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THE ARTIST'S FIRST PRINT ROBERT GWATHMEY The Hitchhiker.
Color screenprint, 1937. 427x333 mm; 163/4x131/8 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed in ink, upper left, and titled in pencil, lower center. Pale scattered marginal soiling, not affecting the image. A superb impression of this extremely scarce, early print.
According to Williams, the edition is unknown but "probably quite small." The print is based on Gwathmey's earliest surviving painting, completed around 1936, which is now in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Williams 1.
