Armin Landeck Engraving and Drypoint "Window on 14th Street", 1949

Item Details

Armin Landeck (American, 1905 – 1984)
Window on 14th St., 1949
Engraving and drypoint on wove paper
Signed to the lower right
From an edition of 90 (incomplete planned edition of 100)

Literature
June Kysilko Kraeft and Norman Kraeft, Armin Landeck : The Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints, page 127, figure K.103.

Born in Wisconsin in 1905, Armin Landeck began his formal artistic training at the University of Michigan, before receiving his Master’s at Columbia University. He traveled to New York to study at The Art Students League, where he began dabbling in printmaking, and working with Stanley Hayter at Atelier 17. He opened the School of Printmakers with renowned printmaker Martin Lewis in 1930. Landeck’s works are represented in the collections of numerous prestigious institutions throughout the world, including Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Swedish National Museum; the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin; the Museum of Modern Art; the Library of Congress; Whitney Museum of American Art; Print Club of Albany, and many others.

Condition

- mark to the lower right margin below signature; slight toning; mat burn under mat and further marks; sheet folded to the edges; minor nicks to the frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; plate measures 5.75" W x 12.25" H.

Item #

ITMG593202