Recent Acquisitions

This is an original etching by California artist  and printmaker,, Armin Hansen.  The title is: Snug Harbor.  It was created and printed in 1928, and exhibited through the California Printmakers Society.  The image measure 6X8 inches.  Hand signed in pencil lower right border, in very nice condition

This is an original etching and drypoint by American artist Louis Rosenberg.  The title is: The Grand Canal, Venice, it is printed on a medium weight laid type paper.  This etching was created and printed in 1927.  The image measures 8 7/8X13 7/8 inches.  Hand signed in pencil lower right border, very fine condition, nice use of plate tone in the sky and water.  A very rare image, Rosenberg at his best!!!...

This is an original oil on artist board by American artist Stanley Woodward.  The title and date is inscribed on the back of the work. Summer Seas, Ogunquit, Maine, 1942.  The painting measures 12X16 inches.  Nicely framed, clearly signed in the lower right corner.  Woodward had studios in both  Rockport and Ogunquit Maine.

This is an original engraving by British artist Edgar R. Hambly.  It is hand signed lower right border in pencil, The image measures 5X7 inches, nicely framed.  Hambly was an engraver and illustrator born in Corwall England in 1885.  He later moved to America and became the Art director of Conde Nast.  

This is an original Photo Gravure which was created  for "Camera Work" for the 39th issue of July 1912. This was the journal of art photograph that was  Published by Alfred Steiglitz.  The title of this image is Totote, the model photographed by French American photographer Paul B. Haviland.  The image measures 8 1/4X6 3/8 inches.  It is nicely framed with archival materials.  These Gravures were never signed and were part of the original Journal.

This is a very rare Gordon Grant etching.  Men turning the Capstan.  It is pencil signed and editioned as 31/100.  The image measures 10X6 7/8 inches.  Printed on a thicker wove type paper.

This is an impressive large seascape by American Marine painter Franklin Dullin Briscoe.  This view of fishing boats at sunset, oil on canvas with an image size of 28X50 inches.  It is signed and dated lower right corner, 1873.  This painting came to us in a fine modern cove style gilt frame.  The overall size of the frame is: 34X56 inches.  One of the best Briscoes weve seen.  

This is a rare early Louis Orr etching done while he was living in France.  The title is: Hillside, Avignon France.  It was created and printed in 1911 in an edition of 40 impressions.  The image measures 8 7/8X 11 3/4 inches.  Pencil signed lower right border.  A fine study in shadows and highlights.  This etching appears to be in the original frame, but in fine condition.  The castle like building on the hill is: Palais des Papes, the worlds largest gothic building. It was built in the 1300's...

"Brixham Trawlers" by Arthur Briscoe measures 5 3/8 x 13 7/8 inches, published in 1929 in an edition of 75. Printed in sepia toned ink on Whatman laid paper, it is ink signed and numbered and also plate signed, dated and titled. Briscoe is known as the finest marine etcher of the 20th. century. He owned his own three ton cutter which he used to sail around the Essex coast. Also crewing on a Polish ship, he sketched every aspect of life on the boat. He studied at the Slade Art School and the Academy Julian in Paris. His name became internationally renowned when his works sold to the New York market. 

This is an original etching by British printmaker, John Postle Heseltine.  This fine costal view has an image size of 4 3/4X9 3/4 inches.  It is hand signed in pencil lower right and also signed and dated in the plate 1893.  Printed on a wove type medium weight paper.

This is an etching with aquatint of a fine Harbor scene.  It was created and printed in 1932 although the artist is a mystery to us.  It is pencil signed and dated but we cannot make out who the artist is.  The image measures 8X10 inches and has the title of "Boats" in the lower left border.  A very fine image.

This is an original soft Ground and aquatint etching by Austrian artist Tavik F. Simon.  The title is :L' Epicerie, Paris.  It was created and printed in 1928, according to the Novak catalog this is an artist proof.  With the Society of Graveurs Modernes copyright in the upper edge of the image.  The etching measures 11 1/2X15 1/2 inches.  Hand signed in pencil lower border.

This is an original color etching by Austrian artist Tavik F. Simon.  The scene is of a Bric A. Brac shop in  Brittany.  This etching was created and printed in 1926 and published in an edition of 300 by the Society of Graveurs Modernes in Paris.  The iage measures 12X14 1/2 inches.  It is pencil signed lower right and has an edition number of 118.  This etching is in the period frame with French Matting.  This image appears in the Novak catalog as image number N.445.

This soft ground etching and aquatint was created by Austrian artist Tavik F. Simon.  It is titled: Les Halles Et L' Eglise Saint Eustache, Paris.  A fine view of Notre Dame and the street life of Paris.  This etching was created and printed in 1926 and is described as an artist Proof in the Novak Catalog, numbered as: 1926AP3.  The image measures 13 1/4X15 inches.  Pencil signed lower right and has an edition number of 16. In an early Frame with French matting.

This is an original soft ground etching and aquatint by Austrian artist Tavik F. Simon.  The scene is: The Kiosks on the Grand Boulevards, in Paris.  This etching was created and printed in 1926 in an edition of 200, published by G. Petit, Paris.  The image appears in the Novak catalog as image number N.123.  The image measures 13 3/4X16 3/4 inches.  This etching is in the early frame with french matting.  Pencil signed lower right and numbered 6 of the edition.