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David Feinstein, Visitors' Day, WPA lithograph of NYC Public School
Located in New York, NY
David Feintstein is a master draughtsman working in the genre of everyday life in New York City. His style is highly original, especially in this work. Here he's used Visitors' Day (...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ethel Katz, Fur Sources, New Deal-era lithograph of sweatshop
Located in New York, NY
This is a classic New-Deal image: claustrophobic sweatshop with a row of hunched tailors. The windows and lamps offer light at least. But there is a major difference between this and...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bernard Sanders, Young Girl (With Arms Crossed), about 1930
Located in New York, NY
Young Girl by Bernard Sanders (1906-1967) is a classic example of his masterful portraiture.
This is a drypoint. It is signed in pencil, titled in the lower left margin, and initial...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Bernard Sanders, (Two Young Girls), about 1925
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Sanders (1906-1967) was a master at suggesting layers of meaning. Here, at first glance, this is study of sisters, posed to show subtle differences in height and profile. But...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Bernard Sanders, (Shaping the Coiffe, France), about 1925
Located in New York, NY
Clearly a scene in France, the Bernard Sanders is showing us a seamstress/lacemaker. She seems to be shaping a traditional coiffe (sometimes 'coif') -- an elaborate headpiece worn b...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Luke Gwilliam (1911-1989), Compote and Fruit, 1950, woodcut
Located in New York, NY
Luke Gilliam has a highly unusual woodcut technique. Here it is used to contain a fruit plate in an impressionistically-inspired environment made up of earth tones. It's a fascinatin...
Category
1950s American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Luke Gwilliam (1911-1989), Mnemonic Form, 1974, woodcut
Located in New York, NY
Luke Gilliam has an unusual woodcut technique that he pairs with a complex object of his own creation. He uses technique to create a technical tour-de-force with the intriguing title...
Category
1970s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Christo, Wrapped Armchair, 1977, lithograph
By Christo
Located in New York, NY
It's wonderful for us to have work by Christo (1935-2020). He and Jeanne-Claude were the most international of artists while NYC based. In particular this lithograph, Wrapped Armchai...
Category
1970s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Root, The Arrival, 1982
Located in New York, NY
This exact subject is in the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum (OR). Root also has works in the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, and the Smithsonian Museum American Art M...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bernard Sanders, (Lovers)
Located in New York, NY
Clearly Sanders (1906-1967) was a master at these minimalist figurative prints. It's all about atmosphere and tension.
Perhaps reflecting the print here, (Lovers), he, in fact, w...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Bernard Sanders, (Mesopotamian Figure)
Located in New York, NY
Clearly Sanders was looking at ancient Mesopotamian figures. Even the elaborate feathered wings can be found there -- made about 5000 years ago!
There's an initial 'S' in the plate...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Bernard Sanders, (Nude Woman with Orb)
Located in New York, NY
Sander's figures are captivating. Here a women stands facing right, just touching, and holding still, a globe shape, on a flat surface.
It was difficult getting the color to show p...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
James Penney, Point of Order
By James Penney
Located in New York, NY
James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints.
Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NYC at the Art Students League. The New-York Historical Society and the Library of Congress both have collections of his work.
Signed, titled, and dated.
Especially like the test marks at the lower right and the way the lawyer is leaning/relaxing on the judge...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
James Penney, Corridor
By James Penney
Located in New York, NY
James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints.
Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NY...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Don Freeman, (At the Booking Desk)
By Don Freeman
Located in New York, NY
Don Freeman is best known for his paintings and works on paper of New York City's theatre industry: the signage, the stages and sets, the actors, the costumers and ushers, anything a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Messick, (The Newspaper Story)
By Ben Messick
Located in New York, NY
Ben Messick perfectly captures the world of the 'Ashcan' period: Everyday life, local characters, people we could still meet today. He could draw like a son-of-a-gun! And this is a v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Messick, Coffee and Donuts (Sinkers & Java)
By Ben Messick
Located in New York, NY
Ben Messick perfectly captures the world of the 'Ashcan' period: Everyday life, local characters, people we could still meet today. He could draw like a son-of-a-gun! The date of 194...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joseph Hirsch, (Cutting the Beard)
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
A man with lots of whiskers is trimming his facial hair while looking in a mirror. The male figure and his beard are carefully drawn but Hirsch has cleverly just briefly sketched in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alfred Bendiner, Sweet Innocence
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
No matter the seriousness of the subject, everything is always beautifully drawn on the lithographic stone by Bendiner, but in this instance the negative space is exploited amazingly.
This courtroom...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Thomas Dembovsky (sp?), (Cubist Musician)
Located in New York, NY
This full-on view of a musician and his bass (also known as an upright bass or string bass), has an air of calm befitting the lowest-pitched bowed instrum...
Category
1930s Cubist Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bernard Schardt, Appeal Denied (NYC Courtroom)
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Schardt worked on the the WPA in NYC during the Depression. (During this period, off and on, he lived with friend and colleague Jackson Pollock...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Joseph LeBoit, Derby Winner
Located in New York, NY
Joseph (Joe) Leboit made this extremely intense image of a supposedly happy recipient of a 'Derby Winner.' (Probably refers to the Irish Derby.) In fact the couple and seventeen chil...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
William P. Hicks, Circus
Located in New York, NY
William P. Hicks has drawn everything about the circus that will fit in the plate. The main figure is an aerial act with a woman balancing on rope held by a figure on the floor. Ther...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
William Gropper, (Choral Group)
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
An early serigraph (screen print) by William Gropper. There's a harpist to provide the music and a choir master conducting. The seated members of the group are individually drawn as ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Geno Pettit, Seated Figure
Located in New York, NY
Seated Figure by Geno (sometimes Genoi) Pettit, made in 1945, is a wonderfully 'moderne' image. The woman is wearing a roman-inspired blouse or dress and is shown against a yellow/green, chartreuse background. There is the feeling she is about to lead an ancient procession at any moment!
Pettit and her husband, Guy McCoy...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Albert Abramovitz, The Wagonette (Moscow Subway)
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in New York, NY
Albert Abramovitz was working in New York in the 1930s when he made wood engravings of the construction of the Moscow subway. This image, The Wagonette, is a wrenching testament to t...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Interior Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Norman Barr, Still Life
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr made mural on the NYC-WPA; this lithograph was made in the WPA workshop but was not published by the WPA. The next year he was in the Army! Thi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Convalescent
Located in New York, NY
Mathilde de Cordoba was born in New York City and spent her career there. She is known for her studies of women and children.
Convalescent is sign...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
(Four Women at Hat Store)
Located in New York, NY
This is such an interesting image. Are there 'Four women'? Is the head on the upper right from a hat store or is she another person in the scene. And what a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Room for One More (New York City Subway)
By Irving Guyer
Located in New York, NY
This Depression-era New York City subway scene says it all. The body language of all five passengers tells us where each of them is in his or her ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Jane Rogers, Breakfast
Located in New York, NY
Jane Rogers was born in the artists' colony of Woodstock, New York. Most of her career was spent in New York. Although her dates are most often given as 18...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bernard Sanders, (Fantastic City)
Located in New York, NY
This extravagant subject is a clear exception in the oeuvre of Bernard Sanders.
Signed in pencil; interestingly signed in the plate at the upper right ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Etching
Bernard Sanders, Head of Girl
Located in New York, NY
For a print that's nearly one hundred years old it feels very contemporary.
Signed in pencil; titled in lower margin in pencil.
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Bernard Sanders, Man at Piano
Located in New York, NY
For a print that's nearly one hundred years old it feels very contemporary.
Signed and titled in pencil. Besides the etching I think there is some false biting that adds tone here.
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Etching
Bernard Sanders, Dancers
Located in New York, NY
Sander's interiors are always intriguing. This work also reads as a stage with a dance; it recalls the Porch of the Maidens at the Erectheum at the Acropolis in Athens. There of cour...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Bernard Sanders, Bird on Piano
Located in New York, NY
Sander's interiors are always intriguing. This one certainly is. Signed in pencil.
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Bernard Sanders, My Room
Located in New York, NY
Sanders was very careful to make sure this subject was at his home at 2020 Grand Avenue in the Bronx. Signed in pencil.
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Etching
Bernard Sanders, (Interior with Five Men)
Located in New York, NY
The always fashionable Bernard sanders draws a mysterious spaces with well-dressed gentlemen. Signed in pencil.
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
