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This is an original pencil signed etching by American artist W. Harry Smith.  The subject is: The Customs House, viewed from the Harbor in Boston.   Created and printed circa 1930, the image measures 12 1/2X5 1/2 inches.  Printed on a medium weight laid type sheet.  A fine rich impression.

$245.00

This is a very rare original lithograph by American artist Frank Cassara.   This litho is known by two names, Drillers and on our impression is titled Air Hammers.  This pencil signed lithograph was created and printed in 1939 in a very small edition.  The image measures 11 1/2X9 1/2 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet with a "Navarre" watermark.  This image was created for the W.P.A.

$775.00

This is an early etching by American artist Joseph Pennell.  The title is: Ponte San Trinita, Florence, it was created and printed in 1883.  This image is plate signed and dated only.  Printed on a thin Japan the image measures 7 7/8X11 7/8 inches.  The etching appears in the Wuerth catalog as image number 53.

$175.00

Morning, 1937

Thomas W. Nason

This is a fine original chiaroscuro wood engraving by American artist Thomas Nason.  It was created and printed in 1937 as a presentation print for the Woodcut Society of Kansas City.    The image printed with three blocks, Black, Gray and Olive inks.  The image measures 5X8 inches.  A beautiful rich impression. This wood engraving is an unsigned proof , plate signed and dated only.  Printed on a light weight Japan type sheet.

$175.00

This is an original signed watercolor painting by American artist Gifford Beal.  This composition of Blue Flowers measures 16X20 inches, signed lower left.  It came to us in what appears to be the original natural oak frame.  This painting was given to us directly from the family of the artist.

$625.00

This is an original oil on canvas painting by American artist Gifford Beal.  The image is titled on the back on the original  label from Kraushaar Galleries in New York.  Flowers in a Paper.  The painting is initialed lower right "G.B."  The canvas measures 10X12 inches, it came to us from the Beal family in the original hand carved Frame with the D.Matt label on the back.  The painting is quite bright with some texture in the flowers. The frame itself measures 20X17 1/2 inches.

$1250.00

This is an original pencil signed and numbered etching by American Modernist artist Leonard Baskin.  This image is titled Birdman, one of a series he did on the metamorphosis of a Man from a bird.  This image was created and printed in 1957,  The plate measures 18X12 inches, printed on a heavy weight wove type sheet.  It is numbered as 225/300.

$475.00

This is an original lithograph, pencil signed and numbered by American artist Raphael Soyer.  The title is Portrait of a Young Girl,  it was created and printed in 1970. Numbered 57/120.  The image measures 15 1/4X12 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.  Broad margins, deckeled edges.

$425.00

This is an original pencil signed lithograph by American artist Joseph Hirsch.  The title is Survivor, created and printed in 1954 and sold by Associated American Artists in New York.  The image measures 7X13 7/8 inches.  It appears in the Hirsch catalog as image number 30.

$275.00

This is a fine impressionist landscape painting by American artist John Joseph Enneking.  The subject is a Fall Twilight landscape.  It is signed Enneking lower right.  The painting measures 22X30 inches.  Relined but in very presentable condition. John J. Enneking (1841-1916) "John Joseph Enneking, a man ahead of his time, had a stylistic foot in both the pre-impressionist and impressionist worlds of the late nineteenth century. An 1873 sketch of Madame Monet bears evidence of his work as perhaps America’s earliest impressionist painter. But he also knew Edouard Manet (1824-1898), and studied with the great French Barbizon teacher Charles-Francois Daubigny (1817-1878), as well as with Eugene Boudin (1824-1898)." (Vose) 

 

 

$6800.00

This is a scarce original wood engraving by American Modernist Leonard Baskin.  The title is: Three Women Before a Plain, created and printed in 1952.  The image, pencil signed, measures 3 1/2X4 1/2 inches on a sheet size of 17X17 inches, printed on a thin japan type sheet,  The image appears in the Fern O'Sullivan catalog as image number 214.

$375.00

This is a fine etching by American artist Edward J. Balthazar.  The subject is: The Wadsworth Barn in Hartford.  Created and printed in 1945.  Hand signed in pencil and editioned as 24/100  The image measures 7 7/8X 10 1/4 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.  This image was  the 1949 Presentation print published by the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.  An early larger image was created a few years earlier.

$325.00

This is a rare etching by American artist Edward J. Balthazar.  The subject is: The Wadsworth Barn in Hartford.  Created and printed in 1945.  Hand signed in pencil and editioned as 6/50.  The image measures 8 3/4X 11 7/8 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.  This image was later recreated and so as the 1949 Presentation print published by the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.

$325.00

This is an original drypoint etching by British artist Edmund Blampied.  The title is Road to  the Farm.  It was created and printed in an edition of 100 in 1929.  The image measures 10 1/4X8 1/8 inches.  Hand  signed by the artist in pen and ink lower border.  Numbered as 98/100.  This image was reproduced for the book Fine Prints of the Year, 1929 edition… Catalog: Appleby 149.  A fine atmospheric impression, nicely framed with archival materials.

$725.00

This is an original etching and aquatint,  by American Woodstock artist Emil Ganso.  The title is: Road to Saugerties, created and printed in 1930 in an edition of 30, this one is numbered 7/35.  The image measures 9X10 7/8 inches.  Very fine condition a rich impression

$395.00