Harry Shokler screenprints for sale
American, 1896-1978
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Brooklyn Heights Esplanade Screenprint, circa 1940, edition probably 100. 10 x 15 1/4 in. Signed in ink within the image and signed and titled in pencil below. This is a fine impression in excellent condition. The margins are full. Shockler was a WPA artist and the author of the Artists Manual for Silk Screen Printing (1946). SOLD |
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Brooklyn Heights Esplanade Screenprint, 1951, edition unknown. 10 x 15 1/2 in. Signed and dated in ink in the image. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression of this memorable, panoramic view of New York. This is a fine impression with full margins. Fine condition. Shokler was born in Cincinnati and he eventually moved to New York to study and then teach. He was an early advocate of the screenprint as an artistic medium and he was president of the National Serigraph Society. He was also a WPA artist and taught at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School. SOLD |
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Coney Island Screenprint printed in colors, 1942, edition unknown (possibly 100) 12 1/2 x 16 in. Signed in ink in the image, lower left. Tthis is a superb impression in fine condition. (There's a small paper loss in the lower right corner margin.) The margins appear to be full and untrimmed. Shokler became part of Anthony Velonis's silkscreen unit of the Graphic Arts Division of the New York WPA program. He became on the the leading screenprint artists during the 1940s. This memorable work is illustrated and discussed in The American Scene; Prints from Hopper to Pollack (2008) by Stephen Coppel, see pages 174-75. SOLD |
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Woman in a Window, New York Screenprint, circa 1940, edition probably about 25-50. 9 x 12 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression printed on tan paper. The condition is very good and the margins appear to be full and untrimmed. Shokler was born in Cincinnati and he eventually moved to New York to study and then teach. He was an early advocate of the screenprint as an artistic medium and he was president of the National Serigraph Society. He was also a WPA artist and taught at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School. $750 |
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Zinnias Screenprint, circa 1940, edition unknown. 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. Signed in ink in the lower right corner. This is a fine impression in very good condition. There's a faint suggestion of toning within an earlier mat opening and stray printer's ink has been touched in with white gouache on the right margin in one small area. (This was most likely done by the artist). Shokler was president of the National Serigraph Society and was one of the better early screenprint artists. $700 |
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