Recent Acquisitions

This is an original early etching by American artist Joseph Pennell.  The title is: Covered Street, Florence, it was created and printed in 1883 in a very small edition.  Hand signed by the artist in his early style of signature that he used in the 1880's.  This image measures 10X7 inches, printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.  Extensive use of plate tone in this impression.  The image appears in the Wuerth catalog as image number 58.

This is an original pencil signed etching by Robert Swain Gifford.  The title is Landscape, a composition done after a painting by French master J.B.C. Corot.  Created and printed in 1886 this image measures 5X7 1/4 inches, printed on a medium weight buff toned laid type paper.

THis is an original pencil signed etching by American artist Robert Swain Gifford.  The title is A Cloudy Day, after a composition by Jules Dupre.  Created and printed in 1886, this image measures 7X5 1/2 inches.  Printed on a medium weight laid type sheet of buff toned paper.

This is an original pencil signed etching by American artist Lester G Hornby.  This etching created and printed in 1907, one of his series of Paris scenes that he created from his travels in France.  This image is titled Jour De Marche, St. Medard.  Numbered as 2/50.  This image has the stamp of the Lester G. Hornby Collection.  The image measures9X5 3/4 inches.  Printed on a medium weight "Whittman" laid type paper.

This is an original plate signed and dated etching from French artist Adolphe Appian.  The title is The Port of Monaco.  It was created and printed in 1873.  The image measures 5 1/4X8 3/8 inches.  Printed on a Chine Collet adhered to a thick wove type sheet.  The image is in very good shape, the bordering back board has some thinning to the sheet in areas well away from the image area.

This is a scarce original pencil signed mezzotint by American artist James D. Smillie.  The title is Double Hollyhocks, it was created and printed in 1889.  The image measures 8 5/8X5 5/8 inches.  Printed on a chine collet adhered to a thicker wove type sheet.  A beautiful impression of this very rare mezzotint by Smillie.

This is an original lithograph by American artist Mabel Wellington Jack.  The title is Farm Lad, it was created for the WPA, The Federal Art Project N.Y.C...  Hand signed and titled in pencil, wpa stamp lower left.  The image measures 13X9 7/8 inches.  Printed on a medium weight Rives BFK wove type paper.  A very rich impression of this scarce image.  A New York born artist who was active on the NYC-WPA.. Her work is in many museums including the Smithsonian.

This is an original plate signed etching by American artist Peter Moran.  The title is: On the Cliffs, Normandy,1885.  The image measures 4 5/8X6 3/8 inches, Signed in the plate lower right.  Printed on a medium weight laid type sheet.  This image was taken from the original painting created by Emile Van Marcke.

This is a fine early impression of the etching by Adolphe Appian titled: Un Jour d'automne a Artemare .  Created and printed in 1871.  This impression was done before the later type setting with titled and publisher printed on the bottom border.  This image appears in the Curtis catalog as image number 32.  The image measures 4 3/4X8 1/4 inches.  Signed upper right within the plate.  A rich impression on a chine applique sheet adhered to a thicker she of wove type paper.  This impression was the first state of four. i/iv.

This is an original etching by French artist Charles Francois Daubigny, the image is plate signed and titled: Le Marais, (The Marsh)  it was created and printed in 1851  and is from the third state of six, iii/vi  This image appears in the Frankel catalog as image number D-84.  A fine impression on a chine collet adhered to a thicker wove type base sheet.  This is the edition with title, artist and printer in the lower border.  

This is a fine portrait of Beethoven by American artist Isac Friedlander.  Created and printed in 1941, hand signed and titled in pencil.  The image measures 10X9 inches, printed on a medium weight wove type paper.

This is a fine early state of the well known etching, Egham Lock,  created and printed in 1859 by British artist Sir Francis Seymour Haden.  This image measures 5 15/16X8 7/8 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.  this image appears in the Schneiderman catalog as image number 21   iii/x.  Hand signed in pencil.   A fine impression in great condition.

This is an original etching by American Rural artist John E. Costigan.  This image is titled in pencil "Workers of the Soil", created and printed in 1932 in an edition of 100.  The image measures 8 1/4X13 3/4 inches, printed on a wove type sheet, hand signed in pencil.  Very fine condition.  Costigan spent 50 years working as a working farmer.

This is an original pencil signed etching and drypoint by American artist William Bicknell.  This view of the Provincetown Dunes was created and printed in 1927,  The image measures 7X9 3/4 inches, printed on a wove type sheet with a floral watermark.  "Known locally as 'The Etcher' William Bicknell's Provincetown prints have become part of the town's historical record.   Works in the gallery include a view of the first Provincetown Playhouse (at Race Point), portraits of artists at work on the dunes".

This is an original etching by American artist Kenneth Hayes Miller.  The image is titled: Leaving the Shop, created and printed in 1929 in an edition of 20.  The image measures 7 7/8X9 7/8  inches, printed on a wove type sheet.  "He exhibited four works in the 1913 Armory Show and had his first one-person exhibition in 1916 at the Macbeth Gallery, New York. In 1929 he was included in the Museum of Modern Art's first exhibition of works by American artists, "Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans." He became an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1942,"