Feb 04, 2021 - Sale 2557

Sale 2557 - Lot 174

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

CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001)


Soldering.
Lithograph. 343x279 mm; 13 1/2x11 inches, 1/4- to 1 inch margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Pennsylvania Art Program, WPA, Philadelphia. 1941.

The matrix for this lithograph and the preceding 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.