Charles E. Pont Prints and Multiples

1935. Wood engraving. 8 15/16 x 11 7/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 16). A fine impression printed on the full sheet of cream wove paper with deckle edges. Signed and titled in pencil. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch mat, suitable for framing. Pont’s artistic talent was already evident during secondary school, and he pursued a professional formation at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and The Cooper Union in Manhattan. In 1933 he received a scholarship to continue his training with the American Artists League. His professional career began in 1925 as a carpenter and cabinet-maker in New York. Although he gave up this business in 1932, he never forgot these skills, and twenty years later designed and built his own home in Wilton, Connecticut. In the midst of the Great Depression, Charles Pont turned to the fine arts as a full-time career, working chiefly as a book and magazine illustrator. Pursuing a nautical interest inherited from his adoptive father who had served in the German Imperial Navy...