Recent Acquisitions

This is an early Sicilian Donkey Cart Fragment, circa 1800.  Unsigned as usual.  THere is some writing on the bottom edge but is mostly worn away.  The thick oak board was cracked in the center and was repaired many years ago.  Still the color is rich and the composition is mostly intact.  This sort of decoration was in use in Sicily for hundreds of years as a decoration to their Donkey carts.  We feel this is from the mid to early 19th century.  The board measures 15X20 inches.

This is an original etching over heliogravure by Belgian symbolist Felicien Rops.  This image published by Herissey, Pellet in Paris in 1905.  It is unsigned as issued.  The image measures 7 1/2X5 1/8 inches, with a platemark that measures 8 1/2X6 inches. This image was from his Les Sataniques series published in 1882.

This is an original pencil signed lithograph by American artist Stow Wengenroth.  The title is: Salt Marshes, Greenport, New York,  April, 1955.  The image measures 10 1/2X16 3/4 inches.  Printed in an edition of only 40 impressions.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.  This image appears in the Stuckey catalog as image number 224. Nicely Framed with archival boards.

This is an original pencil signed, titled and numbered wood engraving by American artist Clare Leighton.  The title is: Shire Horse, created and printed circa 1930, numbered 50/60 and has an image that measures 3X5 inches on a sheet size of 5X7 1/4 inches.  Printed on a light weight Japan type sheet, very nice condition, matted not framed.  "Born in England, Clare Leighton is among the premier wood engravers of the 20th century. She emigrated to the United States at the outbreak of WWII and became an American citizen in 1945"

This is an original signed oil on board by American artist Peter Moran.  The title is: On the Commons, created and painted circa 1880.  This image was also created as an etching that appears in the Wright catalog as image number 39.  The scene was supposed as to the suburbs of Philadelphia or possibly on Long Island.  The painting signed lower right measures 12X20 inches, in very nice condition, housed in an ebonized period frame.  The etching is also titled Oxen by a Stream.  The composition is identical to the etching.

This is an original pencil signed and titled screenprint by American artist Guy Maccoy.  The title is: It is Evening, created and printed in 1949.  The image measures 11X14 1/4 inches.  "Maccoy made his first artistic screenprints in 1932 and taught the medium in Colorado and Los Angeles during the 1940s and 1950s."

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."

This is a fine color aquatint and etching by French artist Manuel Robbe, this impressionistic image is titled: Clichy, created and printed in 1910 in an edition of 100.  This image measures 23 1/2X14 1/2 inches. Pencil signed lower right.  This image is printed on a medium weight laid type Arches watermarked sheet, with publishers blind stamp lower left corner.  This impression is numbered as 79.

This is an original etching with aquatint by French artist Manuel Robbe.  The title is: Dans les Rochers,  created and printed in 1910.  The image measures 17 7/8X23 inches, printed on a medium weight laid type sheet with crown watermark.  Blind stamped lower left border.  A fine impressionistic view of an older couple watching the Fishing fleet set sail at sunrise.

This is an original etching and aquatint by French artist Georges Rouault, take from his Miserere Series.   Plate 56: En ces temps noirs de jactance et d'incroyance, Notre Dame de la Fin des Terres Vigilante / In these dark times of vainglory and unbelief, Our Lady of the Ends of the Earth keeps watch (C&R. 109c). Original aquatint, drypoint, burnisher, roulette, scraper, 1927. 450 impressions for the Miserere, Rouault's masterpiece and one of the most important series of the twentieth century. Signed in the plate and dated 1927 at lower center left (there are no pencil-signed proofs). A beautiful impression of this climactic image. Image size: 23X17 inches.

This is a fine original etching by American regionalist artist Jackson Lee Nesbitt.  The title is: Evening in March, pencil signed and titled, created and printed in 1942.  The image measures 11 7/8X8 7/8 inches.  Very fine condition, a rich impression printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.

This is a rare triptych by Japanese 19th century artist Kunichika This view of a Young woman being guarded by the Samuri is signed in each panel Kunisada, Gepparo, his signature done in between 1811-1813.  The overall size of the triptych measures 12 3/4X26 inches,  This woodblock is framed.

This is a period hand colored engraving by James Smillie after the painting by Thomas Cole, from his 4 part Voyage of Life series.  This image was created and printed in 1855 from the edition printed by H. Peters.  The image measures 15 1/8X22 3/4 inches.   It is housed in the original Gilt frame.  "Printed, lower left below image: PAINTED BY THOMAS COLE; printed, lower right below image: ENGRAVED BY JAMES SMILLIE; printed, lower center: THE VOYAGE OF LIFE _ Childhood / From the original Painting by Thomas Cole, in the possession of Rev.d [superscript] Gorham D. Abbott, Spingler Institute, New York; printed, lower center: “Entered according to Act of Congress U.S.A. __ by James Smillie in the Clerk’s Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York”; printed, lower left"  "“Beware what earth calls happiness: Beware / All joys but joys that never can expire. / Who builds on less than an immortal base / Condemns his joys to death.”; printed, lower right: “The garden palace of my God / Towering above the clouds I see; / Beyond the cherubs bright abode, / Higher than angels thoughts can be.”  Very nice original condition.

This is a scarce image by American artist Stow Wengenroth.  The title is: The Corwin House, Greenport, New York, it was created and printed in  1952 in the small edition of only 30 impressions.  This pencil signed lithograph measures 9 1/8X14 7/8 inches.  This image appears in the Stuckey catalog as image number 203.  Very nice condition.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.

This is a rare early  original lithograph by American artist Stow Wengenroth.  The title is: The Little Light, Provincetown, created and printed in 1937 in an edition of only 25.  This impression is hand signed in pencil and measures an image of 6 5/8X11 3/4 inches.  In fine condition printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.  This image appears in the Stuckey catalog as image number 66.  An early view of Provincetown, Massachusetts.