Prints

Etching on thin Japan,1900,image size 6 7/8X4 1/2",pencil signed

Drypoint etching, image size 8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches, 1946, pencil signed and numbered 51/110, published by the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français.

This is a very fine impressionistic portrait of the Ballet Dancer Carrina Ari (1897-1970)  This etching was created and printed by German artist Ernest Oppler.  The image circa 1920 is pencil signed and numbered 79/120.  The image measures 9 3/8X6 inchesm printed on a laid type sheet, medium weight.  Oppler was a well known artist whose main subjects were the Ballet, Modern Dance and the Stage.

Plate size 9 x 9 7/8 inches on 10 7/8 x 11 7/8 wove-type paper C 1919. Pencil signed. Artist blindstamp, plate initialed in the lower right.

This is a drypoint etching from April 1931. Edition of 100. Catalog: BPL 105. Pencil signed in the lower right, pencil numbered 3 out of 100 in the lower left. Plate measures 11 x 12 inches on 14 x 15 inch Rives watermarked wove paper. Chamberlain captures this brightly lit scene with breathtaking detail. Samuel Chamberlain studied architecture at MIT, but interrupted his studies to serve in France during WWI. After the war, Chamberlain worked as an architectural draftsman in Boston before leaving the US to travel throughout France and Europe. During his time overseas, Chamberlain began sketching the countryside and architecture, eventually studying at the Royal College of Art in London. He became well known for his carefully rendered etchings and drypoints of both European and American buildings and cityscapes.

Lithograph, image size 12 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches, pencil signed

Etching of Léon, Spain. Trial proof. Pencil signed and dated 1923 in the lower right corner. Print measures 7 1/8 by 11 1/4 inches in a 16 x 19 inch gold frame. #1 in his Spanish Church Series. Catalog: Fletcher 140. Printed by Frederick Reynolds. This plate was done with the assistance of Kerr Eby. This atmospheric print showcases the artist's incredible eye for detail.

This is an original etching by American artist Troy Kinney.  The title of this work is: "The Rehearsal", it  was created and printed in 1929.  The subject is the Rehearsal of the Gavrilov Ballet Troupe, with Mr. Anesander Gavrilov and Miss Geraldine Spencer.  This etching is pencil signed and inscribed," with best wishes to my friend Dr. Conrad Bevens...?  The image measures 8 1/2X11 3/4 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type paper.

Etching,1929,Edition of 100,image size:9 1/2X11 1/4 inches,Bpl 153,pencil signed

This is an original mezzotint etching by British artist Percival Gaskell.  This view of river rapids has an image of 9 1/2X 13 5/8 inches.  Pencil signed lower right border, printed on a chin collet adhered to a thicker sheet.  Printed with a warm toned ink.  Gaskell is one of the best of the early British mezzotint artists.

Pencil signed in the lower right. An inscription in the lower left of the paper reads "Wine Shop at Royalbourne," a possible title. Plate size measures 10 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches on 16 3/4 x 12 1/4 inch medium-weight wove-type paper.

This is an original screenprint by American artist Guy Maccoy, created in 1949 this image is pencil signed and titled: Three Trees.  The image measures 11X14 inches, very richly printed, fine condition.  "Maccoy made his first artistic screenprints in 1932 and taught the medium in Colorado and Los Angeles during the 1940s and 1950s."

Engraving, circa 1600, image size 7 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches.

Lithograph, image size 14 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches, c. 1930s, edition of 34, pencil signed.

Etching and drypoint, image size 4 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches, 1912, printed on cream wove paper. Addams was born in New Jersey and attended the Drexel Institute there. He won a Philadelphia Academy Cresson Traveling Scholarship and entered Whistler’s Academy in Paris in 1899. In the 1900′s, London’s working class Italian Soho district was the subject of many artists of the day including Whistler's shop-front prints such as T.A. Nash’s Fruit Shop. The horizontal format and the density of the etching work is comparable to many of Whistler Amsterdam prints.