Edition: 1000. Not signed, as issued; titled on the back of the mat and in the catalogue raisonné (Jones 1975).

Image: 13 x 9 3/8 inches (329 x 238 mm). Sheet: 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (412 x 311 mm).

References: Jones 1975:112 #110.

Excellent condition. Good margins. Printed on cream wove paper, watermarked POYPE, other prints have shown the watermark RIVES (Jones 1975:112). Printed by George Miller for the American Artists Group, New York. One of one thousand prints distributed to the general public. Transferring with the print is a yellow printed panel that was at one time attached to the back of the original mat. In perfect Rockwell wit it reads:

And Now Where

This print is an original lithograph made by me and printed with my
approval and under my direction. It is in every respect the equivalent
in quality of those prints issued by me in limited editions and sold at
comparatively high prices. It's price is made possible by the edition not
being arbitrarily limited.

My contract with the publishers, conceived in the public interest, prohibits
my signing these prints except on payment of such a fee as I may consider the
equivalent of time and trouble presumably involved. I may therefore say to collectors
of autographs (I am myself not one) that upon the receipt of this print and ten dollars
I will affix my signature to it and return it properly packed and insured to the sender.
But, dear collector, don't waste your money.

Rockwell Kent

May be seen illustrated in America Today (Fine Prints of the Year, 1936), Carl Zigrosser's Fine Prints New and Old (1937) as well as in Zigrosser's article on Kent in Print Collectors Quarterly (April 1938), and Andre Chegodaev's Rockwell Kent. Found in numerous museum collections.

$400.00    

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"Portrait of T. M. Cleland" 1929, Lithograph.

Edition: 100. Signed in pencil, Rockwell Kent, lower right; titled in the catalogue raisonné.

Image: 9 11/16 x 7 inches (246 x 177 mm). Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 13/16 inches (317 x 249 mm).

References: Jones 1975:41 #39; Hamill 1929.

Excellent condition. Good margins, as issued. Very clean and appears to have never been matted. Printed with sanguine ink on ivory wove paper, watermarked "FRANCE." A fine portrait of Thomas Maitland Cleland for the frontispiece of the book The Decorative Work of T. M. Cleland (Hamill 1929). Cleland was a well-known book designer and illustrator and did some designing of type faces. Quoting from the catalogue raisonné by Jones (1975):

Thirteen hundred proofs printed, one hundred for the artist and twelve hundred for Alfred E. Hamill's The Decorative Work of T. M. Cleland (1929). The first fifty-five copies of the book were printed as a deluxe edition, and the lithographs in these were signed by Kent. The image was cancelled and the stone reground by the printer, George Miller.

This is one of the one hundred prints "for the artist." Kent probably accepted the prints in lieu of direct financial compensation.

$500.00    

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