Feb 04, 2021 - Sale 2557

Sale 2557 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

MINNIE LOIS MURPHY (1901-1962)



Two woodblock prints.
Boys Fishing in the Canal, wood engraving on thin Japan paper. 197x254 mm; 7 3/4x10 inches, full margins. Edition of 25. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Federal Art Project, WPA, New York. Circa 1940. NYPL W-83. * Head of a Negro Girl, woodcut on cream Japan paper. 197x140 mm; 7 3/4x5 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of 40. Signed, titled and inscribed "Ed. 40" in pencil, lower margin. Circa 1940.

Other impressions of Boys Fishing in the Canal are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.