Detail from U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey: Needles, CA 1950 — including Route 66 (National Old Trails Road) — on the way to Amboy and Roy’s Cafe.
Category: Works On Paper
Antique New York Maps
Asher & Adams, Railroads of the State, 1870 (17″ x 24″)
Westchester County, 1912 (30″ x 23″)
Cold Spring/Nelsonville, 1867 (19″ x 24″)
Old Master Prints
Engraving, Terra (c.1580s) – Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (1520-1590); Publisher – Philip Galle (1537-1612).
Man and Farmhouse (c.1620) – Claes Jansz. Visscher, Dutch (1587-1652 Amsterdam) after Abraham Bloemaert, Netherlandish (1566-1651 Utrecht, Netherlands).
Engraving – Schelte a Bolswert (1586-1659); Publisher – Pierre Mariette I (1596-1657)
Degas Impressions
From “Les Dessins de Degas,” 100 fac-similes of works by Edgar Degas, produced by his friend Henri Riviere (Demotte 1922-24). WFA has one of the (250) portfolios made by Riviere, five years after Degas’ passing. The three above prints are from the portfolio.
Op Art – Vasarely
Victor Vasarely, Vega Pauk, 1970, Printed in Munich (1972). Image – 14″x 28″
Flemish Gentleman
Giuseppe Canale, Italian (1725-1802) After Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam). Engraving.
“The Old Watermill”
Original signed etching (c.1886) by German-born American artist Charles Mielatz (1864-1919), in vintage wood frame with grape-cluster motif. Overall size w/frame: 27″ x 35″.
