corinthians were gone away erected a trophy.  But the Corinthians, having been reviled at their return by the ancient men of the city, about twelve days after came again prepared and set up their trophy likewise, as if the victory had been theirs.  Hereupon the Athenians sallying out of Megara with a huge shout both slew those that were setting up the trophy and, charging the rest, got the victory.

The Corinthians, being overcome, went their way; but a good part of them, being hard followed and missing their way, lighted into the enclosed ground of a private man, which fenced with a great ditch had no passage through.  Which the Athenians perceiving, opposed them at the place by which they entered with their men of arms and, encompassing the ground with their light armed soldiers, killed those that were entered with stones.  This was a great loss to the Corinthians, but the rest of their army got home again.  

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)