Wood Engravings

A very detailed wood engraving by the little known artist T. Johnson, image size 6 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches, pencil signed l.r., after Rembrandt.

Wood engraving, 8 5/8 x 6 3/8 inches, c. 1900, pencil signed.

Wood Engraving, image size 13 1/2 x 9 inches, 1874, published in Harper's Weekly, plate signed l.r. "Th. Nast", printed l.c. "WHO OUGHT TO HAVE THE CARDINAL'S HAT IN AMERICA?"

This wood engraving by John Buckland Wright measures 5 1/4 x 7 inches, published in 1917 in an edition of 30. It is pencil signed, dated and numbered on the lower margin. Wright help to found "Atelier 17" in Paris, an experimental workshop for the graphic arts in 1927.

This woodcut by Leonard Baskin measures 2 x 3 inches and was published in 1949. This image is not shown in the Fern and O'Sullivan catalogue but we think it is listed as #35. After serving in the Navy during WWII, Baskin began his career as a printmaker in the late 1940s, beginning with simple linocuts, but quickly progressing to dramatic wood engravings, then later etchings and lithographs.

Wood Engraving after a painting by Ben Shahn, image size 12 x 15 inches, 1954, cat: O'Sullivan-251, edition of 400, hand signed in ink by Ben Shahn, pencil signed, titled and numbered by Baskin.

Wood Engraving, image size 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 1910, pencil signed l.r. "Timothy Cole", plate signed l.r. "T. Cole Sc. 1910" and "Eugene Carriere" l.l., after a painting by Carriere.

Wood engraving, image size 6 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 1913, plate signed and dated.

Wood engraving, image size 3 7/8 x 5 inches, pencil signed.

Chiaroscuro wood engraving with colors, image size 7 1/4 x 6 7/8 inches, c. 1940, plate signed.