Coal Mine Country also Abandoned Coal Mine =A1936, Tusche Lithograph.

Edition c. 25. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil.

Image size 11 5/16 x 15 1/4 inches; sheet size 13 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches.

A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 to 1 7/8 inches); two small adhesive stains in the left margin, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Scarce.

Created for the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project, New York City.

At the height of the Great Depression, striking coal miners were forced from their jobs by plant owners unwilling to negotiate new union contracts. The unemployed miners began bootleg operations to dig coal from surface seams and sell it at low prices. In the spring of 1936, Harry Gottlieb and Elizabeth Olds travelled to Pennsylvania to see this bootleg system for themselves. The miners insisted that the two artists drive to a nearby town and join their union before making sketches. Gottlieb and Olds complied with the unionists’ demand and created paintings, drawings, and prints based on their first-hand observations.

Collections: Brighamton University Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art (Riba and Dave Williams Collection), Syracuse University Art Museum.

$2400.

Nor Rain Nor Snow = c.1937, Color Serigraph.

Edition c. 25. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil.

Image size 10 3/8 x 14 inches (264 x 356 mm); sheet size 12 3/8 x 16 5/8 inches (314 x 422 mm).

A fine, painterly impression, with fresh, undiminished colors, on heavy cream wove paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent, original condition, with the artist's original brown paper hinges on the top and bottom sheet edges. Scarce.

Reproduced: New Deal for Art, Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz; the Gallery Association of New York State, 1977; and L’Amérique de la Dépression: Artistes Engagés des Années 30, Musée-Gallerie de la Seita, Paris, 1996. Exhibited: L’Amérique de la Dépression: Artistes Engagés des Années 30, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Paris, 1996-97.

Collections: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Syracuse University.

SOLD

Beautician's Academy = c.1937, Lithograph.

Edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 12 x 10 inches (305 x 254 mm); sheet size 15 7/8 x 11 1/2 inches (403 x 292 mm).

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

Created for the Federal Art Project, WPA, New York City.

SOLD

Long Island Memory = 1968, Color Serigraph.

Edition 93. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 75/93in pencil.

Image size 12 13/16 x 18 1/32 inches (328 x 458 mm); sheet size 18 5/8 x 23 inches (473 x 584 mm).

A rich, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on heavy cream laid paper, with full margins (2 3/8 to 3 inches). Pale light stain within a previous mat opening; brown paper tape on the top and bottom sheet edges recto, otherwise in excellent condition.

$700.