May 05, 2009 - Sale 2179

Sale 2179 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
McGRAW, DeLOSS / BRIGHTON PRESS. Hard Traveling. 10 bright and colorful soft ground etchings and woodcuts by McGraw, each signed in pencil, on Arches paper, plus four separate folders containing loose cut-up pieces of colored etchings. Selected writings by John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, Grady Harp, Gary Soto, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare, and the Holy Bible. 350x287 mm; 13 7/8x11 1/2 inches (sheets). Folio, contents loose as issued in clamshell box with original painted binding by McGraw on front cover. San Diego: Brighton Press, 1985

Additional Details

number 29 of only 100 copies signed by mcgraw. Inspired by the songs, stories, and journeys of Woody Guthrie and the Joads of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, McGraw created a body of work for an exhibition at the Lizardi/Harp Gallery in Pasadena, California. At that time the plates for this publication were etched at the artist's studio and first proofs pulled in the Print Department at the University of Oklahoma (from the colophon).