Apr 06, 2023 - Sale 2632

Sale 2632 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ALLAN R. FREELON (1895 - 1960)
Drop Forge - Gloucester.

Etching on cream laid paper, circa 1930. 305x222 mm; 12x8 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, inscribed "imp" and "To Earl B. Milliette with best wishes" and numbered 51/75 in pencil, lower margin. Inscribed "Owned: Phila. Museum of Art, Howard University Art Gallery" and "Invited: Whitney Museum" in pencil, upper corners.

This Gloucester, Massachusetts scene is a scarce print by the Philadelphia artist Allan Freelon. Freelon first studied etching in 1927 with Earl Horter at the Graphics Sketch Club in Philadelphia. Beginning in the late 1920s, Allan Freelon spent many summers working in Gloucester. He exhibited his painting and prints of Gloucester scenes widely through the mid-1930s, including at the Harmon Foundation in New York. As the artist noted in the print's margins, other impressions of this etching are in the collections of the Phildelphia Museum of Art and the Howard University Art Gallery. An impression was also included in the Second Biennial Exhibition, Part One, Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, January 12 - February 13, 1936. Additionally, a posthumous edition of 10 was printed by C. R. Ettinger.