The Connectors - - 1934, Etching.

Ryan 66. Edition not stated. Signed in pencil.

Image size 12 7/8 x 9 13/16 inches (327 x 249 mm); sheet size 15 x 10 15/16 inches (381 x 278 mm).

A superb, richly-inked impression, on handmade, cream laid paper, with margins (1/2 to 1 1/4 inches), in excellent condition.

Published by the Association of American Etchers, New York.

Exhibited: The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock, Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, 2008.

Literature: Graphic Excursions, American Prints in Black and White, 1900-1950, Godine, 1991;The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock, Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, 2008.

Honorable Mention, Society of American Etchers 1942; Purchase Prize, Cincinnati Art Museum.

Provenance: Robert and Beatrice Mayer Collection.

Collections: Amon Carter Museum of Art, The British Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cornell University Library, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Boston Public Library, National Building Museum, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum.

$5200.

Spiderboy- -1937, Etching.

Ryan 86. Edition 40. Signed in pencil.

Image size 11 x 8 7/16 inches (179 x 214 mm); sheet size 15 1/2 x 11 inches (394 x 279 mm).

A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 7/8 inches). A spot of printer’s ink in the top right margin, well away from the image, in excellent condition.

Illustrated in American Art of the Great Depression: two sides of the coin, Howard E. Wooden, Witchita Art Museum, 1985.

Collections: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cornell University Library, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Wichita Art Museum.

$6500.

Pipe and Brawn- -1937, Lithograph.

Edition 40. Signed and annotated Ed/40 in pencil.

Image size 11 7/8 x 14 3/8 inches (302 x 365 mm); sheet size 15 x 17 3/8 inches (381 x 441 mm).

A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition.

Collections: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Stanford University.

$2400.

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Teeming Ingots- - 1935, Etching.

Ryan 88. Edition c.100. Signed in pencil.

Image size 11 7/8 x 9 13/16 inches (302 x 252 mm); sheet size 15 1/4 x 12 7/8 inches (387 x 327 mm).

A superb, richly-inked impression, in warm black ink, on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 1 3/4 inches). A repaired tear in the center right sheet edge (1/2 inch), well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition.

Published by the Society of American Etchers, New York.

Literature and Exhibition: L'Amérique de la Dépression, Artistes Engagés des Années 30, Musée-Gallerie de la Seita, Paris, 1996.

"Dramatic in content, and powerful yet sensitive in execution, it is a brilliant example of the author's well-formed but fluent style...a print which, in its soundness, its spontaneity, and the subtlety of its handling, ranks with the best work of a highly accomplished artist destined, we believe, to leave an enduring name in the annals of contemporary graphic art." –John Taylor Arms

Collections: Ackland Art Museum, Akron Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, Hood Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Terra Foundation for American Art.

SOLD

Distress - -1938, Lithograph.

Ryan 8. Edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil.

Image size 9 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches (232 x 359 mm); sheet size 11 3/4 x 16 inches (298 x 406 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on buff wove paper, with margins (7/8 to 1 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce.

Included in the ‘Artist’s for Victory’ exhibition at the Metropoliitan Museum of Art, 1942. Published in Collier’s, September, 1938.

Literature and Exhibition: Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948, Library of Congress, 1999.

Collections: Library of Congress, Smithsonian American Art Museum.

SOLD