Original Wengenroth Watercolor - Sand and Shrub, c.1971.

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Original Wengenroth Lithographs

By The Old Print Shop, Inc

Apr 11, 2017 - May 9, 2017

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• Lot Description

  Sand and Shrub (untitled).
  Stow Wengenroth (1906-1978)
  
  Watercolor, undated, circa 1971.
  
  
  Estate signed "Stow Wengenroth. HW." HW are the initials of Harriet Wengenroth.
  Image size 15 x19 15/16" (38.2 x 50.6 cm).
  It is unusual for Stow Wengenroth to do watercolors, almost all of his work was drybrush because it it gave the effect of lithography which was his expressive art form. Most of the watercolors that do exist are after the mid 1950's.

  Wengenroth used lithography as his primary form of artistic expression.  His drawings at this time were almost all in the drybrush technique.  This is because drybrush drawings closely resemble how a lithograph will look when printed.  When he found a drawing pleasing, he would walk from Brooklyn to George Miller’s studio and pick up a lithographic stone and carry it to his studio.  There he would interpret his drybrush drawings, which were always larger than the finished lithographs.  Once drawn, he would carry the stone back to Miller’s studio in New York for printing.  Because of the weight of the lithographic stones (many weighing 75 to 90 pounds), Wengenroth moved his studio to Manhattan to be closer to Miller’s studio.  For a while his studio was at 51 West Tenth Street, a building that was occupied by many artists.  The studio he used was once occupied by Winslow Homer. 

  Condition

  Good condition.

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