Callas - WILLIAM S. RICE

Medium: white line woodcut printed in colors

WILLIAM S. RICE
American, (1873-1963)

White line woodcut printed in colors, 1925, from a small edition; 15-20 impressions. 12 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression with wide margins printed on a white textured paper. The condition is fine apart from two exceedingly faint stain lines in the upper corners of the margins. Rice did a few prints of Calla Lilies and this is one of the very best. This print is illustrated on page 52 of "William S. Rice: California Block Prints" by Roberta Rice Treseder. The impression in this book appears to pale in comparison to the one we are offering here. Rice was born in Pennsylvania and later moved to California where he taught printmaking at the Alameda and Oakland public schools. Rice was a true craftsman and he authored two books on the subject of block printing. The white line technique, which he used for making this print, originated in Provincetown, MA. Only one block is needed to make the print. Ex-collection: Reba White Williams, New York.       $5,000

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