Navajo Land
NORMA BASSETT HALL
American, (1890-1957)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1947, Patterson 82a, edition 100. 9 3/8 x 14 in. Initialed in the block, lower right, with the artist's monogram. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression with probably the full margins. The condition is very good apart from a few minor traces of an old adhesive here and there in the outer margins not near the image. There's a small paper imperfection just touching the image on the top right side. In the background is Shiprock, a sacred Navajo mountain located in San Juan county, New Mexico. This exceptional woodcut by Hall was originally intended to be printed in an edition of 50, but due to its success, the edition was extended to 100 impressions.
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Iris
FRANCES MARIAN HEBERT
American, (1899-1960)
White line color woodcut, undated (1920s), edition unknown. 8 x 7 in. Initialed in the block, lower right. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression printed with vibrant colors on a very thin, fibrous oriental paper. The margins are full. There are remnants of old hinges at the edges and foxing showing in the margins only. Hebert was a west coast artist and studied with Frank Morley Fletcher and Edward Borein at what is now the University of California, Santa Barbara. She exhibited widely during the 1930s largely in west coast shows. From the collection of Reba White Williams, NY.
$1,300

Dancer
JAN HEIJSE
Dutch, (1882-1954)
Woodcut, undated (probably about 1930), editon unknown. 7 7/8 x 4 1/4 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression printed on fibrous Japanese paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There are two original brown paper hinges at the top corners of the margins, away from the image.) Heijse lived and worked in Middelburg and Amsterdam. He was a student of C. J. W. Nuijs and studied at the Rijksakademie. He also took lessons from Jan Toorop. Heijse was known as a painter and illustrator and his woodcuts are quite well done with a flair for compelling design.
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Hollyhocks
EDNA BOIES HOPKINS
American, (1872-1937)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1910-13, Vasseur 38, edition unknown. 11 x 7 1/4 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a very good impression with full margins. The condition is fine other than for a small pinhole below the image, center. Four impressions of this lovely print are cited in the catalogue raisonne, including this one. This is a rare print.
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A Mexican Coquette
HELEN HYDE
American, (1868-1919)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1912, Mason 95, edition unknown. 10 1/4 in. in diameter. Signed and dated in the block, left side. Signed and numbered in pencil, lower right. This is a superb impression on thin Japanese paper. The margins are probably full and the condition is fine. This print is illustrated and discussed in A Spectrum of Innovation, Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960 (1990) by David Acton, pages 62-63. It's also illustrated on page 106 of Japonism comes to America (1990) by Julia Meech and Gabriel Weisberg.
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The Church Tower
GEORGE S. INGLES
British, (1874-1940(?))
Woodcut printed in colors, undated (probably 1920s), edition 100. 12 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. Signed, numbered and titled in pencil. This a a fine, beautifully-inked impression printed on cream laid paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. Ingles studied at the Royal College of Art in London. In the tradition of Fletcher, Seaby, Platt and others, Ingles produced a number of well-crafted woodcuts in an arts and crafts style.
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La Personne Récompensée
FLORIS JESPERS
Belgian, (1889-1965)
Linocut, 1919, Buyck 204f, edition unknown but probably 50 or fewer. 23 1/2 x 12 3/8 in. Bearing an ink signature and dated lower left "5/9/19." This large and remarkable linocut was published in the portfolio "Six Linos" (1919). Jespers produced these works early in his career and they are quite rare. A fine impression with full margins. Mounted to a support sheet. Printed on thin wove paper. Minor tears with just one touching the image at top. Jespers has been the subject of several retrospectives including a 1989 show at the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp. This print is beautifully framed.
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Fishing Fun
LAWRENCE A. JONES
African American, (1910-1996)
Woodcut, 1971, edition 25. 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression of this rare print. The paper is a thin Japanese and the margins are full. The condition is fine. (There's a small stain in the lower left corner of the margin and a few traces of wrinkles in the margins only.) Jones was born in Lynchburg, VA and was the oldest of twelve siblings. Due to Jim Crow laws, Jones was not able to attend art school in Virginia and instead went to the Art Institute of Chicago to study. He was supported financially as an upcoming artist by the community and studied in Chicago from 1934-36. There he met Charles White and Eldzier Cortor. Jones was active in creating the first black art center in Chicago called the South Side Community Art Center. in 1949, Jones moved to Georgia to start a new art department at Jackson State University. He remained there working until the 1970s.
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Abstraction in Red and Black
JAN JORDENS
Dutch, (1883-1962)
Linoleum cut, 1961, edition unknown. 6 1/4 x 6 5/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression with probably the full margins. We have two old hinges showing at the top corners of the sheet and a handling crease in the lower left margin, away from the image. In 1916, he moved with his family to Groningen and joined de Ploeg movement in 1918 when it was founded. He was a constantly innovative artist and he introduced free expression in his art classes in the early 1920s. He admired the prints of Jan Wiegers and later in his career Jordens exhibited in Paris. The Groninger Museum organized a joint exhibition of his work with Jan van der Zee in 1958.
$800

House and Tree
JAN JORDENS
Dutch, (1883-1962)
Woodcut, 1955, unknown. 9 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. Signed and dated in ink. This is a fine impression printed on light cream laid paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. In 1916, he moved with his family to Groningen and joined the de Ploeg movement in 1918, when it was founded. He was a constantly innovative artist and he introduced free expression in his art classes in the early 1920s. He admired the prints of Jan Wiegers and later in his career Jordens exhibited in Paris. The Groninger Museum organized a joint exhibition of his work with Jan van der Zee in 1958. It's important to note that early works by Jordens, from the 1920s-1940s, are extremely hard to come by.
$650

La Sardinerie (Les Sables-d'Olonne)
AMEDEE JOYAU
French, (1872-1913)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1905-06, Curtis 57, edition 50. 10 15/16 x 7 3/4 in. Signed in ink in the lower left. Signed with a monogram in the block, lower right. This is a fine, luminous impression printed on thin Japanese paper. The margins are full. The condition is very good apart from very faint toning within an earlier mat opening. Joyau produced some wonderful woodcuts of his native France and he was influenced by the better known Henri Rivière. He was an etcher and painter and made about fifty woodcuts during his short career. Joyau saw an exhibition of Japanese woodcuts in about 1894 which proved to be an ongoing inspiration. He exhibited his woodcuts with the Société de la Gravure sur Bois (S.G.B.O.) and spent much of his time in Fontainbleau which provided a rich source of subject matter for his work. Les Sables-d'Olonne, the location for this print, is a seaside resort and fishing community on the coast of western France.
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A Woods Road
JANE BERRY JUDSON
American, (1865-1935)
Woodcut printed in color, circa 1920, edition 100. 6 x 8 in. Signed, numbered and titled in pencil. this is a superb impression with rich colors. The margins appear to be full and the condition is fine. Judson was from New York and studied at Pratt Institute. She studied block printing with Allen Seaby in England. Many of her landscape woodcuts were done in rural New York.
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Diver
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1931, Burne Jones/Rightmire 88, edition 150. 7 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on off-white wove paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from the very faintest suggestion of light toning within an earlier mat opening. This was one of twelve prints by Kent used in a national advertising campaign for the American Car and Foundry Company. There's a variant title for this work; "Masthead Diver."
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Home Port
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1931, Burne-Jones 62, edition 150. 6 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from a soft wrinkle or paper imperfection in the right side of the margin, an inch away from the image. The cancelled block is in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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Starry Night
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1933, Burne Jones/Rightmire 103, edition 1,750. 7 x 5 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on a cream wove paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from two old hinges, verso, which are visible from the front. This print was used as a prescription premium by the Literary Guild of America book club.
$1,650

Girl on Cliff
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1930, Burne Jones / Rightmire 57; edition 1,750. 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. This very appealing work was published by the Literary Guild of America and given to new subscribers to the Book Club. Kent received fifty impressions for his efforts. In spite of the large edition this print is not all that common.
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Visitor
FLORENCE KENT
American, (1917-1989)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1940, edition unknown. 11 x 8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. Occasional soiling and a few fox marks primarily in the upper margin. This WPA print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was gifted to them by the New York WPA Administration in 1943. Kent was a native New Yorker raised in the Bronx. She studied at Cooper Union and the New School for Social Research.
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Drifter
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1933, Burne Jones / Rightmire 92, edition 250. 5 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on thin cream wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There's just a very faint suggestion of toning within an old mat opening.) The cancelled block is in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
$4,500

Bowsprit
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1930, Burne Jones/Rightmire 56; edition 120. 5 3/8 x 7 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This was one of twelve prints by Kent used in a national advertising campaign for the American Car and Foundry Company. The catalogue cites nine impressions in museum collections.
$4,500

Home Port
ROCKWELL KENT
American, (1881-1940)
Wood engraving, 1931, Burne Jones/Rightmire 62; edition 150. 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression with full margins. The paper bears a partial acorn or floral watermark. There a slight bit of light toning and a paper imperfection in the right edge of the sheet, far away from the image. As it states in the catalogue, "An imperfection in the paper near the left hand of the sailor was found on all copies examined. The area was inked in by hand after printing." This important print was commissioned by the advertising agency Calkins and Holden for their client, the American Car and Foundry Company. The cancelled block is in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
$7,500