One-Punch Knockout
ROBERT RIGGS
American, (1896-1970)
Lithograph, 1934, Bassam 49, edition unknown. 14 3/4 x 19 3/8 in. Signed on the stone, lower right. Signed, titled and numbered "18" in pencil. This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent apart from a minor handling wrinkle in the right margin not affecting the image. This exemplary work is illustrated on the cover of the catalogue raisonné of the artist's prints.
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Rhododendron
LUIGI RIST
American, (1889-1959)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1942, Williams 10, edition 100 or 150. 13 1/8 x 10 in. Signed in ink within the image and titled in pencil just below the image. This is a superb, luminous impression of this uncommon print. The margins are modest in size but this is probably the full sheet as printed. Fine condition overall apart from a faint mat line showing in the margins. This is one of Rist's finest woodcuts.
$3,750

Sea Shell and Garlic
LUIGI RIST
American, (1889-1959)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1947, Williams 22, edition 150. 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 in. Signed in ink, lower right, within the image. Titled in pencil. Here we have a very fine impression printed on thin Japanese paper. The margins are modest but this is probably the full sheet as printed. This is a nice example of his work.
$2,500

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

Boy on a Wheel
HULDA D. ROBBINS
American, (1910-2011)
Screenprint, 1947, edition 45 14 3/8 x 10 1/4 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. A fine impression with full margins. The condition is very good. Robbins was a New Jersey artist who was employed with the New York WPA program. She specialized in artistic screenprints as well as oil paintings. Her 1930s and early 1940s work was primarily realistic urban street scenes and the prints from the late 1940s, as shown here, leaned more to the abstract reminding us of Dorr Bothwell, Edward Landon and others. This print was made from five screens and is so inscribed.
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The Dreamer
HULDA D. ROBBINS
American, (1910-2011)
Screenprint, 1947, edition 35. 14 x 10 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. Hulda Robbins studied in Berlin from 1929-31 where she was greatly inspired by the work of Kollwitz. She also studied at the Barnes Foundation. Best known for her artistic screenprints, she's part of the pioneering group which included Ruth Chaney, Max Cohn, Ruth Gikow, Philip Hicken and Edward Landon and Riva Helfond, among others. Her prints have been exhibited at MOMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She resided in New Jersey in her later years and lived to be 100.
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Morning's at Seven
HULDA D. ROBBINS
American, (1910-2011)
Screenprint (in nine colors), 1941, edition 50. 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. This New York/New Jersey printmaker specialized in artistic screenprints which are refined in color and composition. This endearing image brings to mind the work of Raphael Soyer.
$950

Beacon, East River (New York)
HULDA D. ROBBINS
American, (1910-2011)
Screenprint, 1947, edition 45. 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. An impression of this dynamic print is in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
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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.
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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

Winter in the City
HULDA D. ROBBINS
American, (1910-2011)
Screenprint, 1940, edition 43. 14 x 18 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression of the artist's largest screenprint. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There's a faint suggestion of a soft wrinkle in the lower right corner near the image.) This exceptional New York print was done with nineteen colors and is so annotated. Robbins was from New Jersey and this early work is a stellar example of the artistic screenprint done during the WPA period.
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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

Colorado Gold Dredge
ARNOLD RONNEBECK
American, (1885-1947)
Lithograph, 1932, edition 25. 10 x 14 1/4 in. Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. the condition is excellent. Ronnebeck is the finest of the few lithographers who worked on this Colorado subject of gold mining.
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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
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."
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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

Eagle Dance (San Ildefonso Pueblo)
ARNOLD RONNEBECK
American, (1885-1947)
Lithograph, 1931, edition 75. 13 x 9 in. Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. The artist did a number of southwestern prints. He spent time in Taos and Santa Fe and the vicinity during the 1920s.
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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.
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Corn Dance (Taos Pueblo)
ARNOLD RONNEBECK
American, (1885-1947)
Lithograph, 1931, edition not stated. 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This is one of the stellar images done by the artist while in the southwest. An impression is in the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio.
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Paramount, NY
ARNOLD RONNEBECK
American, (1885-1947)
Lithograph, 1928, edition not stated. 12 x 7 1/4 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression of this stellar, modernist print. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. The scene is Broadway and Ronnebeck is able to capture the excitement of the moment. This outstanding print was made at a time when the artist was friendly with, Stieglitz, Hartley, Marin and Georgia O'Keefe. He was exhibiting with the Weyhe Gallery during this fruitful and productive period.
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