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Irish Kids - 1938, Woodcut.

Cole 54. Edition 60. Signed, titled and numbered 41/60 in pencil.

Image size 11 1/2 x 8 15/16 inches (292 x 227 mm); sheet size 20 x 16 inches (508 x 406 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream Japan, with full margins (3 1/2 to 4 5/16 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by the artist.

SOLD


Child Reaching - 1940, Woodcut.

Cole 82. Edition 25; reprinted in an edition of 60 as part of the portfolio Will Barnet, Images of Children published by Associated American Artists, 1982. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 7 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (184 x 286 mm); sheet size 10 1/4 x 13 1/8 inches (260 x 333 mm).

A fine, black impression, on fibrous buff Japanese Mulberry paper, with full margins (3/4 to 1 3/4 inches); lightly skinned in the top left and right sheet corners recto (where previously hinged), otherwise in excellent condition. A scarce impression from the first edition, printed and published by the artist.

Collections: British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

$1600.

WPA, Woodcut, Child, Kitchen Table, Home, Graphic Modernism

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