Leon Dolice Etching ‘Gotham’ 1932 - Published by Dolice Graphics, New York from the series Old New York.
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Leon Louis Dolice (1892-1960), New York City Street Scene, Broadway north of Trinity Church looking south toward the Battery - Pre 1950.
(Dolice was born in Vienna on August 14th, 1892, and even as a young boy he preferred the lure of painting to the scholastic studies which his early years had expected of him. His father was a machinist, who exposed him to welding and metal crafts. However, his interest in art led him to abandon a secure future in the family business, and he spent most of his late teens and early twenties traveling through the capital cities of Europe studying the works of the Masters.
As with many itinerant artists, he made his way in a variety of fashions (metalworker, chef, designer) but somehow always managing to give vent to his creative instincts. Lured by the adventure of crossing the great Atlantic and by the freedoms of the New World, he came to America in 1920. There he was greeted by the turbulence of New York in the Roaring Twenties. Finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighbourhood as his first subjects.With the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favourite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan.)
‘Chrysler Building, New York City, Winter Snowstorm.’
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Woodcut ‘New York City, Mixed Heights’ 2002.
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(Yvonne Jacquette studied at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1952 to 1956. She taught at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia in 1972 and was a visiting artist and painting instructor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 to 1976 and again from 1979 to 1982. In the interim, from 1975 to 1978, she taught at Parsons School of Design in New York City. She taught at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1984. Since 1991, Jacquette has been a visiting critic at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Graduate School. She was honoured by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990. Her work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows. Her works are in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Library of Congress; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Yale University Art Gallery,)
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Fred Rappaport Woodcut ‘Jump Rope’ - Date Unknown.
(Rappaport (1912-1989) was born in Vienna, Austria. He studied art at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna. In 1938, he immigrated to the United States, settling in Chicago. There he attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Illinois. After graduating, he practiced art therapy and also taught art at the Chicago Jewish Community Center, Suburban Fine Arts Center and Studio 514. Rappaport exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Chicago Athenaeum, and the Chicago Society of Artists. He was a member of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, the American-Jewish Art Club, and the Art Institute of Chicago (retrospective after his death). He had numerous one-man shows and his works are in many museums.)
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