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).

ARMIN LANDECK (1905-1984) Pop’s Tavern. Drypoint and aquatint, 1934. 155×257 mm; 6 1/8×10 inches, full margins. Reference: Kraeft 45. Edition of 50 (from an intended edition of 100). Signed, dated and inscribed “Ed. 100” in pencil, lower margins. In excellent condition, with full margins, printed on a cream wove paper. A superb, dark, richly-inked impression; one of Landeck’s most sought after prints. This is a view of Christopher Street in New York, across from the Hudson Movie Theatre. Landeck’s friend and fellow artist Martin Lewis used the same location for his drypoint Bedford Street Gang, 1935.