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The Accident- - 1934, Etching.

Ryan 56. Edition 10. Signed in pencil. Titled and numbered 01 in the bottom margin, verso.

Image size 10 1/2 x 12 inches (267 x 305 mm); sheet size 14 3/8 x 15 1/4 inches (365 x 387 mm).

A superb, well inked impression, with rich burr, in dark brown ink, on cream wove paper; full margins (1 5/8 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce.

Illustrated in L'Amérique de la Dépression, Artistes Engagés des Années 30, Musée-Gallerie de la Seita, Paris, 1996.

SOLD


Teeming Ingots- - 1935, Etching.

Ryan 88. Edition c.100. Signed in pencil.

Image size 11 13/16 x 9 13/16 inches (300 x 249 mm); sheet size 15 1/4 x 12 5/8 inches (387 x 320 mm).

A fine, clean impression in warm black ink, on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 3/8 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition.

Published by the Association of American Etchers, New York. Illustrated in L'Amérique de la Dépression, Artistes Engagés des Années 30, Musée-Gallerie de la Seita, Paris, 1996.

$2800.


Up Above the World- - 1936, Etching.

Ryan 90. Edition unknown. Signed in pencil.

Image size 9 x 12 1/2 inches (229 x 318 mm); sheet size 17 1/8 x 12 5/8 inches (435 x 321 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 3/4 to 2 7/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Collections: LC, Smithsonian American Art Museum.

$5500.


Spiderboy- -1937, Etching.

Ryan 86. Edition 40. Signed in pencil.

Image size 11 x 8 7/16 inches (179 x 214 mm); sheet size 16 7/16 x 13 1/16 inches (418 x 332 mm).

A superb impression, on cream laid paper, with full margins (2 5/16 to 3 3/16 inches). Paper tape remains on the top sheet edge, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition.

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Distress- - 1938, Lithograph.

Ryan 8. Edition unknown. Signed and inscribed To George in pencil.

Image size 9 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches (232 x 359 mm); sheet size 11 3/4 x 16 inches (298 x 406 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/8 to 1 1/4 inches), in excellent condition.

Included in the 'Artist's for Victory' exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942. Illustrated in Collier's, September, 1938.

Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

SOLD


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