Feb 04, 2021 - Sale 2557

Sale 2557 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

EDWARD ARTHUR WILSON (1886-1970)


Two lithographs.
Pipe Fitters. 348x244 mm; 13 3/4x9 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 15/30 in pencil, lower margin. 1941 * Untitled (Laying Pipe in New York City). 280x333 mm; 11x13 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Pipe Jungle" in pencil, lower margin. 1941.
Very good impressions.

Wilson was born in Glasgow and moved to New York as a young man in 1893. Wilson was a sought-after illustrator of over 77 books and an accomplished printmaker. His WPA prints depicted the heroic efforts of industrial workers.