Washing Clothes, Corsica- -1934, Wood Engraving.

Boston Public Library 258; Jaffe 53. Edition 60. Signed and numbered 20/60 in pencil.

Image size 8 1/2 x 10 1/16 inches (216 x 256 mm); sheet size 10 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches (270 x 324 mm).

A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove Japanese paper, with full margins (7/8  to 1 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. A scarce impression from the first edition, self-published by the artist, before the unnumbered edition of 200 published by the Cleveland Print Club in 1934.

Literature: Fine Prints of the Year, Malcolm C. Salaman, ed., The Studio Ltd., London, 1935. Clare Leighton, Wood Engraving of the 1930s, The Studio Ltd., London, 1936, reproduced p. 66.

Collections: British Council Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, Museum od New Zealand, Oberlin College, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Spencer Art Museum, Witicha Art Museum, University of Oregon.

$1200.

Boston Cod- -1929, Wood Engraving.

Boston Public Library 147; Jaffe 24. Edition 75. Signed, titled, and numbered 45/75 in pencil.

Image size 9 7/16 x 8 1/16 inches (240 x 204 mm); sheet size 13 3/16 x 10 1/4 inches (335 x 260 mm)

A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove Japanese paper, with full margins (7/8  to 2 1/8 inches); slight lightening to the paper within the previous mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition.

Literature and Exhibition: Graphica Britannica: Highlights from the Rex Nan Kivell Gift, Peter Vangioni, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2005.

Collections: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections Scotland), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (New Zealand), British Museum (London), The Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Society (London), Georgetown University Library Art Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Manchester Art Gallery (England), Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Seattle Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago.

$1800.

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Snow Shovellers, New York-- 1929, Wood Engraving.

BPL 146, Jaffe 25. Edition 45. Signed, titled and numbered 29/45 in pencil.

Image size 8 1/16 x 6 inches (205 x 152 mm); sheet size 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches (241 x 181 mm).

A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with margins (1/2 to 3/4 inch), in excellent condition.

Collections: Blanton Museum of Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

SOLD.

Landing from the series Lumber Camp--1931, Wood Engraving.

Jaffe 42. Edition 100. Signed, titled and numbered 75/100 in pencil.

Image size 8 1/4 x 12 3/8 inches (210 x 314 mm); sheet size 11 1/2 x 17 1 /2 inches (292 x 445 mm).

A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 7/16 to 2 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. An impression from the American edition of 100. An edition of 30 was printed in England.

While in the United States on a lecture tour in 1930–31, Clare Leighton visited a Canadian International Paper Company lumber camp in the Laurentian Mountains, where she made on-site sketches that became the basis for her Lumber Camp series of wood engravings. The six scenes that make up this series depict the sequential stages of the timber harvest—from felling and limbing to loading and final handling of logs for transport. In Landing, massive piles of logs lie stacked on the ice, while workers bend to prod and roll them toward the spring melt. Their bodies and tools are rendered with economy of line and stark contrasts of black and white, conveying the physical intensity of the demanding labor and the expansive, snow-covered landscape. Leighton’s structured composition, rhythmically conceived as a dynamic, complex interplay of intersecting diagonals, echoes the lumbermen’s repetitive movements while inviting the viewer to engage with the scene’s narrative.

Works from Clare Leighton’s Lumber Camp series, including Landing, have been featured in major institutional exhibitions, notably Quiet Spirit, Skillful Hand: The Graphic Work of Clare Leighton, organized by the Mint Museum of Art and subsequently presented at venues including the Cameron Art Museum and the Georgia Museum of Art, as well as in multiple exhibitions organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Blanton Museum of Art, Currier Museum of Art Collections, Library of Congress (Pennell Fund), Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Academy of Design, Terra Foundation for American Art, Yale Center for British Art.

SOLD 

Fat Stock Market -- 1933, Wood Engraving.

Edition 100. Signed, titled and numbered 11/100 in pencil.

Image size 8 1/16 x 10 1/4 inches (205 x 260 mm); sheet size 11 x 14 3/4 inches (279 x 375 mm).

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

Collections: Allentown Art Museum; Blanton Museum of Art; Davis Museum (Wellesley College); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

SOLD