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Ferry to Welfare Island, N.Y.C. -  ROBBINS

Ferry to Welfare Island, N.Y.C.
HULDA D. ROBBINS
American, (1910-2011)
Screenprint, 1941, edition 45. 10 1/4 x 14 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. Roosevelt Island in New York was known as Welfare Island from 1921-1971. It was renamed after Franklin D. Roosevelt.
$1,000

Cleared Range -  ROBBINS

Cleared Range
HULDA D. ROBBINS
American, (1910-2011)
Screenprint, 1947, edition 45. 13 x 10 1/4 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. Best known for her highly artistic screenprints, Robbins was part of the pioneering group which included Philip Hicken, Edward Landon, Dorr Bothwell, Ruth Gikow and others. Robbins was a long time resident of New Jersey.
$900

House at Gregory Point (Colorado) -  RONNEBECK

House at Gregory Point (Colorado)
ARNOLD RONNEBECK
American, (1885-1947)
Lithograph, 1934, edition 25. 13 x 9 in. Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. Ronnebeck lived in Colorado as he was the Art Director of the Denver Art Museum from 1926-1931. He did several prints of the mining industry back then and this print depicts that theme. Gregory Point was near Central City.
$700

Atlantic -  RONNEBECK

Atlantic
ARNOLD RONNEBECK
American, (1885-1947)
Lithograph, 1929, edition 50. 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. Ronnebeck sailed to Germany from New York with his wife Louise on the S.S. Dresden and returns on the Hamburg Amerika line. This was a three week trip. This distinctive and powerful print shows Ronnebeck's skills as a lithographer.
$1,500

Brooklyn Bridge -  RONNEBECK

Brooklyn Bridge
ARNOLD RONNEBECK
American, (1885-1947)
Lithograph, 1925, edition unknown. 12 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. Signed in pencil lower right. This is a fine impression printed on RIVES watermarked wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This is one of Ronnebeck's finest prints. Ronnebeck was born in Germany and moved to New York in 1922. He was welcomed by the Stieglitz circle and described his modernist approach to lithography as "living cubism."
SOLD

Colorado Gold Mine -  RONNEBECK

Colorado Gold Mine
ARNOLD RONNEBECK
American, (1885-1947)
Lithograph, 1933, edition 25 10 x 13 1/2 in. Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from faint rippling along the top margin. This is one of several Colorado mining related scenes done when the artist was living in Denver. 1933 was also the year he became an American citizen having been born in Germany.
$1,200

Grand Lake, Colorado -  RONNEBECK

Grand Lake, Colorado
ARNOLD RONNEBECK
American, (1885-1947)
Lithograph, 1932, edition 50. 12 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression of this sailing subject produced in a modernist style. The margins are full and the condition is excellent.
SOLD

The Grand Bazaar, Constantinople -  ROSENBERG

The Grand Bazaar, Constantinople
LOUIS ROSENBERG
American, (1890-1983)
Drypoint, 1927, unknown (but probably 50-100). 6 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression with probably the full margins. The condition is fine. Rosenberg studied architecture at MIT in Cambridge along with Samuel Chamberlain and John Taylor Arms. He was extremely popular when he was alive and his work today attracts a sizeable audience.
ON HOLD

La Badia, Florence -  ROSENBERG

La Badia, Florence
LOUIS ROSENBERG
American, (1890-1983)
Drypoint, 1926, edition probably 100. 6 1/2 x 8 in. Initialed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine, rich impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from old paper hinges at the top corners. This church and abbey was founded in 978.
$250

Riverside Church, New York -  ROTH

Riverside Church, New York
ERNEST ROTH
American, (1879-1964)
Etching, 1930, edition 90. 14 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on a fine antique laid paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine other than for three French custom stamps on the top margin away from the image. Dedicated in 1930, this majestic church was conceived by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
$750

Pouring Molten Steel -  RUBENSTEIN

Pouring Molten Steel
LEWIS RUBENSTEIN
American, (1908-2003)
Lithograph printed in color, circa 1938, edition 25 plus proofs. 16 x 10 1/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression of this rare and remarkable work. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (Two small dark registration marks are found just above and just below the image) Rubenstein studied with Rico Lebrun and he was employed by the New York WPA program. He produced a mural for Harvard, his alma mater, at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and a mural at the Jewish Center at his hometown, Buffalo, and at the Wareham, MA Post Office. He taught at Vassar from 1939 until 1974. A back and white version of this print is in the National Gallery of Art.
$2,800

Copper Miners -  RUBENSTEIN

Copper Miners
LEWIS RUBENSTEIN
American, (1908-2003)
Lithograph, circa 1938, edition unknown. 14 x 11 3/4 in. Initialed in the plate, lower left. Signed in pencil and inscribed, "artist's proof." This is a fine impression of this rare print. The margins are full and the condition is fine. Rubenstein studied with Rico Lebrun and he was employed by the New York WPA program. He produced a mural for Harvard, his alma mater, at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and a mural at the Jewish Center at his hometown, Buffalo, and at the Wareham, MA Post Office. He taught at Vassar from 1939 until 1974. An impression of this print is in the National Gallery Of Art.
$2,500

Conference -  RUTKA

Conference
DOROTHY RUTKA
American, (1907-1985)
Etching and aquatint, about 1936, edition probably about 25. 9 x 7 1/4 in. Signed and titled in pencil. Here we have a fine, dark impression printed on wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This impression bears the stamp "Federal Art Project No.1" Rutka was from Michigan and studied at the Cleveland School of Art. She graduated in 1929 and joined the Cleveland WPA in 1936. An impression of this print is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
$800

The Post Setters -  SALLEE

The Post Setters
CHARLES SALLEE
American, (1913-2006)
Soft ground etching, circa 1937, edition unknown, perhaps about 25. 5 3/8 x 6 3/4 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine, dark impression of this rare Cleveland WPA print. The margins are wide and the condition is very good. (There's a skillfully repaired split in the top margin, well away from the image and faint traces of adhesive in the outer margins.) Sallee graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1936 and from Case Western in 1938 with a B.S.E. degree. His work is discussed in the Reba and Dave Williams catalog, Alone in a Crowd, Prints of the 1930s-40s by African-American Artists (1993). This impression does not have the WPA stamp which occurs with many artists working in the various programs. Case Western has an impression of this print in their WPA collection.
SOLD

Speakeasy I -  SCHANKER

Speakeasy I
LOUIS SCHANKER
American, (1903-1982)
Etching, 1924, Brooklyn Museum catalogue 1, edition unknown. 5 3/4 x 4 5/8 in. Signed in the plate, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression of this exceptionally rare, early print. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This is the first of two versions of this etching. "Speakeasy I" is also the first print listed in the Una Johnson/Jo Miller catalogue published by the Brooklyn Museum in 1974.
SOLD

Studio Still Life -  SCHOFIELD

Studio Still Life
FLORA SCHOFIELD
American, (1873-1960)
Woodcut, 1933, edition unknown. 12 3/4 x 9 in. Signed in pencil. A fine impression with wide margins. Very good condition. Schofield studied in Provincetown with William Zorach and later studied in Paris with Leger, Lhote and Severini. Much of her time was spent between Chicago and Provincetown. Her prints are rare and she was included in Janet Flint's Provincetown Printers; A Woodcut Tradition (1983). We have an original exhibition label as well which provides the date.
SOLD

Heart of Finance (New York Stock Exchange) -  SCHUTZ

Heart of Finance (New York Stock Exchange)
ANTON SCHUTZ
American, (1894-1977)
Etching, 1925, edition unknown. 13 5/8 x 10 1/8 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. Here we have a fine, rich impression printed on cream wove paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from old paper hinges, verso, at the top corners. He was the founder of the New York Graphic Society in addition to being a gifted etcher of city scenes both here and in Europe. His work follows in the tradition of Joseph Pennell.
SOLD

Modernist Figure -  SCHWARTZ

Modernist Figure
WILLIAM S. SCHWARTZ
American, (1896-1977)
Lithograph, 1928, edition unknown. 21 x 11 in. Signed and dated on the stone. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression of this large work. The condition is fine and the margins appear to be full and untrimmed. There's a pencil inscription in the lower left corner, "lithograph # 13. Impression # 9." He came to America from Russia and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was also was part of the Federal Art Project. Schwartz was popular in his day and exhibited widely, including a major show at Hirschl & Adler in New York in 1984.
$950

Industrial Series #1 -  SHEELER

Industrial Series #1
CHARLES SHEELER
American, (1883-1965)
Lithograph, 1928, Bryce/Troyen 5, edition about 25. 8 1/8 x 11 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression of this extremely scarce print. The margins are full. The condition is fine. This iconic American print is cited in eleven museum collections.
SOLD

Roses -  SHEELER

Roses
CHARLES SHEELER
American, (1883-1965)
Lithograph, 1924, Bryce 2, intended edition of 35. 11 x 9 1/8 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a superb impression of this very rare lithograph. The partial watermark reads as FRANCE which refers to BFK RIVES, FRANCE. The margins are probably full and untrimmed. The condition is very good apart from faint discoloration showing in the outer margins most likely from an early mat. The intended edition was thirty-five but at the most maybe only twenty impressions were printed. As it states in the catalogue, "According to John Driscoll, the edition of Roses was begun in the morning, work was halted during lunchtime, and upon return from lunch, it was found that someone in the print shop had cleaned the stone, having mistakenly thought that the edition had been completed." The highest known numbered impression is 11/35 but unnumbered impressions do exist. At least eight impressions are in museum collections. This lovely work was printed by George C. Miller in New York. Provenance: Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, and Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York (with their labels).
PRICE ON REQUEST

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