After Image of Brittany by Benjamin Cunningham

After Image of Brittany by Benjamin Cunningham

After Image of Brittany

Benjamin Cunningham

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Title

After Image of Brittany

 
Artist
Year
1940  
Technique
lithograph 
Image Size
9 1/8 x 12" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
52 of 150  
Annotations
pencil titled, dated, and editioned 
Reference
illustrated on page 28 in the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday, April 3, 1940 
Paper
ivory Warren's Oldestyle watermarked wove 
State
published 
Publisher
San Francisco Chronicle, Contemporary Graphics, this was from the fourth series of signed prints and was offered in the Chronicle on Sunday, March 24, 1940 
Inventory ID
BEPA128 
Price
$500.00 
Description

This was the second of five prints offered by the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, March 31, 1940, in the fourth series Contemporary Graphics. Arthur C. Painter wrote about this lithograph: "After Image of Brittany" was lithographed from a sketch which Ben Cunningham made on his trip to Paris in 1939. In the print the artist has shown his impression of the continual struggle between romanticism and practicalities so evident in Paris.

In 1940 the San Francisco Chronicle devised a “plan to bring western art to the western public” by presenting Contemporary Graphics to its readers. On Sunday, March 10, 1940, the series was launched with a three-quarter page devoted to the concept of purchasing original art by western artists. Contemporary Graphics presented twenty original prints in four series over four consecutive Sundays.

Works by Herman Volz, George Gaethke, Ray Bertrand, Rueben Kadish, and Arthur Murphy comprised the first series. Sunday, March 17th, the Chronicle presented the second series that included works by Glen Wessels, Sargent Johnson, A. Ray Burrell, Beckford Young, and Theodore Polos. The third series, featured on March 24th, included works by Dong Kingman, Shirley Staschen, Clay Spohn, Edgar Dorsey Taylor and George Harris. The fourth and final series was presented to the public on March 31, 1940, with works by Otis Oldfield, Benjamin Cunningham, Mallette Dean, John Haley, and Erle Loran.

With the exception of Mallette Dean's linoleum block print, all the prints were original lithographs. Each print was pencil signed and titled and the edition size was 150. The price for the individual works was $2.00 and they could be purchased in San Francisco from the following locales: the Chronicle, the City of Paris, O’Connor, Moffatt, Paul Elder, Schwabacher-Frey and Gumps.

 

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