Lot #1331: BEULAH TOMLINSON - Sailboats and Rowboats - White line color woodcut

 

Artist: Beulah Tomlinson (American, 1898-1987).
Title: "Sailboats and Rowboats [Provincetown]".
Medium: White line color woodcut.
Date: Composed 1955/57. Printed 1955/57.
Dimensions: Image size: 10 3/4 x 12 1/4 in. (273 x 311 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed with the initials in pencil, lower right. Edition unknown, presumed extremely small, if any. Printed on cream wove paper. Trimmed to the image. Fine, strong impression. Good condition; staining in the image lower right and left, creasing in the image, predominately near the left edge. Provenance: Provincetown Bookshop, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Comment(s): Woodcuts by Tomlinson are rare and highly sought after. She was a resident of Provincetown, a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. It is famed for its "White Line Color Woodcut" artists, of whom she was one. Tomlinson actively created prints there from at least the early 1950s to the mid 1970s. Image copyright © The Estate of Beulah Tomlinson. [30488-3-1200]