Country Store
Etching, 1929, Duffy 106, edition 50 (40 printed). 5 7/8 x 9 in. Signed and numbered ("50") in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on thin Japanese paper. The margins appear to be full. The condition is fine apart from old hinges on the top corners of the sheet, verso. The location which inspired this print is Granville, MA which is not far from where the artist was born (Springfield, MA).
$1,500

District Schoolhouse
Woodcut, 1926, Duffy 18; edition 50 (25 printed). 17 1/4 x 12 3/4 in. Signed in the block, lower left. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on fibrous japan paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine apart from minor wrinkles here and there along the extreme margin edges. This large, early work is a powerful example of Cook's skills in the woodcut medium. Consider it a precursor to many fine works to come.
$1,850

Eagle Dance
Wood engraving, 1942, Duffy 201, edition 200. 10 x 8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a superb impression in fine condition. The margins are full. This print was published by the Woodcut Society of Kansas City. The print is still in the folder it was published in and it's attached at the two top corners, verso. Duffy cites ten impressions in museum collections.
$1,800

Engine Room
Lithograph, 1930, Duffy 128; edition 75 (only 35 were printed). 10 1/8 x 12 1/8 in. Signed dated and numbered (75) in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on white wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This is the engine room of the freighter SS Exhibitor. The Cooks traveled on this ship to Africa and Europe in 1929. Impressions of this work are found in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
SOLD

Financial District
Lithograph, 1931, Duffy 155, edition 75. 13 3/8 x 10 3/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. Inscribed by Cook, "to George Miller." This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. (There's a small one inch pen line at the bottom margin.) This outstanding New York image is possibly an impression apart from the edition of 75 as it's not numbered below the image. George Miller printed most of Cook's lithographs at his workshop in New York. His workshop was located at 3 East 14th Street at that time.
$9,500

Giant's Thumb (Monument Rock)
Woodcut, 1926, Duffy 23, edition 50 (30 printed). 14 x 8 1/16 in. Signed in the block. Signed in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This dramatic woodcut depicts this historic rock formation located in Monument Valley which covers Utah and Arizona.
$1,400

Lower Manhattan
Lithograph, 1930, Duffy 132, edition 75 (35 were printed). 14 x 10 in. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil "75." This is a superb impression with full margins. The print is also dedicated to Erhard Weyhe (1883-1972) who founded Weyhe Gallery in NY on Lexington Avenue in 1919. This is one of Cook's stellar New York lithographs and a potent statement about the rise of modernism against the background of New York City in the 1930s.
SOLD

Mexican Family
Lithograph, 1940, Duffy 200, edition 250. 10 1/4 x 13 3/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with wide margins. The condition is excellent. This endearing image was published by Associated American Artists in New York.
$750

New England Church
Wood engraving, 1931, Duffy 161, edition 50. 11 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a very fine impression on a cream Japanese paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine apart from old hinges on the verso at top, well away from the image. The church depicted here is the First Congregational Church in Springfield, MA. This historic church was built in 1819. There were actually three church buildings at this site before the 1819 structure, the first built in 1637.
SOLD

New York Night
Lithograph, 1931, Duffy 162, edition 75 (35 printed). 10 x 12 in. Signed on the stone, lower left. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression with full margins. The sheet shows a deckle edge on all sides. The condition is excellent. This stellar lithograph ranks among his finest views of the New York skyline.
$9,000

Pedro
Aquatint and soft ground etching, 1933, Duffy 180, edition 40. 12 x 7 in. Signed, dated and numbered "32" in pencil. This is a superb impression with probably the full margins. (The top margin is a bit narrow.) Fine condition. This print is listed in seven museum collections. Cook produced a few such portraits while he was in Mexico. He had been awarded the first of two Guggenheim Fellowships and lived in Taxco for a time. He returned to the US in mid 1933.
$1,400

Sun and Desolation
Woodcut, 1926, Duffy 34, edition 50. 9 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. Signed in the block, lower right. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on thin, cream japan paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This large work was probably done in Maine where he spent the summer of 1926.
$1,500

Wood Interior
Wood engraving, 1931, Duffy 171, edition about 150 (?) 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on thin light cream wove paper. The margins are wide and the condition is fine. (There's just the faintest suggestion of toning within an earlier mat opening.) This is from the deluxe edition of 100 from The Checkerboard published by Weyhe Gallery in 1931.
SOLD