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ANNE RYAN
Now, Ever Awake, My Master Dear, I Fear a
Deadly Storm
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Color woodcut on black wove paper, 1947.
205x248 mm; 8x9
3
/
4
inches, wide (full ?)
margins. Edition of 300. Signed in white ink,
lower right. Published by Laurel Gallery,New
York. From
Laurels Number One
.A very good
impression with fresh colors.
[1,500/2,500]
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ANNE RYAN
Man King and Lamp
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Color woodcut on black wove paper.
445x280 mm; 17
1
/
2
x11 inches, full margins.
Signed, titled and numbered 28/30 in
white pencil, lower margin.
Ryan (1889-1954) began creating prints in
the early 1940s, and at Atelier 17, Ryan
learned to make color woodcuts in a 1945
class taught by Louis Schanker. Ryan
learned the white-line woodcut technique,
innovated by printmakers in Provincetown
around 1915 who were inspired by 19th-
century Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcuts and
carved their designs onto a single block,
rather than multiple blocks as in the western
printmaking tradition, inking each section
with a different color. The small grooves
between each segment create the distinctive
white lines of these woodcuts. However,
Ryan opted for black paper, creating the
“black line” woodcut.
[1,200/1,800]
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