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Warrington Colescott

Born: 1921 (Oakland, California)

Died: 2018 (Hollandale, Wisconsin)

Artworks

Whatever Happened to Helen?. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1996. Medium: Soft-ground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and marbling.

Whatever Happened to Helen?

1996

Whatever happened to Helen?. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1996. Medium: soft-ground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and marbling.

Whatever happened to Helen?

1996

Laps. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1987. Medium: soft-ground etching, aquatint, & marbling, w a la poupee inking, rainbow roll, & relief rolls through stencils.

Laps

1987

Night of the Artists. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1986. Medium: Soft-ground etching, spit-bite and aquatint, with à la poupée inking, on paper.

Night of the Artists

1986

The Future: On the Line. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1986. Medium: Soft-ground etching, aquatint, and spit-bite aquatint, w vibrograver, a la poupee inking, & relief rolls through stencils.

The Future: On the Line

1986

Frontispiece. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1984. Medium: letterpress.

Frontispiece

1984

Poker Night at Pentagon. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1983. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with relief rolls through stencils.

Poker Night at Pentagon

1983

History of Printmaking: Leroy Neiman Pulls a Screen Print. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1982. Medium: Soft-ground etching, aquatint, & spit-bite aquatint, w relief rolls through stencils.

History of Printmaking: Leroy Neiman Pulls a Screen Print

1982

History of Printmaking Update: Leroy Neiman Pulls a Screen Print. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1982. Medium: soft-ground etching, aquatint, & spit-bite aquatint, w relief rolls through stencils.

History of Printmaking Update: Leroy Neiman Pulls a Screen Print

1982

The Hollandale Tapes: Down in the Think Tank. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1982. Medium: color soft-ground etching, with à la poupée inking, and relief rolls through stencils.

The Hollandale Tapes: Down in the Think Tank

1982

The Hunt: Counterattack by Deer Hunters. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1981. Medium: Soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, à la poupée inking, and relief rolls through stencils on paper.

The Hunt: Counterattack by Deer Hunters

1981

The Hunt: First Dawn Stake Out. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1981. Medium: soft-ground etching, aquatint, and spit-bite aquatint, with relief rolls through stencils.

The Hunt: First Dawn Stake Out

1981

The History of Printmaking: Leroy Neiman Pulls a Screen Print. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1981. Medium: softground etching, aquatint, and spit-bite aquatint, with relief rolls through stencils.

The History of Printmaking: Leroy Neiman Pulls a Screen Print

1981

Self-Portrait Smoking the Plate. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1980. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with relief rolls through stencils.

Self-Portrait Smoking the Plate

1980

Berkeley Vegetarian Potluck Party. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1980. Medium: Soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

Berkeley Vegetarian Potluck Party

1980

At the Ball, State II. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1980. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver.

At the Ball, State II

1980

The History of Printmaking: Picasso at the Zoo. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1978. Medium: pen and wash drawing.

The History of Printmaking: Picasso at the Zoo

1978

The History of Printmaking: Lunch with Lautrec. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1978. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with relief rolls through stencils.

The History of Printmaking: Lunch with Lautrec

1978

History of Printmaking: Rauschenberg at Tamarind, in Hollywood. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1978. Medium: Soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

History of Printmaking: Rauschenberg at Tamarind, in Hollywood

1978

History of Printmaking: The Last Printmaker. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1978. Medium: Soft-ground etching and aquatint, with a la poupee inking, and relief rolls through stencils.

History of Printmaking: The Last Printmaker

1978

Picasso at the Zoo. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1978. Medium: soft-ground etching, aquatint, sugar-lift aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils on paper.

Picasso at the Zoo

1978

The History of Printmaking: Rembrandt Bankrupt. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1978. Medium: Soft-ground etching & aquatint, with a la poupee inking.

The History of Printmaking: Rembrandt Bankrupt

1978

At the Ball. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1978. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, on paper.

At the Ball

1978

History of Printmaking: The Last Printmaker. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1977. Medium: soft-ground etching, aquatint, and drypoint, with vibrograver.

History of Printmaking: The Last Printmaker

1977

History of Printmaking: S.W. Hayter Discovers Viscosity Printing. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1977. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

History of Printmaking: S.W. Hayter Discovers Viscosity Printing

1977

History of Printmaking: Dürer at 23, in Venice, in love, his Bags are Stolen. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1977. Medium: soft-ground etching, aquatint, and drypoint, with vibrograver.

History of Printmaking: Dürer at 23, in Venice, in love, his Bags are Stolen

1977

The History of Printmaking: Rembrandt Bankrupt. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1977. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with a la poupee inking.

The History of Printmaking: Rembrandt Bankrupt

1977

The History of Printmaking: Lunch with Lautrec. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1977. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, lithographic crayon, and relief rolls through stencils.

The History of Printmaking: Lunch with Lautrec

1977

The History of Printmaking: Goya Studies War. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1976-77. Medium: Soft-ground etching, aquatint, and drypoint, with vibrograver.

The History of Printmaking: Goya Studies War

1976-77

The History of Printmaking: Goya Studies War. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1976-1977. Medium: soft-ground etching, aquatint, and drypoint, with vibrograver.

The History of Printmaking: Goya Studies War

1976-1977

History of Printmaking: S.W. Hayter Discovers Viscosity Printing. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1976. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

History of Printmaking: S.W. Hayter Discovers Viscosity Printing

1976

History of Printmaking: Senefelder Receives the Secrets of Lithography. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1976. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, w vibrograver, & relief rolls through stencils.

History of Printmaking: Senefelder Receives the Secrets of Lithography

1976

The History of Printmaking: The Last Printmaker. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1976. Medium: Soft-ground etching and aquatint, with viscosity inking.

The History of Printmaking: The Last Printmaker

1976

History of Printmaking: Senefelder Receives the Secrets of Lithography. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1976. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, w vibrograver & relief rolls through stencils.

History of Printmaking: Senefelder Receives the Secrets of Lithography

1976

The History of Printmaking: Ben Franklin at Versailles. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1976. Medium: Soft-ground etching and aquatint, w vibrograver, & relief rolls through stencils.

The History of Printmaking: Ben Franklin at Versailles

1976

The Last Printmaker. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1976. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint with viscosity inking on paper.

The Last Printmaker

1976

History of Printmaking: Ben Franklin at Versailles. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1976. Medium: Soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

History of Printmaking: Ben Franklin at Versailles

1976

The History of Printmaking: The Entry of Mauricio Lasansky into Iowa City. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1976. Medium: Soft-ground etching, drypoint, and aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

The History of Printmaking: The Entry of Mauricio Lasansky into Iowa City

1976

The History of Printmaking: Dürer at 23, in Venice, in Love, His Bags are Stolen. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1976. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, and à la poupée inking printed in color.

The History of Printmaking: Dürer at 23, in Venice, in Love, His Bags are Stolen

1976

Senefelder Receives the Secrets of Lithography. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1976. Medium: Soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver on paper.

Senefelder Receives the Secrets of Lithography

1976

A Brief History of Flight. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1975. Medium: soft ground etching, with vibrograver and viscosity inking.

A Brief History of Flight

1975

A History of Printmaking: Goya Analyzes the News. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1975. Medium: watercolor and ink.

A History of Printmaking: Goya Analyzes the News

1975

The History of Printmaking: Ben Franklin at Versailles. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1975. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

The History of Printmaking: Ben Franklin at Versailles

1975

Madison Art Center. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1973. Medium: ink drawing and collage.

Madison Art Center

1973

View from W. Washington and Rue Rabelais. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1973. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with roulette, vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

View from W. Washington and Rue Rabelais

1973

View from W. Washington and Rue Rabelais, Reversed. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1973. Medium: etching.

View from W. Washington and Rue Rabelais, Reversed

1973

Which Way to the Madison Art Center?. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1973. Medium: etching with inked captions.

Which Way to the Madison Art Center?

1973

View from W. Washington and Rue Rabelais. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1973. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with roulette, vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

View from W. Washington and Rue Rabelais

1973

Prime-Time Histories: Lincoln at Ford’s Theater. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1973. Medium: Soft-ground etching, drypoint, & aquatint, w vibrograver.

Prime-Time Histories: Lincoln at Ford’s Theater

1973

View from W. Washington and Rue Rabelais. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1973. Medium: soft-ground etching and aquatint, with roulette, vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

View from W. Washington and Rue Rabelais

1973

Men in White. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1972. Medium: Soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils on paper.

Men in White

1972

Avalon Ballroom. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1972. Medium: drypoint, softground etching, aquatint with roulette, vibrograver, letterpress photo plate, viscosity inking, industrial materials relief-rolled and relief rolls through stencils on paper.

Avalon Ballroom

1972

Madison Art Center Poster Graveurs. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1972. Medium: softground etching with drypoint and lithograph.

Madison Art Center Poster Graveurs

1972

Death in Venice: Strolling Singers. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: hard-ground etching and drypoint, w roulette, vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: Strolling Singers

1971

Death in Venice: Barber Shop. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: Drypoint and aquatint, w relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: Barber Shop

1971

Death in Venice: Barber Shop. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: Drypoint and aquatint, with relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: Barber Shop

1971

Your Day in Court. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: Drypoint, etching, aquatint, woodcut, & soft-ground etching, w roulette, vibrograver, letterpress plate, & relief rolls through stencils.

Your Day in Court

1971

Death in Venice: Piazza San Marco. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: woodcut and hard-ground etching with relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: Piazza San Marco

1971

Death in Venice: Pursuit. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: hard-ground etching and aquatint, with found object.

Death in Venice: Pursuit

1971

Your Day in Court. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: Drypoint, etching, aquatint, woodcut, and soft-ground etching, w roulette, vibrograver, found letterpress plate & relief rolls through stencils.

Your Day in Court

1971

Death in Venice: Aschenbach Aboard. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: soft-ground etching, drypoint, & aquatint, with vibrograver, & relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: Aschenbach Aboard

1971

Death in Venice: Aschenbach Aboard. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: soft-ground etching, drypoint, & aquatint, with vibrograver, & relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: Aschenbach Aboard

1971

Death in Venice: Dark Gondola. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: Hard-and soft-ground etching, drypoint, and aquatint w vibrograver, & relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: Dark Gondola

1971

Your Day in Court. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: Drypoint, etching, aquatint, woodcut, and soft-ground etching, with roulette, vibrograver, found letterpress plate, and relief rolls through stencils on pape.

Your Day in Court

1971

Death in Venice: Strolling Singers. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: hard-ground etching & drypoint, w roulette, vibrograver, & relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: Strolling Singers

1971

A Frightful Dream. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: soft-ground etching, drypoint, photo-etching, & aquatint, w ith vibrograver, & relief rolls through stencils.

A Frightful Dream

1971

Death in Venice: Pursuit. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: hard-ground etching and aquatint, with found object.

Death in Venice: Pursuit

1971

Death in Venice: Tadzio. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: soft-ground etching, drypoint, aquatint, & letterpress photo plate, w vibrograver, & relief rolls.

Death in Venice: Tadzio

1971

Death in Venice: Death on the Lido. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: drypoint, aquatint, and photo-etching, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: Death on the Lido

1971

Death in Venice: A Frightful Dream. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: soft-ground etching, drypoint, photo-etching, & aquatint, w vibrograver, & relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: A Frightful Dream

1971

Death in Venice: I Feel Sick. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: hard-ground etching, aquatint, & photo-etching, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: I Feel Sick

1971

Death in Venice: I Feel Sick. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: hard-ground etching, aquatint, & photo-etching, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: I Feel Sick

1971

Death in Venice: Death on the Lido. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: drypoint, aquatint, and photo-etching, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: Death on the Lido

1971

Death in Venice: Dark Gondola. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: Hard-and soft-ground etching, drypoint, and aquatint w vibrograver, & relief rolls through stencils.

Death in Venice: Dark Gondola

1971

Death in Venice: Tadzio. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: soft-ground etching, drypoint, aquatint, & letterpress photo plate, w vibrograver, & relief rolls.

Death in Venice: Tadzio

1971

Sketches While Reading Thomas Mann’s Letters. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1971. Medium: pen and ink.

Sketches While Reading Thomas Mann’s Letters

1971

Cisco Kid. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1970. Medium: etching on paper.

Cisco Kid

1970

Patrioticks. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1969. Medium: soft-ground etching, drypoint, and aquatint, with roulette, vibrograver, found letterpress photo plate, and relief rolls through stencils.

Patrioticks

1969

Famous American Riots: Railroad. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1969. Medium: lithograph.

Famous American Riots: Railroad

1969

Famous American Riots: Fracas at Calamity’s Place. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1969. Medium: lithograph.

Famous American Riots: Fracas at Calamity’s Place

1969

Famous American Riots: Tea Party. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1969. Medium: lithograph.

Famous American Riots: Tea Party

1969

Famous American Riots: Fracas in Calamity’s Place. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1969. Medium: lithograph.

Famous American Riots: Fracas in Calamity’s Place

1969

A Wild West: Cowboys and Indians. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1968. Medium: offset lithograph.

A Wild West: Cowboys and Indians

1968

A Wild West: Wagon Train. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1968. Medium: offset lithograph.

A Wild West: Wagon Train

1968

A Wild West: Dodge City. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1968. Medium: offest lithograph.

A Wild West: Dodge City

1968

Goodge Street. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1967. Medium: Drypoint, aquatint, and soft-ground etching, w found letterpress & found industrial materials inked in relief.

Goodge Street

1967

The Great Society: Inner Core, State I. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1967. Medium: drypoint and aquatint, with roulette, vibrograver, and letterpress photo plates on paper.

The Great Society: Inner Core, State I

1967

Commuters. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1966. Medium: lithograph with spray tusche through found industrial objects.

Commuters

1966

Get-Away Car. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1966. Medium: lithograph.

Get-Away Car

1966

Goodbye Jack. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1966. Medium: drypoint, etching, and aquatint, with roulette, vibrograver, letterpress plates, found antique brass plate, and relief rolls through stencils.

Goodbye Jack

1966

Tourist Parties Unaware of Hidden Plague. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1966. Medium: pen and ink, watercolor wash, and gouache with collage.

Tourist Parties Unaware of Hidden Plague

1966

The Battle at Little Bohemia. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1964. Medium: Drypoint, with vibrograver, à la poupée inking, letterpress plates, letterpress photo plates, sandpaper, and relief rolls through stencils on paper.

The Battle at Little Bohemia

1964

The Death of Dillinger. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1964. Medium: hard-ground and soft-ground etching, aquatint, drypoint, with relief rolls through stencils in brown, red, orange, blue and black.

The Death of Dillinger

1964

Self-Portrait. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1961. Medium: burin engraving, soft-ground etching, and aquatint.

Self-Portrait

1961

Catacomb. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1957. Medium: hard- and soft-ground etching, sugar-lift aquatint, drypoint, with roulette and screenprint.

Catacomb

1957

A Moonlight Swim. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: 1952. Medium: color screenprint.

A Moonlight Swim

1952

Excelsior Palace. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: felt-tip pen/pen and ink.

Excelsior Palace

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Untitled. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Medium: pencil, graphite and pen.

Untitled

Outside Aschenbach’s Balcony, Unruly Strolling Players and Wildlife. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: ink.

Outside Aschenbach’s Balcony, Unruly Strolling Players and Wildlife

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Untitled. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: compressed charcoal pencil.

Untitled

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Untitled. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: graphite, crayon, pen and ink with wash.

Untitled

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Untitled. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: pen and ink.

Untitled

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Aschenbach’s Dreams. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: felt-tip pen.

Aschenbach’s Dreams

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Gustav von Aschenbach. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: pen and ink.

Gustav von Aschenbach

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Untitled. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: heavy lead pencil.

Untitled

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Quadri’s. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: pen and ink.

Quadri’s

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On Way to Hotel – Spooky Gondolier. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: gouache.

On Way to Hotel – Spooky Gondolier

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Untitled. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: pen and ink.

Untitled

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Untitled. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: graphite and pencil.

Untitled

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Tadzio Comes to Breakfast. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: felt-tip pen.

Tadzio Comes to Breakfast

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Untitled. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: ink.

Untitled

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Neighborhood of Rialto. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: ink and graphite.

Neighborhood of Rialto

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Landing in Venice from the Sea. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: pen.

Landing in Venice from the Sea

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The Stranger in Munich. Artist: Warrington Colescott. Date: no date. Medium: pen and ink.

The Stranger in Munich

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