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![Mexican Family - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2774&sizew=200) |
Mexican Family HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Lithograph, 1940, Duffy 200, edition 250. 10 1/4 x 13 3/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with wide margins. The condition is excellent. This endearing image was published by Associated American Artists in New York. $750 |
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![Eagle Dance - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2950&sizew=200) |
Eagle Dance HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Wood engraving, 1942, Duffy 201, edition 200. 10 x 8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a superb impression in fine condition. The margins are full. This print was published by the Woodcut Society of Kansas City. The print is still in the folder it was published in and
it's attached at the two top corners, verso. Duffy cites ten impressions in museum collections. $1,800 |
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![New York Night - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2389&sizew=200) |
New York Night HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Lithograph, 1931, Duffy 162, edition 75 (35 printed). 10 x 12 in. Signed on the stone, lower left. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression with full margins. The sheet shows a deckle edge on all sides. The condition is excellent. This stellar lithograph ranks among his finest views of the New York skyline. $9,000 |
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![Sun and Desolation - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2722&sizew=200) |
Sun and Desolation HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Woodcut, 1926, Duffy 34, edition 50. 9 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. Signed in the block, lower right. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on thin, cream japan paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This large work was probably done in Maine where he spent the summer of 1926. $1,500 |
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![Country Store - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2053&sizew=200) |
Country Store HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Etching, 1929, Duffy 106, edition 50 (40 printed). 5 7/8 x 9 in. Signed and numbered ("50") in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on thin Japanese paper. The margins appear to be full. The condition is fine apart from old hinges on the top corners of the sheet, verso. The location which inspired this print is Granville, MA which is not far from where the artist was born (Springfield, MA). $1,500 |
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![Looking up Broadway - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2055&sizew=200) |
Looking up Broadway HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Lithograph, 1937, Duffy 192, edition about 200. 13 x 9 1/2 in. Signed and date on the stone, lower left. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is very good apart from very slight time toning in the extreme outer edges of the sheet. This is from the unsigned edition published by the American Artists Group in New York. Duffy mentions there were also a few signed artist's proofs. This is an exceptional New York print and was included in the National Gallery Exhibition, "The Urban Scene 1920-1950," from February to August, 2017. SOLD |
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![Lower Manhattan - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2216&sizew=200) |
Lower Manhattan HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Lithograph, 1930, Duffy 132, edition 75 (35 were printed). 14 x 10 in. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil "75." This is a superb impression with full margins. The print is also dedicated to Erhard Weyhe (1883-1972) who founded Weyhe Gallery in NY on Lexington Avenue in 1919. This is one of Cook's stellar New York lithographs and a potent statement about the rise of modernism against the background of New York City in the 1930s. SOLD |
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![Fiesta (Taxco) - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2352&sizew=200) |
Fiesta (Taxco) HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Etching, 1933, Duffy 173, edition 50 (30 printed) 10 7/8 x 14 1/4 in. Signed and dated in pencil and with the inscription "trial proof" in the lower left corner of the margin. This is a superb impression with small, slightly irregular margins. The condition is fine. This unusual proof impression is before the upper left corner was filled in and there is blank space around the small horse on the right side. The image is most effective and as appealing as the finished plate. It provides fascinating insight into Cook's working methods. SOLD |
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![Wood Interior - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2637&sizew=200) |
Wood Interior HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Wood engraving, 1931, Duffy 171, edition about 150 (?) 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on thin light cream wove paper. The margins are wide and the condition is fine. (There's just the faintest suggestion of toning within an earlier mat opening.) This is from the deluxe edition of 100 from The Checkerboard
published by Weyhe Gallery in 1931. $900 |
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![Engine Room - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2672&sizew=200) |
Engine Room HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Lithograph, 1930, Duffy 128; edition 75 (only 35 were printed). 10 1/8 x 12 1/8 in. Signed dated and numbered (75) in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on white wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This is the engine room of the freighter SS Exhibitor. The Cooks traveled on this ship to Africa and Europe in 1929. Impressions of this work are found in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. SOLD |
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![Giant's Thumb (Monument Rock) - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2683&sizew=200) |
Giant's Thumb (Monument Rock) HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Woodcut, 1926, Duffy 23, edition 50 (30 printed). 14 x 8 1/16 in. Signed in the block. Signed in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This dramatic woodcut depicts this historic rock formation located in Monument Valley which covers Utah and Arizona. $1,400 |
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![District Schoolhouse - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2684&sizew=200) |
District Schoolhouse HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Woodcut, 1926, Duffy 18; edition 50 (25 printed). 17 1/4 x 12 3/4 in. Signed in the block, lower left. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on fibrous japan paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine apart from minor wrinkles here and there along the extreme margin edges. This large, early work is a powerful example of Cook's skills in the woodcut medium. Consider it a precursor to many fine works to come. $1,850 |
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![New England Church - COOK](/thumb.php?id=2948&sizew=200) |
New England Church HOWARD COOK American, (1901-1980) Wood engraving, 1931, Duffy 161, edition 50. 11 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a very fine impression on a cream Japanese paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine apart from old hinges on the verso at top, well away from the image. The church depicted here is the First Congregational Church in Springfield, MA. This historic church was built in 1819. There were actually three church buildings at this site before the 1819 structure, the first built in 1637. $1,600 |
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![Wheat Shocks - COX](/thumb.php?id=2954&sizew=200) |
Wheat Shocks JOHN ROGERS COX American, (1915-1990) Lithograph, 1951, AAA 1141, edition 250. 8 7/8 x 11 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with wide margins. The condition is very good apart from faint light toning within an earlier mat opening and very slight toning of the back of the sheet. This is the only print by Cox and it was published by Associated American Artists in New York. Cox was born in Indiana and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was appointed the first Director of the Swope Art Museum at the age of twenty-six. He organized important shows of American painters and was buying American painters' works from the 1930s and 1940s for the Swope before it became the trendy thing to do. Cox was a fine painter but he produced a small body of work. He tended towards a magic regionalist landscape tradition and his work is quite compelling. $3,500 |
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![Crack-Up - CRAWFORD](/thumb.php?id=2713&sizew=200) |
Crack-Up RALSTON CRAWFORD American, (1906-1978) Lithograph, 1949, Freeman L49.1, edition 30. 10 x 14 1/4 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. There are remains of two tiny hinges on the top corners, verso, otherwise this print is in fine condition. This powerful, early lithograph was printed by George Miller in New York. This work symbolized in black and white the emotions engendered by his four years of war experiences and the shock he had felt when he was stationed at the Bikini Atoll in 1946. (Crawford had been appointed artist-correspondent by Fortune magazine to work with meteorologists on visual charts pertaining to the atomic testing at this remote location.) (See Freeman, page 4, The Lithographs of Ralston Crawford, 1992, published by the University of Kentucky Press.) Ex-collection: Lois Torf, Boston. SOLD |
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![I Love a Parade - CRITE](/thumb.php?id=2621&sizew=200) |
I Love a Parade ALLAN CRITE African American, (1910-2007) Lithograph, 1948, edition 15. 7 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. Signed, dated, titled and numbered in ink. This is a superb impression of this extremely rare print. The margins are full and the condition is fine. Crite was was born in New Jersey but lived most of his life in Boston where he studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He was one of the preeminent Boston African American artists and lived in the historic South End. He was employed by the Federal Arts project. Crite was interested in social commentary and he depicted life as he observed it in the neighborhoods of Boston, especially in the vicinity of where he lived. His later work was primarily religious in nature. This exceptional print is found in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art among others. It's entry # 27 in Alone in a Crowd, Prints of the 1930s-40s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams (1993). This catalogue accompanied the exhibition of one hundred and five prints which traveled to about sixteen museums. SOLD |
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![Hounds and Coyote - CURRY](/thumb.php?id=2595&sizew=200) |
Hounds and Coyote JOHN STEUART CURRY American, (1897-1946) Lithograph, 1931, Cole 12, edition 25. 10 x 14 in. Signed and dated on the stone, lower left. Signed, dated, titled and numbered (25 prints) in pencil. This impression is dedicated in pencil to fellow artist Harry Wickey and his wife, "To the Wickeys and best luck." The margins are full. The condition is good apart from occasional light foxing and small old hinges at the top corners of the sheet. $800 |
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![Prize Stallions - CURRY](/thumb.php?id=2675&sizew=200) |
Prize Stallions JOHN STEUART CURRY American, (1897-1946) Lithograph, 1938, Cole 31, edition 250 as published by Associated American Artists. 12 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. Initialed and dated in the stone, lower left. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a very fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent and the original; AAA hinges are in the top corners. The catalogue lists six museums that own this print and we are sure there are more. SOLD |
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![Ride a Cock Horse - DEMARTELLY](/thumb.php?id=1842&sizew=200) |
Ride a Cock Horse JOHN DEMARTELLY American, (1903-1980) Lithograph, 1940, Zink 26, edition 250. 9 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent and we have to original AAA label which goes with the print. Theis scene depicts the artist's wife playing with their first child while there were living in Kansas City. A painting of the subject is in the Whitney Museum. $750 |
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![Blue Valley Fox Hunt - DEMARTELLY](/thumb.php?id=2559&sizew=200) |
Blue Valley Fox Hunt JOHN DEMARTELLY American, (1903-1980) Lithograph, 1937, Zink 10, edition 250. 12 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression as published by Associated American Artists in New York. The margins are wide and the condition is very good. There's a trace of an old adhesive around the outer edges of the margins, verso, not showing on the front. De Martelly taught printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute and he became a close friend of Thomas Hart Benton. In fact, the reclining figure in this print is Benton. $1,750 |
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