Night
Shadows-
- 1921,
Etching.
Edition c. 500. Signed
in pencil.
Image size 6 7/8 x
8 1/4 inches (175 x 210 mm); sheet size 10 5/8 x 14 1/2 inches (270 x
368 mm).
A superb, richly inked
impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 3/4 to 4 1/4 inches),
in excellent condition.
Printed by Peter Platt.
Reproduced: Prints
and Their Creators, A World History, Carl Zigrosser, Crown Publishers
Inc., 1974; American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy
Collection, The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., 1987;
Whistler to Weidenaar: American Prints 1870-1950, Museum of Art,
RISD, 1987, American Identities: Twentieth-Century Prints fron the
Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection; Davis Museum and
Cultural Center, Wellesley College; 2004; Artists & Prints, Masterworks
from the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
2004; Pressed In Time: American Prints 1905-1950, Henry E. Huntington
Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, 2007.
Exhibited: American
Identities: Twentieth-Century Prints fron the Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class
of 1954, Collection; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley
College; 2004; Pressed In Time: American Prints 1905-1950, The
Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, 2007-2008.
Collections: Achenbach
Foundation for Graphic Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum,
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Morse
Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of
Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art.
Sold as part of the
rarely seen complete portfolio Six American Etchings, published
by The New Republic, New York, 1924. In addition to Hopper's
iconic Night Shadows the group includes the very scarce John
Marin masterwork, Brooklyn Bridge No. 6 (Swaying); as well as
Ernest Haskell's Sentinels of North Creek, Peggy Bacon's The
Promenade Deck, Kenneth Hayes Miller's Play and John Sloan's
Bandit's Cave. Each pencil signed, full sheets, and in excellent condition.
Six American Etchings
complete portfolio –SOLD
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