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. Printed by the artist.

Reproduced: The American Scene on Paper; Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2008.

Collection: LC purchase, Pennell Fund.

$2800.

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. Printed by the artist.

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.

SOLD

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

Laguna Cove - -c.1935, Wood Engraving.

Edition 60. Signed, titled and numbered 11/60 in pencil.

Image size 9 3/8 x 12 inches (238 x 305 mm); sheet size 10 5/8 x 14 inches (270 x 356 mm).

A fine impression, on cream wove Japan, with full margins (1/2 to 1 1/4 inch), in excellent condition.

The very scarce large version. Printed by the artist.

$1500.

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.

SOLD

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.

SOLD

Sultry Day - -1937, Wood Engraving.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 71. Edition less than 200, AAG. Signed and dated in the block, lower left.

Image size 8 x 6 inches (203 x 154 mm); sheet size 18 x 13 inches (457 x 330 mm).

A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (3 1/2 to 5 7/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Exhibited: Pressed In Time: American Prints 1905-1950, The Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, 2007-2008.

Collections: Library of Congress (Pennell Fund purchase).

SOLD

A Woman - -1937, Wood Engraving.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 85. Edition 60, second edition 150. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil.

Image size 10 1/2 x 6 inches (267 x 152 mm); sheet size 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (375 x 267 mm).

A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margins (2 to 2 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. An impression from the first edition; printed by the artist.

First Prize, Los Angeles County Fair, 1937.

SOLD

Anna- -1938, Wood Engraving.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 84. Edition 60, second edition 150. Signed and numbered 33/60 in pencil.

Image size 9 x 4 1/2 inches (230 x 115 mm); sheet size 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (267 x 185 mm).

A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margins (3/4 to 1 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. An impression from the first edition; printed by the artist.

The image was created for the cover of the Prospectus, Paul Landacre Association, 1938.

Selected for exhibition at the Venice Biennale, 1938.

$2000.

Black Stallion - -1940, Wood Engraving.

Edition 200. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 6 x 7 1/8 inches (152 x 181 mm); sheet size 7 3/4 x 10 3/8 inches (197 x 264 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream laid Japan, with full margins (7/8 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition.

An impression from the edition published for the Seventeenth Presentation Print of the Woodcut Society, 1940. Printed by Torch Press, Cedar Rapids. Complete in the original Woodcut Society letterpress presentation folder, with a forward by Carl Zigrosser.

Collections: Auckland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Whales, Brooklyn Museum, Williams College Museum of Art, Print Club of Albany.

$1600.