Allen Lewis and American Artists Group
Swinging the Gate
1935
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Physical Qualities
Color woodcut, Sheet: 458 × 331 mm. (18 1/16 × 13 1/16 in.)
Image: 255 × 191 mm. (10 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dr. Raymond D. Havens, 1954
Object Number
1998.1.3
Verso of mount: 'This print is an original woodcut made by me and printed with my approval and under my direction. It is in every respect the equivalent in quality of those prints issued by me in limited editions and sold at comparatively high prices. Its low price is made possible by the edition being neither pencil signed nor arbitrarily limited / Allen Lewis / American Artists Group: New York'.
Kraeft, June and Norman Kraeft, Great American Prints, 1900-1950, New York: Dover, 1984, ill. no. 89.
Signed: 3
Inscribed: RECTO: BL Corner in matrix: 'ALLEN LEWIS / c 1936 [6 backwards]'. VERSO: Printed BL: 'AMERICAN ARTISTS GROUP / 106 SEVENTH AVE·NEW YORK' around logo; and below: 'SWINGING THE GATE by ALLEN LEWIS / AL c 1936'.
Markings: ARCHER W&A [fig. of archer]
