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Giant's Thumb Santa Fe - 1926, Woodcut.

Duffy 23. Edition 30. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. Inscribed To Mrs. Whitmore in pencil, in the artist's hand, bottom center margin.

Image size 14 x 8 inches (356 x 203 mm); sheet size 14 3/4 x 9 15/16 inches (375 x 252 mm).

A fine, black impression, on off-white Japan, with full margins (1/4 to 1 1/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Collections: MNM, NMAA, PMA, ROS, UNM.

$1600.


Self-Portrait - 1931, Wood Engraving.

Duffy 163. Edition c. 50. Signed and dated in pencil.

Image size 3 3/4 x 2 13/16 inches (95 x 71 mm); sheet size 9 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches (248 x 194 mm).

A brilliant black impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margins (2 3/8 to 3 5/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Collections: BALT, BPL, CMA, MET, MFA, MNM, MOMA, NMAA, NYPL.

$950.


New York Night (City Night) - 1931, Lithograph.

Duffy 162. Edition 75, only 35 printed. Signed, dated and titled City Nightin pencil.

Image size 10 x 12 inches (254 x 305 mm); sheet size 15 3/4 x 19 5/8 inches (400 x 499 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/4 to 3 3/4 inches), in pristine condition.

Collections: PMA.

$7500.


George Washington Bridge with B - 1932, Lithograph.

Duffy 156. Edition 50. Signed, dated and numbered 75 in pencil.

Image size 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (349 x 248 mm); sheet size 171/8 x 12 1/4 inches (435 x 311 mm).

A superb, luminous impression, on cream wove paper, with good margins (1 1/8 to 1 7/8 inches). A one inch paper loss in the bottom left sheet corner, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Printed by Henry Miller.

Illustrated and exhibited in Precisionism in America, 1915-1941: Reordering Reality, Harry N. Abrams and The Montclair Art Museum, 1994.

Collections: MET, NMAA, PMA.

SOLD


Mexican Landscape (Desert Tree) - 1933, Etching and Aquatint.

Duffy 177. Edition 250 (American Associated Artists). Signed in pencil.

Image size 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches (225 x 302 mm); sheet size 12 x 15 1/2 inches (305 x 395 mm).

A superb impression, on cream wove paper, with wide margins (1 3/8 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Published by Associated American Artists in 1941 under the title Desert Tree. Collections: ACH, DM, GU, NMAA, PMA.

Exhibited and reproduced: American Identities: Twentieth-Century Prints fron the Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College; 2004.

$1400.


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