Philip Kappel (1901 - 1981)

Etcher and book illustrator Philip Kappel was born in Hartford, Connecticut and graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He also studied with marine artist Philip Little in Salem, Massachusetts and was employed as an artist by several American steamship lines. He made six trips around the world on sailing vessels to gather themes, mainly maritime, for his etchings, which held by major American museums and the Biblotheque National in Paris His artwork constitutes s a record of the shipping industry in the United States at its peak. Kappel received many awards for his work. He was the author of several books, including Boothbay Harbor-A Portfolio of Sketches, 1924, Louisiana Gallery, 1950, Jamaica Gallery, 1960, and New England Gallery, 1966.

Seatrain II

Etching, 1952; edition not stated. Image size 9-7/8” x 12-7/8”; sheet size 13” x 17½”. Very good. Faintly toned in sight area. Signed in the plate; titled and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin.

$275

At Jacmel, Haiti

Etching, ca. 1933; edition of 250. Image size 7¼” x 9¼”; sheet size 12¼” x 17”. Published by The Print Club of Cleveland. A good+ impression in overall fine condition.

$150

Coasting Down East

Etching and aquatint, 1927; edition of 75. Image size 5-7/8” x 8-3/8”; sheet size 9¼ x 11-3/8”. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Very good overall condition.

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Racing

Drypoint, ND, edition not stated. Image size 9-3/8” x 7-3/8”; sheet size 15” x 11½”. Very good condition. Watermark “F. J. Head & Co.” light mat burn, remnants of kraft paper tape at upper & lower edges. Slight mat burn outside the perimeter of the plate mark. From the collection of Harold Hugo, long associated with the Meriden Gravure Company.

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Luigi Kasimir (1881 - 1962)

Noted printmaker Luigi Kasimir, the son and grandson of painters, was born at Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. He attended the Vienna Academy of Art and studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the hand-colored etching. Kasimir was one of the earliest practitioners of color etching creating separate plates for each color and employing as many as six different plates for each color in a given work in a painstaking process of hand registration.

While Kasimir is justly famous for his etchings, he also produced oils and pastels. His work depicted landscapes, monuments, street scenes, and tourist landmarks throughout Europe and North America. His etchings are held in the collections of numerous galleries and museums including The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle. He died at Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.

Fulton Market No. 1

Color etching, 1936; edition not stated. Image size 11-3/4” x 16-7/8”; sheet size 16¼” x 21-3/4”. Dated in the plate and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. This print has been removed from its original mount, cleaned and de-acidified, and re-matted using conservation grade materials. A wonderful depiction of the anachronistic Fulton Fish Marked against a backdrop of the skyscrapers of Manhattan to the north. Overall very good condition, with minor crease in the extreme lower right corner and a thin perimeter of residual toning around the sheet where it had once been taped to its mount with brown kraft tape.

$1,400

New York Stock Exchange

Color etching, ca. 1936; edition not stated. Image size 11” x 17-3/4” sheet size 15½” x 21-3/4” (see below). Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. This print has been removed from its original mount, cleaned and de-acidified, and re-matted using conservation grade materials.The image itself is in fine condition; the sheet itself suffers from minor losses about an inch from the plate mark on both sides and across the top where a Troglodyte - or perhaps a Visigoth - had glued the mat to the print using a non-water-soluble adhesive, and where the subsequent physical removal of the mat by a descendant of the framer produced a series of craters along the path of the adhesive. In the lower margin, the removal of the mat had produced more pronounced damage and left actual holes in the sheet; as a result, the badly damaged strip has been removed and the two sound pieces of the sheet rejoined using water-soluble materials. Happily, none of this wanton butchery has affected the image or sight area, and the print is now clean, stable, and attractive. Price reflects the foregoing condition problems.

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Bowling Green II

Color etching, ca. 1936; edition not stated. Image size 11-3/4” x 15¼”; sheet size 16-3/4” x 21¼”. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. This print has been removed from its original mount, cleaned and de-acidified, and re-matted using conservation grade materials. An iconic image of the lower Manhattan. Overall very good condition, with a thin perimeter of residual toning around the sheet where it had once been taped to its mount with brown kraft tape.

$900

Edwin Kaufman (1906 - 1939)

Painter and print maker Edwin Kaufman was born in Cleveland, and began his studies at the Council Educational Alliance. He graduated from Central High School, then well known for its art and design curriculum, and entered the Cleveland School of Art.

In 1929, he won the Agnes Gund European Traveling Scholarship, which funded his European studies the following year. He studied under Hans Hoffman in Munich and Heidelberg and Henry De Waroquier and Othon Friesz at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, in Paris.

Between 1926 and 1937, Kaufman exhibited regularly and extensively at the annual May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art, receiving awards for his work on four separate occasions. In 1932 he exhibited his work at a one-man show of etchings, lithographs and drawings at the De Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.

Kaufman found work as a commercial illustrator but appears to have derived much of his income from printmaking. During the 1930s Kaufman was active in the Cleveland Print Makers and also served as president of a short-lived print club, The International Print Guild, with its headquarters at 509 Fifth Avenue, which circulated a print a month by an international group of artists, including Sir D. Y. Cameron, Frank Brangwyn, Lucien Simon, Karl Hofer and such American artists as Adolf Dehn, Louis Lozowick, and Wanda Gag. Established in 1933, the organization lasted just a year before folding. He joined the New York branch of the WPA in 1935, for whom he produced etchings of New York, concentrating on the city’s bridges, harbors, and poorer working areas.

Edwin Kaufman, his wife, and their young son were killed in an automobile accident in Pennsylvania on their return trip home following a family visit in Cleveland.

Corner Storefront

Etching on cream laid paper, 1926; edition not stated. Image size 3-7/8” x 4½”; sheet size 5-3/8” x 6¾”. Signed and dated in the plate, and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A fine impression in overall fine condition.

$175

Pelicans

Etching, ca. 1925; edition not stated. Image size 4-1/16” x 3”; sheet size 5¼” x 4-1/8”. Titled and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A good impression in very good overall condition, with faint toning in the sight area.

$75

Tania Kellerman ( ? )

Orchestra

Etching on heavy wove paper; edition of 5. Image size 35” x 12-1/8”; sheet size 38-3/8” x 15”. A fine impression in overall fine condition.

$400

Margaret Drury Kemp-Welch (1874 - 1968)

Draftsman, painter, water colorist and etcher Margret Drury Kemp-Welch was born in Brighton, England. She studied at Hubert von Herkomer's school in Bushey, Hertfordshire and subsequently taught at Clapham High School. She exhibited her work at several venues including the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers. During her career, she lived in London and later in Devon, where she died.

Untitled

Etching, ca. 1920; edition not stated. Image size 11-7/8” x 10”; overall size 16” x 11-3/4”. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Cleaned and de-acidified in 2014 and mounted and matted using archival-quality materials. There are two unobtrusive areas of discoloration in the foreground of the image, otherwise in very good condition.

$375

Norman Kent (1903 - 1972)

Best known for his woodcuts and watercolors, Norman Kent was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1925. He was awarded a full scholarship to the Art Students League in New York where he finished his studies under Leftwich Dodge and the noted woodcut artist Alan Lewis. Kent began his career as a Buffalo-based illustrator before teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He served as the editor of American Artist magazine for over 25 years. His work has been collected by many museums and libraries, and a nearly complete collection of his woodcuts and linocuts is held by the Special Collections Department of the Lauinger Library at Georgetown University. Kent died at Rochester, New York.

Queer House

Woodcut, 1951; edition of 200. Image size 9” x 12½”; sheet size 11½” x 16¼”. Published by the Woodcut Society, Hicksville, New York. Signed by the artist in pencil in the lower margin. A fine impression in overall fine condition, accompanied by the original presentation folder.

$325

Canal Boat

Linoleum cut, 1929; edition not stated. Image size 5½” x 5”; sheet size 9” x 5½”. Initialed in the block, and published by The Print Connoisseur, New York, Volume IX Number 4, October, 1929. A fine impression in very good condition.

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December

Woodcut, ND, edition of 15. Image size 4” x 4½”; sheet size 6-5/8” x 8-3/4”. Numbered, titled, and signed by the artist in the lower margin. Very good condition overall. Two small spots outside of image area, tape remnants at upper corners.

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Determined

Woodcut, ND, edition unknown. Image size 4-7/8” x 6¼”; sheet size 8-1/8” x 10-3/8”. Initialed in the block, numbered "No. 2", titled, and signed by the artist in the lower margin. Very good overall condition, with tape remnants at upper corners and faint staining lower left portion of image.

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Gloucester

Woodcut, 1929, edition not stated. Image size 5½” x 7½; sheet size 5-5/8” x 9”. Published in The Print Connoisseur, New York, Volume IX Number 4. Very good condition.

$125

Low Tide

Woodcut, 1929, edition not stated. Initialed in the block. Image size 5-3/8” x 7¼”; sheet size 5½” x 9”. Published in The Print Connoisseur, New York, Volume IX Number 4. Very good condition.

$125

Peace

Woodcut, ND, edition of 50. Image size 8” x 6-1/8”; sheet size 14” x 11”. Initialed in the block. Numbered 3/50, titled, and signed by the artist in the lower margin. A fine impression on very good overall condition, with tape remnants at top corners on the reverse of the sheet.

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Pierrot Peers Out

Linoleum cut in two colors, 1929; edition not stated. Image size 3-3/4” x 4”; sheet size 5½” x 9”. Published in The Print Connoisseur, Volume IX, Number 4, October, 1929. Very good condition.

$125

Rupert Brooke

Woodcut, 1929, edition not stated. Image size 3¼” x 4”; sheet size 5½” x 9”. Published in The Print Connoisseur, Volume IX, Number 4, October, 1929. Very good condition.

$175

Willows

Woodcut, 1929, edition not stated. Initialed in the block. Image size 5-3/8” x 7¼”; sheet size 5½” x 9”. Published in The Print Connoisseur, Volume IX, Number 4, October 1929. Very good condition.

$125

Winter Day

Woodcut, edition of 25, date unknown. Initialed in the block. Image size 6¼” x 5¼”; sheet size 10-3/8” x 8”. Numbered 9/25, titled, and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Very good overall, with minor spotting well outside the image area and cellophane tape remnants at the upper corners.

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The Horse Farm

Woodcut on translucent paper, ND. Image size 6½” x 4-3/16;” sheet size 9-3/8” x 7-5/8.” Titled and signed in pencil in the lower margin, and initialed in the block. Darkened at perimeter of sheet, with a diagonal crease in the upper left-hand corner, well away from the sight area. Very good overall condition.

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Dry House - Horse Farm

Woodcut on translucent paper, ND. Image size 6½” x 4-3/16;” sheet size 10” x 6¾”. Titled and signed in pencil in the lower margin, and initialed in the block. Ink stains at edges of sheed, well away from the sight area. Very good overall condition.

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Firelight - Horse Farm

Woodcut on translucent paper, ND. Image size 6½” x 4-3/16;” sheet size 10” x 8-3/8”. Titled and signed in pencil in the lower margin, and initialed in the block. Very good overall condition.

$125

Rockwell Kent (1882 - 1971)

Born in Tarrytown Heights, New York, Rockwell Kent was one of the most influential American artists and illustrators of his time. He was a student at the Horace Mann School in New York City and subsequently studied architecture at Columbia University. Kent developed a strong interest in painting and took up the study of art under William Merritt Chase at the Shinnecock Hills School. He later studied at the New York School, under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, and finally as an apprentice to Abbott Thayer at Dublin, New Hampshire. He wrote and illustrated a number of books including the three-volume Lakeside Press edition of Moby Dick, held by many to be one of the most beautiful books of the twentieth century.

His work is frequently identified with that of the American Social Realists and the great muralists of the 1920s and 1930s. A political activist, Rockwell Kent championed social causes from the 1930's until his death. His consistent support of radical causes contributed to a decline in his artistic popularity with the American public during the 1940s and 1950s, though his esteem among devotees of prints and printmaking has never flagged. He died at Plattsburgh, New York.

Charlotte

Lithograph in three colors, 1934; Edition of 100, printed by George Miller of New York. Image size 14-3/8" x 10-3/4””; sheet size 20-1/8" x 14-3”. Signed in pencil by Kent in the lower right corner. A beautiful impression with full margins in near-fine condition. There is light rippling along the top margin of the sheet, well away from the image, probably resulting from a prior mount, and faint adhesive residue at the upper corners verso. Very faint, unobtrusive toning in the image area. Burne-Jones 107.

$4,200

Big Baby (Greenland Mother)

Wood engraving, 1933, edition of 150. Image size 6” x 4½” sheet size 6-7/8” x 5-5/8”. A very good impression with moderate toning in the mat aperture. The print was glued to a substrate and trimmed in order to accommodate a cheap frame at some time in the past, alas. Scarce: according to our records, this print has appeared at auction only five times in the past twenty years.

$750

Unpublished illustration for Candide

Lithograph, ca 1928, edition unknown. Image size 5" x 2-1/8". Rockwell Kent's stamp in lower right corner. Candide was the very first book published by Random House in an edition of 1470 copies printed on imported French paper, 95 of which were hand colored by four different artists working under Kent's supervision. The type, designed by Lucian Bernhard, was cast by the Bauersche Giesserei, the venerable foundry established in 1837 in Frankfurt (spelled Frankfort in the colophon, ye gods!), Germany, and was hand set. All of the foregoing is an indication of the pain and expense that the publishers took to make Candide a most memorable debut by the house of Cerf and Klopfer. Someone - presumably one or both of the principals - decided that one of Kent's illustrations was more candide than they dared risk, and was omitted from the book as issued.

The illustration accompanies copy number 296 of the black-and-white edition of Candide, signed in ink by Kent in the colophon. The house drawn by Kent in the colophon was adopted as the logo of the new firm.

$1,100

Troubadour

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6-1/8" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-5/8" x 11-3/8". Frontispiece for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. This illustration is the only one in the set that was actually signed Kent. Good condition, with slight toning within the mat aperture.

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Illustration for All's Well That Ends Well

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, with light toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for As You Like It

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, with faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for Henry V

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform moderate toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for Hamlet

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Very good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for Cymbeline

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Near fine condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$40

Image for Henry VI, Part III

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for Julius Caesar

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for Henry VIII

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Near fine condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$40

Illustration for Love's Labours Lost

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for King John

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Image for Macbeth

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture, printer's ink smudging in left margin.

$25

Illustration for The Merchant Of Venice

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for Measure For Measure

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for Much Ado About Nothing

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for Othello

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for The Rape Of Lucrece

Lithograph in two colors, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$40

Illustration for Richard III

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

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Illustration for Richard II

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Near fine condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$40

Illustration for Romeo And Juliet

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for Twelfth Night

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for Troilus And Cressida

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for Two Gentlemen Of Verona

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Good condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$25

Illustration for Henry VI Part II

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations from The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Near fine condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture with the presence of marks from printer's ink.

$30

Image from Antony And Cleopatra

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Near fine condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture. Faint spotting in the upper portion of the image.

$40

Image from King Lear

Lithograph, 1936, edition of 1000. Image size 6¼" x 8¼"; sheet size 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" One of forty illustrations for The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Doubleday, Doran and Company, the parent of Garden City, published one thousand boxed sets of the illustrations created by Rockwell Kent for the book. Near fine condition, uniform faint toning within the original mat aperture.

$40

Troy Kinney (1871 - 1938)

Artist, etcher, and author Troy Kinney was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1896. After a brief stint as a newspaper illustrator in Baltimore, he enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1900 he married Margaret West Kinney (1872 - 1952) who as “The Kinneys,” were leading illustrators of early 20th century books and periodicals. Troy became a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers, and was also a member of the Society of American Etchers and the National Academy of Design.
Kinney was widely recognized for his portrayals of dance performers, working with Anna Pavlova, Ruth St. Denis and others over a number of years. He and his wife co-authored and illustrated a number of books about dance. Troy Kinney died at his home in Falls Village, Connecticut.

Pavlowa and Volinin in Amarilla

Drypoint on wove paper. Of the total edition of 138 impressions, 85 were printed in color. This impression is signed by Kinney and annotated “Trial proof of color, 2nd state of plate.” in the lower margin. Image size 9-78” x 12-1/16”; sheet size 14¼” x 18¾”. Slightly darkened, but otherwise fine. Kinney 5.

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Lopokova and Nijinski in Les Sylphides

Hand-colored drypoint, 1916; edition of 138 numbered impressions. Ours is a hand-colored trial proof of the color version, of which 82 were printed in addition to 56 of the uncolored impressions. Image size 9-78” x 12-1/16”; sheet size 14¾” x 19-1/8”. A fine impression in overall fine condition, with about a 1” band of darkening across the bottom of the sheet, well away from the sight area. Kinney 11.

$625

Lopokova and Nijinski in Les Sylphides

Etching on wove paper, 1916; one of 56 uncolored impressions from the total edition of 138. Image size 9-7/8” x 12-1/16”; sheet size 14¾” x 19-1/8”. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A fine impression in fine overall condition. Kinney 11.

$375

Dawn

Etching on wove paper, 1923; edition of 300. Image size 5-5/8” x 8¼”; sheet size 8-5/8” x 11¼”. Commissioned by the Chicago Society of Etchers for distribution to its associate members. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Fine. Kinney 37.

$250

The Turtle

Drypoint on wove paper, 1916; edition of 45. Image size 4-3/8” x 3-1/8”; sheet size 8¼” x 7-7/16”. Numbered 27/45 and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Fine. Kinney 12.

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Esther Kirschenbaum (1951 - )

Esther Kirshenbaum, a painter and lithographer, was born and raised in Michigan. Trained in the sciences, she taught and tutored in her chosen field but turned instead to art. She spent several years living and working as an artist in New York City before returning to Ann Arbor, Michigan where she was Director of the Michigan Guild Gallery, and taught printmaking. She returned to New York City and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Rhinoceros

Lithograph, ND, edition not stated. Image size 14” x 6½”; sheet size 17¼” x 12”. Signed in pencil lower margin. Fine impression in fine condition.

$90

Irene Kissel (1904 - ?)

Industry

Drypoint, 1937; edition not stated. Image size 8¾” x 9-5/8”; sheet size 12½” x 12¾”. Published by The Cleveland Print Club. Titled and signed by the artist in pencil in the lower margin. Very good overall condition.

$225

Oskar Kokoschka (1886 - 1980)

Painter, printmaker and writer Oskar Kokoschka, a leading Expressionist artist, was born in Pöchlarn, Austria. He attended school in Vienna and at age 18 won a scholarship to the School of Arts and Crafts, where he le3arned drawing and bookbinding, and where he also taught. In 1907, Kokoschka become a member of the Vienna Crafts Studio, which supplied him with decorative arts commissions over the ensuing two years, which reflected his primary interest in the human figure. While at the Vienna Crafts Studio, Kokoschka also learned how to paint in oils.

The prominent Viennese architect Adolf Loos, to whom Kokoschka was introduced in 1908, was instrumental in launching the younger man’s career by introdcing him to like-minded fellow artists and by helping him secure commissions for a series of portraits in which the rising artist used intense color to depict the emotional aspects of his subjects, a marked departure from the prevailing impressionistic style.

Following a year-long stay in Berlin, Kokoschka returned to Vienna in 1911. His paintings and drawings were shown at Der Sturm gallery alongside works by Klee, Kandinsky. Upon the outbreak of the first World War, he enlisted in the Austrian Army. In 1915 his service ended when he was severely wounded. From 1919 – 1923, Kokoschka was a professor of fine arts at the Dresden Academy. During that period he traveled widely and produced a series of dramatic landscapes. In 1931 Kokoschka once again returned to Vienna, but in 1934 he moved to Prague, where he met and married Olda Palkovska. There. he was commissioned to do a portrait of Tomáš Masaryk, the philosopher and then-President of Czechoslovakia.

In 1937, Kokoschka expressed rage and indignation when his works were banned from public display in Germany, swept up in the National Socialist campaign against “degenerate art.” Following the annexation of Austria and the subsequent Munich agreement, Kokoschka fled to London with his wife. There, he produced a number of canvases dealing with antiwar themes and highlighting the range of human suffering wrought by the war. Following the war, Kokoschka’s work was widely shown at a series of exhibitions throughout Europe. He moved permanently to Switzerland and established an international Summer Academy for the Visual Arts in Salzburg. He died at Montreux, Switzerland.

Porträt Käthe Richter

Lithograph on tan wove paper, edition of approximately 1100. Published in October, 1917 as the frontispiece of Das Kunstblatt, volume 1, number 10. Image size 7¾" x 10"; sheet size 8-7/16" x 11¼". Titled, signed "OK", and dated on the stone; remnants of mounting tape top verso. A fine impression in overall fine condition.

A wonderful Expressionist portrait of the actess Käthe Richter. Founder and editor Paul Westheim published Das Kunstblatt monthly from 1917 to its final issue in March, 1933. The magazine was a bold, broad-gauge survey of avant-garde work by leading European artists, playwrights and writers of the era, as well as critical surveys of Asian, African, and Indian art. Condemned by the National Socialist regime, the magazine was suppressed and Paul Westheim fled Germany later that year.

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Kathe Kollwitz (1867 - 1945)

Printmaker and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz was born Kathe Schmidt in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). She studied at the Artsts' School in Berlin and, under Karl Stauffer-Bern, created her first etchings in 1890. In 1891 she married and settled with her husband Karl Kollwitz in north Berlin, a working class district where he practiced medicine. Throughout the course of her artistic life, Kollwitz was an eloquent advocate for victims of social injustice, war and inhumanity, and her lifelong proximity to the poor and downtrodden kindled her admiration for their courage.

Her first masterwork was the cycle of three lithographs and three etchings depicting the Silesian Weavers' revolt of 1842, exhibited in 1898, followed in 1908 by the Peasants' War cycle, six etchings depicting the sixteenth century rebellion of farmers in southern Germany; a work that is widely regarded as her finest in this medium.

In 1904, Kollwitz studied sculplture at the Academie Julian in Paris and went on to produce a series of emotionally powerful works, including the intensely personal Die Eltern (The Parents), a memorial to her son Peter who was was killed in Flanders during World War I.

Impressed by the woodcuts of Ernst Barlach, Kollwitz produced a number of works in this medium beginning in 1919. In 1920, she was elected a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts, the first woman to be so honored. With the advent of National Socialism, Kollwitz was forced to resign her position at the Academy and her works were suppressed. Owing to her worldwide reputation, she was largely left alone by the authorities. She died in Moritzburg, near Berlin, in the closing days of World War II.

Vier Manner in der Kneipe

Etching on wove paper, 1892 or 1893, printed 1931. Image size 6-1/8” x 5-1/8;” sheet size 13” x 9-7/8.” Published by A. von der Becke with publisher’s blind stamp in lower plate margin. Overall very good condition. Klipstein 12- III b.

$275

Tod und Frau

Etching and soft ground on wove paper, 1910, printed later; edition not stated. Image size 17½” x 18¾;” sheet size 23½ x 21¼”. Published by A. von der Becke, Munich in 1945. A stark and powerful image in overall very good condition, with adhesive staining from prior mounting, well beyond the sight area. Klipstein 103 / VIII / b.

$1,800

Die Mutter

Woodcut on cream wove paper, originally published 1922/23. This impression published in 1949 by A. von der Becke, Berlin, and bears the von der Becke insignia at the lower left-hand corner of the sheet and the von der Becke blind stamp at the lower right-hand edge of the image; edition not stated. Image size 15½” x 13” with full margins. Plate 6 from the Krieg cycle. Klipstein 182 v/V. Faint toning in the sight area and tape remnants from an earlier framing along the upper rear edge of the sheet, else fine.

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Betendes Madchen

Etching, 1892; edition not stated. Image size 5-5/8” x 7-9/16”; sheet size 10-3/8” x 13¾”. A rich, beautifully inked impression printed 1931 - 1941. Klipstein 11, IV, b Von der Becke blind stamp. Fine.

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Selbstbildnis

Etching, 1912; edition of 50, published by Emil Richter in 1920. Image size 4” x 5½”; sheet size 9-5/8” x 12½. Signed by the artist in the lower margin. A rich, warm impression in fine condition. Klipstein 122, state VII, c.

$5,200

Die Eltern

Woodcut on cream wove paper, originally published 1923. This impression published in 1949 by A. von der Becke, Berlin, and bears the von der Becke insignia at the lower left-hand corner of the sheet and the von der Becke blind stamp at the lower right-hand edge of the image; edition not stated. Image size 16½” x 13-7/16” with full margins. Plate 3 from the Krieg cycle. Klipstein 179 iv/IV. Faint toning in the sight area and tape remnants from an earlier framing along the upper rear edge of the sheet, else fine.

$3,700

Not (Distress)

Lithograph, 1897; edition of 50 published by Emil Richter in 1920. This is the first in a cycle of six prints entitled Revolt of the Weavers (1893-98) which drew high critical acclaim when it was shown at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1898. The recommendation that Kollwitz receive a gold medal in recognition of the consummate emotional and technical artistry of her work was vetoed by that incomparable art connoisseur, Kaiser Wilhelm II, who took great umbrage at both the gender of the artist and the subject of the series. Typical of her frank depiction of the oppression of Germany's poorest workers, the Weavers' revolt set the tone for the grand theme of her subsequent work. Numbered 7/50 and signed by the artist in the lower margin. A fine impression showing moderate light stain and rippling at the edges of the sheet not affecting the image Overall good condition. Klipstein 34, state II, b.

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Stehender Weiblicher Akt

Etching, 1900; edition of 50, published in 1920 by Emil Richter. Image size 4-3/4” x 6½”; plate impression 5½" x 7"; sheet size 11” x 15”. A well-inked impression with all rich tonal subtleties and in overall very good condition. Signed by the artist in the lower margin. Numbered 8/50. Klipstein 46, state II, b

$6,500

Nachdenkende Frau (Version II)

Lithograph, 1920; edition not stated. Overall size 17-3/8" x 23½". Printed by Emil Richter, Dresden. A self portrait, signed by the artist in the lower left corner. A very good impression. The sheet is in good condition: the periphery has pin holes, a small closed tear in the upper right margin, a small loss upper left corner, and a repair in the upper right corner, none of which affects the sight area. Klipstein 147, II.

$4,200

Kindersterben (Infant Mortality)

Woodcut, 1925, from the portfolio Proletariat, published by Emil Richter in 1926. Image size 275 x 356mm. A fine, richly inked impression. Klipstein 208.

$2,100

Aufruhr (Revolt) from The Peasants' Revolt

Etching, originally published 1899; image size 12-3/8” x 11-3/8” sheet size 14-1/8” x 13-5/16”. Printed ca. 1946-48 by A. von der Becke & Sohn, Berlin. Very good impression with smoke & flames visible over the castle. Klipstein 44, eighth state of eight.

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Beim Dengelm

Etching, 1905; edition not stated. Image size 11-5/8” x 11-5/8”; sheet size 15-3/8” x 14½”. Plate 3 from the cycle Bauernkrieg (Peasants' War). Published by A. von der Becke & Sohne, ca. 1945-46. A fine impression in fine condition. Klipstein 90, XII, b with Von der Becke blind stamp.

$2,800

Sturm (Riot) from The Revolt of the Weavers

Etching, originally published 1897; image size 12” x 9½” sheet size14-3/16” x 11-1/16”. Printed ca. 1946-48 by A. von der Becke & Sohn, Berlin. Very fine dark impression, small tear lower left hand corner of the sheet well away from the plate margins. Klipstein 33, state V-b

$1,200

Mourner, from Gedenkblatt Für Karl Liebknecht

The original edition of this image, which was cut from the larger and more complex original plate published in 1919 (Klipstein 137, states I - IV), was printed 1n 1933 on either handmade (opaque) or Japan (thin, translucent) paper. These proofs were signed by Kollwitz but this entire edition was not issued, probably due to dramatically changed political circumstances. The 1945 edition was posthumously printed and was either stamped with Kollwitz's facsimile signature or, as in this case, embossed with the von der Becke blind stamp. Image size 6¼” x 11;” sheet size 10½” x 15¾.” Edition size unknown.

Social Democrats Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg, together with like-minded socially progressive organizations, founded the German Communist Party on January 1, 1919 in the midst of the civil war that embroiled Germany at that time. Both were captured by the right-wing paramilitary Freikorps and both were murdered just two weeks later on January 15.

Käthe Kollwitz, whose elder son Peter was killed in the first week of World War 1, sympathized with the proletariat among whom she and her physician husband lived and worked, and created the large-format etching “Memorial for Karl Liebknecht” at that time.

In 1933, the original plate was divided. The solitary mourner at the left of the original work is the subject of the smaller unnamed impression thus created. von der Becke blind stamp, overall very good condition. Klipstein 137 / V / A

$575

Die Gefangenen (The Prisoners)

Etching, plate 7 from the cycle Peasants' Revolt. Image size 423 x 327 mm with full margins. Originally published in 1908, this copy was printed by A. von der Becke, Berlin ca. 1963-72, embossed with the publisher's two-line blind stamp. A very good impression. Klipstein 98 VIIIb. Handsomely framed using archival materials.

$3,600

Stehende Mutter, ihr Büblein fütternd

Etching, 1928; edition not stated. Image size 6” x 7¾”; sheet size 10¼” x 13”. Published by von der Becke, ca. 1932. A beautiful impression in fine condition. Klipstein 247, II, before addition of cross-hatching to the mother's arm and finger, and before the reduction of the plate.

$3,200

Mutter mit Kind auf dem Arm

Lithograph, originally published in 1916. This copy from the portfolio Sechs Lithographien, published ca. 1960 by A. von der Becke & Sohne, Berlin. Image size 7½" x 13"; sheet size 12-5/8” x 18-7/8”, with Von der Becke monogram in lower left corner of sheet. A very good impression with minor foxing.

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Deutschlands Kinder Hungern

Lithograph, originally published in 1924. Image size 11” x 16½”; sheet size 14¼” x 20-1/8”. This copy from the portfolio Sechs Lithographien, published ca.1960 by A. von der Becke & Sohne, Berlin. Image size 7½" x 13"; sheet size 12-5/8” x 18-7/8”. A very good impression with minor foxing. Framed using archival materials.

$275

Brot!

Lithograph, originally published in 1924. Image size 11" x 14"; sheet size 14¼” x 20-1/8”. This copy from the portfolio Sechs Lithographien, published ca. 1960 by A. von der Becke & Sohne, Berlin. A very good impression with minor foxing.

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Selbstbildnis

Lithograph, originally published in 1924. Image size 9" x 11¼"; sheet size 14¼” x 20-1/8”. This copy from the portfolio Sechs Lithographien, published ca. 1960 by A. von der Becke & Sohne, Berlin. A very good impression with minor foxing.

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Besuch Im Kinderkrankenhaus

Lithograph, originally published in 1926. Image size 13” x 10-3/4”; sheet size 17-3/4” x 13-3/4”. This copy from the portfolio Sechs Lithographien, published ca. 1960 by A. von der Becke & Sohne, Berlin. A very good impression with minor foxing.

$175

Mutter Mit Jungen

Lithograph, originally published in 1931. Image size 8-3/4” x 14½”; sheet size 15” x 20½”. This copy from the portfolio Sechs Lithographien, published ca. 1960 by A. von der Becke & Sohne, Berlin. A very good impression with minor foxing.

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Selbstbildnis

Lithograph on cream colored background, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 13-3/4” x 10½”; sheet size 15” x 11-3/8”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

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Drawing For The Gravestone Of Professor Breysig

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 10¼” x 14-1/8”; sheet size 10¼” x 15”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

$25

Karl Kollwitz, ca. 1940

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 10-3/8” x 14”; sheet size 11” x 15-3/8”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

$25

Dr. Heinrich Braun

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 10-3/8” x 14”; sheet size 11” x 15-3/8”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

$30

Barlach, October 27, 1938

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 13-5/8” x 9-3/4”; sheet size15” x 11-3/8”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

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Family, ca. 1935

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 10-3/8” x 14”; sheet size 11” x 15-3/8”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

$30

Family G., ca. 1923

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 14-1/8” x 9-3/4”; sheet size 15” x 11-3/8”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

$25

The Mother

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 10-1/8” x 14-1/8; sheet size ”10-3/8” x 15”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

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Mother With Children, 1932

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 9-5/8” x 12-3/4”; sheet size 10¼” x 14-7/8”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

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Konrad rust der Tod, 1932

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size9-3/4” x 13½”; sheet size 11-3/8” x 15”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

$25

As I Stand And Dig My Own Grave, 1943

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 10-1/8” x 14”; sheet size 10¼” x 14-7/8”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

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Drawing For the Lithograph "Hermitage"

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 9-3/4” x 13-5/8”; sheet size 11-3/8” x 15”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

$30

Childrens' Court

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 9-3/4” x 14”; sheet size 11-3/8” x 15-3/8”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

$40

Study For A Sculpture

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 10-3/8” x13-7/8”; sheet size 11-3/8” x 15”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

$25

Soldiers' Wives, 1943

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 9-3/4” x 13-5/8”; sheet size 10-1/8” x 15”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

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Sketch For Commemorative Woodcut For Karl Liebknecht, 1919

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 9-3/4” x 12½”; sheet size 10-1/8” x 15”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

$30

Self Portrait With Karl Kollwitz, 1942

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 10” x 13-3/4”; sheet size 11-3/8” x 15”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

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Self-Portrait

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 9-3/4” x 13-3/4”; sheet size 10-3/8” x 14-7/8”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

$35

Sleeping

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 13” x 8¼”; sheet size 15-3/8” x 11”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

$35

Last Self-Portrait, 1943

Lithograph, 1965 (second edition); edition size not stated. Image size 9-3/4” x 13-3/4”; sheet size 10-3/8” x 14-7/8”. From the portfolio Twenty-one Drawings Of The Late Years, first published by Gebruder Mann Verlag, Berlin, in 1948.

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Julius Komjati (1894 - 1958)

Etcher Julius Komjáti, the son of an Inspector of Forests, was born in Komjat, Hungary. He received a teaching diploma at Budapest in 1911 and entered the Academy of Fine Arts in 1914. Called up for service in the First World War, he was awarded a diploma as Professor of Design at the Academy upon his return, and in 1920 produced his first etchings. In 1927, Komjáti received a scholarship to study in England under Malcolm Osborne at the Royal College of Art and arrived there in 1928. He spent the next ten years in England, and during that time produced a body of superb work, some 74 plates, which were published by H. C. Dickens of London. His work was so highly regarded that he was one of few foreign artists elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.

His wartime experience as a prisoner of war, held by the Romanian Army for eighteen months in deplorable conditions, had a profound effect on Komjáti’s art, imparting both an intensity and spirituality that calls to mind the later work of Käthe Kollwitz. He returned to Hungary in 1938 and remained their for the rest of his life.

Old Man Reading The Bible

Etching, 1928; edition of 75. Image size 10-1/8” x 8¼”; sheet size 12¾" x 9-5/16". Published by C. H. Dickens, London. Signed in the plate, and in pencil by Komjati in the lower margin. A nuanced impression on laid paper with printing smudges at the edge of the left and right hand margins, and an irregular upper edge.

$650

Benjamin Kopman (1887 - 1965)

Painter and printmaker Benjamin Kopman was born in Vitebsk, Russia., and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1903. In 1905 Kopman enrolled at the National Academy of Art where he remained for 6 semesters. His first major exhibition was at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1914, followed by several others during the 1920s. Kopman worked for the WPA as an artist during the Depression and had solo exhibitions in the late 1930s and 1940s. His paintings and prints are distinctive for their primitive character and their use of heavy black outlines that suggest the influence of Rousseau and Roualt.

Kopman’s work is held in the collections of many institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Amateur Painter

Hand colored lithograph, edition of 20, 1945. Image size 11” x 14”; sheet size 12½” x 17½”. Titled, numbered 5/20, signed, and dated by the artist in the lower margin. Verygood condition; framed using archival quality materials.

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Doctor And Patient

Hand colored lithograph, edition of 20, 1945. Image size 10½” x 14½"; sheet size 11½” x 16-1/8”. Titled, numbered 5/20, signed, and dated by the artist in the lower margin. Very good condition.

$125

In The Art Gallery

Hand colored lithograph, edition of 20, 1945. Image size 10” x 13½”; sheet size 11-7/8” x 15-7/8”. Titled, numbered 5/20, signed, and dated by the artist in the lower margin. Very good condition.

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Old Scholar

Hand colored lithograph, edition of 20, 1945. Image size 10” x 13½”; sheet size 11-7/8” x 15-7/8”. Titled, numbered 5/20, signed, and dated by the artist in the lower margin. Very good condition.

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The Judge

Hand colored lithograph, edition of 20, 1945. Image size 10” x 13-5/8”; sheet size 11-7/8” x 15-7/8”. Titled, numbered 5/20, signed, and dated by the artist in the lower margin. Very good condition.

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The Organist

Hand colored lithograph, edition of 20, 1945. Image size 10” x 14¼”; sheet size 11-7/8” x 16”. Titled, numbered 5/20, signed, and dated by the artist in the lower margin. Very good condition.

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Leon Kroll (1884 - 1974)

Born in New York City, Leon Kroll was an American painter and lithographer. He studied at the Art Students League of New York under John Henry Twachtman, and at the Académie Julian in Paris with Jean Paul Laurens. In 1913, Kroll showed work at the Armory Show and later taught at the Art Students League of New York and the school of the National Academy of Design, where he was named an Associate in 1920 and a full Academician in 1927. In 1930, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was also named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1950. Kroll died at Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Monique

Lithograph, 1945; edition not stated. Image size 9½” x 11½”; sheet size 12” x 16”. Good condition, moderately toned.

$225

Self Portrait

Lithograph, not dated; edition not stated. Image size 10-1/8” x 13½”; sheet size 12” x 16-1/8”. A very good impression, Numbered "No. 3", titled, and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. There are two unobtrusive tears (1", 1-3/4") on the left side of the sheet; The longer one extends 3/4" into the image but does not affect the image itself.

$325

Rudolf Krüger (1893 - 1977)

Die Mutter Dresdens den Müttern der Welt

Linoleum cut, 1960; edition not stated. Image size 13-9/16” x 16-15/16”; sheet size 16½” x 23”. Titled and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A very well-printed image in fine condition, with mild ink toning at the margins of the block.

$375

Jinan Kuniyoshi (1951 - )

Printmaker and teacher Jinan Kuniyoshi was born in Japan. He is best known for his imaginative mezzotints, executed in both large and miniature formats. His work has been exhibited around the world, and is held by numerous public and private collections, including the Library of Congress and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art here in the United States. Mr. Kuniyoshi presently teaches at the Toyo Institute of Art and Design in Tokyo.

Memorial '81-I

Mezzotint on heavy mould-made paper, ca. 1981; edition of 15. Image size 23-1/8” x 17½”; sheet size 30-7/8” x 20-7/8”. Titled, signed and numbered 2/15 in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A rich, nuanced impression on a near-fine sheet with a faint crease at the lower left-hand corner.

$175

Monument '84-G

Mezzotint, ca. 1984 on heavy mould-made paper; edition of 30. Image size 23-1/8” x 17½”; sheet size 30-7/8” x 20-7/8”. Numbered 14/30, titled, and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A beautifully inked and nuanced impression on fine condition. There is a soft crease at the lower left-hand corner of the sheet, well away from the image area.

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Monument '84-S

Mezzotint, ca. 1984 on heavy mould-made paper; edition of 30. Image size 23-1/8” x 17½”; sheet size 30-7/8” x 20-7/8”. Signed, titled, and numbered 3/30A beautifully inked and nuanced impression on fine condition. There is a soft crease at the lower left-hand corner of the sheet, well away from the image area.

SOLD

Another Copy

Numbered 4/30; identical overall condition.

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Jean-Émile Laboureur (1877 – 1943)

A painter, printmaker and illustrator, Jean-Émile Laboureur was born in Nantes, France. He moved to Paris in order to pursue legal studies but changed direction and enrolled instead in the Académie Julian, where he studied wood engraving under Auguste Lepère; at the suggestion of his mentor Toulouse-Lautrec, Laboureur traveled widely for the next ten years, including extended stays in Dresden and in the United States. His first series of etchings was published in 1905, and he supplemented his income while in America by giving private lessons in etching.

In 1907 Laboureur returned to France, but soon thereafter moved to London, and once again back to France in 1909. His first one-man show was held in New York in 1917. Shortly thereafter, he embarked on a long and successful career as a book illustrator, with more than fifty titles to his credit. Laboureur founded the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Indépendants in 1923. He settled ultimately in Kerfahler, in Brittany, where he died.

Suzanne Au Bain

Woodcut, 1913; edition of 40. Image size 13-3/4” x 13-3/4”; sheet size 18” x 17-3/8”. Signed in the block. Signed in pencil by the artist and numbered 6/40 in the lower margin. Fine.

$1,800

Armin Landeck (1905 - 1984)

Born in Crandon, Wisconsin, Landeck graduated from Columbia University in 1927, and studied life drawing with George B. Bridgman at the Art Students League. He later met English printmaker Stanley William Hayter, and studied printmaking Hayter's Atelier 17. In 1928 and 1929, Landeck traveled in Europe. Returning to New York, he moved to to East Cornwall, Connecticut and devoted his time to printmaking and teaching. In 1931, he accepted a teaching position at the Brearly School in New York City and remained there until his retirement in 1958.

In the 1930s, Landeck created a series of city views that captured the feel of New York during that difficult period and which earned popular and critical acclaim, establishing his reputation as a skillful printmaker. He was elected a National Academician, a Guggenheim fellow, a member of the Society of American Etchers and Society of American Graphic Artists.

Window On 14th Street

Drypoint, 1949; edition of 100. Image size 5-7/8” x 12¼”; sheet size 9-3/8” x 15-3/4”. Edition stated, signed, and dated in pencil by the artist. A beautiful, rich impression in fine condition.

$1,650

Julius John Lankes (1884 - 1960)

Printmaker Julius J. Lankes was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from the Buffalo Commercial and Electro-Mechanical Institute and worked as a draftsman prior to his studies at the Art Students’ League of Buffalo and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. By the early 1920s, his woodcuts were published in in numerous periodicals; his career as an artist spanned four decades, during which Lankes created approximately 1400 works. He taught at Wells College, Aurora, New York, and continued his freelance work. By 1941, he was elected to the National Academy of Design. In 1950, he relocated to Durham, North Carolina, where he lived until his death.

Southern Scene

Woodcut, 1932; edition of 200; image size 7¼” x 5-1/8”; sheet size 9-3/8” x 7¼”. Published by The Woodcut Society, Kansas City, Missouri. Signed in the block; titled, numbered 36/200, and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A fine impression in overall fine condition, including its original presentation folder.

$575

Summer Afternooon

Woodcut, 1936. Image size 10-1/8” x 8-3/8”; sheet size 18” x 14”. Published by American Artists Group, New York in a non-limited unsigned edition, nonetheless signed by Lankes in the block. Near fine overall condition.

$275

Haying

Woodcut, 1937. Image size 10-3/16” x 7-9/16”; sheet size 18” x 12-7/8”. Published by American Artists Group, New York in a non-limited unsigned edition, nonetheless signed by Lankes in the block. Near fine overall condition.

$275

Barbara Latham (1896 - 1989)

Painter, print maker, and book illustrator Barbara Latham was born in Walpole, Massachusetts and raised in Norwich, Connecticut. Artistically adept in her youth, she studied in summer programs and in addition to classes at the Art Students League in New York, Latham pursued formal studies at Pratt institute in Brooklyn, from which she graduated in 1919.

Settling in Taos, New Mexico as an illustrator, she met and married the artist Howard Cook. The two lived and worked in the American Southwest and traveled extensively. Latham was the first artist in residence at the Roswell Museum, where the couple wintered and settled permanently in 1973.

Louis LeBreton (1818 - 1866)

LeBreton was a French painter who served as a naval surgeon on several exploratory voyages and who produced a series of lithographs depicting ships, seascapes, ports of call, and cultural details.

Vue de Sacramento

Colored lithograph, ca. 1850s, edition not stated. Image size 16¼” x 12½”; sheet size 16-7/8” x 13-1/8”. Good condition; small dampstain at bottom edge not affecting image.

SOLD

Vue de San Francisco

Colored lithograph, ca. 1850s, edition not stated. Image size 16” x 12-3/8”; sheet size 16-3/4” x 13”. Good condition; very small water stains at bottom edge outside of image area

$750

Fred Thomas Larson (1868 - 1944)

Chicago artist Fred Larson was trained as a commercial lithographer. He was essentially self-taught and became an adept painter, water colorist, and wood engraver by working with a like-minded group of friends in the group known as the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts. He taught block printing to the young Gustave Baumann at the P&C. In later years, Larson traveled to New Orleans, and produced many of his best-known images based on his experiences there and along the Mississippi River; his 1929 book, Sketching in New Orleans and Along the Mississippi, is both a record of his travels and a valuable guide to his artistic philosophy.

Belmont Harbor

Wood engraving on Japan paper, ca. 1905; edition unknown. Image size 6-5/16” x 6-5/16”; sheet size 7-3/16” x 8”. Titled and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Fine.

$425

Dominique Lecomte (1959 - )

A native of Rambervillers, a small French town in Les Vosges, Dominique Lecomte is an accomplished printmaker and photographer who studied visual art at Ecole de l’Image in nearby Epinal, where he first exhibited works in various media. Lecomte emigrated to the United States in 1994 to teach philosophy at the International School of Boston but subsequently devoted himself to art, specializing in linocuts and woodcuts using subjects photographed in his travels, later incorporating photography itself as a medium of artistic expression. His work is held in numerous private and public collections throughout the world.

Le Dernier Combat

Etching in three panels, 1985; edition of 30 stated, but the artist advises that the number actually printed by him is considerably less. Aggregate image size 15½” x 6½”; overall sheet size 19-3/8” x 10-5/8”. Numbered 5/30, titled, and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Fine overall condition, save for minor wrinkling at left edge of sheet well away from image area.

$175

Louis Legrand (1863 - 1951)

Printmaker Louis Legrand was born in Dijon in 1863. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Dijon while working as a bank clerk and subsequently moved to Paris where he worked as a caricaturist and satirist for La Journee, Le Journal Amusant, and Courrier Francais. Two of his satirical drawings precipitated an obscenity lawsuit against Legrand, who was acquitted, convicted on appeal by the state, and sentenced for a brief term for refusing to pay the fine.

He subsequently met the Belgian artist Felicien Rops, who taught Legrand the etching process. He used these new skills to produce images based on the night life of Montmartre in all its flavors for various French journals with particular emphasis on dancers, both established and aspirant, Parisian café life, and the social scenes of the day. In addition, he illustrated a number of editions of novels by leading 19th century American and European authors. In 1906, Legrand was made a knight of the Légion d’Honneur, but died in obscurity in Livry-Gargan, France.

L'Annonciation

Etching and aquatint on Japan paper, 1894. Edition of 50. Image size 20-3/8” x 12-13/16”; sheet size 24¼” x 18¼”. A fine impression in very good overall condition, published by Gustave Pellet, with his stamp in the lower right-hand corner. The sheet is stained by tape adhesive at its edges, and there is minor rippling on three of the edges well away from the sight area. A beautiful, sensuous image. Arwas 108.

$925

Diane Chaseresse

Etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1895; third of three states. Edition small but not enumerated. Image size 12½” x 5-11/16”; sheet size 18-5/16” x 12-1/8”. Pencil signed and titled in the lower margin. A fine impression in overall fine condition. Arwas 120.

$900

Fleur de Lit

Etching, aquatint and drypoint, 1896. Image size 6-5/8” x 10-1/8”; sheet size 12-1/16” x 18-3/8”. Signed in the plate and in pencil in the lower margin. A fine sixth state impression in overall near-fine condition, save for minor rippling at the upper and right-hand edges, well away from the sight area; number of proofs not stated. Arwas 134.

$750

Femme au Tub

Etching, 1912; edition of 30. Image size 8-15/16” x 7”; sheet size 12-1/8” x 17¼”. Signed in the plate and numbered 19/30 in the lower margin. Fine impression with minor toning in the sight area. Arwas 440.

$375

Le Tub

Drypoint on velin, 1909. Fourth state, edition of 65. Image size 5¾” x 8¼”; sheet size 11¾” x 15-15/16”. Signed in the plate and numbered 64/65 in pencil in the lower margin. A fine impression in very good overall condition, with a triangular loss at the upper right corner of the sheet, well away from the sight area. Arwas 376.

$475

Femmes de Chambre

Drypoint, 1910; second and final state. Edition of 30. Image size 4" x 6-7/16"; sheet size 12¼" x 17¼". Initialed in the plate, in very good overall condition, with faint toning in the sight area. No. 3 of the series Femmes Damnées. Arwas 408.

$425

Deux Eleves de Madame S...

Etching on Japan paper, 1908; edition of 100. Image size 11¼” x 14-7/8”; sheet size 15¾” x 21”. Published by Gustave Pellet, Paris. Signed by Legrand in the plate and in pencil in the lower margin. Numbered 67/100 in pencil. Stamp of Gustave Pellet (Lugt 1192) beneath plate mark. A fine impression, with wrinkling along the upper and right-hand edges of the sheet, well away from the sight area. Two closed tears (1”, ½”) in the right margin. Arwas 370.

$1,600

Pediculture (first state)

Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1908, with the artist’s watermark (a heraldic device above a Swan in flight atop “Louis Legrand” in script. The overall watermark design measures 4” x 4” and is mirrored in parallel columns and vertically spaced at about 12” intervals. Plate size 6¼” x 11-5/16”; Sheet size 12” x 17-3/16”. Signed by Legrand below the plate impression. Faintly toned in the sight area. Arwas 355.

Pediculture (third state)

Third State: Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1908. One of 30 proofs on velin with Pellet & Legrand watermark. Plate size 6-3/16” x 11-3/8”; sheet size 12-3/16” x 17-7/16”. Published by Gustave Pellet. The image includes a remarque depicting a ballerina resting at the barre. Signed by Legrand in the plate, and in pencil below the plate mark, numbered 7/30, with the stamp of Gustave Pellet (Lugt 1192). Faint toning in the sight area, else fine. Arwas 355.

This and the first state proof sold as a pair.

$1,200

Wilhelm Leibl (1844 - 1900)

Painter and Printmaker Wilhelm Leibl was born in Cologne, where his father was the director of the Cathedral choir. In 1861, he began his artistic training with the painter Hermann Becker and entered the Munich Academy in 1864, studying with several artists including Carl Theodor von Piloty. Leibl joined three colleagues in establishing a joint studio in Munich, where Gustave Courbet exhibited his work at about the same time, making a considerable impression on many artists including Leibl, whose work became less formal and academic as a result.

At Courbet's urging, Leibl went to Paris where he met Édouard Manet, but was forced to return to Germany in 1870, where he settled in rural Bavaria, where he painted everyday scenes in a realistic and unsentimental manner. During the first half of the 1870s, Leibl executed a series of 19 etchings. His work was included in the Berlin Secession exhibition the following year. He died in Würzburg.

Le Fumeur

Chine-collé etching, ca. 1874; edition not stated. Image size 7¾” x 9”; sheet size 15-3/8” x 17¼”. Signed in the plate. This is a portrait of Leibl's friend, the painter Eugen Horstig (1843 - 1901). A rich, nuanced impression in fine overall condition.

$425

Chester Leich (1899 - 1978)

Painter and etcher Chester Leich was born in Evansville, Indiana but spent much of his youth in Europe, studying art and graphic techniques in both Germany and Italy, where he traveled widely during vacations. Upon his return to the U. S., Leich first established a studio in Evansville, then in New York, and ultimately at Leonia, New Jersey where he settled until the outbreak of World War Two, when he volunteered as a cartographer for the U. S. Coast and Geodetic survey in Washington, D. C., working there until 1956.
His graphic work, consisting mainly of landscape etchings and drypoints, was exhibited at The Society of Washington Printmakers, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and at venues in Paris, London, Stockholm, and Tokyo. Leich also conducted classes in both painting and printmaking techniques. His etchings are held in the permanent collections of the National Collection of Fine Arts, the Library of Congress, the Society of American Etchers, the National Academy of Design and numerous such institutions. He died in Alexandria, Virginia.

Self Portrait

Etching on wove paper, c. 1929; edition of 35. Image size 7” x 9-7/8”; sheet size 8½” x 12¼”. Numbered 1/35 and sighed by the artist in the lower margin. A richly inked, nuanced impression in overall fine condition.

$175

Joe LeMonnier

A graduate of Bard College, Joe LeMonnier is a creative cartographer working principally with airbrush and digital tools. He lives and works in South Orange, New Jersey. His work has been widely published.

Harvest Mice

Wood engraving, 1988; edition of 200. Image size 2½” x 4-3/8”; sheet size 11” x 15”. Numbered and signed in pencil in the bottom margin. Printed on Fabriano Artistico paper by Lisa Dodington and published by Bowne & Company, New York. Fine condition.

SOLD

Lois Lenski (1893 - 1974)

Celebrated author and illustrator of literally hundreds of children's books, Lois Lenski was born in Springfield, Ohio and graduated from Ohio State University. She studied for four years at the Arts Students League in New York, and later studied abroad at the Westminster School of Art in London.

Untitled

Lithograph, undated, edition of 30. Image size 9-3/4” x 7¼”; sheet size 11-1/8” x 10-3/8”. Numbered and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Fine.

SOLD

Norbert Lenz (1900 - 1992)

Painter, illustrator and commercial artist Norbert Lenz was born in Norwalk, Ohio and received his artistic training at both the Huntington Polytechnic Institute and the Cleveland School of Art. During his career Lenz exhibited his paintings and drawings at such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art. Today the art of Norbert Lenz is held by the Columbus Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art.

Top Hat

Linocut, date not stated; edition of 50. Image size 23½” x 14”; overall size 28” x 22”. Numbered 37/50 and boldly signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Fine condition.

$225

Auguste-Louis Lepère (1849 - 1918)

Born in Paris, woodcutter and wood engraver Auguste Lepère studied with Joseph Smeeton between 1862 and 1867. He then studied drawing at the School of Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and in 1872, he created a workshop in Paris in partnership with Henri Paillard, producing illustrations for The illustrated World and L'Illustration. Over time, Lepère came to disdain the hyper-realistic rendering of tonality that was then the rage and instead turned to the stark delineation of subjects typical of the early period of woodcutting.

In 1888, in partnership with three like-minded colleagues, he founded L'Estampe Originale, an effort to restore the integrity of the woodcut, then besieged by the rising new technologies. Lepère is widely regarded as the person most responsible for the revival of classical wood engraving in Europe. In 1892, he established residence at Saint-Jean-de-Monts, where he lived and worked amid a circle of friends from all branches of the arts. He died at Domme, in Dordogne, France.

Susanna

Woodcut, 1899; edition not stated. Image size 6” x 8¼”; overall size 10-5/8” x 15¼”. Initialed in the block. Fine overall condition.

$225

David Levine (1926 – 2009)

Caricaturist and painter David Levine was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father was a clothing manufacturer and his mother was a nurse. He first studied at the School of the Brooklyn Museum Of Art, the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, as well as the Eighth Street School in Manhattan and the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is best known for his pen-and-ink caricatures, which appeared from 1963 to 2007 in The New York Review of Books and publications including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Time, and The Washington Post. He is less well known for his beautifully executed paintings, held by institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Portrait Gallery, London. Levine's work has been widely exhibited, and he was elected an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design. He died in New York City.

Fat Girl

Lithograph, 1963; edition of 122. Image size 10” x 13”; sheet size 13-1/8” x 17-5/8”. Signed in the stone; annotated "Artist Proof" and signed "D. Levine 63" in pencil in the lower margin. Minor ink spotting from printing in the right margin. Fine overall condition.

SOLD

Julian Levi (1874 - 1971)

Born in Yorkville, New York, Julian Levi’s parents moved to Philadelphia in 1906, where he eventually studied under Henry McCarter and Arthur Carles at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1919, he was awarded a Cresson Traveling Scholarships by the Academy; he spent the summer of 1920 in Italy, followed by four years in Paris, where he exhibited paintings in the 1921 and 1922 Salons d’Automne. During that period, Levi met Jules Pascin and other contemporaries and returned for two years beginning in 1926.

While in Philadelphia, Levi participated in several collaborative exhibitions and met the noted collector Albert Barnes. He moved to New York in 1932 and was active in a number of artists’ groups including the American Artists’ Congress. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. From 1936 – 1938, he was a member of the Federal Arts Project in New York. He taught at the Art Students’ League beginning in 1946, at the New School for Social Research, together with a number of teaching appointments elsewhere in the U.S. and Europe.

His paintings and prints are held by numerous museums and academic institutions. Julian Levi became an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design in 1973, and was elected to Full Membership in 1976.

Road to Provincetown

Lithograph, 1944; edition of 250. Image size 12” x 8-3/8”; sheet size 16” x 12”. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Fine overall condition.

$275

Jack Levine (1915 - 2010)

Painter and printmaker Jack Levine was born to Lithuanian immigrant parents in Boston’s South End. His prodigious natural talent was accompanied by high disdain for pretense and hypocrisy wherever it might be found, which informed his staunch figurative style. At age fourteen, Levine began art studies under Denman Ross at Harvard University, and found employment in the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Arts program; two of his paintings from that era were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1936. The following year, another of his paintings was acquired by MOMA for its permanent collection, the first of many such acquisitions by leading American institutions, accompanied by important exhibitions of his work at galleries and museums on both sides of the Atlantic.

Social consciousness infused Levine’s work, with emphasis on such issues as civil rights in America, prison conditions in Spain, and the human condition in general. He died in New York City, where he had lived for many years.

The End of the Weimar Republic

Etching & mezzotint on Rives, 1967; edition of 100. Image size 14½” x 29¾”; sheet size 22” x 29¾”. Published by A. Lublin, New York; printed by Emiliano Sorini, New York. Numbered 86/100 and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A fine impression in fine condition exceptiing minor creasing in the lower right-hand corner of the sheet. Prescott & Prescott 44.

$1800

Martin Levine (1945 - )

Printmaker and teacher Martin Levine was born in New York City. His etchings and lithographs are characterized by their meticulous realism, and are principally architectural in character. His work has been exhibited in many juried exhibitions here and abroad, and is held in many private and institutional collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Levine has taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1986, and is the recipient of many awards, including the Society of American Graphic Artists National Print Exhibition; National Academy of Design Annual Exhibition; Bienal de Ibiza Grafic Internacional Exhibition, Spain; and the Library of Congress National Exhibition of Prints.

The Grist Mill, Sudbury, Mass.

Aquatint on wove paper, 1981; edition of 125. Image size 29¾” x 24”; sheet size 35¼” x 28½”. Titled, numbered 30/125, and signed and dated by the artist in pencil in the lower margin. Fine overall condition.

$225

Herschel Levit (1912 - 1986)

Born in Philadelphia, painter and printmaker Herschel Levit studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the Art Institute of Chicago. His work was exhibited at numerous institutions including the Library of Congress, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Springfield Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. During the Depression era, he was employed by the WPA Federal Artist's Project and received commissions to produce murals at The Rowan School, Philadelphia; the Registry of Deeds in Washington, D.C.; and Post Office buildings in Lewisville, Ohio and Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. For over thirty years, Levit was a faculty member at Pratt Institute. In addition, he was a prolific freelance illustrator with an extensive client roster. He died in New York City.

The Cellist

Lithograph, 1940; edition not stated. Image size 9” x 11-7/8”; sheet size 12¼” x 15-5/8”. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A fine impression in fine condition.

$575

Allen Lewis (1873 - 1957)

Lewis was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1873 and studied with Jean-Léon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaus Arts in Paris, creating his first etchings in 1895. In 1900 his work, along with fellow Americans Whistler and Pennell, was accepted in the printmaking section of the Paris Salon. He returned to New York in 1902, where he became a member of Alfred Steiglitz's circle. His etchings were exhibited at Steiglitz's Gallery 291 with a show of 43 etchings, drypoints, and bookplates. He was an Associate Member of the Photo-Secession and one of his photographs was included in the 1912 issue of The Camera Work. He also became known for his color woodcuts. In 1915 he won a Gold Medal at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Lewis taught in New York at the Art Students League between 1924 and 1932 with Pennell and from 1932-34 at the New School for Social Research. He died in New Jersey.

Swinging The Gate

Color woodcut, 1937. Image size 7½” x 10”; sheet size 13” x 18”. Published by American Artists Group, New York in a non-limited unsigned edition. Fine overall condition.

SOLD

Saint Francis Preaching To The Birds

Color woodcut, 1933; edition of 200. Image size 6-7/8” x 9-5/8”; page size 12-3/4” x 16” printed on a 25-5/8" x 32" press sheet by Lewis on a Washington hand press and folded to size. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin of the image and numbered 36 in the colophon. Beautiful typography and design, expertly inked and printed. A fine impression in near-fine overall condition.

$650

Max Liebermann (1847 - 1935)

Renowned painter and printmaker Max Liebermann was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin. He first studied law and philosophy at the University of Berlin, but subsequently studied painting and drawing in Weimar, Paris, and in the Netherlands. Following service in the Franco-Prussian War, he lived and worked in Munich, returning permanently to Berlin in 1884.

Liebermann gathered a large collection of French Impressionist work, which inspired his choice of bourgeois scenes and garden motifs. He was best known for his portraits, including those of Einstein and Hindenburg, as well as of Max Liebermann. At the time of his 50th birthday, he was given a solo exhibition at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, and in the following year he was elected to the academy. From 1899 to 1911 he led the premier avant-garde formation in Germany, the Berlin Secession. In 1920 Liebermann was elected president of the Prussian Academy of Arts. On his 80th birthday, in 1927, Liebermann was celebrated with a large exhibition and made an honorary citizen of Berlin.

But in 1933 he resigned when the academy decided to no longer exhibit works by Jewish artists, before he would have been forced to do so under laws restricting the rights of Jews. Liebermann died on February 8, 1935, at his home on Berlin's Pariser Platz, near the Brandenburg Gate. News of his death was suppressed by the National Socialist regime, and none of his colleagues from the Prussian Academy were present at his funeral. Nonetheless, more than 100 friends and relatives were present, including Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Nagel, and Bruno Cassirer.

Selbstbildnis

Drypoint, 1913; edition not stated. Image size 6½” x 9”; sheet size 12¾” x 18-1/8”. Published in “Max Liebermann: Sein Leben und Sein Werke” by Erich Hancke. Signed in pencil by Liebermann in pencil in the lower margin. Near fine overall.

$1250

Russell T. Limbach (1904 - 1971)

Born in Massillon, Ohio, Russell T. Limbach was a painter and printmaker. He briefly attended the Cleveland School of Art, then left to become an apprentice in the sketch room of a small lithographic plant there, learning and refining his technique under the guidance of four experienced staff artists. He realized the artistic potential of printmaking at a local exhibit where he first saw Whistler etchings. He left for Europe in 1928 and studied for nearly a year under a fourth-generation lithographer in Paris. Returning to Cleveland in the depths of the depression, he traveled to New York City, where he found work as the Art Editor of The New Masses. Limbach subsequently was asked to organize the Graphics Division of the WPA Arts Project in New York. He was the recipient of numerous awards. His works are held in the collections numerous libraries and museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles Museum of Art. He died at Sherman, Connecticut.

Reviewing Stand

Lithograph, 1934; edition of 50. Image size 14½” x 9-7/8”; sheet size 16” x 11½”. Numbered 40/50 and signed by the artist in pencil in the lower margin. A beautiful impression in fine condition populated by all manner of wonderful characters, surely more interesting and entertaining than the passing parade. Museum-quality archival mat and mount.

$800

Flynn's Barn

Lithograph in six colors, 1939. Produced for the Federal Arts Project, W.P.A, edition unknown. Image size 13-7/8" x 11"; sheet size 16" x 13½". Titled and signed by the artist in the lower margin. A fine impression; bottom of sheet is lightly foxed ad creased well away from the image area. Matted and framed using archival quality materials.

$750

Student and Master

Lithograph, 1935; edition of 250. Image size 11-1/8” x 9-7/8”; sheet size 13-3/8” x 12”. Published by the Cleveland Print-A-Month Club . A fine impression in overall good+ condition: moderate rippling and a faint blue stain in the upper margin, not affecting the image.

$225

Untitled Watercolor

Original watercolor with crop lines in plencil dated July, 1939. Signed by the artist in pencil in the lower right corner. Tape remnants in all reverse corners, and in the obverse upper corners, otherwise very good overall condition.

$350

Untitled Forest Scene

Original watercolor, ca. 1939. Signed lower right corner. Overall size 10-7/8" x 15¼". Very good condition.

$275

Fragment

Lithograph in two colors, 1948. Image size 12" x 8-3/4"; sheet size 16-3/4" x 13". Printed, titled, and signed by the artist in pencil lower margin. Very faint toning within former mat aperture. Tape remnant upper corners. Very good condition.

$325

Spring Night

Lithograph, 1945, edition of 5. printed by the artist. Image size 10-1/8" x 13-7/8"' sheet size 11½" x 16". Titled, numbered 3/5, signed and dated in pencil by Limbach in lower margin. Very good.

$450

Strictly Kosher

Etching, not dated, edition not known. Image size 6-3/4" x 7" with full margins. A very good, well inked impression. Framed using archival materials.

$275

Tepoztlán

Original watercolor, 1941. Overall size 19-5/8" x 15¼". Signed, titled, and dated by the artist in lower margin. Very good condition.

$950

Untited Winter Mountain Scenery

Original undated ink and watercolor. Overall size 14" x 17". Fine condition.

$375

Untitled Shore Scene

Unsigned, undated etching, edition not stated. Image size 11-7/8" x 8-3/4"; sheet size 15½" x 13". Ink smudges at edge of sheet, but the image and margins are in very good condition.

$225

Untitled Shore Scene

Original ink and waterolor; overall size 14" x 10". Signed in pencil by the artist lower right corner of image. Very good condition; tape remnants upper corners of reverse..

$450

Winter Hills

Lithograph in three colors on Rives paper; date unknown, edition unknown. Image size 17¼” x 12¼”; sheet size 20-3/4” x 15½”. Titled and signed by the artist on the lower margin. Several minor creases in the margins not affecting the image; otherwise in very good condition.

$325

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Winter

Original undated crayon and watercolor. Image size 14" x 10"; sheet size 16¼" x 12½". Crop indications, title, and signature in pencil by the artist. Tack holes in all corners and tape remnants in upper obverse corners. Very good condition.

$500

Zion

Original drawing, date unknown. Overall size 17" x 14". Titled and signed by the artist in lower left margin. Very good condition.

$375

Untitled Mountainside Drawing

Original pen and ink, date unknown; Overall size 9" x 12". Drawn on dark yellow paper and signed by Limbach in pencil in the lower right-hand corner. A second, less fully realized drawing of mountainous terrain is on the reverse. Fine condition.

$325

Lionel Lindsay (1874 - 1961)

Born in Creswick, Victoria, Australian water colorist, engraver and etcher Lionel Lindsay grew up in an artistically talented family. A student at the National Gallery School in Melbourne, Lindsay also studied with George Coates. He taught himself engraving and etching prior to a lengthy trip to England and Spain. Upon his return, he established himself as a freelance artist and journalist in Sydney and held a highly successful exhibition of his etchings there in 1907 with the Society of Artists and became the first president of the Australian Printer-Etcher's Society when it was formed in 1921.

Lindsay had another highly successful exhibition, this time in the London galleries of the at the renowned art dealer Colnaghi. The favorable critical reception that his work received in London secured his reputation as a major British printmaker and water colorist. At home, he became a Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and in 1941 was knighted for his contributions to Australian art. Lindsay died at Melbourne.

Santa Cruz, Toledo

Etching, 1946; edition of 200. Image size 6-7/8” x 9-7/8”; sheet size 9-1/8” x 12-5/8” Signed in the plate and in pencil by the artist in the lower margin, with notation of edition size. A fine impression in overall fine condition.

$425

William Haeburn-Little ( ? )

St. Martin's Church

Etching on wove paper, 20th century; edition not stated. Image size 2½” x 5”; sheet size 6-5/8” x 7½”. Titled and signed by the artist in pencil in the lower margin. Fine overall condition.

$45

Carlos Llerena Aguirre (1952 - )

Born in Peru, illustrator, artist, and printmaker Carlos Llerena Aguirre holds an M.F.A., in Art & Design, an A.M., in Art Education from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , an M.A. in Graphics from Hunter College C.U.N.Y, and a B.F.A. in Advertising Design from the School of Visual Arts. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Philadelphia University of the Arts, Syracuse University, California College of Arts and Crafts, University of California at Berkeley, Ringling School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Poynter Institute for Media Studies. He is currently a tenured professor at the University of Miami. He has represented both Peru and the United States with his woodcuts in numerous international exhibitions.

Self Portrait

Woodcut on Japan paper, 1985; edition of 50. Image size 10½" x 17"' sheet size 17½" x 21". Pencil-signed and dated "San Francisco - March 19, 1985" by the artist in the lower margin. Artist's stamps in the lower left margin. A beautiful impression in overall good condition. There is soiling and wrinkling along the right edge of the sheet, and a ¾" x 2½" loss at the lower right corner; all defects are well away from the sight area.

$525

Charles Locke (1899 - 1993)

Locke, an accomplished painter and printmaker, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied at the Ohio Mechanics Institute (later the Cincinnati Art Academy), and at the Art Students League of New York under Joseph Pennell. He traveled to Europe and studied in Paris. Locke taught lithography at the Art Students League for a number of years. He was the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, and his work is held by many major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, The British Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery. Locke died at Garrison, New York.

McCosh Walk, Princeton University

Lithograph, 1943, edition of 200. Image size 12” x 8”; sheet size 19” x 12½”. Published by the Princeton Print Club for its members. Very good condition; tape remnants in the upper corners.

$475

Cigar Store

Lithograph, 1932; edition of 30. Image size 11” x 10-1/8”; sheet size 17¼” x 12-3/8”. Inscribed "30 prints" and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Very good.

$375

George Lockwood (1929 - 1969)

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lockwood attended Cooper Union, the New School for Social Research, and received his undergraduate and MFA degrees from Yale University. He taught at several colleges and universities including Smith College, Amherst College, The Massachusetts College of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design. His work resides in the permanent collections of numerous museums and libraries, and in many private collections.

Illustration for "She Moves In Circles Of Sun"

Lithograph in three colors, printed directly from the stones, 1965, edition of 150; Published by The Impressions Workshop, Boston, for its series Broadsides From Impressions - a collaboration of artists & poets. Overall size 10-7/8" x 15-1/8". The poem, by Ryah Tumarkin Goodman, was hand set and letterpress printed. This is number 128 of 150 on Rives BFK, signed in pencil by both the artist and poet, and blind stamped with the Impressions Workshop seal. George Lockwood founded The Impressions Gallery with his wife, Margaret.

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Robert Fulton Logan (1889 - 1959)

Born near Lauder, Manitoba, portrait painter and etcher Robert Fulton Logan studied art in Paris at age 16, followed by studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Art Institute of Chicago. For twenty years, he was a faculty member at Connecticut College, retiring in 1954. In his later years, Logan headed the Art Department at Newton College of the Sacred Heart. His work was widely exhibited in major galleries and museums in both Europe and the United States, including the Corcoran Gallery, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Paris Salon (1921 – 1930). He died at Boston, Massachusetts.

Notre Dame de Paris

Etching and aquatint, 1925; edition of 40 on van Gelder paper, published by Adolphe le Goupy, Paris. Image size 10½” x 14”; sheet size 14-3/8” x 18-7/16”. A lovely impression, number 40 of 40, in overall fine condition. This print was a gift given by the artist to Edmund C. Tarbell (1862 - 1938), who was Logan's instructor in painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and remained in the family until the present.

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The Harbor, Noimoutier

Drypoint, 1929, edition unknown. Image size 7-1/8” x 4-3/4”; sheet size 5-5/8” x 9”. Published in The Print Connoisseur, Volume IX, Number 1, January, 1929. Fine Condition.

$50

Erica Lohman (1901 - 1984)

Beginning at age 4, Erica Lohman was one of a group of six girls at Isadora Duncan's Forest School in Grunewald, Germany (near Berlin), variously called Duncaninchen (little Duncans) or Isadorables. All six were adopted by Duncan in 1919, given her name, and toured with her until 1921. Of the six, only Erica abandoned dance to become an artist.

Portrait Of A Woman

Linocut, ca. 1921. Image size 7¼” x 9”; sheet size 8½” x 12-1/8”. Published in Playboy - A Portfolio of Art and Satire, a short-lived but influential magazine that was published, irregularly, by Egmont Arens between 1919 and 1924. Copies of Playboy are extremely scarce and highly desirable, since numerous avant-garde artists and writers appeared in its pages. Good+ condtion

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Charles Oglesby Longabaugh (1885 - 1944)

Born in Grayslake, Illinois, water colorist and printmaker Charles Oglesby Longabaugh studied at Wheaton College and at the Art Institute of Chicago. He traveled extensively throughout Mexico and the American Southwest. He is best known as a regionalist landscape painter and etcher. Longabaugh died at Libertyville, Illinois.

Facade - The Alamo

Drypoint, ca. 1925; edition of 50. Image size 6-15/16” x 4-15/16”; sheet size 8½” x 5-7/8”. Titled, numbered, and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A beautiful,richly inked impression in overall fine condition. There is a slit approximately 5" long about parallel to the lower edge of the sheet and well away from the image and marginalia. The print has been removed from its original acidic mount, cleaned, and de-acidified.

$525

Huasteca Canyon

Drypoint, ca. 1925; edition of 25. Image size 7-13/16” x 9-15/16”; sheet size 10-3/8” x 12-1/16”. The image depicts the dramatic terrain approximately 12 miles west of Monterrey, Mexico and was exhibited at the Joseph Pennell Memorial Exhibition in Washington, D.C. in 1927, first organized and staged by the Print Club of Philadelphia in 1926. Titled, numbered, and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Very good overall condition with faint background toning. There are two paper losses on the right hand margin of the sheet well away from the image. The print has been removed from its original acidic mount, cleaned, and de-acidified.

$575

Saddle Mountain - Monterrey, Mexico

Drypoint, ca. 1925; edition of 50. Image size 9-7/8” x 7-7/8”; sheet size 11-3/8” x 9-5/8”. Titled, numbered, and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Very good overall condition with faint background toning. There are several small paper losses on the left-hand and upper margin of the sheet well away from the image. The print has been removed from its original acidic mount, cleaned, and de-acidified.

$425

Robert Lostutter (1939- )

Well known water colorist and printmaker Robert Lostutter studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he became a member of the Chicago Imagists, a breakaway group of surrealist artists based there. His early work was characterized by its dark and fantastical aspect. Today, he is best known for his meticulous depictions of hybrid avian-humans, and his work has found its way into many collections, including those of the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution, the Kansas City Art Institute, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Superb Sunbird

Color lithograph, 1991; edition of 50. Image size 18-7/8” x 13-3/4”; overall framed size 27-3/8" x 22-3/4". A fine impression in overall fine condition, not examined out of frame.

$2,900

Superb Sunbird

Black and white lithograph, 1991; edition of 20. Image size 19” x 13-7/8”; overall framed size 27-3/8" x 22-3/4". A fine impression in overall fine condition, not examined out of frame.

$1,700

Eugene E. Loving (1908 - 1971)

Born in Round Rock, Texas in 1908, Eugene Loving graduated from Round Rock High School ca. 1926 and moved to New Orleans, drawn by the French Quarter’s artistic laissez-faire atmosphere. Loving became immersed in New Orleans’ vibrant arts scene and became a member of the New Orleans Arts and Crafts Club. His work consisted largely of etchings and serigraphs, most of them depicting the streetscapes and buildings of the Vieux Carré with great sensitivity. He is presumed to have resided in New Orleans for the forty-five years spanning his arrival and death.

Our thanks to correspondent Peter Barrios, who provided this biographical information.

Green Shutters Patio - Old New Orleans

Etching and aquatint, ca. 1950; edition of 100. Image size 4-7/8” x 6-7/8”; sheet size 7-13/16” x 10-1/8”, Titled, edition stated, and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Very good.

$375

John T. "Jet" Lowe (1947 - )

Fine arts photographer, since 1970 the Baltimore-based Jet Lowe has traveled the world capturing architectural and engineering landmarks. For thirty-five of those years, Lowe was the engineering photographer for the Historic American Engineering Record division of the National Park Service, and held administrative roles there as well. Some forty thousand of his images are held by the Prints and Photographs division of the Library of Congress. Lowe has also undertaken freelance work for many publications and institutions. He holds several advanced degrees in photography and is a frequent lecturer on the subject.

Bailey's Island Cobwork Bridge

Silver gelatin print, 1984; edition not stated. Image size 9¼" x 13"; sheet size 10-7/8" x 14". Published by the Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service. Stamped on reverse with agency and photographer information with title in pencil. A fine imge with spotting and a small closed tear outside of the sight area.

$75

Cornish - Windsor Covered Bridge

Silver gelatin print, 1984; edition not stated. Image size 12-7/8" x 8-7/8"; sheet size 14" x 9¾". Published by the Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service. Stamped on reverse with agency and photographer information with title in pencil. A fine imge with spotting outside of the sight area.

$75

Nat Lowell (1880 - 1956)

Born in Riga, Latvia, Nat Lowell emigrated to New York City and studied at the Art Students League with Carroll Beckwith, Gutzon Borglum, and Siddons Mowbray. He is best known for his detailed etchings of New York City and its landmarks. He taught at Hunter College and at the New School in New York. His works are represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Newark Museum, the New York Public Library, the New York Historical Society, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Library of Congress.

Bowling Green, New York

Etching, 1935, edition not stated. Image size 8-7/8” x 12½”; sheet size 12” x 16¼”. Signed by the artist lower right margin. Very good condition.

$275

Rockefeller Center

Etching, 1935, edition not stated. Image size 7½” x 13”; sheet size 11” x 16”. Signed by the artist lower right margin. Very good condition, evenly toned. Matted and framed using archival quality materials.

$475

United Nations Building

Etching, ca. 1954; edition of 200. Image size 12-3/4” x 9½”; sheet size 13” x 17”. Published by Associated America Artists, New York. Signed by the artist, lower right margin. Very good condition.

$325

Brooklyn Bridge

Etching, 1937; edition of 182. Image size 13-9/16” x 9-5/8”; sheet size 16-13/16” x 12¾”. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A fine impression in fine overall condition.

$975

Louis Lozowick (1892 - 1973)

Painter and printmaker Louis Lozowick, is best known for his Art Deco lithographs, which he first created in the 1920s, was born in Ludvinovka, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. He studied at the Kiev Art School before emigrating to the United States in 1906, joining his brother in New York. He continued his studies at the National Academy of Design and subsequently graduated with honors from Ohio State University. Lozowick lived in Europe from 1919 to 1924, where he met Moholy-Nagy, Lissitsky, and several other avant-garde artists.

Returning to the New York City, he joined the editorial board of New Masses in 1924, where his geometric realistic style was well received. In 1943 Lozowick moved to New Jersey and continued to paint and make prints that dealt primarily with social realist themes, an interest that endured throughout his career. He was a member of the American Artists Congress. Lozowick is represented in numerous institutional collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern art in New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The national Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; and the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Louis Lozowick died in Jersey City, New Jersey.

City on a Rock

Lithograph, 1931; edition of 242. Image size 12-7/8" x 8-1/8"; sheet size 16" x 11½". Published by The Print Club of Cleveland, Ohio. Signed by Lozowick in pencil in the lower margin. Fine.

$925

Luigi Lucioni (1900 - 1988)

Painter and etcher Luigi Lucioni was born in Malnate in northern Italy. By the time his family emigrated to the United States in 1911, he was already an excellent draftsman. He won a design competition four years later that allowed him to attend Cooper Union. He subsequently attended the National Academy of Design and there he won a Tiffany Foundation scholarship that allowed him to return to Italy for study. As a result of his stay in Italy, his work bore the imprint of the classical realist style. He is best known for his portraits and landscapes. Lucioni maintained studios in both New York City and in Vermont. He won many honors including first prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition (1939) and the Corcoran Biennial. He was a member of the Society of American Etchers and the Allied Art Association, and taught portraiture at the Art Students League in New York City.

Late Shadows

Etching, 1944; edition of 250. Image size 13-5/16” x 8¾”; sheet size 16-3/8” x 12”. Published by Associated American Artists, New York in 1945; signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Embury 91. Fine.

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Tree Tapestry

Etching, 1945; edition of 250. Image size 10-5/8” x 8-7/8”; sheet size 13-7/8” x 11-7/8”. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A beautifully inked impression in fine condition. Embury 94.

$475

Shadow and Substance

Etching, 1943; edition of 250. Image size 9-3/16” x 7-3/8”; sheet size 11-3/16” x 9½” Published by Associated American Artists, New York in 1945; signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Fine. Embury 85.

$525

Route 7

Etching, 1946; edition of 250. Image size 11-7/8” x 8¾”; sheet size 14-7/8” x 12”. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A lovely impression in fine condition. Embury 97.

$350

Pomfret Church

Etching, 1938; edition of 192. Image size 10½" x 7-7/8"; sheet size 13-1/8" x 10½". Published by Associated American Artists, New York in 1939. Inscribed in pencil "to the Maestro... June 25, '54" and signed Luigi Lucioni in the lower margin. Fine Condition. Embury 60.

$325

Summer Shadows

Etching, 1945, edition of 250. Image size 5-7/8” x 12” with full margins. Published by Associated American Artists, New York in 1946. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right margin. Very good condition. Embury 99.

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Lake Thru the Locusts

Etching, 1936; edition not stated. Image size 10” x 7½”; sheet size 12-11/16” x 10¼”. Titled and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Reproduced in Prints of the Year, 1937. Small, repaired closed tears on bottom edge, else fine.

$500

New England Pastoral

Etching, 1941; edition of 250. Image size 9-7/16” x 6-3/8” sheet size 13” x 10¼”. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Fine. Embury 74.

$375

On The Road

Etching, 1952; edition of 250. Image size 12-1/16” x 5-7/8”; sheet size 14-7/8” x 12”. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. Overall fine condition. Embury 119.

$425

Summer Shadows

Etching, 1952; edition of 250. Image size 12-1/16” x 5-15/16”; sheet size 14-7/8” x 12”. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Fine overall condition. Embury 99.

$350

Alexandre Lunois (1863 - 1916)

Etcher and lithographer Alexandre Lunois was born in Paris. In 1880, he apprenticed with the Parisian printer-lithographer Achille Sirouy, under whom he produced his first two lithographs and an etching, all based on the work of leading artists. These three prints were shown at the Salon of French artists in 1882, and Lunois continued to exhibit such work - derived from originals created by masters such as Delacroix, Daumier, and Béraud - through the salon of 1890. In 1886, Lunois began producing original etchings and in 1888 he explored the low countries followed by travels through Algeria and Morocco, returning to Paris with a portfolio of sketches and drawings in late 1889.

He at once began to work with both color and black-and-white lithography and exhibited five lithographs in black at the Universal Exhibition that year. He attracted the attention of noted dealer Edmund Sagot, who first published his lithographs; from 1894, he was represented by gallerist and editor Gustave Pellet. Lunois died at Pecq, in the western suburbs of Paris, where he had settled.

L’Artiste Gravant

Etching, 1912; edition not stated. Image size 6-11/16” x 9¾”; sheet size 10” x 12-9/16”. Published by Gustave Pellet. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A fine impression in overall near-fine condition, with minor smudging at the upper left corner of the sheet and unobtrusive soft creases in the same area, neither of which intrude on the sight area.

$1,400