Price: SOLD
SKU: 64180
ARTIST: Benton Murdoch Spruance
MEDIUM: Lithograph,
DATE: 1937.
EDITION SIZE: Edition 40. Image sizes vary.
DESCRIPTION: Printed by Cuno in Philadelphia. Image sizes: Morning 13 3/5 x 18 7/8" (34.6 x 48 cm); Noon 13 3/4 x 18 15/16" (35 x 48 cm); Evening 13 5/8 x 18 7/8" (34.6 x 47.9. cm); Night 13 5/8 x 18 7/8" (34.6 x 48 cm). <BR><BR> This is a very rare matching number set and one of Spruance's most desirable works. Each print is signed, titled, and inscribed "35/40." "The measure of an artist's success is largely to be found in his ability to live within his own times and to find in his daily surroundings the pictorial material through which he will speak to his audience." - Henri Marceau.
ADDITIONAL INFO: Each signed, titled and inscribed "35/40." A very rare matching numbers set. This is the most desirable of Benton Spruance's images.
CONDITION: Very good condition, full deckle edge margins. One print has a very faint mat line in the lower margin, "The People Work, Evening."
REFERENCE: A Catalogue Raisonne. Ruth Fine & Robert Looney #141, 142, 143, 144.