Into the Blue
FRANCES GEARHART
American, (1869-1959)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1930, edition probably 30-50. 10 1/4 x 8 15/16 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression printed on fairly thin, off-white Japanese paper. The margins are full. The condition is good but with a few very subtle, soft creases in the image. The best and most recent source of information on Gearhart prints is, Behold the Day, The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart, published by the Pasadena Museum of California Art (2009) edited by Susan Futterman.
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Untroubled Waters
FRANCES GEARHART
American, (1869-1959)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1931, Pasadena catalogue pg. 85, edition perhaps 50. 10 1/2 x 9 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on Japanese paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This is one of Gearhart's best works and it's not often signed in pencil.
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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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A Stark Country
FRANCES GEARHART
American, (1869-1959)
Block print printed in colors, 1937, Pasadena catalogue pg. 104, edition probably 30-50. 11 x 11 7/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on her typical fibrous Japanese paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from a thin spot in the upper left corner of the margin away from the image. This large, majestic print is one of her finest works.
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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.
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Incoming Fog
FRANCES GEARHART
American, (1869-1959)
Block print printed in colors, probably 1930-31., edition unknown. 10 x 10 7/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on her typical, fibrous wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This stellar work is illustrated on page 83 of Behold the Day, The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart, published by the Pasadena Museum of California Art, edited by Susan Futterman. The prints were made primarily from linoleum blocks but the artist liked to call them "block prints".
$8,500

Mount Hood
FRANCES GEARHART
American, (1869-1959)
Block print printed in colors, undated (circa 1930), edition unknown. 6 1/8 x 4 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression of this uncommon print. The margins are full and the condition is very good apart from three hinges at the top edge of the sheet. Gearhart often referred to her prints as simply "block prints" and they were mostly printed from linoleum blocks as opposed to wood. Furthermore, the inks are oil-based and not watercolor. The editions are generally unknown but the prints are less common than one might think, especially the earlier work.
$5,250

The Best Hat
MAY GEARHART
American, (1872-1951)
Drypoint with aquatint printed in colors, circa 1925-1930, small edition. 6 7/8 x 3 3/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil within the image. Here we have a fine impression printed on thin japan paper. The margins are wide and the condition is fine. May studied printmaking with Arthur Dow at the Ipswich Summer School on the Cape. She was the supervisor of the entire Los Angeles School system from 1903-1939 and in 1919 she moved to Pasadena to live with her sister, Frances, and their house became a meeting place for local printmakers. This is an especially stylish and well designed print.
$700

Rain Tomorrow
FRANCES GEARHART
American, (1869-1959)
Block print printed in colors, circa 1930-31, edition probably 30-50. 10 1/8 x 11 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This gorgeous print is illustrated on page 64 of Frances H. Gearhart; Color Block Prints in Wichita 1922-1937 (2019) by Roger Genser.
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November Textures
FRANCES GEARHART
American, (1869-1959)
Block print printed in colors, 1933, Pasadena catalogue page 96; edition unknown. 10 x 11 3/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression with fresh colors. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This print is the cover illustration for the first major retrospective of Gearhart's work. "Behold the Day, the Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart" was published in conjunction with the 2009-2010 exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of Art. Authors include Susan Futterman, Victoria Dailey and Nancy Green.
$8,750

Herein to Meditate
FRANCES GEARHART
American, (1869-1959)
Block print printed in colors, circa 1933, from a small edition. 10 1/8 x 10 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on a light cream, fibrous Japanese paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There's tiny paper repair in the upper left margin corner where the original hinge is.) This exceptional print is illustrated on page 67 of Frances H. Gearhart, Color Block Prints in Wichita, 1922-1937 by Roger Genser, Wichita Art Museum, 2019. The bold blue color provided by the trees in the foreground make this a potent, expressionist style print and it's more daring than many of her images. (This print was exhibited in the 1933 Wichita Block Print Exhibition which suggests to us a possible date for the print.)
$8,000

Little Sierra Lake
FRANCES GEARHART
American, (1869-1959)
Block print printed in colors, circa 1930, from a small edition. 8 1/8 x 4 1/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on fibrous Japanese paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This fine work is typical of the vertical formatting Gearhart used in many of her prints. Trees surround a well lit, inviting image in the distance.
$5,500

Olympus (new York)
GERALD GEERLINGS
American, (1897-1998)
Drypoint, 1929, Czestochowski 7 (iv/IV), edition 100. 9 x 5 7/8 in. Signed, titled and dated in pencil. This is an especially fine, rich impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. Twenty-six impressions are cited in museum collections in the catalogue raisonné.
$2,500

Back Stage 8 P.M. (Grand Opera)
GERALD GEERLINGS
American, (1897-1998)
Drypoint, 1932, Czestochowski 29 (iv/IV), edition 30. 11 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. Titled and dated in the plate. Signed, dated and titled in pencil below the image. This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. Twenty impressions are listed in museum collections.
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Black Magic, New York, 1928
GERALD GEERLINGS
American, (1897-1998)
Etching and aquatint, 1929, Czestochowski 6 (iv/IV), edition 100. 11 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression of this exceptional American print. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. As seen in his Civic Insomnia, Jewelled City and here with Black Magic, Geerling's mastery of aquatint ranks him among the best practitioners of this difficult medium.
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Grand Canal, America
GERALD GEERLINGS
American, (1897-1998)
Drypoint, 1933, Czestochowski 31 (ii/II), edition 100. 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. Inscribed in the plate, lower right, Chicago Fair 1933. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on RIVES watermarked paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This print was published by the Chicago Society of Etchers.
$3,500

Civic Insomnia
GERALD GEERLINGS
American, (1897-1998)
Aquatint, 1932, Czestochowski 28 (v/V), edition 38. 10 7/8 x 14 1/16 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression of this rare, masterful print. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. The paper has a slightly greenish tint which we've seen before in at least two other impressions. The catalogue lists twenty-nine impressions in museum collections which includes trial proofs and early state impressions. Like John Taylor Arms, Louis Rosenberg and Samuel Chamberlain, Geerlings was trained as an architect and later took up printmaking. This remarkable view of New York at night is done in pure aquatint without the assistance of etching to help define forms.
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Civic Insomnia
GERALD GEERLINGS
American, (1897-1998)
Aquatint in color, 1932, Czestochowski 28; edition 38. 10 3/4 x 14 1/8 in. Signed, titled and dated (New York, 1932) in pencil. This is a fine impression of this exceedingly rare color version. The margins are full and the condition is excellent apart from two old hinges at the top corners, verso. Geerlings would occasionally use green paper for his prints and in this case, this is the only time we have seen the buildings and some of the water with color; possibly a unique version. Civic Insomnia is a remarkable tour de force of aquatint and it's also become very rare. There are twenty-three impressions cited in museum collections including multiple trial proofs in two institutions. This amounts to twenty-nine impressions. (This is the third impression we have sold.) On page 14 of the catalogue it states, "Geerlings's temperament was intrinsically experimental; he was an avid student of techniques...Even when he worked in black and white, Geerlings would not let a subject go until he exhausted all of its chromatic possibilities."
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Vernal Falls, Yosemite
FRANZ GERITZ
American, (1895-1945)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1936, edition unknown. 12 x 8 1/2 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with rich colors. The margins are narrow but substantial enough. There's a tiny pinhole or paper imperfection in the waterfall which is hard to see at normal viewing distance. Geritz was born in Budapest and came to the US in 1909. He was a California artist and specialzed in woodcuts primarily.
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Grizzily Giant, Mariposa Grove
FRANZ GERITZ
American, (1895-1945)
Woodcut or linoleum cut, 1936, unknown. 12 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Here we have a fine impression of this large work. The margins are probably full. The condition is very good apart from a small spot of foxing to the left of the image and backing along the top edge verso from earlier hinging. There's a small hole in the paper on the left margin away from the image.
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