'Tenant Farmers' — Rare WPA Modernist Signed Wood Engraving
By Lou Barlow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lou Barlow (Louis Breslow), 'Tenant Farmers', color wood engraving, 1936, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '15/25' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh c...
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On the Beach (Coney Island, New York) — WPA, 1930s Graphic Modernism
By Lou Barlow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lou Barlow (Louis Breslow), 'On the Beach' (Coney Island) wood engraving, c. 1937, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. Stamped 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT NYC WPA' in the bottom left margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, with all the fine lines printing clearly, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 3 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce. Image size 11 x 8 1/8 inches; sheet size 16 x 11 3/8 inches. Created during the Great Depression for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, New York City. Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Amon Carter Museum of Art, Illinois State Museum, and the New York Public Library. ABOUT THE IMAGE Due to Coney Island's proximity to Manhattan, Brooklyn, and other New York boroughs, it began attracting vacationers in the 1830s and 1840s. Most of the vacationers were wealthy and went by carriage roads and steamship services that reduced travel time from a formerly half-day journey to two hours. By the late 1870s, the development of Coney Island's amusement park attractions and hotels drew people from all social classes. When the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company electrified the steam railroads and connected Brooklyn to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge at the beginning of the 20th century, Coney Island turned rapidly from a resort to an accessible location for day-trippers seeking to escape the summer heat in New York City's tenements. In 1915, the Sea Beach Line was upgraded to a subway line, and the opening of the Stillwell Avenue station in 1919 ushered in Coney Island's busiest era. On the peak summer days, over a million people would travel to Coney Island. In 1937, New York City purchased a 400-foot-wide strip of land along the shoreline to allow the boardwalk to be moved 300 feet inland. At this point, Coney Island was so crowded on summer weekends that parks commissioner Robert Moses...
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$400
H 12 in W 4.25 in
Letterio Calapai, (Sky Abstraction), 1957, mid-century wood engraving
By Letterio Calapai
Located in New York, NY
Letterio Calapai is widely recognized as a major American artist of the twentieth century. He is widely respected as a printmaker, especially for engravings and wood engravings, and ...
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$1,285
H 14 in W 15.56 in
20th century woodcut ink black and white figures musical instruments dramatic
By Robert Franz Von Neumann
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Chamber Music" is an original wood engraving by Robert Franz von Neumann. It features a room full of men in the thralls of creating music together. A small audience stands outside their circle. Image: 5.5" x 7" Framed: 14" x 15.56" 1888 - 1976 Born in Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany, Robert von Neumann...
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Heinrich Glintenkamp, (Woman at Piano - Bach)
By Heinrich Glintenkamp
Located in New York, NY
An American painter, printmaker, and illustrator. His work was featured in "The Masses" and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. This wood en...
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Modern American Industrial Landscape
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original woodblock print dated 1965, titled "Our Town" but signed illegibly.
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THE RUG WEAVER
By Gustave Baumann
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GUSTAVE BAUMANN (1881 – 1971) THE RUG WEAVER, 1910 (Chamberlain 26) Color woodcut signed in pencil. Unnumbed from an edition 100 as published in the Hills o’ Brown...
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By Night On My Bed
Located in New York, NY
Woodcut. Signed by the artist and dated in pencil, lower right. Titled in pencil, lower left, and numbered "28" in pencil, lower center. This woodcut was made by Esherick to ill...
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Nude and Swan
Located in New York, NY
Woodcut on paper, 1921. Signed by the artist, numbered 13/24, dated, titled "Lead'r" and dedicated "To Rose - Nat - be careful" in pencil, lower margin. The dedicatees named by E...
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Albert Abramovitz, Mission, California
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in New York, NY
Albert Abramovitz was an amazingly skilled wood engraver. This California Mission scene is unusual in his work, but carries the subject so well. It is signed and titled in pencil.
Woodcut
$1,300
H 11 in W 9.5 in
"Merry Christmas, " Original Color Woodcut signed with stamp by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Merry Christmas" is an original color woodcut on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower right. This artwork features the an abstracted figure on orange p...
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Dan Burne Jones, Affection
Located in New York, NY
Dan Burne Jones is widely know as the author of the Rockwell Kent print catalogue raisonne. It's so interesting to see that he is a gifted wood engraver as well. Jones's own prints a...
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Self Portrait-L.B. AET 56
By Leonard Baskin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Self Portrait-L.B. AET 56 Color woodcut printed in black and green, 1978 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Edition: 150 (97/150) Condition: Excellent Image: 32 x 22” Sheet: 35...
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$1,500
H 16.5 in W 13.25 in D 1 in
Exceptional American Regionalist print by artist Adrian Troy
Located in Colfax, CA
An exceptional American Regionalist print by Adrian Troy. Adrian Troy was born in Britain in 1901, the son of an English father and a French mother. The family moved to Bordeaux in 1...
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