Fine Prints Catalog
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"A Turn to the East," with "PEKING"(aka "CHINA GATE"),
Cyrus Leroy Baldridge and Caroline Singer’s "Turn to the East" portfolio with original color woodblock titled “Peking” plus 8 photo offset color lithographs. Pristine condition. Published by Shozaburo Watanabe. In original portfolio. From the estate of publisher William Edwin Rudge.
"Petunia"
Signed with the artist’s chop mark only. This original woodcut was bound into a high quality short-lived literary publication in 1908. It was printed “from the original blocks by careful working on a hand press.” There was also a “very limited” number of this image that was hand printed and signed in pencil (I have seen only one of those in 25+ years).
Abstract Art Exhibit Poster, Herring Gallery
Lazzell and Jesse Freemont Herring met during a sketching tour in Italy in February 1913. They reunited in Provincetown in 1915, Herring had returned to her artistic endeavors and where Lazzell moved (from Morgantown, WV) to pursue a career in the fine arts. In the mid-1920s, Herring became the curator of the Berkeley League of Fine Arts, where in 1925 Lazzell was honored with a one-woman exhibition of her woodcuts. Slight time toning to the lower sheet edge.
"Workers"
Helen Wagner Malta worked in New York City in the 1930s, teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working in the New York branch of the WPA graphics division. Some of her works were shown at various WPA shows in New York during the 1930s. Her work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. Malta was mentioned in the Appendix of of Dave and Reba Williams’ landmark catalog American Screenprints (1987).
"CIGARETTES," woodcut,, ed., Signed in pencil.
This image was reproduced as one of 12 images for the AMERICAN BLOCK PRINT CALENDAR of 1938, published by Gutenberg Publishing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Murphy was a student and teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design. She exhibited with the Boston Art Club, the Society of American Etchers, the Philadelphia Print Club and the National Academy of Design among others. Another impression of this print is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
5 Original Prints*
Published in The Print Connoisseur, Vol. IX, No. 2, April 1929. *Contanins: “Snow,” aquatint; “The House” [cover], linoleum cut in 3 colors; “Manhattan,” original mezzotint; “St. Nicholas Church,” 4 color linoleum cut; “Slovak Trumpeter,” 4 color linoleum cut, as well as other Preissig images. Rare to find the intact volume. Some chipping and edge tears to paper cover; internally fine. See one print below, ask to see others.
Abstractions, [Book w/ 6 orig. color woodcuts]
The artist’s landmark book, published in 1939 by the Johnson Publishing Company, New York. With 6 original abstract color woodcuts bound in. Prints are unsigned, as usual. Another copy of this work is in the collection of the Library of Congress.
The Print Connoisseur Vol. IX, No. 2, April 1929
The full volume of the Print Connoisseur containing 5 original prints: “Snow,” aquatint; “The House” [cover], linoleum cut in 3 colors; “Manhattan,” original mezzotint; “St. Nicholas Church,” 4 color linoleum cut; “Slovak Trumpeter,” 4 color linoleum cut, as well as other Preissig images. Rare to find the intact volume. Some chipping and edge tears to paper cover; internally fine.
The Print Connoisseur published illustrated articles on contemporary etchers and engravers on a quarterly basis from January, 1920 to December, 1931. A minimum of one original print was commissioned for each issue and the more expensive, limited editions of 100 each contained a signed impression in pencil by the artist. During its decade of publishing such major artists as George Elbert Burr, Frank Benson, Norman Kent, Lynd Ward, Winkler, Preissig, Alan Lewis and J. J. Lankes contributed original etchings and woodcuts. This New York based publication was thus responsible for commissioning some of the finest original art of early twentieth century America.