Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 50' in pencil.
Image size 12 x 18 inches (305 x 457 mm); sheet size 15 x 21 inches (381 x 533 mm).
A superb impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/4 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Collection: National Gallery of Art.
A fine example of American mid-century modernist printmaking.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Edward Landon was a founding member of the National Serigraph Society and served as editor of its publication, Serigraph Quarterly, in the late 1940s, and as its president in 1952 and 1953. The Norlyst Gallery in Manhattan held a one-man show of his prints in 1945. Landon also published his first book, a manual on picture framing, that same year. In 1950, with the support of a Fulbright grant, Landon traveled to Norway, where he researched the history of local artistic traditions, producing another book 'Scandinavian Design: Picture and Rune Stones, 1000 B.C. to 1100 A.D.' Landon also taught serigraphy and organized print exhibitions, including a show of his own work at the Unge Kunstneres Samfund in Oslo. In Stockholm, Sweden, he lectured on serigraphy under the auspices of the United States Information Agency.
The artist exhibited with the National Serigraph Society (1940-60), the American Color Print Society (1945-65), the Boston Printmakers (1955-70), and the Northwest Printmakers (1950-60). The Philadelphia Print Club sponsored a solo show of his work in 1953.
Edward Landon's serigraphs are included in the major American and International museum collections of, Bibliotheque National, Paris; Moderna Museet, Sweden; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel; Turku Museum, Finland; Victoria and Albert Museum, England; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; British Museum; Carnegie Museum of Art; Cincinnati Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; US Library of Congress.
