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West Side Chicago by William Jacobs

West Side Chicago by William Jacobs

West Side Chicago

William Jacobs

Title

West Side Chicago

 
Artist

William Jacobs

  1897 - 1973 (biography)
Year
1938  
Technique
woodcut 
Image Size
9 1/16 x 7" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
the edition was probably under 100 
Annotations
pencil titled and dated 
Reference
From a portfolio of 6 block prints 
Paper
cream wove, mounted to buff laid UNICORN watermarked support sheet 
State
published 
Publisher
L.M. Stein, Chicago. 
Inventory ID
18230 
Price
SOLD
Description
This woodcut is from a folio of six block prints, published by L.M. Stein in Chicago in 1938, with a foreward by Chicago art critic and author J.Z. Jacobson. A noted collector of Chicago prints has commented that in his years of collecting he only has seen one complete portfolio, which he purchased. regionalist