Trees by Moonlight
GENE KLOSS
American, (1903-1996)
Aquatint, 1928, Sanchez 129, edition unknown. 7 1/2 x 5 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression of this uncommon, early work. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. According to the catalogue, "Kloss believed this to be her first successful attempt at aquatint." This is a captivating arts and crafts image.
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Penitente Prayer
GENE KLOSS
American, (1903-1996)
Drypoint and aquatint, 1937, Sanchez 349, edition 25. 11 x 14 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression with full margins. The tonalities in the sky are beautifully rendered evoking an intensely spiritual image. The condition is fine apart from a minor soft wrinkle in the extreme upper left corner of the margin. This is an early, uncommon print. According to Phillips Kloss, "prayer was the humble aspect of the Penitente rituals..." (See page 32 of Gene Kloss Etchings (1981).
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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.
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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.
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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.
$1,500

Fast Mail
OTTO KUHLER
American, (1894-1977)
Etching, 1923, edition 30. 6 x 8 in. Signed in pencil and also inscribed "ed. 30" This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. Born in Germany, Kuhler came to the United States in 1922. He was a skilled draughtsman, railroad designer and etcher and it was Joseph Pennell who encouraged him to take up printmaking.
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Marlborough Street Mansion (Boston)
LAWRENCE KUPFERMAN
American, (1909-1982)
Drypoint, 1938, edition unknown. 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. Dated in the lower margin, "July 8, 1938." This is a superb impression with full margins. Fine condition. This work was done while the artist was employed by the WPA. His associates included Karl Knaths, Jack Levine and Hyman Bloom.
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Victorian Mansion (Boston)
LAWRENCE KUPFERMAN
American, (1909-1982)
Drypoint, 1938, edition unknown. 14 x 13 in. Signed and titled in pencil; also inscribed "early proof." This is a superb impression with full and slightly irregular margins. The condition is very good. Kupferman's first drypoints were of Boston area buildings and mostly Victorian subjects. These outstanding early WPA prints have a Hopperesque quality.
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Manhattan
LAWRENCE KUPFERMAN
American, (1909-1982)
Drypoint, 1943, from a very small edition. 11 x 8 1/4 in. Signed and titled in pencil and also inscribed, "Dec 29, 1943." This is a superb impression of this compelling and extremely rare print. This is the full sheet as printed (with a ragged edge across the bottom). Fine condition. This potent, wartime image is among his finest prints and the influence of German expressionism is readily evident. Kupferman was a Boston contemporary of Karl Knaths, Jack Levine, Hyman Bloom and Carl Zerbe. During the years 1937-1940, they were all employed by the WPA program. Kupferman was teaching at the Massachusetts College of Art when this print was done. A comparable work to this is "Vertigo."
$1,600

Saratoga Springs Victorian
LAWRENCE KUPFERMAN
American, (1909-1982)
Drypoint, probably 1940, AAA catalogue 899, edition 250. 13 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on a sturdy wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This print was published by Associated American Artists in 1947. This is a stellar example of the drypoint medium. The artist did at least one other print in the architecturally rich Saratoga Springs, NY area.
$750

Miners
CHET LA MORE
American, (1908-1980)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1940, edition probably about 25. 11 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. This print was published as part of the WPA program dating from 1935-43 and an impression is found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. La More was from Wisconsin and later taught at the University of Buffalo. He taught at the University of Michigan until his retirement in 1974. This compelling woodcut is one of his best and largest works.
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A Woman
PAUL LANDACRE
American, (1893-1963)
Wood engraving, circa 1937, edition 60. 10 1/2 x 6 in. Signed, numbered and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on thin white Japanese paper. The condition is excellent and the margins are full. Landacre's nude studies are remarkable for their design and execution. His work is the gold standard for figurative as well as landscape wood engraving in America during the 1930s.
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Forest Girl
PAUL LANDACRE
American, (1893-1963)
Wood engraving, 1933-36, Lehman page 63, edition perhaps 200. 8 1/2 x 6 in. Signed in the block, lower center, initialed in the block, lower right, and dated in the block lower left. This is a superb impression on white wove paper with full margins. Excellent condition. This impression is signed in pencil but is not from the first numbered edition of sixty. In 1933, Landacre added his copyright symbol and this was for the edition of 150-200 for the American Artists Group print editions. These impressions are normally not signed in pencil. However, the artist would occasionally sign a few of these at a slightly extra cost. That is what we have here.
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Three Kids and a Horse
PAUL LANDACRE
American, (1893-1963)
Wood engraving, 1943, Wien 246, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 93; edition 100. 7 1/2 x 10 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is fine. Here we have a nice example of his work in the wood engraving medium.
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Children's Carnival
PAUL LANDACRE
American, (1893-1963)
Wood engraving, 1946, Wien 275, edition 265. 8 1/2 x 12 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on thin japan paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. Impressions of this very appealing print are in the National Gallery in Washington, DC as well at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Anna
PAUL LANDACRE
American, (1893-1963)
Wood engraving, 1937, Wien 201, Zeitlen & Ver Brugge 84; edition 60. 9 x 4 1/2 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. Here we have a superb impression printed on thin Japanese paper. The margins appear to be full and the condition is excellent. This print was selected for exhibition at the Venice Biennale, 1938.
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Rima
PAUL LANDACRE
American, (1893-1963)
Wood engraving, 1933-1936, Wien 126, edition about 225. 8 1/2 x 6 in. Signed with the artist's mongram, lower left. Dated 1936 in the block, lower center. This is a fine, rich impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. Three years after the artist printed this work in a signed edition of 60, he authorized the American Artist's Group (AAG) to publish the print in an unsigned edition of about 225 impression. According to Wien, the first edition, published in 1933, was not completed. Landacre conceived of Rima and eight other wood engravings for a new edition of W.H. Hudson's novel "Green Mansions". Rima appears as a forest nymph and the protagonist, Abel, is shown hiding in the upper left corner. Only his face is evident.
$1,500