"San Jacinto" 1930, Lithograph.

Edition: 24. Signed in pencil, Richard Day, lower right; titled, San Jacinto, lower center, signed, marked, and dated by the printer, Paul Roeher imp.  1930, lower left; edition statement, 15/24, in lower left margin.

Image: 13 1/4 x 16 1/2 inches (336 x 419 mm). Sheet: 17 3/8 x 21 1/2 inches (442 x 546 mm).

Reference: Armitage 1932.

Excellent condition. Good Margins. Printed on white wove paper. A beautiful and large interpretation of Mt. San Jacinto near Palm Springs, California. In this lithograph the artist has chosen to minimize and abstract this impressive mountain chain that rises to above 10,000 feet. Day was a remarkable artist who apparently spent only a few years in the late 1920s and early 1930s producing lithographs. Day was a well-known art director in Hollywood and probably found it difficult to continue creating prints and also carry on a lucrative and busy career.

In 1932, Merle Armitage in connection with Weyhe, constructed a book of Richard Day lithographs (Armitage 1932). The foreword, written by Carl Zigrosser, begins:

One does not expect much from dwellers in Paradise; existence itself --- just being there --- seems sufficient; why worry about thinking or doing things? California has always seemed such a paradise to me, and thus it happens that I do not look for much from California in the Graphic Arts. To be sure, interesting things do drift in occasionally from the coast from a number of very individual artists. But now have come the lithographs of Richard Day. His work must be reckoned with. Here is a new lithographer, fresh in design, original in point of view, enlivened with a sense of humor.  

$950.00

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