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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.


Peoza- - 1943, Brush and Ink over Pencil.

Unique. Signed and dated, lower right.

Image size/sheet size 11 x 8 1/2 inches (279 x 216 mm).

A fine, skillfully rendered surrealist abstraction, on cream wove paper; the image extending to the sheet edges, in excellent condition.

Provenance: The Philip and Suzanne Schiller Collection of American Social Commentary Art, 1930 - 1970, Highland Park, Illinois.

$4500.


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