The Huckster
JACOB KAINEN
American, (1909-2001)
Lithograph, 1937, Flint 16, edition about 25. 10 x 15 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This impression was part of the NYC Federal Art Project and bears that stamp in the lower left margin. The margins are full and the condition is very good. Kainen joined the New York Graphic Arts Project in 1935 at the beginning of the program. This fine early work shows his great skills as a draughtsman.
$1,400

Builders, Wall Street
ANDREW KAROLY
Hungarian/American, (1893-1978)
Etching, circa 1935, edition unknown. 10 x 12 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on a cream wove paper. The margins are wide and the condition is fine apart from a very faint suggestion of toning within a previous mat opening. Karoly studied in Budapest and after WWI, he produced paintings and etchings of France,Italy and Germany. He moved the the US around 1920 and later worked for the New York WPA producing several murals. This is an uncommon print and one of his best.
$800

Open Cut - 6th Avenue Subway (New York)
CHARLES KELLER
American, (1914-2006)
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

Weltschmertz
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Lithograph, 1947, Burne Jones / Rightmire 141; edition 100. 13 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression printed on wove paper. The margins are wide and the condition is fine. There are preliminary sketches and a tracing in the Kent collection at Columbia University. Weltschmertz translated from the German means "world weariness." It's about melancholy and pensive thoughts. Impressions are cited in five museum collections.
SOLD

Bowsprit
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Pencil on tracing paper, probably 1930, See Burne-Jones 56. 5 1/2 x 7 in. (image). Signed upper left, "Rockwell Kent (sketch for woodblock 'Bowsprit')." Our drawing is in very good condition. (The sheet was mounted quite some time ago to a thin, archival rag board, apparently to soften the look of some creasing and wrinkling in the image.) This outstanding, working drawing is not mentioned in the Burne-Jones catalog as the author was probably not aware of it. He does, however, reference and illustrate a preliminary drawing from the Zigrosser Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but it is considerably less developed than our work. We are offering this outstanding drawing WITH AN IMPRESSION OF THE PRINT for which this is the definitive study. The woodcut "Bowsprit" was printed in an edition of 120 and it measures the same size as the drawing (which has a pencil borderline on all sides). The margins are full and the condition is excellent. The woodcut is signed in pencil, lower right. (The canceled block is part of the Adler Collection in the Princeton University Library.) Provenance for both works: Baldwin-Wallace College, Ohio (deacessioned, 2010.)
SOLD

Pasture Gate
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Lithograph, 1928, Burne Jones / Rightmire 26, edition 110. 10 5/8 x 7 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This print was published by Weyhe Gallery and printed by George Miller. It was based on a drawing of the artist's first wife, Kathleen Whiting Kent. Pasture Gate is listed in multiple museum collections.
SOLD

Revisitation
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Lithograph, 1928, Burne Jones / Rightmire 22, edition 100. 8 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression printed on RIVES with full margins. The condition is fine apart from old hinges at the top corners. "This print demonstrates an interesting combination of crayon and tusche wash technique used to advantage in the sharp contrasts of early twilight, which lends a religiously mystical feeling to the work." (See Burne-Jones, pg 44.)
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Diver
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1931, Burne Jones/Rightmire 88, edition 150. 7 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on off-white wove paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from the very faintest suggestion of light toning within an earlier mat opening. This was one of twelve prints by Kent used in a national advertising campaign for the American Car and Foundry Company. There's a variant title for this work; "Masthead Diver."
SOLD

Starry Night
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1933, Burne Jones/Rightmire 103, edition 1,750. 7 x 5 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on a cream wove paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from two old hinges, verso, which are visible from the front. This print was used as a prescription premium by the Literary Guild of America book club.
$1,650

Girl on Cliff
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1930, Burne Jones / Rightmire 57; edition 1,750. 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. This very appealing work was published by the Literary Guild of America and given to new subscribers to the Book Club. Kent received fifty impressions for his efforts. In spite of the large edition this print is not all that common.
$1,750

Visitor
FLORENCE KENT
American, (1917-1989)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1940, edition unknown. 11 x 8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. Occasional soiling and a few fox marks primarily in the upper margin. This WPA print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was gifted to them by the New York WPA Administration in 1943. Kent was a native New Yorker raised in the Bronx. She studied at Cooper Union and the New School for Social Research.
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Drifter
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1933, Burne Jones / Rightmire 92, edition 250. 5 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on thin cream wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There's just a very faint suggestion of toning within an old mat opening.) The cancelled block is in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
$4,500

Bowsprit
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1930, Burne Jones/Rightmire 56; edition 120. 5 3/8 x 7 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This was one of twelve prints by Kent used in a national advertising campaign for the American Car and Foundry Company. The catalogue cites nine impressions in museum collections.
$4,500

Home Port
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1931, Burne Jones/Rightmire 62; edition 150. 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The paper bears a partial acorn or floral watermark. There a slight bit of light toning and a paper imperfection in the right edge of the sheet, far away from the image. As it states in the catalogue, "An imperfection in the paper near the left hand of the sailor was found on all copies examined. The area was inked in by hand after printing." This important print was commissioned by the advertising agency Calkins and Holden for their client, the American Car and Foundry Company. The cancelled block is in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
$7,500

Desert Drama
GENE KLOSS
American, (1903-1996)
Aquatint and drypoint, 1977, Sanchez 575, edition 35. 11 x 17 7/8 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. Here we have a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This stellar work depicts a view across Taos Valley, south of Rancho de Taos.
SOLD

Far Across the Rio Grande
GENE KLOSS
American, (1903-1996)
Etching, 1939, Sanchez 361, edition 75. 10 x 14 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This impression is also inscribed by the artist, "artist's proof." This is a fine impression printed with tone. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This is a view of Comanche Canyon, looking towards the Pedernal, which is in northern New Mexico.
$2,000

Processional - Taos
GENE KLOSS
American, (1903-1996)
Drypoint, 1948, Sanchez 431, edition 250. 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is fine. This dynamic work was made for the Society of Print Connoisseurs in Hicksville, NY. The print is also known as Christmas Processional at Taos.
$3,500

Clouds at Sunset
GENE KLOSS
American, (1903-1996)
Drypoint and aquatint, 1953, Sanchez 449, edition 250. 9 x 13 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a superb impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from traces of the original hinges showing at the top corners, recto. This was a presentation print for the Print Club of Albany. Impressions are cited in the following museums: The National Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and the Worcester Art Museum, and others.
$2,250

Summer Evening in New Mexico
GENE KLOSS
American, (1903-1996)
Aquatint and drypoint, 1941, Sanchez 370, edition 75. 8 7/8 x 12 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine, dramatic impression with full margins. The condition is fine. (There's a little bit of time toning on the outer right edge of the sheet.)
$3,500

Grand Central Staion
OTTO KUHLER
American, (1894-1977)
Etching, 1927, Kennedy Galleries 26, edition 50. 14 3/8 x 9 in. Signed and titled in pencil. this is a superb, richly inked impression of this uncommon print. The margins are full and the condition is fine. On the left side are the flags of the former Hotel Belmont which was a destination hotel for foreign ambassadors and other dignitaries.
$1,750