Wood Engravings

Wood Engraving, image size 6 3/4 x 5 inches, 1889, pencil signed l.r. "T. Johnson" and plate signed l.l. "T. Johnson 89".

Wood engraving, image size 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches, 1936, unsigned.

This is a very dramatic triptych wood engraving, the overall image size is 6 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches, 1977, pencil signed. A verse accompanies the images "I threw away the memory of the lash... Yawning hells of time... Small fields where children wait..."

A very cool triptych wood engraving by Barry Moser, image size 6 x 12 1/2 inches, 1977, pencil signed. This triptych is titled "The Lady and the Merman" and is accompanied by the following verse "He sailed off on his great ship... She sat there still as the rock... Up from the depths came the merman..."

A beautiful miniature New England landscape with a pair of grouse by Peterborough, NH artist Nora S. Unwin. Wood engraving on Japan paper, image size 2 3/8 x 3 1/2 inches, published in 1947 for Kiernan's 'Footnotes on Nature', cat: McGoldrick-149, a small edition of 12 impressions, pencil signed, numbered and titled, framed. Nora Unwin grew up in England and studied art with Leon Underwood, then at the Kingston School of Art and the Royal College of Art before moving to the United States in the 1940s, settling in Wellesley, MA and Peterborough, NH.

Wood engraving on Japan paper, image size 7 3/8 x 5 3/8 inches, 1931, from the "Sonnet Series," pencil signed.

Wood Engraving, image size 9 x 15 inches, edition of 250, pencil signed l.r. "Lynd Ward", titled l.l. "Historic Christ Church at Middletown", AAA print.

This 1985 image by Barry Moser titled "Homestake Foundry" measures 4 x 7 inches, in an edition of 350 and is pencil signed by the artist on the lower margin. This is a series of 25 images portraying gold mining activities from America, Africa and Australia. Moser, from Tennessee, became a graphic artist and printmaker, studying under Leonard Baskin and Jack Coughlin. In 1990 he became the "head of studio art" at the Rhode Island School of Design. His prints have been exhibited at the Berkshire Museum, the Los Angeles National Print Show and the Library of Congress National Print Exhibit.

Wood engraving, image size 8 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches, c. 1890, plate signed.

Wood engraving, image size 6 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches, c. 1920s-1930s, pencil signed, titled at bottom of the sheet.