Downtown, The El = 1921, Etching.

Z134. Edition 30 plus c. 300 for the New Republic in 1924. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right.

Image size 6 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (175 x 219 mm); sheet size 9 1/4 x 13 inches (235 x 330 mm).

A fine impression, with rich, selectively wiped platetone; on buff wove paper, with margins (3/4 to 2 1/4 inches), in excellent condition.

In 1924, this etching and five other originals by American printmakers were offered as a portfolio with a year's subscription to the New Republic.

Illustrated in A Treasury of American Prints, Simon and Schuster, 1939; One Hundred Prints from 100 Artists of the Art Students League of New York, 1875-1975, Art Students League, New York,1975; A Century of American Printmaking: 1880-1980, James Watrous, University of Wisconson Press, 1984.

SOLD

St. Paul's Against the El = 1930, Etching.

Z146. Edition c. 20. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right.

Image size 6 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (175 x 219 mm); sheet size 9 1/4 x 13 inches (235 x 330 mm).

A superb impression, with overall burr and rich, atmospheric platetone; on pale grey wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce.

Published by Alfred Stieglitz. Collections: PMA, MMA (Stieglitz Collection), MoMA (Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller).

$28,000.

Figures, Downtown = 1932, Pencil.

Signed in pencil.

Image size 4 1/2 x 6 inches (114 x 152 mm).

Provenance: Estate of the artist. Ex-collections: Marlborough Gallery; Kennedy Galleries, Inc.; Sid Deutsch Gallery; Cape Split Place, Inc.; and Owings-Dewey Fine Art.

Exhibited: John Marin, 1870-1953, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, November 28, 1970 - January 3, 1971.

$14,000.