Open Cut - 6th Avenue Subway (New York)
Lithograph, 1938, edition 20. 11 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from a small repaired tear at the top of the sheet and a soft wrinkle along the lower right side of the margin. Keller studied at the Art Students League with with Harry Sternberg and Will Barnet. "Open Cut" is one of his finest lithographs and it's from the series Sandhogs which shows builders working on the 6th Avenue subway. Keller was active politically and helped to run the left-wing Artist's League of America. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell organized a retrospective of his work in 1976.
$3,000