Kyra Markham , Flag Raising in Leroy Street - Old New York - Vintage New York, 1942

Flag Raising in Leroy Street.
Lithograph. 320x245 mm; 12 5/8x9 5/8 inches. Edition of 25. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Ed. 25" in pencil, lower margin. 1942.
This is a masterfully designed work featuring a complex arrangement of figures with multiple light sources that depicts a celebratory New York City moment .
The condition is good. It is framed and presents well.
Wide margins. the print is quite rare. For lovers of "Old New York" this work will stir memories.
A very good impression of this scarce lithograph. We have found only 7 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.

An artist as well as an actress, Markham's works seek out every day dramas, assisted by her use of high contrast and shadows. Markham attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1907 to 1909, when she left the Institute to work at Chicago's Little Theater and later with the Provincetown Players in Massachusetts. She became an illustrator to supplement her acting career and in 1930 attended classes at the Art Students League in New York, where she started to work in lithography. Her employment with the Federal Art Project in 1936 coincided with what are considered the finest examples of her lithographic Å“uvre. The New York Herald Tribune named Markham among the Federal Art Project's Graphic Arts Division artists who "assist particularly in carrying on the project's graphic work to a success unsurpassed by any of its other departments" after viewing the spring 1937 exhibition of "Recent Fine Prints" at the Federal Art Project Gallery in New York.
Framed under glass
Kyra Markham, American, 1891–1967
Lithograph Ed 25
20.25 - 17.25 inches
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