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Airtight Stove Wood engraving, 1927-1933, Winnans 49 (ix/IX), edition 250. 4 7/8 x 3 5/8 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. The edition was printed in 1934 by the International Print Guild for distribution to their membership. In the lower right corner, there's a vague outline of a cat's face. $1,000 |
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Backyard Corner Lithograph, 1930, Winnan 80, edition 100. 10 3/8 x 12 7/8 in. Initialed on the stone, lower right. Signed and dated in pencil and with a pencil dedication on the left side, "For Earl from Wanda." This is a fine impression of this stellar work. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This work was printed by George Miller in New York. Winnan cites fifteen impressions in museum collections around the world including the Kupferstichkabinett in Basel, The British Museum in London and the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow. SOLD |
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Evening Lithograph, 1928, Winnan 62, edition 100. 8 x 11 7/8 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from a soft crease in the lower left corner of the margins and two discreet archival hinges on the top corners, recto. The edition was printed by George Miller in New York and nineteen impressions are located in museum collections. This print is illustrated and discussed in Paths to the Press, Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960, by Elizabeth Seaton, et al. (2006), pages 130-131. $1,850 |
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Fireplace Lithograph, 1930, Winnan 79, edition 100. 10 7/8 x 8 1/2 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. The edition was printed on a zinc plate by George Miller in New York. The scene is a country home in West Cornwall, Ct. SOLD |
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Fireplace Lithograph, 1930, Winnan 79, edition 100. 11 x 8 1/2 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine,
luminous impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This charming scene depicts a fireplace at a home in West Cornwall, CT. Many impressions are cited in museum collections. The edition was printed by George Miller in New York. $1,750 |
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Grandma's Parlor Lithograph, 1930, Winnan 78, edition 100. 10 1/2 x 13 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression in very good condition. The margins are full. (Some discoloration in the margins and a repair in the lower margin well away from the image.) The raisonne lists more than ten museums as owners of this work. SOLD |
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Gumbo Lane Lithograph, 1927, Winnan 36, edition 100. 10 x 12 3/4 in. Initialed "w" on the stone, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. "This slightly surreal scene captures Wanda Gág’s rapture over the garden at her rural retreat Tumble Timbers. She nicknamed the garden Gumbo Lane. It produced nothing more exotic than lima beans and Swiss chard, but to Gág it was something primal and passionately alive. The plants sprout eyes, the wooden posts rear up like snakes, and the grape arbor appears ready to charge. The little building at upper right was the outhouse for Tumble Timbers..." (Tumble Timbers was located in rural Glen Gardner, New Jersey.) The above quotation is from the entry for this print on the Mineapolis Institute of Art's website. It was written by Marla Kinney. This outstanding print was selected as one of the Fifty Prints of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. $3,500 |
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Moonlight Lithograph, 1926, Winnan 26, edition 60. 14 x 16 7/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a superb, rich impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from some wrinkles in the upper left corner margin outside of the image. The edition was printed by George Miller from a zinc plate and ten impressions are listed in museum collections. This large, poetic work is a dramatic study in darks and lights and shows the artist as a master of lithography. SOLD |
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Progress Lithograph, 1936, Winnan 110 (ii/II); edition 50. 8 1/8 x 11 3/4 in. Signed and dated in pencil. Here we have a superb impression with full margins. (The paper bears a RIVES watermark.) The condition is fine apart from two small tan paper hinges at the top corners, recto. Fifteen impressions are cited in museum collections. This print is somewhat unique for Gag and it shows the rise of a more urban America with advertising billboards and other assorted signs. So many of her prints are rural in nature depicting landscapes, country homes, flowers and intimate home settings. This memorable image is certainly meant to be a social commentary on Gag's part. $3,500 |
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Spinning Wheel Wood engraving, 1928, Winnan 57 (iii/III), edition 100. 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression on light cream wove paper with substantial margins (possibly full). The condition is fine. This impression is from the signed edition of 100 printed by the Spiral Press. There was an additional unsigned edition of 2,000 on card stock for a Weyhe Gallery invitation to a show of Gag's work. $700 |
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Spring in the Garden (Spring II) Lithograph, 1927, Winnan 38, edition 100. 10 x 13 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on a wove paper with a BFK (RIVES) watermark. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. George Miller was the printer and the zinc plate in in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fifteen impressions are cited in museum collections and this print is the cover illustration for the catalogue raisonné. $3,500 |
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The Forge Lithograph, 1932, Winnan 96 (ii/II), edition 100. 11 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. Signed and dated in pencil. this is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. The edition was printed on a zinc plate by George Miller in New York. Sixteen impressions are cited in museum collections. The scene for this print is a Blacksmith's shop in Carversville, PA. $2,250 |
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Uncle Frank's Workshop Lithograph, 1935, Winnan 106, edition 50. 13 x 9 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. The edition was printed on a zinc plate by George Miller in New York. A preliminary drawing is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. $1,400 |
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Vase of Flowers Etching, 1927, Winnan 35 (ii/II), edition 25. 7 x 4 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed with tone. The margins are probably full and the condition is fine. (There's subtle soft wrinkle on the left margin and two small prior archival hinges on the top, recto.) The printer of this edition is unknown however some impressions were printed by Howard Cook and Carl Zigrosser according to Winnan. There was only one impression taken of the first state. $500 |
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Wagon House Lithograph on zinc plate, 1929, Winnan 74, edition 75. 12 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. This work is found in multiple museum collections and there's a preliminary drawing in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (The scene is Gaylordsville, Connecticut.) SOLD |
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Winter Twilight Lithograph, 1927, Winnan 39, edition 100. 10 x 12 5/8 in. Signed on the stone, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression of this outstanding print. The margins are full and the condition is fine. The edition was printed by George Miller on a zinc plate. Nine impressions are cited in museum collections. SOLD |
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