Deer Isle, Maine
Wood engraving, 1941, Boston Public Library 324, edition 212. 6 1/2 x 9 1/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. Here we have a superb impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from slight rippling along the top edge of the sheet. This is a fine example of his work. This print was published by AAA in New York in an edition of 212.
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Haystacks
Wood engraving, 1949, Boston Public Library 462, AAA 1117; edition 250. 6 3/8 x 8 7/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a very fine impression printed on thin wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. Here we have a fine example of Nason's work in the wood engraving medium.
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Louisburg Square, Beacon Hill, Boston
Wood engraving, 1930, Boston Public Library 119, edition 70. 7 x 8 in. Signed in pencil. A fine impression of this uncommon print. Very good condition.
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Near Lyme, Sunset
Wood engraving, 1944, Comstock/Fletcher (BPL) 366, edition 209. 7 x 7 5/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This print appears as the cover illustration of the above cited catalogue raisonné. This major print was published by the Woodcut Society in 1945 and we offer it here, as published, in the original presentation folder with a foreword by Carl Zigrosser.
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Summer Storm
Chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1940, Comstock/Fletcher/BPL 291, edition 90. 5 1/4 x 9 9/16 in. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, "Ed. 90." This is a superb impression printed on thin Japanese paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This is by far one of Nason's best prints; a chiaroscuro wood engraving printed from three blocks; black, grey-green and light olive. This is the first time we have offered this rare work; a modest masterpiece of American landscape wood engraving.
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The Gambrel-Roofed Barn
Chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1947, Boston Public Library 393; edition 90. 5 5/8 x 10 1/8 in. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on thin cream Japan paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. For this outstanding and somewhat experimental print, Nason found it difficult to obtain boxwood blocks so he printed a tint with a copper plate. The black was printed from a woodblock and the olive was printed from the copper plate.
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