Feb 04, 2021 - Sale 2557

Sale 2557 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001)


Milling a Gun Sight.
Lithograph. 317x254 mm; 12 1/2x10 inches, 1/4- to 1 inch margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Pennsylvania Art Program, WPA, Philadelphia. 1941.

With a lithograph of a drill press printed on the verso.

The matrix for this lithograph and the following lot were photographed on the stone before printing by Jerome Rolland, Federal Works Agency, Work Project Administration, with the caption: "Claude Clark and Zeb Johnson shown working on civil defense imagery, 1941." The photograph is on deposit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. John Ittmann, Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered. p. 45, fig. 63.