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Lot 69

American Block Print Calendar 1937 (Sandzen, Baumann, Knaths, Holty, etc.)

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A 1937 weekly calendar of over 50 original and reproduction wooblocks, linocuts, and lithographs, published by the Gutenberg Publishing Co. in 1936.

Original contributions include:
Birger Sandzen "Brook with Poplars"
Carl Holty "Composition"
Gustave Baumann "New Mexico Interior"
Karl Knaths "Autumn"
Gregory Orloff "Steel Mills"
Bernece Berkman "Lunch Time"
Emil Ganso "Bathers"
Jean Charlot "Bundle Carrier"

Reproduced contributions include:
Wharton Esherick "February"
William Zorach "Childhood"
Stuart Davis "Two Nudes"
Thomas Hart Benton "Mississippi River"
William Gropper "Construction Workers"
Grant Wood "Animals on the Farm"
Howard Cook "Fat John"
John Steuart Curry "The Tornado"
Rockwell Kent "The Bather"

The calendar measures 10 1/2" x 7".

Condition

Good overall condition. The top and bottom of the front cover shows pale staining, and the left end of the spiral binding is cracked. The leaves are in very good condition, clean and crisp.