Paul Landacre Prints and Multiples
American, 1893-1963
Paul Landacre was an illustrator who specialized in wood engravings of naturalistic images executed in a sparse, rhythmic, linear style. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he was an athlete as a youth. During his sophomore year at Ohio State University, he contracted a life-threatening illness that left him partially disabled. During this same year he also enrolled in a drawing class. After a long recuperation, Landacre moved with his family to California. In order to increase his physical strength he took long walks in the nearby rural areas, and on these walks, drew in his sketchbook. By 1918 he found a job as a commercial illustrator. In 1923 he enrolled at the Otis Art Institute, where he studied all types of media, including wood engraving.
Landacre's artistic reputation began to emerge in the early 1930s with the publication of his book California Hills and other Wood Engravings and his first one-person exhibition in Los Angeles. He received many commissions for book illustrations; since he worked in a careful, deliberate manner, his large projects required years to complete. For thirty-one years the artist maintained a hand press in his home, allowing him to have total control over the printing of his designs. In 1939 he was made an associate of the National Academy of Design. The remainder of Landacre's professional career was balanced between teaching and illustrating books.
Two examples from the National Gallery's permanent collection demonstrate the range of Landacre's work. His engraving, Smoke Tree, evokes the nearby desert scenery that the artist knew. The sharp, angular canyons of the mountain contrast with the delicate, small-leafed tree in the foreground. Some Ingredients is a still life composition that displays the same strength of line, forceful contrasts, and textures seen in his landscapes.
[This is an excerpt from the interactive companion program to the videodisc American Art from the National Gallery of Art. Produced by the Department of Education Resources, this teaching resource is one of the Gallery's free-loan educational programs.](Biography provided by Catherine E. Burns Fine Prints)
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Artist: Paul Landacre
'Laguna Cove' — 1930s American Modernism
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Laguna Cove', wood engraving, 1935; edition 60 (16 printed), 2nd edition 150 (6 printed), Woodcut Society 200, Wien 247. Signed and titled in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan, with full margins (3/4 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
This impression is from the edition published for the Twentieth Presentation Print of the Woodcut Society, 1941. Printed by Torch Press, Cedar Rapids.
Literature: Reproduced in 'James Swann...
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1930s American Modern Paul Landacre Prints and Multiples
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'Hill' — 1930s American Modernism
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Hill', wood engraving, 1936, edition 60 (only 54 printed); only 2 impressions printed in a second edition of 150. Signed, titled, and numbered '49/60' in pencil. Wien...
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'Verdi' — 1930s American Modernism - Italian Opera Composer
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Verdi', wood engraving, 1936, edition 60, (only 14 printed), Wien 188. Signed, titled, and numbered '10/60' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream, laid Japan paper, ...
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1930s American Modern Paul Landacre Prints and Multiples
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'Lot Cleaning, Los Angeles' — 1930s Modernism
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Lot Cleaning, Los Angeles', wood engraving, edition 60, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 69. Signed, titled and numbered '51/60' in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on Kitakata Japan pape...
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DECORATION
By Paul Landacre
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PAUL LANDACRE (1893 – 1963)
DECORATION (Design for Green Mansions) 1932-3 (Wien 125)
RARE. Wood engraving. Only four titled and s...
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GRASS FIRE. - Very Scarce Early signed Impression
By Paul Landacre
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PAUL LANDACRE (1883 – 1963)
GRASSS FIRE, 1928 (Wien 53)
Wood engraving on tissue thin Japanese paper, signed in pencil and titled with full margins. Thee are only 20 signed, titled,...
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Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'California Hills and Other Wood Engravings by Paul Landacre', 14 wood engravings, plus a vignette on the colophon, edition 500, 1931, Lehman p. 174. Signed in ink on the rear colophon by the artist; this copy outside the numbered edition.
Fourteen superb, richly-inked impressions, printed from the original blocks, on cream wove paper, bound into book format. Including Landacre's acclaimed wood engravings 'Big Sur', 'Indio Mountains', 'Point Magu', 'Malibu Coast', 'Berkeley Stadium', 'San Bernadino Mountains', 'Monterey Hills', and others. Probably the best-known California illustrated book. Reference: Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts #7, Winter 1988.
The first and most beautiful book illustrated by Landacre. Foreword by Los Angeles artist and critic Arthur Millier; printed directly from the original blocks by Harold Young. Published by Bruce McCallister, Los Angeles.
With the original black paper-covered slipcase, wear to the slipcase edges and losses to the top and bottom open front edges. Hardcover, with decorated paper-covered boards in orange/red and gray with a wood engraving in blue ink on the mounted front cover label. Slight surface soiling to front and rear cover boards; moderate light toning to the spine; very slight wear to the cover edges. The interior bright and clean; the usual toned offsetting from the inked images on the opposite blank pages (the book was issued without tissues); private bookplate of Ruth M. Wilson pasted to the inside front cover. Discreet owner inscription, in ink, in the top inside back cover. Overall a near fine copy of this extremely rare and fragile book. Book cover size 12 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches; image sizes, various; page size 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches.
"Except in occasional engravings of buildings, Paul Landacre has confined all his efforts to hymning the 'eternal hills' and especially to searching out those qualities in them that prompt us to use the adjective eternal. He gradually evolved a conception of black lines and white lines - one kind passing easily and unnoticed into the other - which enable him to cut into wood the erosive flow which has given rhythmic form to hills and mountains." —Arthur Millier, from the Preface to 'California Hills'.
Honored as one of the “Fifty Books of the Year” for 1931, by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York.
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Pelican — Mid-Century Modern
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Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
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Sultry Day
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre 'Sultry Day', wood engraving, 1935, edition 60, 200 in 1937, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 71.
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Mozart
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Mozart', wood engraving, 1935, edition 60, (only 9 printed). Signed, titled, and numbered '7/60' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream, laid Japan paper, with full m...
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Poachers
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Poachers', 1934, wood engraving, edition 60, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 33. Signed, titled and numbered '9/60' in pencil. With the stamp 'ORIGINS OF ART' in the bottom righ...
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Headland, Big Sur Coast — mid-century modern, California
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Headland, Big Sur', wood engraving, 1930-31, edition 50, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 25. Signed, titled and numbered '1/50' in pencil. With the black petrel, Landacre estate...
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Tuonela — mid-century modern, California
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Tuonela', wood engraving, 1934, edition 60 or fewer (second block, first edition), Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 44. Signed, titled and numbered '36/60' in pencil. A superb, b...
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Monday
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Monday', 1934, wood engraving, edition 60. Signed, titled, and
numbered '42/60' in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Kitakata Japan paper; the full...
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Black Stallion — unique first trial proof
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre, 'Black Stallion', 1940, wood engraving. Signed and titled in pencil. Annotated 'F T P' (first trial proof) and 'To Lucien from Paul Landa...
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