Lithograph, 1939. 250x365 mm; 9 3/4x13 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of 30. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Ed 30" by the artist's estate in pencil, lower margin. With the artist's initials red ink stamp, lower right. A very good impression. Fine/Looney 162.
Spruance (1904-1967) was born in Philadelphia, where he studied and remained to work and teach for most of his career. The heart of Spruance's practice was lithography, and he created over 550 prints over the course of his career. He favored religious themes and modernist abstraction, but during the WPA era he created many prints in the social realist style reminiscent of the Ashcan school.
