Robinson and Pirog 72. Edition 50. Signed and dated in pencil.
Image size 11 x 15 5/16 (279 x 389 mm); sheet size 15 7/8 x 23 inches (403 x 584 mm).
A superb, richly inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 7/8 to 4 1/16 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by master lithographer George C. Miller.
Exhibitions: Downtown Gallery, New York, American Print Makers Eight Annual Exhibition, Dec. 10-31, 1934. Print Club of Philadelphia, Seventh Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Lithography, January 1935. Weyhe Gallery, New York, Exhibition of Fifty Modern Prints of 1934, Jan 28 – Feb 9, 1935. Print Club of Philadelphia, Forty Best Prints by Ten Contemporary American Artists, November 1935. Art Institute of Chicago, Fifth International Exhibition Lithography and Wood Engraving, Nov 1 – Jan 6, 1936. Weyhe Gallery, New York, Mabel Dwight: A Decade of Lithography 1927-1937, Jan 28 – Feb 9, 1938. American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, Fifty American Prints, 1933-1938. National Academy of Design, New York, 115th Annual Exhibition, March 11 - April 9, 1941.
Awards: Honorable Mention, Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Lithography, Print Club of Philadelphia, 1935. Selected for Fine Prints of the Year 1935, Annual Review of Contemporary Etching, Engraving & Lithography, 1935. Selected for Fifty American Prints, 1933-1938, American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1938.
Literature: New York Times, Feb. 2, 1935. New York Evening Post, Feb. 9, 1935. Weyhe Gallery, Mabel Dwight: A Decade of Lithography 1927-1937, 1938, no. 72. Malcolm C. Salmon and B.F. Morrow, Eds., Fine Prints of the Year 1935, An Annual Review of Contemporary Etching, Engraving, and Lithography – Thirteenth Annual Issue; London, Halton & Company Ltd.; New York, Minton, Balch & Company; 1936. Weyhe Gallery, New York, Mabel Dwight: A Decade of Lithography 1927-1937, 1938; no. 72. Carl Zigrosser, The Artist in America: Twenty-four Close-ups of Contemporary Printmakers, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942; no. 150. Carl Zigrosser, American Artist Magazine, June 1949; no. 43.
Collections: Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art.
