Poachers- -1934, Wood Engraving.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 33. Edition 60. Signed, titled and numbered 9/60 in pencil. With the stamp ORIGINS OF ART in the bottom right corner, verso.

Image size 6 x 8 1/2 inches (153 x 215 mm), sheet size inches 8 1/4 x 10 5/8 (210 x 270 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on cream Kitakata Japan, with full margins ( 1 to 1 1/4 inches), in excellent condition.

Collection: LC purchase, Pennell Fund.

$3000.

Tuonela - -1934, Wood Engraving.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 44. Edition 78 or fewer (second block, first edition). Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 10 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches (261 x 193 mm), sheet size 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (375 x 267 mm).

A superb impression from the second block, on cream Japan Kitakata, with good margins (1 1/4 to 2 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. After the first block broke early in the edition, Landacre recarved the image, preserving the original composition but significantly simplifying the shading overall. It has not yet been determined if Landacre included the first block impressions in his numbering of this first edition. In the second edition he printed only 17 impressions (plus 1 unsigned proof) from an intended 150.

Illustrated in Paul Landacre: A Life and a Legacy, Anthony Lehman, 1983.

Collection: LC purchase, Pennell Fund, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

SOLD

Shell- -1935, Wood Engraving.

Edition 60 (54 printed), second edition 150 (10 printed). Signed, titled and numbered 22/60 in pencil.

Image size 4 5/8 x 6 15/16 inches (117 x 176 mm), sheet size 7 1/4 x 10 5/8 inches (184 x 270 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on ivory wove Goyu paper, with full margins (1 1/8 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. An impression from the first edition.

Collections: LC purchase, Pennell Fund; LACMA; Smithsonian American Art Museum.

$4800.

Laguna Cove - -1935, Wood Engraving.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 47. Edition 60, 2nd edition 150, Woodcut Society 200. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 5 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (133 x 181 mm); sheet size 7 5/16 x 10 5/8 inches (186 x 270 mm).

A superb, evenly printed impression, on cream Japan, with full margins (7/8 to 1 7/8 inches), in pristine condition.

An impression from the edition published for the Twentieth Presentation Print of the Woodcut Society, 1941. Printed by Torch Press, Cedar Rapids. Complete in the original Woodcut Society letterpress presentation folder.

Illustrated in James Swann: In Quest of a Printmaker, Czestochowski, 1990. Purchase Prize, Library of Congress, 1942.

Collections: Brooklyn Museum, College of Wooster Art Museum, LC purchase, Pennell Fund.

SOLD

Lot Cleaning, Los Angeles - -1935, Wood Engraving.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 69. Edition 60. Signed, titled and numbered 51/60 in pencil.

Image size 12 1/8 x 6 1/16 inches (308 x 154 mm); sheet size 15 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (400 x 267 mm).

A brilliant, black impression, on Kitakata paper, with full margins (1 3/4 to 2 3/8 inches). Brown paper hinge remains on the top sheet edge, recto; soft crease in the top left margin, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Paul Landacre red estate stamp on the bottom right sheet edge, recto; Origins of Art stamp on the bottom right sheet corner, verso. Printed by the artist.

Presented to the Paul Landacre Association. First prize, Los Angeles County Fair, 1935; First Prize, Philadelphia Print Club, 1936.

$4500.

August Seventh - -1936, Wood Engraving.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 70. Edition 60 (56 printed), second edition 150 (24 printed). Signed, titled and numbered 30/60 in pencil.

Image size 12 1/8 x 8 inches (308 x 203 mm), sheet size 14 3/16 x 10 9/16 inches (360 x 268 mm).

A fine, black impression, on off-white Japan, with full margins, in excellent condition. Printed by the artist.

An impression from the first edition.

$6500.

Jan Sibelius - -1936, Wood Engraving.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 65. Edition 60. Signed, titled and numbered 26/60 in pencil.

Image size 6 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches (171 x 117 mm); sheet size 10 5/8 x 8 inches (270 x 203 mm).

A fine impression, on tissue-thin cream laid Japan, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 1/8 inches). The paper lightened within previous mat opening; otherwise in excellent condition. Printed by the artist.

Created for the radio station KECA as one of twelve program covers for their concert series broadcast from 1935 - 1936.

$900.