Chow- - 1937/38, Color Carborundum Mezzotint.
Edition 25. Signed
and titled in pencil. Annotated ap
and COLOR CORBORUNDUM PRINT PROCESS INVENTED BY THIS
ARTIST WORKING ON PHILADELPHIA WPA ART PROJECT 1938 in the artist’s hand,
bottom margin.
Image size 9 13/16
x 7 7/8 inches (249 x 200 mm); sheet size 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (346 x
248 mm).
A fine, richly-inked, selectively wiped impression,
with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (3/4 to 1 7/8
inches), in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Created for the Philadelphia
Works Progress Administration (WPA).
The color carborundum printmaking process was co-invented by Hubert
Mesibov, Dox Thrash, and Michael Gallager.
$2200. |