#color lithograph on paper

[artsandculture]

Tournée du Chat Noir (1896) 🎨 Théophile Alexandre Steinlen 🏛️ Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya 📍 Barcelona, Spain

[oncanvas]

25 Cats Name(d) Sam and one Blue Pussy, Andy Warhol, circa 1954

Offset lithographs with hand-coloring in watercolor on paper 9 ¼ x 6 ⅛ in. (23.5 x 15.6 cm) each

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Salvador Dalí, "Spider of the Evening" (detail), 1940

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Élisabeth Sonrel • Winter • 1901 • Color lithograph • Private collection

[tomoleary]

Jules Chéret (1836-1932) "Musee Grevin, Theatre Les Fantoches De John Hewelt" (1900) Source

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

First serialized in Pearson’s (UK) and Cosmopolitan (US) in 1897, H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds wasn’t the very first alien story ever told, but it is probably the most enduring and culturally significant of those early tales. Wells wasn’t just drawing on the nascent genre of science fiction but also the (earthly) invasion literature that was first popularized by George Tomkyns Chesney’s The Battle of Dorking ( Blackwood's Magazine, 1871). Wells later wrote that War of the Worlds was inspired by the genocidal treatment of Aboriginal Tasmanians by British colonizers.

The Limited Edition’s Club edition of H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds was published in 1964. It is illustrated with ten color lithographs, drawn directly on the plates by Joeseph Mugnaini, as well as a number of smaller line drawings by the artist. We posted a few years ago about the Limited Editions Club edition of The Time Machine, also illustrated by Mugnaini. These two books were originally issued together in an ochre-yellow slipcase that matches the end papers; the linen-weave book-cloth bindings are dyed in an opposite color scheme (black with a red spine label for The Time Machine and red with a black spine label for War of the Worlds). The boxed set was designed by Peter Oldenburg and printed on white wove paper from Curtis Paper Company by Abraham Colish at his press in Mt. Vernon, NY. The lithographs were pulled by master printer George C. Miller. 

I love how Mugnaini’s colorful illustrations manifest a sense of unease: the yellow and red skies backing the alien invaders, the extreme heat of blue streaked flames, the kaleidoscopic ruins of a building. Mugnaini was best known for his many collaborations with another Science Fiction heavyweight: Ray Bradbury, including cover art for the first paperback and hardback editions of Fahrenheit 451. A previous Staff Pick featured Mugnaini’s illustrations for the Limited Editions Club of Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles.

You can find more posts on the work of H. G. Wells here.

Check out more from illustrator Joe Mugnaini here.

And here you can find more from Limited Editions Club.

For more Staff Picks here. 

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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[arinewman7]

The Slingshot Bird

Joan Miró

Lithograph in colors on wove paper, 1965

[artandsouldesignstudio]

The last of my mono prints from project 3! • • • #art #litho #lithography #print #paper #ink #taste #vegetables #cooking #eating #color #eat #lithographs #mono #edition https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnmk30FLIip/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nobrashfestivity]

David Hockney Rain, from The Weather Series (NGA/Gemini 23.4), 1973 Color lithograph and screenprint on Arches watermarked paper; signed 'David Hockney 73' in green pencil along the lower edge

[kafkasapartment]

Portrait in Yellow, 1958. Paul Klee. Offset lithograph with pochoir coloring on wove paper

[disease]

JOAN MITCHELL / "FIELDS" / 1991-92 [lithograph in colors on paper | 30 x 22 1⁄4"]

[oncanvas]

Barber Shop, Robert Cottingham, 1989

Hand-colored lithograph on paper 19 ½ x 20 in. (49.5 x 50.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[jareckiworld]

Paul Wunderlich (1927-2010)—The Song of Songs which is Solomon's (I:16) [color lithograph on Rives wove paper, 1969]

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Mela Koehler (Austrian, 1885-1960) • Mode (Fashion) • Color lithograph (applied to postcards) • 1912 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

[arthuntblog]

Piero Dorazio (1927-2005) [Italy] - ‘Untitled XXIII‘, 1967. Lithograph in colors on Rives paper (47.6 x 62.8 cm).