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Grand Canal, America -  GEERLINGS

Grand Canal, America
GERALD GEERLINGS
American, (1897-1998)
Drypoint, 1933, Czestochowski 31 (ii/II), edition 100. 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. Inscribed in the plate, lower right, Chicago Fair 1933. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on RIVES watermarked paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This print was published by the Chicago Society of Etchers.
$3,500

Civic Insomnia -  GEERLINGS

Civic Insomnia
GERALD GEERLINGS
American, (1897-1998)
Aquatint in color, 1932, Czestochowski 28; edition 38. 10 3/4 x 14 1/8 in. Signed, titled and dated (New York, 1932) in pencil. This is a fine impression of this exceedingly rare color version. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. Geerlings would occasionally use green paper for his prints and in this case, this is the only time we have seen the buildings and some of the water with color; possibly a unique version. Civic Insomnia is a remarkable tour de force of aquatint and it's also become very rare. There are twenty-three impressions cited in museum collections including multiple trial proofs in two institutions. This amounts to twenty-nine impressions. (This is the third impression we have sold.) On page 14 of the catalogue it states, "Geerlings's temperament was intrinsically experimental; he was an avid student of techniques...Even when he worked in black and white, Geerlings would not let a subject go until he exhausted all of its chromatic possibilities."
$9,000

Grizzily Giant, Mariposa Grove -  GERITZ

Grizzily Giant, Mariposa Grove
FRANZ GERITZ
American, (1895-1945)
Woodcut or linoleum cut, 1936, unknown. 12 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Here we have a fine impression of this large work. The margins are probably full. The condition is very good apart from a small spot of foxing to the left of the image and backing along the top edge verso from earlier hinging. There's a small hole in the paper on the left margin away from the image.
SOLD

Outposts -  GILMOUR

Outposts
LEON GILMOUR
American, (1907-1996)
Wood engraving, 1936, edition 50 plus artist's proofs. 7 x 11 3/4 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a very good impression printed on a fibrous, Japanese paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There's a modest printing crease just to the edge of the image at top right.) Gilmour, like Rockwell Kent, was a visionary thinker and his images often suggest an Orwellian, futuristic look. "Outposts", with the reference E=mc2 showing in the image at left, projects an expansive world view where technology and the masses can interact for better or worse. His stylized imagery, like Kent's, is very well-crafted and shows a timeless, ongoing respect for the human figure.
SOLD

Manhattan Backyards -  GLINTENKAMP

Manhattan Backyards
HENDRIK GLINTENKAMP
American, (1887-1946)
Wood engraving, 1932, edition 50. 7 x 5 in. Initialed and dated in the block, lower right. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine other than for a faint, soft vertical crease in the right margin edge. Glintenkamp studied at the National Academy of Design from 1903-06 and he was employed by the NYC WPA program.
$900

National Horse Show  (Madison Square Garden) -  GOLINKIN

National Horse Show (Madison Square Garden)
JOSEPH W. GOLINKIN
American, (1896-1977)
Lithograph, 1938, edition 200. 15 1/4 x 19 5/8 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. This New York artist was also in the Navy and achieved the rank of Read Admiral. (He resigned from the Navy in 1922 to pursue his art career and was reactivated in 1938.) He produced many large scale lithographs of New York sporting events which are quite well done. George Miller printed his work.
$950

Express Stop -  GORSLINE

Express Stop
DOUGLAS GORSLINE
American, (1913-1985)
Etching, 1948, edition 100 (or 125). 6 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This fine work was published by the Society of American Etchers. This print was not published by Associated American Artists as is occasionally stated. AAA did published four other prints by the artist.
SOLD

Bootleg Coal -  GOTTLIEB

Bootleg Coal
HARRY GOTTLIEB
American, (1894-1993)
Lithograph printed in colors, 1937-38, edition possibly 25. 13 3/4 x 17 7/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is fine and the paper bears a RIVES watermark. Gottlieb joined the Federal Art Project in New York in 1935 and he was one of the first members of the Silk Screen Unit. His work in this medium as well as in color lithography is outstanding. Coal mining was a subject he was very interested in and there's at least one variation of this image with the same title. This image was printed in a black and white version and Gottlieb also produced a screenprint version, including touched proofs, a couple of which are located in the Crystal Bridges Museum collection. This subject shows coal miners from Pennsylvania who had lost there jobs over trying to organize labor unions. They are shown here digging illegally from surface seams to try to earn a living.
SOLD

Food Market, Old Style -  GOTTLIEB

Food Market, Old Style
HARRY GOTTLIEB
American, (1894-1993)
Lithograph, 1935-43, edition probably about 25. 10 5/8 x 13 1/2 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is very good other than for subtle spots of foxing here and there in the margins. This is a NYC WPA print but it does not have the stamp. An impression of this print is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
$1,250

The Aquarium -  GRANT

The Aquarium
GORDON GRANT
American, (1875-1962)
Lithograph, 1948, AAA 969, edition 250. 9 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This appealing print was published by Associated American Artists in New York.
$500

Smelting (Smelter) -  GROSS-BETTELHEIM

Smelting (Smelter)
JOLAN GROSS-BETTELHEIM
American, (1900-1972)
Lithograph, circa 1949, edition about 25. 17 1/2 x 14 in. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression of this large, rare print. The margins are full and the condition is fine. There's just a faint suggestion of toning along the extreme outer edges of the sheet. The artist was born in Hungary and lived and worked in the United States from the 1930s-1950s. She was active with the WPA. We've located an impression in Grinnell College art collection (Falconer Gallery) with the title Smeltery.
SOLD

Manhattan Roofs -  GROSS-BETTELHEIM

Manhattan Roofs
JOLAN GROSS-BETTELHEIM
American, (1900-1972)
Drypoint, circa 1940., small edition. 11 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a very fine, rich impression with full margins. The condition is very good. The artist created about forty prints in her lifetime, largely architectual and industrial in nature. Between her time in Cleveland and New York, her best work was created. The is no proper catalogue raisonné of her work.
$2,200

Rugged Terrain -  GURR

Rugged Terrain
LENA GURR
American, (1897-1992)
Silkscreen printed in colors on black paper, circa 1950, edition unknown. 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. Signed and titled in ink. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. Gurr studied at the Art Students League with John Sloan and Maurice Sterne. She was active with the New York Society of Women Artists among other organizations. Her early work was realistic and as time went buy her style became more abstract. She exhibited regularly at the ACA Gallery in New York and had her first solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1932. She was well known as a painter and she also produced lithographs and screenprints.
$650

October in Santa Fe -  HALL

October in Santa Fe
NORMA BASSETT HALL
American, (1890-1957)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1948, Patterson 86, edition probably 100. 9 7/8 x 8 in. Initialed in the block with the artist's monogram. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is fine. This outstanding southwestern image was published by the American Color Print Society in 1948. The artist used seven blocks to complete the image.
$2,850

Navajo Land -  HALL

Navajo Land
NORMA BASSETT HALL
American, (1890-1957)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1947, Patterson 82a, edition 100. 9 3/8 x 14 in. Initialed in the block, lower right, with the artist's monogram. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression with probably the full margins. The condition is very good apart from a few minor traces of an old adhesive here and there in the outer margins not near the image. There's a small paper imperfection just touching the image on the top right side. In the background is Shiprock, a sacred Navajo mountain located in San Juan county, New Mexico. This exceptional woodcut by Hall was originally intended to be printed in an edition of 50, but due to its success, the edition was extended to 100 impressions.
$3,800

Aspen and Spruce -  HALL

Aspen and Spruce
NORMA BASSETT HALL
American, (1890-1957)
Screenprint, 1949, Patterson 92, edition unknown. 11 x 13 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in excellent condition. The margins are full. In addition to her work in the woodcut medium, Hall started marking serigraphs (silkscreens) not long after her arrival in Santa Fe. She probably learned the medium from Louis Ewing who was employed by the New Mexico WPA project in the late 1930s. "Aspen and Spruce" is a very good example of her work in this medium.
$1,500

City Signs -  HARARI

City Signs
HANANIAH HARARI
American, (1912-2000)
Screenprint, 1938, from a small edition printed in 1938. 18 1/8 x 11 7/8 in. Signed, titled and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on cream colored paper with full margins. The condition is excellent. (There's a small repaired tear in the top margin, well away from the image.) Harari was employed by the mural project of the New York City WPA. He was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists Group and studied the screenprint medium with Anthony Velonis. As for City Signs, "Harari exploited the screenprint's suitability for achieving flat planes of colour. He allowed the non-printed areas of the paper support to form an integral part of the composition." (see page 171 of The American Scene; Prints from Hopper to Pollock by Stephen Coppel (2008). City Signs is illustrated and further discussed in this British Museum catalogue. This memorable work is also illustrated in American Screenprints by Reba and Dave Williams, Pg. 35 (1987). This work was included in the seminal exhibition, Artists for Victory, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1942. There was a second edition of 30 printed in 1990. (This was the year the artist died.) These late impressions are somewhat garish and not as desirable as the rare, early ones. Other early impressions are in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art. Our impression is a slight color variant and according to Susan Teller, who worked with the estate, the artist was known to be an experimenter.
SOLD

The Home Sweet Home Cottage, Easthampton -  HASSAM

The Home Sweet Home Cottage, Easthampton
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1921, Cortissoz/Clayton 174, small edition. 10 x 11 3/4 in. Signed in the plate, lower right. Signed in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression in fine condition. The margins are full with tack holes showing on all sides. This house is where the author of the lyrics for the song lived as a child. His name was John Howard Payne. Childe Hassam can certainly be described as the quintessential American impressionist printmaker of the early 20th century. This is an outstanding example of his work as an etcher.
SOLD

The Dutch Door -  HASSAM

The Dutch Door
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1915, Cortissoz/Clayton 49, edition unknown. 8 3/8 x 10 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression of this exemplary American impressionist print. The margins are full. The condition is good apart from professionally reinforced splits along the plate mark on two sides, and, one repaired split from the upper right corner to the margin edge. The scene is the Bush- Holly House at Cos Cob, Ct. The model here is Miss Helen Burke. This structure was built in 1730 and is a National Historic Landmark. It was the center of activity for Connecticut's first Artist Colony.
SOLD

The Arsenal-Central Park -  HASSAM

The Arsenal-Central Park
CHILDE HASSAM
American, (1859-1935)
Etching, 1932, Cortissoz/Clayton 354, edition unknown. 11 1/2 x 6 3/8 in. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right. Signed in pencil and inscribed, "proof selected for Mrs. Lowinson by Childe Hassam." Here we have a fine impression of this very rare print. The margins are small but appear to be full. The condition is very good other then for two small brown paper hinges at the top and a small, subtle smudge or stain below the signature. The Arsenal Building is one of two buildings to predate Central Park. It's located on 64th Street off of Fifth Avenue. It was built between 1847 and 1851. Mrs. Lowinson was a major collector of Hassam's work and her stamp is on the verso (not in Lugt).
$2,800

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