Beacon, East River (New York)
Screenprint, 1947, edition 45. 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. An impression of this dynamic print is in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
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Boy on a Wheel
Screenprint, 1947, edition 45 14 3/8 x 10 1/4 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. A fine impression with full margins. The condition is very good. Robbins was a New Jersey artist who was employed with the New York WPA program. She specialized in artistic screenprints as well as oil paintings. Her 1930s and early 1940s work was primarily realistic urban street scenes and the prints from the late 1940s, as shown here, leaned more to the abstract reminding us of Dorr Bothwell, Edward Landon and others. This print was made from five screens and is so inscribed.
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Bus Girls
Screenprint, 1941, edition 50. 14 1/2 x 11 in. Signed, dated, titled and with "Ed 50." The artist also wrote "Coll 11," which refers to the number of colors employed in the printing. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. Hulda Robbins studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Philadelphia Museum and School of Industrial Art and the Barnes Foundation. Best known for her artistic screenprints, she was part of the pioneering group which included Ruth Chaney, Max Cohn, Ruth Gikow, Philip Hicken and Edward Landon and Riva Helfond, among others. Her prints are found in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery. She moved to New York around 1940 and resided in New Jersey in her later years. Bus Girls is one of her finest prints.
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Cleared Range
Screenprint, 1947, edition 45. 13 x 10 1/4 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. Best known for her highly artistic screenprints, Robbins was part of the pioneering group which included Philip Hicken, Edward Landon, Dorr Bothwell, Ruth Gikow and others. Robbins was a long time resident of New Jersey.
$900

Ferry to Welfare Island, N.Y.C.
Screenprint, 1941, edition 45. 10 1/4 x 14 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. Roosevelt Island in New York was known as Welfare Island from 1921-1971. It was renamed after Franklin D. Roosevelt.
$1,000

Hidden Path
Screenprint, 1949, edition 30. 11 x 16 in. Signed and dated in ink in the image, lower right. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. The edition size is also listed in pencil by the artist. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. Robbins' later work such as this parallels the modernist look of many of her contemporaries. There's a graceful balance between realism and abstraction and in this case it's done with only three colors carefully modulated in intensity.
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Morning's at Seven
Screenprint (in nine colors), 1941, edition 50. 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. This New York/New Jersey printmaker specialized in artistic screenprints which are refined in color and composition. This endearing image brings to mind the work of Raphael Soyer.
$950

The Dreamer
Screenprint, 1947, edition 35. 14 x 10 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. Hulda Robbins studied in Berlin from 1929-31 where she was greatly inspired by the work of Kollwitz. She also studied at the Barnes Foundation. Best known for her artistic screenprints, she's part of the pioneering group which included Ruth Chaney, Max Cohn, Ruth Gikow, Philip Hicken and Edward Landon and Riva Helfond, among others. Her prints have been exhibited at MOMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She resided in New Jersey in her later years and lived to be 100.
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Winter in the City
Screenprint, 1940, edition 43. 14 x 18 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression of the artist's largest screenprint. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There's a faint suggestion of a soft wrinkle in the lower right corner near the image.) This exceptional New York print was done with nineteen colors and is so annotated. Robbins was from New Jersey and this early work is a stellar example of the artistic screenprint done during the WPA period.
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