20th Century American Prints

A very fine original etching of General Castro's adobe house in San Juan Baptista, California. Image size 5 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches, 1920, pencil signed and titled.

This is an original pencil signed and titled wood block print by Donald Witherstine.  The title is: Messengers of the Sea, created circa  1940 in an edition of 100.  The image measures 9 3/4X9 5/8 inches.  

Lithograph, image size 9 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches, c. 1930, pencil signed.

This is an original hand signed etching by American artist leslie Cope (1913-2002)  The title lower left is Going Home, it was created and printed in 1949.  The image measures 8X9 3/4 inches, printed on a medium weight wove type paper.  Cope was a member of the Prairie Printmakers Group.

This Sears Gallagher etching measures 13 x 6 inches and is pencil signed on the lower left margin. A ghostly image of the Boston Custom House Tower looms in the background contrasting with a much more detailed foreground of city dwellers going about their daily routine.

Image size: 10 1/2X8 1/4",pencil signed,etching

Wood Engraving, image size: 8 11/16 x 6 13/16 inches, pencil signed and titled

This image measures 6 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches and is pencil signed, c.1930. Philip Kappel was born in Hartford, Connecticut and educated at the Pratt Institute in New York. He was employed as an artist for several shipping companies and much of his work documents these ships and their sailors. At age 26, Kappel was the youngest person ever admitted to "Who's Who in America."

This is an original etching by Russian American artist Abbo Ostrowsky. This etching is titled: "Croton on Hudson", circa 1931, this etching has an image size of: 10X7 3/8 inches. This is a view of the Hudson river in New York. Pencil signed lower right, nice use of plate tone to show detail in the street.

lithograph ,10 1/2X13 1/2",pencil signed

This etching by Arthur C. Taylor measures 5 x 7 inches. Printed in an edition of 100, on medium weight paper with wide margins, it is plate signed and also pencil signed, title and numbered on the lower margin. A very atmospheric image created by Taylors' placement of a richly inked wooded foreground illuminated by the light filtering through the trees in the background.

Etching,15/30,Image size 7 5/8X10",pencil signed and editioned

This is a rare etching by American artist Edward J. Balthazar.  The subject is: The Wadsworth Barn in Hartford.  Created and printed in 1945.  Hand signed in pencil and editioned as 6/50.  The image measures 8 3/4X 11 7/8 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.  This image was later recreated and so as the 1949 Presentation print published by the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.

This is a fine etching by American artist Edward J. Balthazar.  The subject is: The Wadsworth Barn in Hartford.  Created and printed in 1945.  Hand signed in pencil and editioned as 24/100  The image measures 7 7/8X 10 1/4 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.  This image was  the 1949 Presentation print published by the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.  An early larger image was created a few years earlier.

Etching, image size 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, pencil signed