Ashcan School Prints and Multiples

An old sailor is shown at work on a what must be a huge sailing vessel. He's splicing, or joining ropes together -- probably still a useful skill in the mi...

Blanche Grambs, known to friends as 'Grambs' (1916-2010) was born in China. She came to New York as a very young woman to study at the Art Students Leag...

Chicago-born Golinkin studied at the Artist Students League with George Luks. After working as an illustrator for New York papers he joined the Navy in 1939 and retired as a Rear Adm...

Jane Rogers was born in the artists' colony of Woodstock, New York. Most of her career was spent in New York. Although her dates are most often given as 18...

"The Row at the Picnic" is an original etching by John Sloan. This piece depicts a fight that broke out in a park. There is a mass of people huddled together. 4 7/8" x 3 1/2" art 17...

John Sloan (1871-1954), Barbershop, 1915, etching and aquatint, signed in pencil lower right, inscribed in pencil “For John Quinn, Esq. – John Sloan” lower left margin, (also signed ...

"Man Monkey" is an original etching by John Sloan. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This is from an edition of 100. It depicts a man banging a drum in the middle of a ...

If ever there was an image that fit the description of 'Ashcan,' Harry Rein's Competition, made for the NYC WPA, is clearly it! Some impressions have the WPA sstamp, including the o...

The etching (Crucifixion) is signed and titled in pencil. Signed 'Fred' and possibly dated '27' in the image at lower left. It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Nagl...

Classic American Depression-Era subject meets the French landscape? Clearly Guyer was looking at both Jean-Francois Millet and Vincent Van Gogh, who together informed this image. And...

James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints. Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NYC at the Art Students League. The New-York Historical Society and the Library of Congress both have collections of his work. Signed, titled, and dated. Especially like the test marks at the lower right and the way the lawyer is leaning/relaxing on the judge...

Russian-born and European-educated Alexander Kachinsky was a designer of stage sets (for the Ballet Russe), furniture, and commercial interiors. His prints are in the collection of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian American Art museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. He came to this country in the 1920s. An impression of this subject in the Smithsonian. "Cloudy Day," about 1940, is an idyllic country scene, possibly the artist's White Plains...

Don Freeman is best known for his paintings and works on paper of New York City's theatre industry: the signage, the stages and sets, the actors, the costumers and ushers, anything a...

Gregory often worked in lithography, probably learned at the Art Students League in New York City. In all likelihood this is a New York scene but he also often drew New England subje...

Albert Abramovitz was working in New York in the 1930s when he made wood engravings of the construction of the Moscow subway. This image, The Wagonette, is a wrenching testament to t...

John Sloan's Westminster Abbey portfolio is among the most rare of his printmaking output, and a complete set like this is even more unusual. Etched in dark brown ink in on a sturdy ...