Crack-Up
RALSTON CRAWFORD
American, (1906-1978)
Lithograph, 1949, Freeman L49.1, edition 30. 10 x 14 1/4 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. There are remains of two tiny hinges on the top corners, verso, otherwise this print is in fine condition. This powerful, early lithograph was printed by George Miller in New York. This work symbolized in black and white the emotions engendered by his four years of war experiences and the shock he had felt when he was stationed at the Bikini Atoll in 1946. (Crawford had been appointed artist-correspondent by Fortune magazine to work with meteorologists on visual charts pertaining to the atomic testing at this remote location.) (See Freeman, page 4, The Lithographs of Ralston Crawford, 1992, published by the University of Kentucky Press.) Ex-collection: Lois Torf, Boston.
$3,000

I Love a Parade
ALLAN CRITE
African American, (1910-2007)
Lithograph, 1948, edition 15. 7 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. Signed, dated, titled and numbered in ink. This is a superb impression of this extremely rare print. The margins are full and the condition is fine. Crite was was born in New Jersey but lived most of his life in Boston where he studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He was one of the preeminent Boston African American artists and lived in the historic South End. He was employed by the Federal Arts project. Crite was interested in social commentary and he depicted life as he observed it in the neighborhoods of Boston, especially in the vicinity of where he lived. His later work was primarily religious in nature. This exceptional print is found in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art among others. It's entry # 27 in Alone in a Crowd, Prints of the 1930s-40s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams (1993). This catalogue accompanied the exhibition of one hundred and five prints which traveled to about sixteen museums.
SOLD

Hounds and Coyote
JOHN STEUART CURRY
American, (1897-1946)
Lithograph, 1931, Cole 12, edition 25. 10 x 14 in. Signed and dated on the stone, lower left. Signed, dated, titled and numbered (25 prints) in pencil. This impression is dedicated in pencil to fellow artist Harry Wickey and his wife, "To the Wickeys and best luck." The margins are full. The condition is good apart from occasional light foxing and small old hinges at the top corners of the sheet.
$800

Prize Stallions
JOHN STEUART CURRY
American, (1897-1946)
Lithograph, 1938, Cole 31, edition 250 as published by Associated American Artists. 12 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. Initialed and dated in the stone, lower left. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a very fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent and the original; AAA hinges are in the top corners. The catalogue lists six museums that own this print and we are sure there are more.
$2,500

Ride a Cock Horse
JOHN DEMARTELLY
American, (1903-1980)
Lithograph, 1940, Zink 26, edition 250. 9 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent and we have to original AAA label which goes with the print. Theis scene depicts the artist's wife playing with their first child while there were living in Kansas City. A painting of the subject is in the Whitney Museum.
$750

Blue Valley Fox Hunt
JOHN DEMARTELLY
American, (1903-1980)
Lithograph, 1937, Zink 10, edition 250. 12 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression as published by Associated American Artists in New York. The margins are wide and the condition is very good. There's a trace of an old adhesive around the outer edges of the margins, verso, not showing on the front. De Martelly taught printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute and he became a close friend of Thomas Hart Benton. In fact, the reclining figure in this print is Benton.
$1,750

Interior Scene
ISAMI DOI
American, (1903-1965)
Woodcut printed in dark brown ink, 1928, edition unknown. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. Initialed in the block, lower center. Signed and dated in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from a few soft ripples in the image from the printing process and a small paper imperfection in the lower right just to the image. Doi studied for two years at the University of Hawaii. He then went to Columbia University for five years and susequently spent a year in Paris. He stayed in New York until 1938 then he returned to his native Hawaii. This is a rare print and we are aware of another, similar image done around the same time.
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Stairwell, Dark
ISAMI DOI
American, (1903-1965)
Woodcut printed in dark brown ink, circa 1928, edition unknown. 8 1/2 x 6 3/8 in. Initialed in the block, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression printed on fairly thin light cream wove paper. The margins are full. The condition is very good. Doi studied for two years at the University of Hawaii. He then went to Columbia University for five years and subsequently spent a year in Paris. He stayed in New York until 1938 then he returned to his native Hawaii. This is a rare print and we recently sold a very similar print which was dated 1928.
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Laguna, Venice
FRANK DUVENECK
American, (1848-1919)
Etching, 1880, Poole 11, edition 40. 7 15/16 x 13 1/2 in. Initialed in the plate, lower right. Signed in pencil, lower left. This is a very fine impression printed with light plate tone. The margins appear to be full and the condition is excellent. This very rare print was published by Robert Dunthorne, London, in an edition of 40 under the the title "View of Shipping from the Riva." Twenty-five impressions were signed and fifteen were unsigned. The printer was Frederick Goulding. This stellar print is illustrated and discussed in the Stamp of Whistler by Robert Getscher (1977), (entry 88), pages 154-155. The Doge's Palace and the Campanile of St. Mark's are shown in the background. Provenance: Hirschl & Adler, New York (See their catalogue, The American Image (1982), entry # 27.)
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Sunday Afternoon
MABEL DWIGHT
American, (1875-1955)
Lithograph, 1934, Robinson/Pirog 73 (i/II), edition only 15. 10 1/8 x 12 1/2 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is fine impression of this rare print. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from two small old spots of tape reside on the bottom margin edge. The scene is Central Park in Harlem.
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Deserted Mansion
MABEL DWIGHT
American, (1875-1955)
Lithograph, 1928, Robinson / Pirog 31, edition 30. 11 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. Dwight often took the ferry from Manhattan to Staten Island and that's where she discovered this stately yet run down Victorian structure. A watercolor was done of the same subject and the edition was printed by George Miller.
$900

Winter, Central Park
MABEL DWIGHT
American, (1875-1955)
Lithograph, 1931, Robinson / Pirog 58, edition 24. 10 x 11 1/2 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. The edition was printed by George Miller in New York.
$950

Book Auction
MABEL DWIGHT
American, (1875-1955)
Lithograph, 1932, Robinson / Pirog 63, edition 40. 7 3/8 x 8 1/2 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression with full margins. The condition is fine other than for a faint trace of an old tape adhesive in the upper edge of the sheet. The edition was printed by George Miller. The subject of this print is the auction of the library of the Marquess of Lothian held at the Anderson Galleries in New York in 1932. Dwight did a sketch on site which provided the basis for the lithograph.
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Nova Scotia
MABEL DWIGHT
American, (1875-1955)
Lithograph, 1935, Robinson / Pirog 77, edition 40. 9 7/8 x 12 1/8 in. Signed in pencil. Here is a fine impression with full margins showing a deckle edge on all sides. The condition is fine other than for a little toning in the left margin well away from the image. According to the catalogue raisonné, Dwight visited Nova Scotia as a guest of Erhard Weyhe and his family.
$1,200

The Survivor, Staten Island
MABEL DWIGHT
American, (1875-1955)
Lithograph, 1929, Robinson / Pirog 40, edition 40. 10 x 13 3/4 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. The edition was printed by George Miller in New York and three impressions are cited in museum collections. This compelling image provides a glimpse of the dramatic changes to the American urban landscape during the first half of the twentieth century.
$2,500

Winter
MABEL DWIGHT
American, (1875-1955)
Lithograph, 1945, Robinson / Pirog 109, edition only 4. 9 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from the faintest suggestion of toning within an earlier mat opening. The setting of the image is New Hope, PA. Dwight lived in Bucks County off an on at a friend's farm beginning in 1939.
$1,500

The Family
MABEL DWIGHT
American, (1875-1955)
Lithograph, 1928, Robinson / Pirog 27, edition 50. 8 x 10 1/8 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full with a deckle edge all around. The edition was printed by George Miller in New York.
$1,300

The Brothers
MABEL DWIGHT
American, (1875-1955)
Lithograph, 1928, Robinson/Pirog 25 (iii/III); edition 50. 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full with a deckle edge on all sides. According to the catalogue on page 73, "The lithograph comments on the sensational Scopes trial of 1925, which had pitted evolutionary teachings against those of religious fundamentalism." This provocative print has been widely exhibited and is listed in five museum collections.
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Driftway, Evening
KERR EBY
American, (1889-1946)
Lithograph, 1933, Giardina 196 (ii/II); edition 100. 8 1/4 x 15 3/8 in. Signed in the plate, lower right. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, atmospheric impression printed on a white wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. Driftway was Eby's home in Westport, CT.
$850

Two Bridges
KERR EBY
American, (1889-1946)
Etching, 1930, Giardina 149 (v/V), edition 90. 8 x 15 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a very fine impression printed on cream laid paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. Ten impressions are cited in museum collections. This lovely panorama of New York shows the Brooklyn Bridge in the foreground and the Manhattan Bridge in the distance.
SOLD