20th Century American Prints

Etching, image size 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches, 1919, pencil signed and plate signed.

Etching, image size 8 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches, pencil signed and titled.

Etching, image size 4 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches, pencil signed.

This is an original pencil signed etching by American Artist Sam Thal. The title of this work is ""Chad's Place", it was created circa 1945 and sold through Associated American Artists in New York. The image measures 8 3/4X11 3/4 inches.

This is an original etching by American artist Victor Becker.  The title is: The Pride of the Pack, created and printed circa. 1940.  This etching is pencil signed, titled and numbered as 6/100.  The image measures 5 3/4X7 7/8 inches, printed on a medium weight laid type sheet.  Very nice condition.

This drypoint etching is pencil signed in the lower right. An intimate portrait with a rich drypoint burr. Plate measures 8 x 5 1/4 inches on 9 7/8 x 7 1/2 inch medium weight wove type paper.

Etching tipped in to the book "Modern American Etchers: Arthur William Heintzelman," foreword and critical notes by John Taylor Arms, 1927, print in great condition, book has some foxing, pencil signed.
Original etching sold as part of the book.

Etching, image size 9 10/16 x 13 3/8 inches, pencil signed lower right

This is an original pencil signed and inscribed etching by Canadian-American artist Frederick Owen. The title of this work is "Trade Winds", It has a pencil inscription with "Ships under skipsails running down the trades, Ships and the sea, there's nothing finer made"...This etching was created and printed in 1938. The image measures 10 3/4X14 1/8 inches.

Etching, image size: 12 1/8 x 8 3/4 inches, pencil signed lower right

This original etching by Frederich Taubes measures 10 x 8 1/4 inches and is pencil signed on the l.r. Created in 1939 in an edition of 250 and published by the American Artists Association. Taubes was a well known painter, printmaker, author and lecturer. Born in Poland and educated in Vienna, Taubes eventually became a student at the Bauhaus studying color theory with Johannes Itten. Moving to NYC in 1930 he became a society portraitist with a very wealthy and famous clientele. In the 40's he again shifted his energies into the research of the painting media used in the 14th and 15th century Flemish paintings. In 1945 he was included in the group "American Artist Group Monographs" along with the likes of Thomas Hart Benton, Edward Hopper and Raphael Soyer. (M)

This is an original pencil signed lithograph by American artist Julian Levi.  The scene is of Clamming on the seashore, created and printed circa 1940.   The image measures 8 1/2X11 1/4 inches, printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.  Inscribed lower left to Phil.

This c. 1940 seascape by Hopper Emory measures 8 x 9 3/8 inches and is pencil signed and titled. Hopper Emory was born in Baltimore, Maryland and had a successful career in banking before he turned exclusively to his artwork. He traveled to England where he studied at the Heatherly School of Art in London, then returned to Maryland where he became known for his delicately rendered architectural and maritime etchings.

Etching, image size 9 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches, c. 1935, artist's proof, pencil signed.

 This is a fine original lithograph, pencil signed by American artist Gordon Grant.  This lithograph was created and printed in 1940 and sold by Associated American Artists in New York.  The edition was 250.  The image measures  9 1/16 X 11  7/16  inches.