Topping
Tobacco, 1947, Color serigraph. Edition
300. Signed in the image in ink, lower left. Image
size 13 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches (337 x 225 mm); sheet size 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (419
x 324 mm). A fine
impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; with good margins (1 1/2 to
2 inches). Fingerprints and minor surface stains, verso, otherwise in excellent
condition. Published
by National Serigraph Society. Illustrated
in Serigraph Quarterly, May 1948; Print Quarterly III, "The
Early History of the Screenprint," December 1986, Reba and Dave Williams;
Hot Off the Press: Prints and Politics, Linda Tyler and Barry Walker, Tamarind
Institute, 1994. Collections:
Butler Institute of American Art, Reba and Dave Williams. $3500. |