"Festival (Provincetown)" by Sol Wilson, Amer., (1896-1974) POR

"Festival (Provincetown)" by Sol Wilson, Amer., (1896-1974) PORLithograph, ca. 1950, ed. 250, 13 3 4 x 9 1 2, on warm white wove paper, signed, titled and dedicated in pencil, slightest tone within mat opening, some waviness to edge of top margin, small hinges at corners. The swarming crowd pressed here against towering masts of fishing boats on the wharves of Provincetown elicits a similar feeling to the teeming hordes dwarfed by skyscrapers in Abraham Walkowitz's lithographs of of New York from early in the

west of London

state with more horizontal lines added along the bottom edge

on buff laid paper

signed and titled in blue ink

among others

exhibited at the City Art Museum

small stain in left bottom margin

signed & dated in the plate: A Hohenstein 1898

and is signed & numbered in pencil

Manuel Robbe was a master printmaker of the Belle Epoque who specialized in color aquatint views of Paris and intimate glimpses of fashionable french woman at leisure or in private domestic moments

New York Public Library

on smooth cream NORMANDY VELLUM paper