Going Home by Emil Armin, Amer., (1883-1971) Rare

Going Home by Emil Armin, Amer., (1883-1971) RareWoodcut, 1951, Ed. unknown, 5 x 5 15 16, slight toning to sheet within mat opening, signed, titled and annotated Art. Pr'f. and 2d St. in pencil, on cream laid paper. Armin created this print from scenes which touched him during a trip to Mexico, continuing a major theme first inspired by travels to the southwest in 1928. By the age of 30 Armin had studied with George Bellows and attended the Chicago version of the 1913 Armory Show, fueling his

but a forest of factories with smokestacks spewing billowing clouds of smoke

Not in the raisonne

and this diamond merchant may have been a local neighborhood fixture in Philadelphia observed by Lerer while growing up

in the original mat with tissue guard

a few minor discreet soft handling creases

This is a particularly fresh and vibrant impression in fine condition

which likely shows Horter's own home or the view from it

A pale trace of mat line and toning witin mat opening

in 1869 Greatorex was elected the first woman associate member of the National Academy of Design

4-15/16 x 11-5/8

paint stains to verso

of 30 or more