Drypoint Etching: Ghetto Drapers

by John Groth

$450 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

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ca 1930-35. Original drypoint etching. Sheet size 22.5cm x 29.5cm ca 9 x 11-1/2 ; image area 18cm x 24.5cm. Signed in plate, lower right; titled and signed in pencil in lower margin. No edition stated artist's proof? . Very faint soiling at margins; Near Fine. An evocative New York street scene, typical of Groth's social-realist work of the Depression era. Though best remembered as a wartime sketch-artist and book illustrator he produced a number

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