Howard Cook, Manhattan Bridge, woodcut, edition 50 (only 40 printed), 1930. Duffy 134. Signed and numbered 17/50 in pencil. Titled in the artist’s hand on the bottom left sheet edge.
A superb, richly-inked impression on cream wove paper, with margins (7/8 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition.
Image size 17 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches (445 x 219 mm); sheet size 20 3/4 x 10 1/2 (527x 267 mm).
Literature and Exhibitions: American Prints 1900 – 1950, Yale University Art Gallery, May 10 – August 31,1983. A Century on Paper: Prints by Art Students League Artists 1901-2001, UBS Paine Weber Art Gallery, New York, 2002.
Selected for Fifty Prints of the Year, American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York,1929.
Featured with a full-page reproduction in the catalogue raisonnée of the artist's graphic oeuvre The Graphic Work of Howard Cook, Betty and Douglas Duffy, Bethesda Art Gallery, 1984.
Collections: Detroit Institute of Arts, Fordham University Libraries (President’s Print Collection), Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery.
