May 06, 2021 - Sale 2566

Sale 2566 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ROCKWELL KENT
Group of 28 Proofs for Doremus & Company.

Woodcuts on thin wove paper, 1929-30. Printed by J.J. Lankes, Newport News. Published by Doremus & Company, New York. Various sizes and conditions.

Doremus & Company was an advertising agency for clients United Founders Corporation and American Founders Group, banking and investment companies. Doremus employed Kent (1882-1971) to draw advertisements for the firms showing American industry and Lankes (1884-1960) to cut the series of woodblocks. From October 1929 through December 1931, the prints appeared in more than thirty cities and some of the most popular magazines, including Forbes, Harpers Magazine, and Time. Burne-Jones 595, 596, 598, 602-606, 610-612, 615, 616, 618, 639, 670, 671, 694, 696 and 697.