"Greetings from the House of Weyhe - 1928" 1928, Lithograph.

Note: This purchase includes two prints.

Reference: Robinson and Pirog 1997:82-83 #36.

Editions:

Robinson and Pirog (1997) designate two editions for this print. Edition "A" (50 printed - possibly estimated) and edition "B" (1,950 printed). Within edition "A" are two states. The entirety of the edition "A" printing, including both states, evidently did not surpass 50 impressions. The Robinson and Pirog comment that all printing was done by George Miller.

Print 1:

Edition A: Scarce - perhaps 25-50 printed. Signed in the stone, lower right, Mabel Dwight, beneath image and above text.

Image: 7 x 8 1/2 inches (177 x 216 mm). Sheet: 11 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches (317 x 301 mm). 

Excellent condition. Good margins, uncut original sheet edges with a few minor handling marks in the margins. This print is from the second state of edition "A." It appears to have never been either matted or framed. Printed on fine cream wove paper with no watermark visible. The sheet for this printing is much larger in size, and the paper of a higher quality, than the more commonly seen "B" edition card stock. The impression and detail of this edition is superior to the "B" edition (see below) and may have been printed directly from the stone. A scarce printing.

Print 2:

Edition B: 1,950 printed. Signed in the stone, lower right, Mabel Dwight, beneath image and above text.

Image: 7 x 8 1/2 inches (177 x 216 mm). Sheet: 8 1/8 x 9 inches (207 x 228 mm). 

Good condition. Margins as issued. Paper is an off-white light weight card stock. Handling marks visible on verso, clean from the front. A good comparative copy for Print 1 (above).

Robinson and Pirog (1997:83) comment that in 1940 the Museum of Modern Art acquired an impression of edition "B," a statement on the associated accession card makes note that the lithograph was transferred from stone to zinc plate and that edition "B" impressions were pulled from multiple zinc plates.   

Image:

A Weyhe Gallery holiday print for 1928 depicting the interior of the gallery. Robinson and Pirog describe the situation as: "The man standing to the left in the foreground is Erhard Weyhe; to the right is Henry McBride, art critic for the Dial and the New York Herald.... Carl Zigrosser leans against the shelves at the right, eyeing the printmaker Wanda Gag, who stands to the left. The woman seated in the left background may be Peggy Bacon. It has been suggested that the crouching woman in the lower right is Dwight."

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Print 1

Print 2