Race at Latimer Reef
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1946, Stuckey 163, edition 75. 8 x 15 1/4 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This dynamic racing print was done in Noank, CT which is on the coast of Connecticut not far from Mystic.
$750

Foggy Morning
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1945, Stuckey 148, edition only 37. 7 3/4 x 13 5/8 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a fine, atmospheric impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. The scene depicted here is in Port Clyde, ME.
SOLD

Her Majesty
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1975, Stuckey 361, edition 60. 9 1/2 x 15 7/8 in. Signed and numbered in pencil and titled below. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This charming, Victorian home was is/was located in Noank, CT.
$1,250

Fisherman's House
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1932, Stuckey 28, edition 50. 7 5/8 x 8 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is good apart from slight toning around the image from an earlier mat opening. There are traces of two paper hinges on the front at the top corners and two old cloth hinges on the verso also at the corners. This uncommon print was done in Eastport, ME.
$1,600

Grand Central, New York
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1949, Stuckey 183, edition 40. 8 11/16 x 16 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression of this uncommon print. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, with their price code in pencil, lower right. Grand Central was opened in 1913 after ten years of construction.
SOLD

From the Weather Bureau (New York)
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1940, Stuckey 106, edition 40. 10 1/4 x 17 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. Titled below in pencil. This is a superb impression with probably the full margins. Fine condition. There was a first edition of 3 impressions, then, the second published state was printed with a tint stone in an edition of 40. This print was based on a drawing done on the roof of the Weather Bureau at the Battery.
$5,000

Serenity
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1951, Stuckey 199, edition 100. 11 3/4 x 17 7/8 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine apart from a very faint trace of light discoloration within an earlier mat opening and a suggestion of an old hinge adhesive showing in the upper right corner margin. This majestic print depicts the First Congregational Church in Litchfield, CT. Another building was constructed in 1829 in the Greek Revival style. In 1930, the third church building was built on the same site and the 1829 building was torn down. A major restoration project was done in 2005.
SOLD

Down East
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1958, Stuckey 149, edition 40. 9 1/8 x 15 7/8 in. Signed in pencil and inscribed "artists proof." It is titled below by the artist in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. Fine condition. The subject depicted is Marshall's Point Light Station.
$1,500

Sunlit Forest
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1941, Stuckey 113, edition 50. 11 1/8 x 14 3/4 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This impression has the red stamp depicting a lighthouse and the initials E and W. which indicates this is from the collection of Edith Wengenroth, the artist's wife, (Not in Lugt). The scene here is in Winter Harbor, Maine.
$1,200

Great Horned Owl
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1960, Stuckey 259, edition 50. 15 1/4 x 11 7/8 in. Signed and inscribed in pencil "artist's proof." The print is also titled below by the artist. Here we have a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. The catalogue states this print was done in New York.
SOLD

Five Owls
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1943, Stuckey 123, edition 50. 8 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression of this charming print. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This impression bears Edith Wengenroth's collectors stamp which is printed in red showing a lighthouse and the letter E and W on each side. This mark is not recorded by Lugt.
SOLD

Bird of Freedom
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1942, Stuckey 116, edition 200. 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression of this patriotic, wartime print. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There's a wrinkle in the upper right corner margin, well away from the image.) This impression bears the red collectors mark of Edith Wengenroth, the artist's wife. She would put aside prints she was particularly fond of.
$1,200

Sunnyside
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1959, Stuckey 253, edition 50. 8 1/4 x 15 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from a faint line of toning from an earlier mat opening. Sunnyside, in Tarrytown, N.Y., was the home of the American writer, Washington Irving. He was the author of "Rip van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Irving bought a two room Dutch stone house on the banks of the Hudson River in 1835 and thoughtfully expanded it and today it looks much like it did in the 1850s. Sunnyside was declared a national historic landmark in 1962.
$600

Deep Forest
STOW WENGENROTH
American, (1906-1977)
Lithograph, 1937, Stuckey 70, edition 60. 11 1/4 x 15 7/8 in. Signed and inscribed, "printers proof." This is a superb impression of this exquisite, early landscape. The margins are full and the condition is generally fine. (There's very faint rippling in the upper right corner margin and small spot of printer's ink in the extreme left margin, center). The scene depicted here is in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
$1,000

Snow Swept
LEVON WEST
American, (1900-1968)
Etching, 1929, edition 100. 9 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is very good apart from faint light toning within an old mat opening. West specialized in exactly this kind of imagery; men on horseback facing the elements. In 1962 he was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award by the Governor of Montana.
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Rainy Day, New York
LEVON WEST
American, (1900-1968)
Etching and drypoint, circa 1933, Subsequent to Torrington, edition unknown. 14 7/8 x 8 3/4 in. Signed in pencil and also inscribed "27." The margins are full. the condition is excellent. West did a few New York scenes which are hard to come by. His work was influenced by his friend, Joseph Pennell, and Kennedy Galleries represented his work for many years. This print is included in the collection of the National Gallery in Washington, DC.
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Chief Eagle Calf
LEVON WEST
American, (1900-1968)
Etching, 1927, Torrington 77 (ii/II), edition 100. 9 x 6 1/2 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is very good other than for a few soft ripples in the image from the printing process. Chief Eagle Calf was a member of the Blackfeet Tribe from Montana. According to Torrington, the edition was really only seventy as many were destroyed.
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Wyoming (On Horseback)
LEVON WEST
American, (1900-1968)
Etching, 1934, subsequent to Torrington, edition probably 100. 9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. Signed in pencil and inscribed "early trial proof." Signed dated and inscribed in the plate, "Wyoming." This is a superb impression with full margins. The margins are full. This dramatic scene is one of his best images of the American West.
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Annie
JAMES A. MCNEILL WHISTLER
American, (1834-1903)
Etching, 1857-58, Kennedy 10, (iv/V), edition unknown. 4 3/4 x 3 1/8 in. Signed in the plate. This is a fine, early impression of the penultimate state printed on gold-toned chine applique. The margins are wide. The condition is very good apart from a very faint suggestion of discoloration from a previous mat opening and tape reside in places, verso, not affecting the image in any way. Fourth state impressions are far more desirable than final state impressions.
SOLD

Seymour Standing under a Tree
JAMES A. MCNEILL WHISTLER
American, (1834-1903)
Etching and drypoint, 1858-1959, Glasgow 30 (ii/III), Kennedy 31 (ii/III); edition unknown. 5 1/4 x 3 7/8 in. Signed in the plate. This is a fine, early impression of the second state of three printed on cream laid paper. The margins are wide and probably full. The condition is also fine apart from a suggestion of toning in the mid margin area from an early mat. This early print is described by Katharine Lochnan as, "Whistler's first landscape etching." (See: The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, Yale University Press, 1984; page 69.) The online Glasgow catalogue cites only 29 known impressions from this plate. (In the third state the legs have been redrawn to be closer together.)
$2,600