Rainy Night (New York)
Drypoint, 1939, Beall 2, edition 25. 9 3/4 x 6 7/8 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Printed by the artist. This is a superb impression of the artist's best print. Wide margins. Very good condition apart from a very faint residue of old tape adhesive on the outer edges of the top part of the sheet.
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Union Square (Large)
Drypoint, 1932, Biran pgs. 58-59; edition unknown. 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. The Union Square section extends from 14th Street on the south to 18th Street on the north, and from Third Avenue east to Sixth Avenue west. This print was made on a sunny day from the artist's studio on the east side of the Square. Mortimer Borne was born in Rypin, Poland in 1902 and emigrated to the US in 1916. He studied at the National Academy of Design, The Art Students League, The Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and with Charles Webster Hawthorne, founder of the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown. Borne taught at The New School for Social Research in New York City from 1945-1967. After moving to Nyack, New York, he established the Tappan Zee Art Center. An impression of this work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
$1,700