Debutante
LOUIS LOZOWICK
American, (1893-1973)
Lithograph, 1930, Flint 53, edition 25. 14 1/2 x 11 in. Initialed on the stone, lower right. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a very fine impression printed on BFK RIVES paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine apart from minor wrinkles showing here and there in the extreme outer margins. This classic academic nude study shows the range of Lozowick's skills as a draughtsman.
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Edison Plant
LOUIS LOZOWICK
American, (1893-1973)
Lithograph, 1929, Flint 24, edition 20. 13 5/8 x 7 15/16 in. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression printed on RIVES wove paper. The margins are full with a deckle edge showing on all sides. The condition is fine apart from three tiny splits in the bottom edge of the margin and old paper hinges, verso, at the two top corners. This stellar, early work was reprinted in 1972 in an edition of ten numbered impressions. Lozowick actually worked at this plant after his return from Europe in 1924.
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Mending Nets (Provincetown)
LOUIS LOZOWICK
American, (1893-1973)
Lithograph, 1950, Flint 232, edition only 15. 13 1/16 x 7 1/2 in. Signed on the stone with the monogram, lower left. Signed and titled "Provincetown" in pencil. Here we have a fine impression in excellent condition. The margins are full. Lozowick produced very few lithographs of Provincetown; two from 1950 and a couple from 1967.
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Distant Manhattan from Brooklyn
LOUIS LOZOWICK
American, (1893-1973)
Lithograph, 1937, Flint 145, edition 200. 7 15/16 x 13 in. Signed and dated on the stone. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This stellar image was published by the American Artists Group and printed by George Miller. The Flint catalogue does not mention any other editions. The print is not pencil signed as is the case with all AAG editions and we have the original folder which accompanies the print.
$5,000

Granaries to Babylon (Babylon to Omaha; Railroad Yards)
LOUIS LOZOWICK
American, (1893-1973)
Lithograph, 1933, Flint 112; edition 25 plus 250 for the International Print Guild. 12 3/4 x 8 1/8 in. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on light cream wove paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine. The blindstamp of Jacob Friedland, the printer,appears in the lower right corner margin.
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Abandoned Quarry, Rockport
LOUIS LOZOWICK
American, (1893-1973)
Lithograph, 1936, Flint 129, edition 20. 14 x 10 7/8 in. Initialed on the stone, lower right. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from old hinges at the top corners. According to the catalogue, Lozowick spent several summers at Rockport, MA. Quarrying for granite was a major industry for the town.
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Blast Furnaces (New Jersey)
LOUIS LOZOWICK
American, (1893-1973)
Lithograph, 1929, Flint 16, edition 50. 7 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. Initialed in the stone, lower right. Signed and dated in pencil. Titled in the lower left margin. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. According to Flint, these blast furnaces may have been located near Dover, NJ, which was once considered the "Pittsburgh of New Jersey". In 1972, an additional five numbered impressions were printed by Burr Miller. The original edition was printed by George Miller.
$4,500

Birth of a Skyscraper
LOUIS LOZOWICK
American, (1893-1973)
Lithograph, 1930, Flint 46, edition 25. 12 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. Initialed on the stone, lower right. Signed and dated in pencil. Titled in pencil in the lower left margin. This is a fine impression of this uncommon and exceptional print. The original price of $20 is written in the lower right margin. Impressions are located at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers and at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Central Park
LOUIS LOZOWICK
American, (1893-1973)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1940, Flint 174, edition 15. 9 1/16 x 5 1/2 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression of this veryy rare print. The paper is a thin light cream wove and the margins are most likely full. The condition is excellent. Lozowick produced very few color woodcuts and the Flint catalogue lists six in total. They were all produced in 1940. This charming scene shows a child on a sled and a couple in the distance.
$1,500

Through Brooklyn Bridge Cables
LOUIS LOZOWICK
American, (1893-1973)
Lithograph, 1938, Flint 158, edition 250. 9 5/8 x 12 7/8 in. Initialed on the stone, lower right corner. Signed and dated in pencil. Here we have a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. This well-known print is on the cover the the Lozowick catalogue raisonné by Janet Flint. (There was a also an edition of 15 printed in the same year of the AAA edition, 1938. George Miller was the printer.)
$7,500

Granite Quarries
LOUIS LOZOWICK
American, (1893-1973)
Lithograph, 1936, Flint 131, edition 25. 11 7/8 x 14 in. Initialed on the stone, lower left. Signed and dated "37" in pencil. Inscribed "AP"in pencil lower left. This is a fine impression of this uncommon print. The margins are full and the condition is fine. Lozowick produced a few quarry studies this one being about the best. "These granite quarries were at Rockport, MA. At one time, the exporting of high-grade granite was such an important industry that a special type of sloop was developed in the shipyards of Rockport and nearby towns for carrying granite." (Flint, pg. 117)
$1,300

The Fox Woman
BERTHA LUM
American, (1869-1954)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1916, Gravalos / Pulin 38, edition at least 197. 16 1/2 x 10 in. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with fresh colors. The margins are narrow but probably full. The condition is fine apart from soft rippling here and there at the sheet edges. This lovely print provides an elegant and refined visualization of the age-old role of the fox in oriental folklore. This theme is discussed in the catalogue raisonne entry for this print on page 96.
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A gathering of Mice
BETTINA "PETER BOY" LUM
American, (1911-1983)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1920, edition unknown (this impression inscribed # 6 in pencil.) 8 1/4 x 4 1/8 in. Signed and numbered in pencil with a hard to read date as mentioned above. This is a fine impression of this rare print. The margins are modest and the condition is fine. Bettina was born in Minneapolis and was the daughter of Bertha Lum. She was called "Peter Boy." She was married in 1938 to a British diplomat named Sir Colin Crowe and Crowe was added to her name. Her work is in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and has been exhibited at other US museums.
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Sugar Snow
GUY MACCOY
American, (1904-1981)
Screenprint, 1946, edition unknown. 10 1/4 x 13 3/8 in. Signed, titled and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on light gray paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. Maccoy made his first artistic screenprints in 1932 and taught the medium in Colorado and Los Angeles during the 1940s and 1950s. He was married to the artist, Geno Petit.
$750

Chaos
JOHN MACGILCHRIST
American, (1893-1977)
Etching, 1932, edition 100. 12 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right. Signed, numbered and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on cream wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is very good. (There's just a very faint suggestion of toning within an earlier mat opening.) MacGilchrist was born in Scotland and came to the US for a degree in architecture. He returned to his home country during WWI and ended up on the Western Front in France where he became a balloon pilot-observer. He returned to the US after the war and flourished in the 1920s as an etcher of aviation subjects. He remained here until his death in 1977. This compelling, highly detailed print makes a bold statement about the horrors of war and the battle of good versus evil.
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Arrangement
DORIE MARDER
American, (b. 1916)
Screenprint, 1945, edition 35. 9 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. Signed, numbered and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression with fresh colors. The condition is excellent other than for a couple of small smudges in the right margin, well away from the image. The sheet is untrimmed. Marder was born in Poland. She lived in New York and was active with the National Serigraph Society and the American Color Print Society in the 1940s and 1950s. An impression of this print is in the Williams Collection at the National Gallery of Art. In addition, her papers are in the Archives of American Art in Washington, DC.
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Bridge Over Canal, Amsterdam
JOHN MARIN
American, (1872-1953)
Etching, 1906, Zigrosser 13 (ii/II), edition 30. 5 15/16 x 7 1/2 in. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a superb impression of this lovely, rare work. The paper is a cream Japanese and the margins are full. The condition is excellent. Like Whistler and his Amsterdam etchings, Marin appreciated the uniqueness of every impression and applied the ink in such a dramatic way that no two impressions are exactly the same. We sold a rare first state of this print a couple of years ago and the inking was substantially different than this one. Other impressions are found at Colby College, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Notre Dame, Paris
JOHN MARIN
American, (1872-1953)
Etching, 1908, Zigrosser 79 (iv/V), edition about 30. 12 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. Signed, dated and titled in the plate. Signed in pencil. This is a very fine impression of the large, early work. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. The copper plate is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Ohmpeer
KYRA MARKHAM
American, (1891-1967)
Lithograph, 1944, edition 25. 13 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. The edition size is also written in pencil below the image. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are wide and probably full. A very good, short biography about Markham is found in Paths to the Press, Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960 (2006), pages 194-195. This is a nice example of her later work.
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July 4, 1936
KYRA MARKHAM
American, (1891-1967)
Lithograph, 1936, edition 25 16 x 12 3/4 in. Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression of this exceptional American print from the 1930s. The condition is very good apart from two old hinges at the top corners, verso, and a few subtle spots of foxing on the back of the sheet. Markham excelled in lithography and painting. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was active in the WPA program. She produced 40 dioramas for the 1939 New York World's Fair in the Hall of Inventions.
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