Lighthouse (Provincetown)
White line color woodcut, 1952, edition 7 plus some later impressions. 11 x 13 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. Here we have a fine impression of this exceptional work by the artist. The condition is fine apart from a very faint suggestion of light toning within an earlier mat opening. The margins are full and the tack holes from the printing process are clearly evident along the right edge. On the verso in pencil she wrote: "Block 6, Print 7, Ferol S. Warthen, Watercolor Woodblock spoon printed." Warthen studied at the Art Student's League in New York from 1911-1912. She later studied with Karl Knaths in Washington, DC and at the suggestion of Angele Myrer, a close friend, Warthen started spending her summers in Provincetown and opened a studio on Commercial Street. She met and studied with Blanche Lazzell. It was during the 1950s that her woodblock prints garnered wide attention from museums and collectors and this enthusiasm continued for decades. This print is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
$6,000