Featured Artwork

This is an original hand colored lithograph by American artist Don Freeman.  The title is: "To see the mayor".  This image was created and printed in 1937 in an edition of 25, far fewer were hand colored by the artist.  This image is pencil signed, the image measures 12 1/8X9 inches.  According to the catalog: "On his weekly radio program, Mayor La Guardia encouraged new Yorkers to bring their complaints to him personally.  Freeman drew a group of constituents making appointments with the mayor's secretary"  This lithograph is framed.

This is a fine rich impression of the well known Corot etching Souvenir of Italy, this was first created in 1863, and  printed in three states, including later ones with the publishers information at the bottom edge of the sheet.  This one does not have that so may be an earlier or possibly later  impression.  The image measures 12 9/16X9 3/8 inches, printed on an antique laid type paper.  Very fine condition, matted not framed.  This image appears in the catalog as C.5...

This is a very rare find.  The original pen and ink study for the well known etching, The Sussex by British artist James McBey.  This was one of his best known WWI works.  The subject is the Sinking of the Sussex a British Mail Boat that was torpedoed by a German Submarine in the English Channel.  The Bow was blown off and the wreck beached on the sands near Boulogne.  This pen and ink is hand signed and located as Boulogne and dated 1916.  McBey was on site and did many studies of this scene of destruction.  This is one of the most finished studies done before he created the well known etching.  The image measures 8 1/4X15 1/2 inches.  Drawn on a watermarked laid type sheet.  The drawing needs restoration, foxing marks throughout the sheet.

This is an original mezzotint engraving by Dutch artist Jacob Gole (1660-1737)  This image, The Drawing Lesson was created after the painting by Godfrey Schalcken.  This image identified in the lower border has an image size of 9 3/4X7 7/8 inches.  Printed on an early laid type paper, some foxing but overall very fine condition.  It has a collectors seal in the lower border, "H de t stat".

This is a finely detailed wood engraving by American artist Hendrik Glintenkamp (1887-1946)  The title is: Manhattan construction, Radio City, N.Y.  It was created and printed in 1932, and is numbered 25/100.  Hand signed in pencil lower border and also on the back of the sheet.  Very fine condition.

This is a fine award winning etching by American artist John Taylor Arms.  The title is: Reflections at Finchingfield, it was created and printed in  1938.  From his English Series, this is the 2nd state of two, printed by David Strang in an edition of 100 as inscribed on the etching lower left also hand signed and dated in pencil lower right border.  This large etching measures 7 1/16X17 1/8 inches.  Found in the Fletcher catalog as image number 311.  This image won prices from the Chicago Society of Etchers, the Lotus Club and Northwest Printmakers.  One of his finest images with the  incredible reflection found in the pond below the buildings. ( our photo doesnt show a fraction of the image on the right side, this etching is overall complete with good borders all around.

This is an original etching and aquatint by American artist Kerr Eby.  The subject is Eby's home which he named Driftway, in Westport Connecticut.  This etching is hand signed in pencil and has an image size of 8 3/8X15 3/8 inches.  Printed in an edition of 100 in 1939.  This image appears in the Giardina catalog as image number 196.  Printed on a medium weight laid type paper.

This is an original pencil signed etching by British artist Augustus John (1878-1961)  This etching is titled: Rambling By the Lake, it was created and printed in  1909 this impression is numbered as 23/50.  The image measures 7X5 inches, printed on an antique watermarked laid type paper.  In the lower border its annotated Plate no. 116 and then titled and editioned.  Very nice condition.

This is an incredible rare impression of the well known Panama Canal etching, The Guard Gate, Gatun Lock.  It was created and printed in 1912. Both etching and drypoint, with a rich burr in the shadow areas.   Pencil signed and annotated "imp" meaning that he printed this impression on his own press.  It is printed on a blue toned laid type paper,  Very fine condition, richly printed.  The image measures 12 1/2X9 1/2 inches.  It appears in the Pennell catalog as Wuerth number 627.  The edition is about 60 impressions.

This is a very highly detailed drypoint etching by American artist Walter Tittle, (1883-1966)  This large image, pencil signed measures 10 1/2X15 1/2 inches. Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet, annotated as "Gift of the Artist" lower right border.  Very fine condition, a very rich impression of this rare image.

This is a fine original etching by American artist George Elbert Burr.  The title is Evening, a very atmospheric impression, both pencil signed and titled.  The image measures 12X10 inches.  Printed on a medium weight buff toned laid paper.  Very rich and fine inking on this image.  It appears in the Burr catalog as image number 124.

This is a fine original ink and watercolor painting by American artist Louis Orr.  This view of a Paris Courtyard is signed and dated lower right, Louis Orr, Paris, 1919.  The work measures 19 1/2X12 1/2 inches.  Very nice condition, rich color.  This painting is framed.  Orr was one of the most famous American artists in France.  He worked as an illustrator for the French Army in World War I...His works are in the Louvre.

This is a fine hand colored etching by British artist Elyse Ashe Lord.  The title is Kite Flying, created and printed circa 1925.   This pencil signed impression was sold by Arthur Ackermann in New York.  This came to us in the original Asian style frame with the Ackermann label on the back.  The image measures 12 7/8X18 inches.  The overall frame measures 20X26 inches.  Very fine condition.  Printed on a thin Japan type sheet.

This is a fine original etching by British artist Gerald Brockhurst, The title is La Tresse, a portrait of his wife Anais done in 1926.  This image is pencil signed and has an image size of 8 3/8X 6 7/8 inches.  Cat. Fletcher 56.  Nicely framed with archival materials.

This is an original etching and aquatint by American artist Kerr Eby.  The title is Refugees, a study from his series of WWI images that he created as a War Artist.  This pencil signed impression has an image size of 9 15/16X14 7/8 inches.  This impression was last sold by Keppel in New York,  A dramatic rich impression printed by the artist himself.