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175.00	"Pekingese" Etching Lisa Balsie (American, 20th C. ) Titled and signed in pencil 4 3/4 x 7 inches w/ full margins on cream laid paper
	Cats Etching Kaiko Moti (Indian 1921-1989)
150.00	#3 Colorua Arualde (?) Etching Margaret J. Patterson (American 1867-1950) Titled and signed in pencil 7 x 5 inches on cream watermarked laid paper w/ full margins
250.00	Occupation Aquatint Etching Dorothy Rutka (American 1907-1985) 6 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (Image) w/ full margins Signed, titled and annotated (Artist's Proof) in pencil. 1948 Dorothy Rutka (American 1907-1985) moved from Michigan to enroll in the Cleveland School of Art, graduating in 1929. She worked as a portrait painter, a writer and illustrator before joining the graphic arts project with the WPA in 1936. Her works were included in major exhibits as well as solo exhibitions around the country. The prints in our collection exhibit her sensitive portrayal of cultural aspects of society as well as the poverty and deprivation of those suffering from the effects of the Depression, as obvious from the titles "Poverty," "Eviction," "Striker's Wife." She was married to Philip Porter, executive editor of the Plain Dealer. Tragically, they were killed by intruders in their home in Shaker Heights.
150.00	Forest Trails Lithograph Elizabeth N. (Elizabeth Nachman) Erlanger ( 1901 - 1975) Lithographer, Painter (New York, N.Y.) Signed, titled and dated (1953) in pencil 16 x 10 1/2 inches on cream wove paper w/ full margins
SOLD	Malachi Etching William Auerbach-Levy (American 1889-1964) Signed and titled in pencil 9 x 7 inches on cream wove paper William Auerbach-Levy was known for his Rembrandtesque portraits of patriarchal Jews of New York's lower East Side Born in Brest-Litovsk in Russia, Auerbach-Levy was brought to America as a young child. He grew up in New York where he began his artistic education at the National Academy of Design, alongside Norman Rockwell. He continued his studies in Paris at the Academie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens. When he returned to New York, Auerbach-Levy became highly successful as a genre and portrait painter. He was also a fine printmaker and many other well-known artists studied etching and printmaking under his tutelage. Auerbach-Levy later became one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, capturing many prominent artists, musicians and literary giants of the early 20th Century, including George S. Kaufman, Noel Coward, Eugene O’Neill and George Gershwin, among others. Auerbach-Levy was also the author of several books on the art of caricature. In 1932 he produced an etching of George Washington’s courtship for the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission. Selected Collections Art Institute of Chicago Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, PA Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco New York Public Library http://www.printdealers.com/artist_template.cfm?id=2067
225.00	Portrait Study Etching William Auerbach-Levy (American 1889-1964) Signed in pencil, lower right 8 x 5 1/2 inches on watermarked laid paper
125.00	Chinatown Etching Harriet Gene Roudebush (American 1908 - 1998) Tiled and signed in pencil 6 x 3 1/4 inches on cream laid paper w/ full margins. c. 1940. Harriet Gene Roudebush was born in Portland, Oregon on July 6, 1908. She and her family moved to Sacramento, California in 1916. She studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts (1925) and for four years on a scholarship at the California School of Fine Arts. She was known during the 1930s and 1940s for her etchings of the San Francisco Bay Area, which were sold in tourist shops and art galleries at Fishermen's Wharf. Eleven etchings of local scenes in San Francisco: San Francisco
175.00	"Cityscape" Lithograph Signed and numbered (107/250) in pencil 14 x 10 1/4 inches on cream wove paper Richard A. Florsheim (Chicago, 1916 - 1979) Chicago-born artist Richard Florsheim was a noted American painter and printmaker whose career spanned nearly four decades.
350.00	Demolition Lithograph Lawrence Beall-Smith (American 1909-1993) Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 70/100 in pencil. Image size 14 x 7 7/8 inches; sheet size 18 x 14 inches A superb impression, on off-white, deckle wove paper, with full margins in excellent condition. 1985 Born in 1909, Lawrence Beall Smith worked in various media, including painting, lithography, illustration and sculpture. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, earning a Ph.D. degree in 1931. Smith began exhibiting in 1935 and attained national recognition with a one-man exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York in 1941. He was also known as an illustrator and lithographic artist, and illustrated several books, including Robin Hood (1954) and Tom Jones (1964). Many of his lithographs featured imagery of children. His works can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fogg Art Museum and Library of Congress.
375.00	Slack Wire Walker (Circus) (Madison Square Garden Show, N.Y. City), 1933 Lithograph Kenneth Hartwell (American, 1891-1949) Edition not stated. Signed and dated in pencil. Signed with the artist's monogram in the stone, lower left; dated in the stone, lower left. Fine watermarked wove paper with full margins. 30.4 x 22.4 cm (image); 44.2 x 28.8 cm (sheet)
Sold	Watcher of the Skies Etching George Jo Mess (American 1898-1962) 13 3/4 x 18 2/3 inches Titled in pencil Artist's Blindstamp
175.00	"New York Market" Etching Leon Dolice (American 1892-1960) 4 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches Signed in pencil

Forest Trails

Lithograph

Elizabeth N. (Elizabeth Nachman) Erlanger ( 1901 - 1975)