Jun 30, 2022 - Sale 2611

Sale 2611 - Lot 206

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
STUART DAVIS
Anchor.

Lithograph, 1936. 210x330 mm; 8 1/2x12 7/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 100. Published by the American Artists School, New York, with the ink stamp verso. A very good impression.

Anchor was one of several prints created as part of a fundraising campaign for the American Artists School, New York, which had opened in April 1936. Artists who participated in the effort alongside Davis (1892-1964) where Harry Gottlieb, Eugene C. Fitsch, Raphael Soyer and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Though the printer of this series is unknown, there is consensus that it was likely Jacob Friedlander, who was the lithography instructor at the American Artists School. Cole/Myers 19.