Industrial Accident
Lithograph, 1942, edition 20. 17 x 12 1/4 in. Signed on the stone and signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in excellent condition. The margins are full. Volz was born and raised in Zurich, Switzerland, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1933. He settled in the San Francisco Bay area where he was he was active in the Northern California Art Project. He became something of a solitary figure and his printed social commentary always involved the power of geometric abstraction. His editions are small.
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Picket Line
Lithograph, 1938, edition 40. 10 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. Signed on the stone, lower right. Signed in pencil and inscribed "artist proof." This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from a tiny pinhole near the "proof" inscription. Volz was born in Zurich and came to the US in 1933. He was living in the San Francisco Bay area and became a citizen in 1938. This stellar print was done along the San Francisco docks and impressions are located at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.
$1,000