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.
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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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Sailboats
ARNOLD RONNEBECK
American, (1885-1947)
Pencil on paper, 1936, unique 15 x 11 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This fine drawing was done in Colorado and relates to a print called "Grand Lake, Colorado," from 1932. The condition is very good other than for old hinges at the corners and minor toning along the edges of the sheet.
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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.
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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

View of New York
ERNEST ROTH
American, (1879-1964)
Etching, 1918, edition unknown. 11 1/2 x 10 in. Signed and dated in the plate. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine, atmospheric impression on Japanese paper in fine condition. The margins are wide and probably untrimmed. This dynamic view of New York relates closely to Joseph Pennell's views of the city during this same period.
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New York, Old and New
ERNEST ROTH
American, (1879-1964)
Etching, 1944, edition probably about 100. 12 x 15 1/8 in. Signed, titled and dated in the plate. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression of this large and exceptional work. The margin are full and the paper is watermarked VAN GELDER. The condition is fine apart from a tiny speck of foxing near the pencil signature. Roth's Venetian prints were recently the focus of a book and exhibition by Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents; Ernest Roth and Printmaking in Venice, 1900-1940. His best New York prints are exceptional in design and execution.
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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
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.
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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

Strike Talk
DOROTHY RUTKA
American, (1907-1985)
Soft-ground etching, circa 1940, edition probably about 25. 6 3/8 x 7 7/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. This impression bears the stamp of the Federal Art Project for Cleveland. Rutka was from Michigan and studied at the Cleveland School of art. She graduated in 1929 and joined the WPA in 1936. She was married to Philip Porter, executive editor of the Plain Dealer.
SOLD