Poverty
DOROTHY RUTKA
American, (1907-1985)
Soft-ground etching, circa 1940, edition probably about 25. 8 1/2 x 10 7/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. (There a just a couple of small fox marks in the left margin, away from the image.) The margins are full. This print bears the Federal Art Project Stamp for the Cleveland WPA. Rutka's prints generally address the social ills of society during the 1930s and 1940s. An impression of this print is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Conference
DOROTHY RUTKA
American, (1907-1985)
Softground etching and aquatint, about 1936-40, edition probably about 25. 9 x 7 1/4 in. Signed, titled and numbered "23" in pencil. Here we have a fine, dark impression printed on wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This impression bears the stamp "Federal Art Project." 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 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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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.
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Three Figures
ANNE RYAN
American, (1889-1954)
Woodcut printed in colors on black paper, circa 1945, edition 20. 11 1/2 x 15 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from a couple of arcivally backed splits at the top margin, well away from the image. An impression of this work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
$4,000

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.
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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.
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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.
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Sun Flowers
FLORA SCHOFIELD
American, (1873-1960)
White line color woodcut, probably done in the 1930s, edition unknown. 12 7/8 x 10 1/2 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression of this extremely rare print. The margins are probably full as printed. The condition is very good apart from the outline of a stain on the verso which is barely discernible on the front. There are remnants of old hinges on the verso here and there at the edges. Born in Illinois, Schofield eventually studied in Provincetown with BJO Nordfeldt and William Zorach. Diring the 1930s she studied in Europe with André Lhote, Fernand Léger and Gino Severini. She exhibited at the Second Annual Exhibition of the Provincetown Art Association and continued to spend her summers in Provincetown and her winters in Chicago. Her married name is Schoenfeld and sometime in the 1930s, she want with the name Schofield, as we see here with this print. We have not yet located another impression of this powerful color woodcut. Provenance: Reba White Williams, New York.
$2,800

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.
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The Four Bridges
ANTON SCHUTZ
American, (1894-1977)
Etching, 1929, Harbor Gallery 19, edition unknown. 10 x 13 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on cream wove paper. The margins are apparently full and the condition is fine. This exemplary view of New York from Brooklyn shows the Brooklyn Bridge, followed by the Manhattan, Williamsburg and Queensboro Bridges.
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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
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.
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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).
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Woman in a Window, New York
HARRY SHOKLER
American, (1896-1978)
Screenprint, circa 1940, edition probably about 25-50. 9 x 12 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression printed on tan paper. The condition is very good and the margins appear to be full and untrimmed. Shokler was born in Cincinnati and he eventually moved to New York to study and then teach. He was an early advocate of the screenprint as an artistic medium and he was president of the National Serigraph Society. He was also a WPA artist and taught at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School.
$750

Zinnias
HARRY SHOKLER
American, (1896-1978)
Screenprint, circa 1940, edition unknown. 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. Signed in ink in the lower right corner. This is a fine impression in very good condition. There's a faint suggestion of toning within an earlier mat opening and stray printer's ink has been touched in with white gouache on the right margin in one small area. (This was most likely done by the artist). Shokler was president of the National Serigraph Society and was one of the better early screenprint artists.
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Brooklyn Heights Esplanade
HARRY SHOKLER
American, (1896-1978)
Screenprint, 1951, edition unknown. 10 x 15 1/2 in. Signed and dated in ink in the image. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression of this memorable, panoramic view of New York. This is a fine impression with full margins. Fine condition. Shokler was born in Cincinnati and he eventually moved to New York to study and then teach. He was an early advocate of the screenprint as an artistic medium and he was president of the National Serigraph Society. He was also a WPA artist and taught at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School.
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Coney Island
HARRY SHOKLER
American, (1896-1978)
Screenprint printed in colors, 1942, edition unknown (possibly 100) 12 1/2 x 16 in. Signed in ink in the image, lower left. Tthis is a superb impression in fine condition. (There's a small paper loss in the lower right corner margin.) The margins appear to be full and untrimmed. Shokler became part of Anthony Velonis's silkscreen unit of the Graphic Arts Division of the New York WPA program. He became on the the leading screenprint artists during the 1940s. This memorable work is illustrated and discussed in The American Scene; Prints from Hopper to Pollack (2008) by Stephen Coppel, see pages 174-75.
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Theater # 1
CLARA SKINNER
American, (1902-1976)
Wood engraving, 1933-34, edition about 25. 10 x 14 in. Signed and titled in pencil. Here we have a fine impression printed on a thin, cream Japanese paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from four spots of an old adhesive showing in the four corners of the margins. Born in Chicago, Skinner studied at the Art Students League and was active with the WPA program. This work is included in The Federal Art Project: American Prints from the 1930s, published by the University of Michigan Museum of Art (1985),pg 177. This print is also located at the National Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. The original WPA label accompanies the print.
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The Street Hawkers
RAYMOND SKOLFIELD
American, (1909-1996)
Lithograph, 1935-36, edition about 25. 9 7/8 x 14 in. Signed on the stone, lower right. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with what appears to be the full, untrimmed sheet. The condition is very good other than for a slight trace of a mat line from an early mount and some old adhesive on the verso edges on four sides. Skolfield was a Maine artist who studied at the Art Students League with Guy Pene DuBois, among others. He was active in the NY WPA program and this print is included as part of that effort. (This impression does not have the stamp.) Street Hawkers is found at the Smithsonian, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others.
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Nude and Etching Press
JOHN SLOAN
American, (1871- 1951)
Etching, 1931, Morse 254 (ii/II), edition 100. 5 x 3 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. A fine impression with full margins. Faint discoloration, verso.
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