Recent Acquisitions

Original color etching by Austrian artist T.F.Simon.  The title is: Le Mont Saint-Michel in the Evening, it was created and printed in 1925 in an edition of 299.  The image measures 11 1/4X14 1/4 inches. Hand signed in pencil and the artist's cartouche lower left.  This image appears in the Novak catalog as image number 439.

Original etching and drypoint by British artist Seymour Haden.  Titled Egham Locke this image is from the !V/X state.  The image measures 5 15/16X8 7/8 inches.  Printed on a medium weight laid type paper.  Hand signed in pencil.  This etching was first created in 1859 with later printings included in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts Publication.

Original wood engraving by American artist Thomas Nason.  This image was created and printed in 1936 in an edition of 80.  It is titled: Village Street and was from his view of Ipswich Mass.  The image measures 6 3/8X9 1/2 inches.  Printed on a thin Japan type paper.  Clearly signed in pencil by the artist in the lower border.

This is an original oil on tin painting of a young woman.  It is apparently unsigned and so we are calling this 19th century American School.  The painting measures 8X7 inches, it came to us in a period gilt frame which measures 12 1/2X11 1/2 inches.  Expertly painted, this is a fine example of 19th century American portraiture.  

This is an original etching by American artist John Taylor Arms.  The title is: Saint Benigne, Dijon France.  This was part of his French Church Series, It has the plate inscription of Saint Benigne, Dijon France, 1924, but was published in 1927 in an edition of 110, printed by Frederick Reynolds.  The image measures 10 1/2X6 7/8.  Hand signed in pencil lower right border.  Printed on a medium weight laid type paper.  This image appears in the Fletcher catalog as image number 195.

This is an original drypoint etching by British artist Edmund Blampied.  The title is: Village News. This etching was created and printed in 1931.  It is signed in sepia ink lower border and has the edition noted as 16/100.  The image measures 8 3/4X12 inches.  "Edmund Blampied (1886-1966) was one of the most eminent artists to come from the Channel Islands, yet he received no formal training in art until he was 16 years old. He was noted mostly for his etchings and drypoints published at the height of the print boom in the 1920s during the etching revival."(museum of New Zealand)

This is an original oil on board painting by New Hampshire artist Arthur R. Herrick.  The title of this work is: Messer Farm, Glebe Road, Westmoreland,N.H. (written on the back)  The painting measures 18X26 inches.   Signed by the artist lower left and with the estate stamp on the back of the board.   Herrick studied in Rockport M.A. under Anthony Thieme and A.T. Hibbard.  He moved to New Hampshire in the 1950's and devoted his talents to Plein Air painting.  He was frequently seen  painting his winter scenes standing out in the snow in Western New Hampshire.

This is an original oil on board painting by Well Known New Hampshire artist Arthur Herrick.  This painting measures 24X36 inches.  Unsigned with estate stamp on the back.  This painting came directly from the artist's grand daughter.  It was Herrick's habit to only sign a work when it was sold by him.  This one remained unsigned and unsold  at the time of his death.  Herrick studied in Rockport M.A. under Anthony Thieme and A.T. Hibbard.  He moved to New Hampshire in the 1950's and devoted his talents to Plein Air painting.  He was frequently seen  painting his winter scenes standing out in the snow in Western New Hampshire.

This is an original wood engraving of William Morris by American artist Leonard Baskin.  This image was created and printed in 1960 as a series of six portraits published by Peregrin Press in CA.  The image measures 4X3 inches, on a large sheet of hand made mulberry paper.  This image is pencil signed and editioned as CIX/CCLXXV.  

This is an original etching by American artist Leonard Baskin.  This portrait is of Thomas Eakins, the early painter.  It was created and printed in 1964.  The image measures 18 1/4X13 inches.  It is pencil signed, titled and editioned as 74/90.  The image appears in the Baskin catalog as image number 465.  This etching, in great condition is currently framed in a fine period picture frame.  The overall frame measures 30X24 inches.  

This is an original etching by American artist Chester Leich.  It is pencil signed and titled in the lower border.  At The Spring.  The image measures 5X3 3/4 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type paper.

This is an original woodblock print by American artist Frank Wagner Peers.  This image of the Nativity has an image size of 5X3 inches.  Is hand signed in pencil lower right border.  Printed on a handmade wove type paper.

This is an original 3 color wood engraving by American artist Herbert Waters.  Circa 1960's.  This Winter scene of a woman with farm animals is hand signed in pencil lower right.  The image measures 3 3/4X3 inches.  Printed on a thin Japan type paper.  Very finely detailed.

This is an original engraving by French artist Jean-Emile Laboureur.  This image is pencil signed lower left border and editioned as 12/65.  The image measures 4X5 7/8 inches.

Kerr Eby, American, 1889-1946, "Rough Going". An evocative image of WWI by American artist Harold Kerr Eby, this etching with drypoint measures 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches, pencil signed in an edition of 60, second published state, 1919, Giardina cat: 29. Eby's WWI experiences in France lead to this richly inked image of infantry marching through the results of war.  Very richly inked with drypoint burr.