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BENTON SPRUANCE
Touchdown Play
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Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1933. 294x420 mm; 11
1
/
2
x16
1
/
2
inches, full margins.
Signed, initialed, titled and numbered 16/40 in pencil, lower margin. Printed byTheodore
Cuno, Philadelphia. A very good, dark impression. Fine/Looney 87.
[1,500/2,500]
264 WILL BARNET
At the Seashore
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Color woodcut printed in black and greenish gold on Japan paper, 1939. 235x270 mm; 9x10
1
/
2
inches, full margins. One of only several proofs. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin.
With—
Child Reaching
, woodcut printed in black on light tan, fibrous Japan paper, 1940.
185x290 mm; 7
1
/
4
x11
1
/
4
inches, full margins. Edition of 25. Signed and titled in pencil,
lower margin. Both very good impressions. Szoke 69 and 83.
[1,200/1,800]
265 WILL BARNET
Butcher’s Son
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Color woodcut printed in black and greenish gold on warm, cream Japan paper, 1939.
350x365 mm; 13
5
/
8
x15 inches, full margins. Edition of only 20. Signed and titled in pencil,
lower margin. A superb impression of this scarce woodcut, with strong colors.
We have not found another impression at auction in the past 30 years. Szoke 64.
[1,500/2,500]
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