Passaconaway
Woodcut printed in colors, 1919, Falk 26, edition perhaps 40. 7 1/2 x 10 in. Signed in the image in pencil, lower right. This is a very fine impression with full margins. The paper is an off-white fibrous wove and the condition is fine. (There's a small paper loss at the upper right corner, away from the image.) Mt. Passaconaway is a scenic 4,000 foot high peak in the White Mountains which is in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
$2,000

The Venture
Woodcut printed in colors, undated (circa 1920), Not listed in Falk/Newport Art Museum; edition 40. 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine impresion of this rare print. The margins are full and the condition is very good. (There's a small area of darkening in the lower right corner of the image and two old paper hinges on the left and right edges, center.) There's an inscription in the bottom margin stating "The Venture $ 15; 40 in the edition; 30 duplicates." This large print is a fine example of her work. Gardiner became a pupil of painter Charles H. Woodbury (1864–1940), who likely introduced her to etching. It was as a woodcut printmaker, however, that Gardiner emerged, exhibiting in Europe and the United States beginning in 1910. She was influenced by the color woodcuts of innovative printmaker Arthur Wesley Dow and by the Japanese prints that had inspired him. SHe studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and later taught there for three decades.
$2,000

The Young Gardener
Woodcut printed in colors, possibly 1927, small edition. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. Signed in pencil, lower left. This is a superb impression printed on Japan paper. The margins are probably full and untrimmed and the condition is excellent. This is one of her finest prints and is quite uncommon. To quote Peter Falk, "Eliza Draper Gardiner was among America's pioneers in color woodblock printing. To be counted among this small group would be a proud claim for most artists, yet Gardiner is further distinguished by her unexpected success in expressing human emotions... Her chosen subject matter was childhood, and in this realm there were few who could claim to be her equal." (See Eliza Draper Gardiner, Master of the Color Woodblock, 1987, unpaginated.)
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