1944 woodblock print by James Dexter Havens (American; 1900-1960). Titled Shadow-Moonlight-No.2. Signed and dated lower right, titled and numbered 11/25 lower left.
Measurements: 22.5" W x 18.5" H x 1.5" D (frame); 11.25" W x 8.75" H (image).
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Art Studies: Rochester Athenaeum, Mechanics Institute, Charles H. Woodbury Summer School, Maine.
Private Studies with Thomas Fogerty, Troy Kinney, John E. Costigan, and Grant Reynard.
Works represented in public collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, William Smith College, Arnot Art Gallery, Arlington (Massachusetts) Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, Lyman Allyn Museum, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Print Club of Rochester, Montclair (New Jersey) Art Museum, University of Maine, New York Public Library, Pasadena (California) A r t Museum.
Commissioned to design annual membership prints, Prairie Print Makers, 1948, The Woodcut Society, 1949, American Color Print Society, 1950, Print Club Rochester, 1949.
Recipient: American Artists Group prize Society American Graphic Artists Exhibition, New York City, 1955, Ewald Eiserhardt Purchase awards Print Club Rochester, 1936, 1939, 1949, 1951, 1959, University of Rochester Fairchild award, 1939, Purchase award Brooklyn Museum, 1947, Gould purchase award for watercolor Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition, 1949, print prize Buffalo Albright Art Gallery, 1946.
Member: Society Washington Printmakers, Boston Printmakers, Society Independent Artists , Print Makers Society of California, Academic Artists , American Color Print Society, Prairie Print Makers, American Water Color Society, Society American Graphic Artists, Washington Water Color Club.
Elected: Associate, National Academy, 1951.
Overall good condition. Some faint foxing spots in margin. Not examined out of frame. Discoloration to mat.
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