Harris Schrank Fine Prints

ARMIN LANDECK (1905-1984)
Manhattan Canyon
drypoint, on wove paper, 1934, signed, dated and numbered ‘Ed. 100’ in pencil, from the edition of 100, with margins
Image: 133⁄4 x 65⁄8 in. (349 x 168 mm.)
Sheet: 173⁄4 x 101⁄2 in. (451 x 267 mm.)

A fine impression in excellent condition.

Kraeft 46

Landeck’s comment: “Done when a new wave of skyscrapers was going up in downtown New York.” Somehow Landeck made this print looking downward from a dizzying height to the street below. This print is a detail (lower left corner) of Landeck’s lithograph North River Vista (Kraeft 40).

JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903)
Limehouse, from Notes
lithotint, on cream Japan paper mounted to plate paper (as issued), 1878, Spink, Stratis & Tedesch 7, second state (of three); Way 4, Levy 8, signed in pencil (partially trimmed), from the edition of approximately 30, published by Boussod, Valadon, and Co., London, 1887, with margins, image: 6 3⁄4 x 10 3⁄8 in. (171 x 263 mm.), sheet (Overall): 10 3⁄8 x 13 3⁄4 in. (263 x 349 mm.)

A fine impression.

After the printer prepared several stones with areas of half-tone he brought them to the site, and Whistler then “sat out on a barge and made the lithotintl of the old wharves and shipping.” Whistler had made an etching (also called Limehouse) in this area much earlier, in 1859.

Several other immpressions of Limehouse are also signed “Whistler”, including the impressions at the Freer and the National Gallery, in Washington, and the impression at the Chicago Institute of Fine Arts.

Provenance
With William Weston Gallery, London.
Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, Detroit; acquired from the above in 1976
Literature

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN
Leiden 1606 1669 Amsterdam

The Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece 1651

etching and drypoint; 128 x 110 mm (5 x 4 3/8 inches)

Bartsch 53, White/Boon sixth (final) state; Hind 253; The New Hollstein 262 sixth state (of ten)

WATERMARK
Strasbourg Lily with initials LC (described by Hinterding for the fifth state; the watermark is documented for prints dating between 1640 and 1651)

PROVENANCE
Carolyn Crossett Rowland, Boston

A superb, extremely dark, and strictly contemporary (and thus quite rare) impression. It displays all the subtle nuances of the intrinsic play of light and dark characteristic for this image; in excellent condition with margins all round.