| Blue
Valley Fox Hunt --
1936,
Lithograph.
Zinc
10. Edition 250, AAA. Signed in pencil.
Image size 12 3/4
x 16 7/16 inches (324 x 418 mm); sheet size 15 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches (400
x 495 mm).
A superb impression,
with wide to full margins (1 1/4 to 1 3/4 inches), on cream wove paper,
in excellent condition.
The reclining figure
is Thomas Hart Benton, deMartelly's teacher and friend.
Illustrated in The
Prints of John S. deMartelly: 1903-1979, by Bill North, Kresge Art
Museum, Michigan State University, 1997.
Selected for Fine
Prints of the Year, 1938, R. Wilson. First prize, graphic arts division
Midwestern Artists' Exhibition, 1939.
Exhibited: 1939 New
York World's Fair; 1939 Whitney Annual; Pressed In Time: American
Prints 1905-1950, The Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino,
2007-2008.
$1600. |