Fantasy; four half figures facing each other two by two
SAMUEL JESSURUN DE MESQUITA
Dutch, (1868-1944)
Etching, 1925, Van Es D 118, edition 15. 8 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a superb impression printed with tone. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. There are only seven impressions cited in the catalogue by Van Es. This is a fine example of Mesquita's "sensitivic" etching style. He was captivated with making these fantasy prints.
$1,800

Tree in Bloom (Boompje in Bloei)
SIMON MOULIJN
Dutch, (1866-1948)
Lithograph, 1897, Kappers 6, edition unknown. 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. Initled and dated on the stone, lower right. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on chine appliqué. The margins appear to be full and the condition is very good. There are two small stains; one on the top right edge of the margin and another just above the image at the right. This rare, early work exemplifies Moulijn's great skills as a draughtsman as well as his sensitivity to the medium of lithography. He specialized in poetic, tranquil landscapes and produced about two hundred prints during his career. He was active as a professor in Rotterdam and also published a book on lithography, "De Lithografische Prentkunst," in 1918. This print was published in conjunction with the publication, "Hollandsche Prentkunst."
$900

Woman and Child by the Water
JULIETTE S. NICHOLS
American, (1870-circa 1958)
White line color woodcut, undated (circa 1915-20), edition unknown. 11 x 12 1/2 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression with the full margins. The condition is fine apart from a couple of professionally flattened creases in the margins only. The paper is a cream, light tan color. This is a great example of her work and and exceedingly rare. Studying in Paris, she learned Japanese woodcut techniques from Edna Boies Hopkins and exhibited her work at the American Women’s Art Association alongside a few other artists who would eventually form the group known as the Provincetown printers. She also studied with Blanche Lazzell when she arrived in Provincetown in 1915. Nichols exhibited her white line woodblock prints in the very first show of the Provincetown Printers at the Berlin Photographic Company in New York City in 1916. They held their first Provincetown show at Ambrose Webster’s Studios. Her work was also exhibited in numerous prominent arts clubs and associations throughout the northeast including the Provincetown Art Association. In the mid 1920’s Nichols traveled again to Paris. She also lived in Marietta, Ohio and New York in the 1920s. This is the only impression we are aware of of this print.
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Two Men Digging
BJO NORDFELDT
American, (1878-1955)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1906, Donovan 17, edition unknown. 11 1/4 x 7 5/8 in. Signed, dated and numbered "No. 205" in pencil. This is a superb impression on japanese paper trimmed to just outside the margin by the artist. The condition is fine. Our impression is nicer than the one illustrated in the catalogue raisonné. Nordfeldt was born in Sweden and later went to England to study with Frank Morley Fletcher. The year after this print was made the artist left Chicago for the east coast and ended up in New York. He summered in Provincetown, MA. This is a rare print in spite of the 'No. 205" written on it. Provenance: The Old Print Shop, NY. (Framed in a lovely arts and crafts oak frame.)
$9,000

The White Rose
MARGARET PATTERSON
American, (1867-1950)
Woodcut printed in colors, undated (1920s), edition possibly 100. 7 5/8 x 7 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine, working proof with color annotations on the top and bottom margin. The margins are full. The condition is good apart from slight soiling and two stains in the margins, one on the top and the other along the bottom. This nice impression provides insight into the thinking of the artist as she developed her color pallette. She was pleased with this impression given the fact that she signed and titled it in pencil. From the collection of Reba White Williams, New York.
$3,800

Rainy Night, Charing Cross Shops
JOSEPH PENNELL
American, (1857-1926)
Etching printed with dramatic plate tone, 1903, Wuerth 274, edition probably 100. 11 x 8 3/8 in. Signed in pencil and printed by the artist, "imp." This is a superb impression with full margins. The paper is an antique sheet with a fleur-de-lis watermark and mostly likely this is a page from an old French ledger book. The condition is excellent. Provenance: C & J Goodfriend, New York and Madeleine Fortunoff, Locust Vallery, LI. (with his writing on the mat and her label.) This print is found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
$2,600

The Irish Lady, Lands End
JOHN PLATT
British, (1886-1967)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1922, Chapman 9, projected edition of 100. 8 1/8 x 10 1/2 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with probably the full margins. Fine condition apart from two small old paper hinges at the top corners. (The edition was never completed and just 78 impressions were recorded.) This dramatic work beautifully conveys the waves crashing against the rocks at this famous locale in Cornwall, England.
$1,600

Landscape 2025-I
GRIETJE POSTMA
Dutch, (b. 1961)
Woodcut printed in colors, 2025, edition 25. 14 1/4 x 18 in. Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil. This is a stellar impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. The scene is Mt. Dandenong in Kalorama, Victoria, Australia. This somewhat remote, exotic area is perched atop the Dandenong Ranges about 40 km east of Melbourne along the Mt.Dandenong Tourist Road. The artist visited this part of the world awhile back.
$875

Landscape 2025-II (Edoras - Mt. Sunday)
GRIETJE POSTMA
Dutch, (b. 1961)
Woodcut printed in colors, 2025, edition 29. 14 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with the full margins. Excellent condition. Mt. Sunday is an isolated hill in the inland Canterbury region of New Zeeland's South Island. It was chosen as the location for the settlement of Edoras in the Lord of the Rings films. This print is actually a view looking down on the ground. The stone ground is full of minerals which makes it possible to see many plants and lichens.
$700

Boogie Woogie
MILDRED RACKLEY
American, (1906-1992)
Screenprint, circa 1940, edition 86. 10 3/8 x 14 3/8 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. Rackley actively exhibited during the 1930s and 1940s and she was a member of the National Serigraph Society. She moved to New York in 1935 and worked for the the American League Against War and Fascism's magazine called "Flight." She was born in New Mexico and later taught in Taos. She was quite the traveler and an activist. Her work is in the National Gallery and she was active with the New York WPA program.
$2,850

Spatterdocks
WILLIAM S. RICE
American, (1873-1963)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1930, edition probably about 15. 8 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on japanese paper. The margins appear to be full. The condition is fine apart from two subtle stain lines just touching the upper corners of the image. This is barely noticeable in the mat. This rare print is from the collection of Reba White Williams, NY.
$3,500

Callas
WILLIAM S. RICE
American, (1873-1963)
White line woodcut printed in colors, 1925, from a small edition; 15-20 impressions. 12 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression with wide margins printed on a white textured paper. The condition is fine apart from two exceedingly faint stain lines in the upper corners of the margins. Rice did a few prints of Calla Lilies and this is one of the very best. This print is illustrated on page 52 of "William S. Rice: California Block Prints" by Roberta Rice Treseder. The impression in this book appears to pale in comparison to the one we are offering here. Rice was born in Pennsylvania and later moved to California where he taught printmaking at the Alameda and Oakland public schools. Rice was a true craftsman and he authored two books on the subject of block printing. The white line technique, which he used for making this print, originated in Provincetown, MA. Only one block is needed to make the print. Ex-collection: Reba White Williams, New York.
$6,500

Night Heron in Cypress
ANDREA RICH
American, (b. 1954)
Woodcut printed in colors, 2021, edition 12. 20 x 16 in. Signed in the block with the artist's monogram, upper left. Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. Specifically, this is a Black-crowned Night Heron.
$740

Cedar Waxwing Flock
ANDREA RICH
American, (b. 1954)
Woodcut printed in colors, 2024, edition 12. 18 x 24 in. Signed in the block lower left with the artist's monogram. Signed, dated, numbered and titled in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent.
$900

Grapes
MABEL ROYDS
British, (1874-1941)
Woodcut prointed in colors, undated (circa 1920-1930), Barton 65, edition unknown. 8 1/2 x 10 in. Signed in colored pencil, lower left. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from soft wrinkles in the right margin area. Royds was married to Ernest Lumsden, the well known etcher of the period. She exhibited regularly at the Society of Scottish artists, the Society of Artist Printers and the Graver Printers in Colour. She produced about sixty blockprints and her work has become hard to come by today.
$1,750

Sun Flowers
FLORA SCHOFIELD
American, (1873-1960)
White line color woodcut, probably done in the 1930s, edition unknown. 12 7/8 x 10 1/2 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression of this extremely rare print. The margins are probably full as printed. The condition is very good apart from the outline of a stain on the verso which is barely discernible on the front. There are remnants of old hinges on the verso here and there at the edges. Born in Illinois, Schofield eventually studied in Provincetown with BJO Nordfeldt and William Zorach. Diring the 1930s she studied in Europe with André Lhote, Fernand Léger and Gino Severini. She exhibited at the Second Annual Exhibition of the Provincetown Art Association and continued to spend her summers in Provincetown and her winters in Chicago. Her married name is Schoenfeld and sometime in the 1930s, she want with the name Schofield, as we see here with this print. We have not yet located another impression of this powerful color woodcut. Provenance: Reba White Williams, New York.
$3,500

Spring in Dartmoor (Dartmoor Ponies)
ALLEN W. SEABY
British, (1867-1953)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1930s, edition unknown; perhaps 50-100. 8 1/2 x 13 in. Initialed in the block, lower left, with the artist's monogram. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with probably the full margins. The condition is excellent. "Seaby, perhaps more so than his contemporaries, embodied in his woodcuts the spirit and dynamic composition of the Japanese print and fully exploited the texture of the brush stroke and blending of colour. Yet at the same time his work is quintessentially British, steeped in the countryside and wildlife..." See page 34 of Allen W. Seaby, Art and Nature, by Martin Andrews and Robert Gillmor, published by Two Rivers Press (2014).
SOLD

Redwings in Flight over the Berkshire Downs
ALLEN W. SEABY
British, (1867-1953)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1925-30, edition 150. 8 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a very fine impression of this uncommon print. The margins are modest but this is probably the full sheet as printed. Fine condition. Seaby specialized in wildlife woodcuts and he was strongly influenced by the prints of Frank Morley Fletcher. These painterly woodcuts reflect the profound influence of Japanese printmaking in England at the time. Seaby established his own distinctive style which combined great design, careful observation of his subjects and an elegant sense of color. Seaby never dated his prints which does present a challenge.
$1,300

Bullfinches on a Snow Covered Branch
ALLEN W. SEABY
British, (1867-1953)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1911, edition 100. 8 3/8 x 8 1/2 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a superb impression with the colors especially vibrant. The margins are full and the condition is very good. (There's a slight suggestion of toning within an earlier mat opening.) A cropped version of this print is illustrated on page 62 of Allen W. Seaby, Art and Nature by Martin Andrews and Robert Gillmor (2014).
SOLD

Magpie
ALLEN W. SEABY
British, (1867-1953)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1920-30, edition unknown. 9 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. Initialed in the block, lower right corner. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression with probably the full margins. The condition is excellent. There's an impression of Magpie in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
$1,300