SPRUANCE, Benton

American (1904 – 1967)

Road from the Shore, 1936

Fine & Looney 130. Lithograph on wove paper, full margins. Edition of 25. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil.

10 ⅛ x 14 ⁷⁄₁₆ inches  |  25.72 x 36.67 cm

Museum Collections:
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Free Library of Philadelphia

This impression of the rare Road from the Shore is in very fine condition, printed on the full sheet.

In Benton Spruance, the artist, the man, Lloyd Abernathy wrote: ‘Many works were also given over to the dynamics and perils of modern transportation… “I am completing ‘Traffic Control’ for this reason,” [Spruance] reported to Zigrosser, “that aided by you, I’ve put on stone three subjects not being done by anyone else – football, automobiles and fencing.”

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