Mirror of the Goddess
ERNEST HASKELL
American, (1876-1925)
Etching, 1920, Pousette-Dart pg. 31 (ii/II); edition 100 pus 5 in the first state. 9 x 11 7/8 in. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine. Haskell was a printmaker and illustrator well known for his theatrical posters. Whistler is known to have taught him the art of etching and he made several caricatures of him. His prints are in many museums including: the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum, the Mead Art Museum and so on. "Mirror of the Goddess" is one of his very best prints.
$800

Maples in Early Spring
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1931, Cortissoz/Clayton 337; edition unknown. 10 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil. A fine, luminous impression in fine condition. The margins are full with tack holes showing on the outer edges of the sheet. This lovely print depicts the country place of J. Alden Weir in Connecticut.
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The Home Sweet Home Cottage, Easthampton
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1921, Cortissoz/Clayton 174, small edition. 10 x 11 3/4 in. Signed in the plate, lower right. Signed in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression in fine condition. The margins are full with tack holes showing on all sides. This house is where the author of the lyrics for the song lived as a child. His name was John Howard Payne. Childe Hassam can certainly be described as the quintessential American impressionist printmaker of the early 20th century. This is an outstanding example of his work as an etcher.
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The Dutch Door
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1915, Cortissoz/Clayton 49, edition unknown. 8 3/8 x 10 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression of this exemplary American impressionist print. The margins are full. The condition is good apart from professionally reinforced splits along the plate mark on two sides, and, one repaired split from the upper right corner to the margin edge. The scene is the Bush- Holly House at Cos Cob, Ct. The model here is Miss Helen Burke. This structure was built in 1730 and is a National Historic Landmark. It was the center of activity for Connecticut's first Artist Colony.
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Easthampton
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1917, Cortissoz/Clayton 134, edition unknown. 7 3/8 x 11 1/8 in. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right. Signed in pencil also in the lower right. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This is a fine, luminous impression of this exemplary American impressionist print.
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Colonial Church, Gloucester
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Lithograph, 1918, Griffith 41, edition 101. 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. Signed, titled and dated on the stone. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent apart from extremely faint toning within an earlier mat opening. This is the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church.
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The Broad Curtain
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Lithotint, 1918, Griffith 29, edition 55. 10 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. Signed and dated on the stone, lower right. Signed in pencil in the lower right, as well. This is a superb impression of this large work printed on Japanese paper. The margins are probably full and the condition is very good. Hassam produced only forty-five lithographs, all of them during the 1917-1918 period. Of these, five were lithotints and they were drawn directly on the stone whereas the lithographs were drawn on transfer paper first. This exceptional print expresses the painterly potential of the lithotint medium and the subject is decidely Hassam at his best.
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Yuma, AZ
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1927, Cortissoz / Clayton 287, edition unknown. 5 x 7 3/4 in. Signed, dated and titled in the plate. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins showing the tack holes along the outside edge of the sheet. This rare print helps to document the artist's travels around the country which included visits to California, Louisiana and New Mexico.
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Down Hill - West 152nd Street
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1931, Cortisson / Clayton 343, edition unknown. 6 x 4 in. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed and titled in pencil with the added inscription,"proof selected for Mrs. Lowinson by Childe Hassam." Here we have a superb, luminous impression of this very rare print. Done from a 1921 drawing, boys are shown playing marbles on the street and the background shows a view of the Hudson and the Palisades. The margins are full and the condition is fine. Frieda Lowinson was a prominent collector of Hassam prints and her stamp is on the verso (not in Lugt).
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The Arsenal-Central Park
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1932, Cortissoz/Clayton 354, edition unknown. 11 1/2 x 6 3/8 in. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right. Signed in pencil and inscribed, "proof selected for Mrs. Lowinson by Childe Hassam." Here we have a fine impression of this very rare print. The margins are small but appear to be full. The condition is very good other then for two small brown paper hinges at the top and a small, subtle smudge or stain below the signature. The Arsenal Building is one of two buildings to predate Central Park. It's located on 64th Street off of Fifth Avenue. It was built between 1847 and 1851. Mrs. Lowinson was a major collector of Hassam's work and her stamp is on the verso (not in Lugt).
$2,800

The Old Mumford House
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1926, Cortissoz-Clayton 264, edition unknown. 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil. This is fine, luminous impression printed on white wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There's a trace of an old adhesive at the top corners from earlier hinges.) The scene of this charming print is Easthampton, NY. Provenance: M. Knoedler & Co., NY.
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House on Main Street, Easthampton
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1922, Cortissoz/Clayton 213; edition unknown. 6 x 12 1/8 in. Signed, dated and titled in the plate, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a very fine impression of this stellar American impressionist print. The margins are full and the condition is excellent.
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The Lion Gardiner House, Easthampton
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1920, Cortissoz/Clayton 159, edition unknown. 9 15/16 x 14 in. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right. Signed in pencil and with "imp." just below the image. This is a superb, luminous impression of this quintessential American impressionist print. The paper is a white wove and the margins are substantial measuring about 1" on all sides. The condition is excellent. This large and important etching is found in many museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art and others.
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Magic Carpet
WILLIAM HEASLIP
American, (1898-1970)
Etching and aquatint, probably 1930s, edition 100. 11 7/8 x 15 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a superb, rich impression with full margins. The condition is fine other than for a very faint suggestion of toning within an old mat opening. Born in Canada, Heaslip was interested in art and aviation at an early age. He joined the Royal Flying Corps and served in WWI. He later moved to New Yok and studied printmaking and painting at the Art Students League. He was also an illustrator.
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Airport
WILLIAM HEASLIP
American, (1898-1970)
Etching and aquatint, probably 1930s, edition 100. 11 7/8 x 15 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is fine other than for an extremely faint suggestion of toning within an old mat opening. Born in Canada, Heaslip was interested in art and aviation at an early age. He joined the Royal Flying Corps and served in WWI. He later moved to New Yok and studied printmaking and painting at the Art Students League. Heaslip was also an illustrator.
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Airport
WILLIAM HEASLIP
American, (1898-1970)
Etching and aquatint, probably 1930s, edition 100. 11 7/8 x 15 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a superb impression with full margins on three sides. (The top margin is cropped a bit.) And, there's a tiny reinforced loss on the left margin edge. Born in Canada, Heaslip was interested in art and aviation from an early age. He joined the Royal Flying Corps and served in WWI. He later moved to New York and studied printmaking and painting at the Art Students League. Heaslip was also an illustrator.
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Iris
FRANCES MARIAN HEBERT
American, (1899-1960)
White line color woodcut, undated (1920s), edition unknown. 8 x 7 in. Initialed in the block, lower right. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression printed with vibrant colors on a very thin, fibrous oriental paper. The margins are full. There are remnants of old hinges at the edges and foxing showing in the margins only. Hebert was a west coast artist and studied with Frank Morley Fletcher and Edward Borein at what is now the University of California, Santa Barbara. She exhibited widely during the 1930s largely in west coast shows. From the collection of Reba White Williams, NY.
$1,300

Fruit Forms
ALBERT HECKMAN
American, (1893-1971)
Lithograph printed in colors, circa 1935, edition probably 100. 9 3/4 x 16 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is fine impression in fine condition with wide margins. Heckman taught at Teachers College in New York and later settled in Woodstock, New York. He was active with Gustave van Groschwitz and the WPA printmakers in the 1930s. This is an exemplary color lithograph of the period and a fine example of his work.
$900

Old Locks at Eddyville (NY)
ALBERT HECKMAN
American, (1893-1971)
Lithograph, circa 1928, edition 25. 10 7/8 x 16 7/8 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from a couple of soft wrinkles in the upper right corner of the sheet. Heckman taught at Hunter College from 1930-1958. He spent his time between NYC and Woodstock, NY. This print is illustrated in the Clinton Adams book, American Lithographers 1900-1960, page 124.
$800

The Letter
RIVA HELFOND
American, (1910-2002)
Screenprint printed on brown paper, 1946, edition 40. 17 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. Signed, titled and number in pencil. This is a fine impression of this compelling print. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. Helfond was born in Brooklyn and studied at the Art Students League with Kuniyoshi and Sternberg. She taught printmaking at the Harlem Arts Community Center when she developed an expertise in the screenprint medium. Many of her subjects related to the coal miners of Pennsylvania during her stint with the WPA program.
$2,000