Daffodils (two states)
JEANNE BIERUMA OOSTING
Dutch, (1898-1994)
Etchings, 1918, edition unknown. 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. Both are signed and dated in the plate, lower right. Both are signed in pencil and the heavily inked one is also dated. These are fine impressions in generally fine condition. The margins are wide. Oosting studied at the School of Applied Arts in Haarlem, the Academy of Art in the Hague and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. She won a bronze medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1937. Oosting was a versatile and independent artist who was involved with the Société des Femmes Artistes Modernes established in Paris in 1931. (The RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History) in the Hague has extensive papers and archival material about the artist.)
$850

Still Life
JEANNE BIERUMA OOSTING
Dutch, (1898-1994)
Woodcut printed in colors, undated (probably done during the 1940s-1950s), edition 100. 15 3/4 x 8 3/8 in. Initialed in the block, lower right. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on japan paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. Oosting excelled in printmaking, painting, book design and glass work. She was a member of the Pulchri Studio, Arti et Amicitiae and the Association for Craft and Art industry (VANK).
$700

Landscape with Live Oak
ROI PARTRIDGE
American, (1888-1984)
Etching, 1946-51, White 264, edition 62. 7 3/8 x 9 in. Signed in the plate, lower right. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine crisp impression with probably the full margins. The condition is excellent. According to White, "This etching was made on the La Cumbre Ranch near Santa Barbara, California."
$800

Flower Market and Butter Tower, Rouen
JOSEPH PENNELL
American, (1857-1926)
Etching, 1907, Wuerth 463, edition probably 75. 11 x 8 1/2 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on antique laid paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There's a small strip of white paper tape across the top margin edge.) The Butter Tower (Tour de Beurre) is one of the lofty towers that comprise Rouen Cathedral. Constructed in a flamboyant late gothic style, the foundation stone for this tower was laid in 1485.
$600

Tap Dancer
CARL E. PICKHARDT, JR.
American, (1908-2004)
Lithograph, circa 1935, edition 30. 11 7/8 x 11 5/8 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with substantial margins. The condition is also fine other than for traces of two small hinges on the top margin corners, well away from the image. Pickhardt was a Massachusetts artist who graduated from Harvard and attended Harvard Business School. He left before graduation to become a full time artist and became a prominent social realist during the 1930s and 1940s. His work is found in multiple museum collections.
$600

Landscape 2013-II
GRIETJE POSTMA
Dutch, (b. 1961)
Woodcut printed in colors, 2013, edition 29. 9 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression in excellent condition. The margins are full.
$550

Landscape 2012-V
GRIETJE POSTMA
Dutch, (b. 1961)
Woodcut printed in colors, 2012, edition 20 8 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine impression in excellent condition. The margins are full. These beautifully crafted woodcuts have an Arts and Crafts look to them. They suggest ties to past traditions and at the same time are fresh and vibrant for today’s collectors. Craftsmanship is paramount and the natural landscape is the theme.
$550

Landscape 2002-V
GRIETJE POSTMA
Dutch, (b. 1961)
Woodcut printed in colors, 2002, edition 26. 13 3/4 x 18 7/8 in. Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression of this outstanding early work. The margins are full and the condition is excellent.
$800

Landscape 1996-III
GRIETJE POSTMA
Dutch, (b. 1961)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1996, edition 20. 9 1/2 x 19 3/8 in. Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression of this lovely and subtle woodcut. The margins are full and the condition is excellent.
$725

Oklahoma Barn
DOEL REED
American, (1894-1985)
Etching and aquatint, 1939, Cohen/Rogers 36, edition 50. 10 3/4 x 12 7/8 in. Signed in the plate, lower left. Signed, dated, numbered and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is very good apart from very slight toning within an earlier mat opening and a small piece of paper tape attached to the top right corner away from the image. This early work is rare. Reed studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and was essentially self-taught as a printmaker. He later taught at what is now Oklahoma State University and was often inspired by the landscapes of the American southwest. He was elected to be a member of the National Academy of Design in 1942 and when he retired he moved to Taos, NM.
$1,500

Four Figures; One Kneeling
GERTRAUD B. REINBERGER
Austrian, (1903-1992)
Woodcut, 1920, edition unknown. 10 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a very good impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. She studied at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna and made her first woodcut in 1916. She rarely dated her prints as we have here. There's a large group of her prints in the Albertina.
$1,500

Ships of Yesterday
WILLIAM S. RICE
American, (1873-1963)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1926, edition probably about 15. 10 1/2 x 8 3/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on wove paper. The margins are modest but this appears to be the full sheet as printed. The condition is fine apart from two old paper hinges at the top corner margins. There's a very similar image by Rice bearing the same title. It's illustrated on page 69 of William S. Rice, California Block Prints by Roberta Rice Treseder (2009). The location for this print is most likely the Oakland Estuary.
$1,800

Fish Tank
LUIGI RIST
American, (1889-1959)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1944, Williams 16, edition 150. 9 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. Signed in ink within the image, lower right. Titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. Rist was probably introduced to the woodcut medium by Morris Blackburn when they visited a show of Japanese prints in New York. Yet Rist was essentially self-taught and designed, cut and printed his own blocks. This print is illustrated on page 171 of American Prize Prints of the Twentieth Century by Albert Reese.
$3,500

Pouring Molten Steel
LEWIS RUBENSTEIN
American, (1908-2003)
Lithograph printed in color, circa 1938, edition 25. 16 x 10 1/4 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a superb impression of this rare and remarkable work. The margins are full apart from a small paper loss in the lower left corner. There are modest old tape hinges in the other three corners. The printed surface is especially fine with no scuffs or abrasions. 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.
SOLD

Evening in South Carolina
GEORGES SCHREIBER
American, (1904-1977)
Lithograph, 1951, AAA 1159, edition 250. 9 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. Schreiber was born in Belgium and came to America in 1928. He traveled around the country doing paintings, drawings and prints and eventually bought a home in Martha's Vineyard. His neighbor was Thomas Hart Benton.
$750

Young Owls
WUANITA SMITH
American, (1866-1959)
White line woodcut with additional hand coloring and embossing, circa 1925-50, edition unknown. 10 7/8 x 7 1/4 in. Signed and titled in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The colors are fresh. The condition is fine apart from a few subtle wrinkles in the lower margin from the printing process. Born in Philadelphia, Smith studied at the Drexel Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and later at the Art Students League in New York. She was a founding member of the American Color print Society along with Mary Mullineux. She exhibited in Provincetown in the 1920s and 1930s and maintained a studio in Nantucket during this era. Smith's work is included in Provincetown Printers, A Woodcut Tradition by Janet Flint (1983), page 46.
$1,400

On the Crest
YNGVE E. SODERBERG
American, (1896-1971)
Drypoint, circa 1930, edition 85. 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is very good other than for old hinges at the top corners and a small repaired tear in the upper left corner margin. Soderberg was best known for his prints, watercolors and paintings pertaining to sailing. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League. He did much of his work around Mystic, Ct. and painted every America's Cup race from 1930-1937. During the depression, he worked for the WPA program and did a Post Office mural as well as posters related to shipyards.
$600

The Bridge, Sunday
PRENTISS TAYLOR
American, (1907-1991)
Lithograph, 1952, Rose/Quiroz 82, edition 25. 12 x 16 3/4 in. Initialed and dated in the plate, lower left. Signed, dated, numbered and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is very good apart from two old paper tape hinges at the top and a small stain in the lower margin well below the image. This is one of his best known prints and is located in the Boston Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others.
$1,600

The Little Merry-go-Round, Rue Caulaincourt (Le Petit Manège, Rue Caulaincourt)
JACQUES VILLON
French, (1875-1963)
Etching, aquatint and drypoint printed in colors, 1904, Ginestet & Pouillon 135; one of five extra impressions aside from the edition of 50. 15 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. Signed in the plate, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression with vibrant colors. The margins are full and the condition is fine apart from just a slight suggestion of toning within an earlier mat opening. This work was published by Sagot, Paris and their blindstamp is located in the lower right corner margin. This marvelous early work is shown here printed with all the colors.
$7,500

The Wheat Field (Chateauneuf-en-Thimerais), Le Champ de Blé (Chateauneuf-en-Thimerais)
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK
French, (1876-1958)
Drypoint, circa 1925, Walterskirchen 113b, edition 50. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine impression printed with plate tone. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This panoramic view was published by the Galerie des Peintres-Graveurs (Lugt 1057b) and their blindstamp is in the lower right margin.
$1,450