Edition: Not stated, but probably small.  Signed in pencil lower right; initialed and dated in the stone, lower right, "S - 38"; titled in pencil, lower left.

Image: 17 1/16 x  10 3/16 inches (433 x 258 mm); Sheet: 22 x 15 3/4 inches (558 x 399 mm).

Reference: Moore 1975: #154.  

Excellent condition. Generous margins. Printed on off-white wove paper, watermarked "FRANCE." Remnants of old mounting tape at very top of sheet, left and right. 

$1650.00

"Blast Furnace #1" dated 1946 (see below), Etching and Aquatint.

Edition: 250 (?). Signed in pencil lower right.

Image: 11 7/8 x  8 1/2 inches (302 x 216 mm). Sheet: 14 7/8 x 12 inches (378 x 305 mm).

References: Moore 1975 #147; Warner 1994:75 #54; Reese 1949:194.

Excellent condition. Generous margins. A fine print published by the American Association of Artists. A Purchase Prize winner in the AAA's National Print Competition, 1946. A larger lithographic version was made of the same subject (see Moore 1975 #148 Blast Furnace #2). Based on Sternberg's observations of the steel industry in 1936 and 1937. There is some confusion about this print. The catalogue raisonne by Moore (1975), who worked with input from Sternberg, dates this print as 1937, with no statement of edition size. A later volume on Sternberg's prints (Warner 1994) states a date of 1946 and publication through Associated American Artists in an edition of 250. In fact, Warner, who also had input from Sternberg, may be correct. Illustrated in Fine Prints of the Year 1938 (Dodgson 1938:Plate 95) is the larger, and reversed, Blast Furnace #2 image. It seems safe to assume that Blast Furnace #1 is not the 1937 print, but rather the 1946 issue.    

$1100.00

Edition: 250. Signed in pencil lower right.

Image: 11 7/8 x  9 3/8 inches (302 x 237 mm); Sheet: 15 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (403 x 303 mm).

Reference: Moore 1975: #186.  

Excellent condition. Generous margins. Published by the American Association of Artists. Their information card, that accompanied this print, described Sternberg:

Harry Sternberg, a product completely of New York City, born in the heart of it in 1904, and educated in its schools, has achieved national fame for his ability in handling the medium of lithography. His lithographs have been honored by the selection for the Fifty Prints of the Year, 1930; the Fine Prints of the Year, 1932, 1933, and 1934; First Prize at the Print Club of Philadelphia; and selection for 100 Prints of the Year, 1938. His works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Fog Museum at Harvard, Addison Gallery of American Art, Metropolitan Museum, Library of Congress, Ohio University, Philadelphia Museum, Illinois State Museum, Brooklyn Museum, New York Public Library, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and in many private collections. His murals are in post offices in Chicago, Chester, Pa. and Sellersville, Pa.

 $300.00