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PAUL LANDACRE
Baldy
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Wood engraving, 1932. 87x105 mm; 3
1
/
2
x4
1
/
8
inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed and
numbered 12/15 in pencil, lower margin. A superb impression of this scarce print.
We have found only 3 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.
[2,500/3,500]
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PAUL LANDACRE
Two wood engravings.
Black Stallion
, 1940. 155x180 mm; 6
1
/
8
x7
1
/
8
inches, full margins. Edition of 200. Signed,
titled and inscribed “FTP” in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Woodcut Society,
Kansas City *
Sleeping Miner
, 1941. 70x95 mm; 2
3
/
4
x3
3
/
4
inches, full margins. Signed and
dated in pencil, lower right, with the petrel cypher in red pencil, lower left. Superb, evenly
printed impressions.
[1,200/1,800]
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FRANK MORLEY FLETCHER
California 1—Salinas River
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Color woodcut on Japan paper, 1932. 322x430 mm; 12
3
/
4
x17 inches, full margins. Signed,
titled and numbered 35/100 in pencil, lower margin.
English-born Fletcher (1866-1950) trained as a painter-printmaker in London, and taught
art in London, Reading and Edinburgh in the early 1900s, before moving to California
in 1924 to become director of the Santa Barbara School of the Arts (1924-30). He later
lived in Los Angeles and Ojai.
[3,000/5,000]
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