Mar 03, 2005 - Sale 2035

Sale 2035 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
BARBARA LATHAM
North Carolina Mountain Woman.

Wood engraving on tissue-thin cream wove Japan, circa 1936. 203x256 mm; 8x10 inches, full margins. Edition of 50. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A brilliant, dark impression, with full margins.

One of 100 prints selected by the American Artist's Congress for their nation-wide exhibition "America Today" which was mounted simultaneously in 30 American cities in December of 1936. The selection jury consisted of the artists Arnold Blanch, Stuart Davis, Ernest Fiene, Hugo Gellert, William Gropper, Wanda Gag, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Margaret Lowengrund, Louis Lozowick, George Picken, Harry Sternberg, Lynd Ward and Max Weber.