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.
$900

Backyard Corner
Lithograph, 1930, Winnan 80, edition 100. 10 3/8 x 12 7/8 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. this is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This stellar 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.
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Backyard Corner
Lithograph, 1930, Winnan 80, edition 100. 10 3/8 x 12 7/8 in. Initialed on the stone "w" lower right. Signed and dated in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from slight waviness in the outer margins and a little wrinkle in the lower right corner. This work was printed in New York by George Miller. 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. This impression was deaccessioned from the Minneapolis Institute of Art and it previously came from the estate of the artist.
$2,800

Christmas in New York
Linoleum cut, 1928, Winnan 60 (ii/II), edition 25. 8 x 6 1/2 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. this is a fine, rich impression printed on a thin cream laid paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from a wrinkle in the lower right corner well away from the image. Two studies for this print are in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
$1,250

Easter Morning (Pussy Willows; Radiator)
Lithograph, 1926, Winnan 20, edition 100. 15 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. This large, early print is arguably her best early lithograph. This was a breakthrough year for her printmaking. She still produced a few using sandpaper but by now she had largely switched to zinc plates. George Miller was her primary printer.
$2,400

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

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.
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Franklin Stove
Wood engraving, 1927, Winnan 51 (iii/III), edition 100. 7 x 5 in. Signed in the block, upper right corner. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, dark impression printed on thin cream laid paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine other than for a minor wrinkle on the edge of the sheet, upper right. Fourteen impressions are cited in museum collections including the Rijksmuseum.
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Grandma's Parlor
Lithograph, 1930, Winnan 78, edition 100. 10 1/2 x 13 1/8 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. There are two study drawings for this print in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Eleven impressions are cited by Winnan in museum collections and George Miller printed the edition.
$1,800

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 fine. "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.
$3,800

Snow Drifts (Bridge in Winter)
Lithograph, 1934, Winnan 104, edition 50. 9 1/4 x 7 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression with mostly full margins (lacking a small portion of the upper right corner of the sheet). The condition is fine overall apart from old hinges, verso, at the four corners and a little smudge in the lower left margin. This impression was deaccessioned from the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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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.
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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.
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The Forge
Lithograph, 1932, Winnan 96 (ii/II), edition 100. 11 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. Signed, titled and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. (There are two small, cloth hinges at the top corners, recto.) 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. There's a brush and black ink study for this print in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They received a large gift of prints, drawings and related objects from the estate of the artist in 1952.
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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.
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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.
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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 stellar print. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. Seventy-five impressions were printed on the zinc plate by George Miller. The total edition was apparently not printed. Two study drawings are in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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