Horseplay - 1935, Etching.

Johnson and Miller 82. Edition 50. Signed in pencil. Titled and annotated Edition of 50 in pencil, bottom left sheet corner.

Image size 8 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches (225 x 114 mm); sheet size 14 x 8 inches (356 x 302 mm).

A superb impression, with all the fine lines printing cleanly, on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 3/4 to 3 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. An impression from the first edition of 50; a second edition of 35 was printed in 1979.

Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Spencer Musuem of Art.

SOLD

Two Boys on a Beach #1 - 1938, Etching.

Johnson and Miller 85. Edition 75. Signed in pencil. Initialed in the plate, lower right.

Annotated by the artist 'for Frank - 1940 -and TWO BOYS ON A BEACH . 1938- Edition of 75- 15.00 in pencil, on the bottom sheet margin..

Plate size 5 3/16 x 7 1/8 inches (132 x 181 mm); sheet size 8 13/16 x 10 1/2 inches (224 x 267 mm).

A superb impression, with all the fine details printing clearly, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition. An impression from the first edition of 75; a second edition of 35 was printed in 1979.

Collections: Des Moines Art Center, de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Flint Institute of Arts, Lowe Art Museum (University of Miami, McNay Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Stanford University, UC Santa Barbara Art Museum, University of Connecticut, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art.

$7200.

Stewart's - 1934, Etching.

Johnson and Miller 78. Edition 50. Signed in pencil.

Image size 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches (200 x 298 mm); Sheet size 11 1/2 x 15 7/8 inches (292 x 403 mm).

A superb, richly inked impression, on cream, laid paper, with full margins (1 5/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition.

After the 1934 painting titled Greenwich Village Cafeteria in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (Stewart’s was a cafeteria in New York's Greenwich Village).

Collections: de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art.

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Coney Island - 1935, Etching.

Johnson and Miller 81. Edition 50. Signed in pencil. Annotated Edition of 50 – 1935 in pencil, in the artist’s hand, bottom left margin.

Image size 9 1/8 x 10 3/16 inches (232 x 257 mm); Sheet size 11 1/4 x 13 1/8 inches (279 x 400 mm).

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

After the 1934 painting of the same title in the collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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

Collections: de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Portland Art Museum, RISD Museum.

SOLD