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.
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Winter Twilight
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1927, Winnan 39, edition 100. 10 x 12 5/8 in. Signed on the stone, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression of this outstanding print. The margins are full and the condition is fine. The edition was printed by George Miller on a zinc plate. Nine impressions are cited in museum collections.
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Moonlight
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1926, Winnan 26, edition 60. 14 x 16 7/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a superb, rich impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from some wrinkles in the upper left corner margin outside of the image. The edition was printed by George Miller from a zinc plate and ten impressions are listed in museum collections. This large, poetic work is a dramatic study in darks and lights and shows the artist as a master of lithography.
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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.
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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.
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Fireplace
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1930, Winnan 79, edition 100. 11 x 8 1/2 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This charming scene depicts a fireplace at a home in West Cornwall, CT. Many impressions are cited in museum collections. The edition was printed by George Miller in New York.
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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.
$2,000

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.
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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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The Forge
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1932, Winnan 96 (ii/II), edition 100. 11 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. Signed, titled and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. (There are two small, cloth hinges at the top corners, recto.) 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. There's a brush and black ink study for this print in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They received a large gift of prints, drawings and related objects from the estate of the artist in 1952.
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Winter Twilight
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1927, Winnan 39, edition 100. 10 x 12 5/8 in. Signed on the stone, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression of this stellar print. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. Seventy-five impressions were printed on the zinc plate by George Miller. The total edition was apparently not printed. Two study drawings are in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Easter Morning (Pussy Willows; Radiator)
WANDA GAG
American, (1893-1946)
Lithograph, 1926, Winnan 20, edition 100. 15 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. This large, early print is arguably her best early lithograph. This was a breakthrough year for her printmaking. She still produced a few using sandpaper but by now she had largely switched to zinc plates. George Miller was her primary printer.
$2,400

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

Spring Valley Willows
DANIEL GARBER
American, (1880-1958)
Etching, 1942, edition 50. 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. Signed in the plate and signed and titled in pencil. The impression was printed by the artist and is so inscribed "DG imp.). This fine, luminous impression has substantial margins measuring at least 1/2" all around. The condition is excellent. This large work is exemplary of Garber's skills as an etcher.
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