American block print calendar 1937

Object Details

Creator

Gutenberg Publishing Company (Milwaukee, Wis.)

Gutenberg Publishing Company (Milwaukee, Wis.)

Place of publication, production, or execution

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Physical Description

Calendar : 53 p. : ill. ; 28 x 19 cm.

Summary

Features a print for every week of the year by 53 American artists. Illustrated with 33 woodcuts, 8 line photomechanical prints, 8 lithographs, 5 linecuts, and 1 linecut with linocut, measuring 18.8 x 12.8 cm. or smaller. 18 prints signed in plate. Each print titled with format identified.
Contributing artists in order that their work appears are: Wanda Gag, George Barford, Marguerite Zorach, Biagio Pinto, Gregory Orloff, Wharton Esherick, Mary Louise Lawser, Todros Geller, Peggy Bacon, William Zorach, Stuart Davis, Willi Anders, Thomas Hart Benton, William Gropper, Carl Holty, Herbert Pullinger, Walter Dubois Richards, Grant Wood, Robert Von Neumann, Gustave Baumann, Howard N. Cook, Bernece Berkman, Edwin Tunis, Florence V. Cannon, John Steuart Curry, Alfred Bendiner, Alexander Masley, Evelynne Mess, Julian Wehr, Howard Thomas, Angelo Raphael Pinto, Emil Ganso, Gerhard Bakker, Clare Eichbaum Brehme, John F. Stenvall, Grace Arnold-Albee, Ernest Fiene, Jean Charlot, Birger Sandzen, Lowell M. Lee, Karl Knaths, Boris Artzybasheff, Julius J. Lankes, Thomas W. Nason, Rockwell Kent, Kevin B. O'Callahan, Fritzi Brod, Mabel Dwight, Nicolai Cikovsky, Helmut Summ, Fiske Boyd, Elmer Young, and Frank Hartley Anderson.
Note on cover (handwritten, pencil): Rockwell Kent.

Citation

Gutenberg Publishing Company (Milwaukee, Wis.). American block print calendar 1937, copyright 1936. Irving F. Burton papers, 1816-1967. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Use Note

Current copyright status is undetermined

Provenance

Donated 1978 by Dr. Irving F. Burton, who bought the calendar at auction.

Location Note

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560

copyright 1936

Record number

(DSI-AAA)13778

Type

Printed Materials

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Irving F. Burton papers, 1816-1967

Archives of American Art

Topic

Prints, American

Relief prints

Record ID

AAADCD_item_13778

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