Feb 04, 2021 - Sale 2557

Sale 2557 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

DONALD VOGEL (1902-1986)


Pullman Service.
Black crayon on light tan wove paper. 412x566 mm; 16 1/4x22 3/8 inches. Signed in crayon, lower left recto. 1940.

Provenance: private collection, Chicago.

Exhibited "American Water Colors, Drawings and Prints: A National Competitive Exhibition," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 5, 1952-January 25, 1953.

A study for the same-titled etching.

Vogel was known for his gritty and crowded scenes of blue collar workers and nocturnal New York. A teacher at the School for Industrial Art in New York (today the High School of Art and Design), Vogel's prints were exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and at the National Gallery, New York. During World War II, Vogel changed his artistic focus to the depiction of disillusionment and the sense of entrapment.