Spinning Wheel
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Wood engraving, 1928, Winnan 57 (iii/III), edition 100. 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression on light cream wove paper with substantial margins (possibly full). The condition is fine. This impression is from the signed edition of 100 printed by the Spiral Press. There was an additional unsigned edition of 2,000 on card stock for a Weyhe Gallery invitation to a show of Gag's work.
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Airtight Stove
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Wood engraving, 1927-1933, Winnans 49 (ix/IX), edition 250. 4 7/8 x 3 5/8 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. The edition was printed in 1934 by the International Print Guild for distribution to their membership. In the lower right corner, there's a vague outline of a cat's face.
$900

The Forge
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1932, Winnan 96 (ii/II), edition 100. 11 1/2 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 on a zinc plate by George Miller in New York. Sixteen impressions are cited in museum collections. The scene for this print is a Blacksmith's shop in Carversville, PA.
$2,250

Wagon House
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph on zinc plate, 1929, Winnan 74, edition 75. 12 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. This work is found in multiple museum collections and there's a preliminary drawing in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (The scene is Gaylordsville, Connecticut.)
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Evening
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1928, Winnan 62, edition 100. 8 x 11 7/8 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from a soft crease in the lower left corner of the margins and two discreet archival hinges on the top corners, recto. The edition was printed by George Miller in New York and nineteen impressions are located in museum collections. This print is illustrated and discussed in Paths to the Press, Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960, by Elizabeth Seaton, et al. (2006), pages 130-131.
$1,850

Vase of Flowers
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Etching, 1927, Winnan 35 (ii/II), edition 25. 7 x 4 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed with tone. The margins are probably full and the condition is fine. (There's subtle soft wrinkle on the left margin and two small prior archival hinges on the top, recto.) The printer of this edition is unknown however some impressions were printed by Howard Cook and Carl Zigrosser according to Winnan. There was only one impression taken of the first state.
$500

Spring in the Garden (Spring II)
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1927, Winnan 38, edition 100. 10 x 13 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on a wove paper with a BFK (RIVES) watermark. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. George Miller was the printer and the zinc plate in in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fifteen impressions are cited in museum collections and this print is the cover illustration for the catalogue raisonné.
$3,500

Gumbo Lane
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1927, Winnan 36, edition 100. 10 x 12 3/4 in. Initialed "w" on the stone, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. "This slightly surreal scene captures Wanda Gág’s rapture over the garden at her rural retreat Tumble Timbers. She nicknamed the garden Gumbo Lane. It produced nothing more exotic than lima beans and Swiss chard, but to Gág it was something primal and passionately alive. The plants sprout eyes, the wooden posts rear up like snakes, and the grape arbor appears ready to charge. The little building at upper right was the outhouse for Tumble Timbers..." (Tumble Timbers was located in rural Glen Gardner, New Jersey.) The above quotation is from the entry for this print on the Mineapolis Institute of Art's website. It was written by Marla Kinney. This outstanding print was selected as one of the Fifty Prints of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
$3,500

Progress
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1936, Winnan 110 (ii/II); edition 50. 8 1/8 x 11 3/4 in. Signed and dated in pencil. Here we have a superb impression with full margins. (The paper bears a RIVES watermark.) The condition is fine apart from two small tan paper hinges at the top corners, recto. Fifteen impressions are cited in museum collections. This print is somewhat unique for Gag and it shows the rise of a more urban America with advertising billboards and other assorted signs. So many of her prints are rural in nature depicting landscapes, country homes, flowers and intimate home settings. This memorable image is certainly meant to be a social commentary on Gag's part.
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Grandma's Parlor
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1930, Winnan 78, edition 100. 10 1/2 x 13 1/8 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. There are two study drawings for this print in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Eleven impressions are cited by Winnan in museum collections and George Miller printed the edition.
$1,800

Christmas in New York
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Linoleum cut, 1928, Winnan 60 (ii/II), edition 25. 8 x 6 1/2 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. this is a fine, rich impression printed on a thin cream laid paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from a wrinkle in the lower right corner well away from the image. Two studies for this print are in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
$1,250

Franklin Stove
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Wood engraving, 1927, Winnan 51 (iii/III), edition 100. 7 x 5 in. Signed in the block, upper right corner. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, dark impression printed on thin cream laid paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine other than for a minor wrinkle on the edge of the sheet, upper right. Fourteen impressions are cited in museum collections including the Rijksmuseum.
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Backyard Corner
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1930, Winnan 80, edition 100. 10 3/8 x 12 7/8 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. this is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This stellar work was printed by George Miller in New York. Winnan cites fifteen impressions in museum collections around the world including the Kupferstichkabinett in Basel, The British Museum in London and the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow.
$2,500

Spring on the Hillside (Farmland)
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1935, Winnan 107, edition 50. 9 x 11 3/4 in. Signed in pencil by the artist and also signed in pencil by the printer, lower left, "George C. Miller, Litho." This is a very fine impression printed on Rives watermarked paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This stellar work was selected as one of the Fifty Prints of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Ten impressions are cited in museum collections. Provanance: Leona E. Prasse with her stamp on the verso (not in Lugt). She was a celebrated print curator working at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Electric Sign (New York)
EMIL GANSO
American, (1895-1941)
Lithograph, 1927, Smith L31, edition unknown. 17 1/8 x 11 1/2 in. Signed on the stone, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression of this uncommon print. The margins appear to be full and untrimmed and the condition is fine. (The back of the sheet shows a printed architectual rendering on the Maison aux Champs-Élysées floor plan.) This work is also titled New York Rooftops from Studio. (The Smith catalogue records 109 lithographs with a few fine NYC views and other images of upstate NY landscapes. Figure studies tend to predominate his work in this medium.)
$1,500

The Limeport Quarry
DANIEL GARBER
American, (1880-1958)
Etching, 1947, Humphries E52, edition 50. 9 x 12 in. Signed in the plate, lower left. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression. The margins are wide showing tack holes on two sides of the sheet. (Like Childe Hassam, Garber would tack the just printed impressions to a surface to dry.) The condition is excellent. (This impression was printed by the artist as it shows "D.G.imp.") Garber was a leading painter of the New Hope art colony and he also excelled at etching having produced about fifty works. He taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for about forty years. There's a related painting in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the scene depicted is along the Delaware River across from Limeport, PA, not far from New Hope.
$2,800

Passaconaway
ELIZA D. GARDINER
American, (1871-1955)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1919, Falk 26, edition perhaps 40. 7 1/2 x 10 in. Signed in the image in pencil, lower right. This is a very fine impression with full margins. The paper is an off-white fibrous wove and the condition is fine. (There's a small paper loss at the upper right corner, away from the image.) Mt. Passaconaway is a scenic 4,000 foot high peak in the White Mountains which is in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
$2,000

The Young Gardener
ELIZA D. GARDINER
American, (1871-1955)
Woodcut printed in colors, possibly 1927, small edition. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. Signed in pencil, lower left. This is a superb impression printed on Japan paper. The margins are probably full and untrimmed and the condition is excellent. This is one of her finest prints and is quite uncommon. To quote Peter Falk, "Eliza Draper Gardiner was among America's pioneers in color woodblock printing. To be counted among this small group would be a proud claim for most artists, yet Gardiner is further distinguished by her unexpected success in expressing human emotions... Her chosen subject matter was childhood, and in this realm there were few who could claim to be her equal." (See Eliza Draper Gardiner, Master of the Color Woodblock, 1987, unpaginated.)
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Eucalyptus Grove and Stream
FRANCES GEARHART
American, (1869-1959)
Block print printed in colors, circa 1930, edition probably 30-50. 6 1/2 x 3 5/8 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression printed on her typical sturdy, fibrous Japanese paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine other than for a very faint suggestion of light toning just outside the image within an early mat opening. This small, charming work is not listed in the Pasadena retrospective catalogue from 2009.
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October Splendor
FRANCES GEARHART
American, (1869-1959)
Block print printed in colors, 1930, Pasadena catalogue page 100, edition probably 30-50. 9 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression with vibrant colors printed on Japanese paper. The margins are full. The condition is very good other than for some stray printing ink in the water at right and some of the same in the left margin.
$4,500