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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.


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