Catherine Burns Fine Art

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Catherine Burns has been a dealer in fine prints and drawings for over 35 years, after serving as a museum curator at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Washington University, St. Louis. Her firm specializes in 19th and early 20th century prints, with a concentration in American WPA-era art, French art, German Expressionism and British Modernism. Catherine regularly exhibits at national and international art fairs, and welcomes clients to her spacious gallery only 15 minutes from downtown San Francisco.

Specialties

Modern (1900-1950)

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SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN CITY

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Black, White & Wood - The Engravings of PAUL LANDACRE

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Spirit of the American City

Featured Artwork

Christopher Nevinson

The Great White Way

1920

19 3/4 x 12 inches; 50.1 x 30.6 cm

Lithograph on laid paper, with wide margins.

Edition of 25. Signed in pencil.

Selected as Collector’s Choice at the London Original Print Fair by Jonathan Bober, the Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington: “Nevinson’s The Great White Way (1920) conveys his wonder at the energies of Manhattan on the eve of its first vibrant era, as well as a satisfaction at the natural coincidence of his geometry with the city’s grid and canyons.”

Paul Landacre

Growing Corn

1938

8 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches

Wood engraving on wove japanese paper, full margins.

Rare first edition of 60 (according to Wien, there were 59 signed impressions in the first edition and 7 in the second). Signed in pencil.

“Inspired by the prior season’s resplendent corn crop grown in his backyard and elsewhere on the Hill, Landacre sketched and then engraved Growing Corn, perhaps the most widely exhibited of his prints. Many of Landacre’s American contemporaries during the Great Depression, including Georgia O’Keeffe, John Steuart Curry, and Gustave Baumann, paid homage to the majestic corn stalk as a vital and symbolic source of nourishment for man and beast.” (Wien)

Benton Spruance

Arrangement for Drums

1941

9 3/8 x 14 5/8 inches | 23.8 x 37.1 cm

Lithograph in two colors, pale green and black, on wove paper with full margins and deckled

Edition of 35. Printed by Theo Cuno. Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed “Ed 35 for Marcia Friget(?)” in pencil.

Fine & Looney 191.

Anton Schutz

The Great White Way

1931

13 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches | 35.2 x 25.1 cm

Etching and aquatint on wove paper.

Illustrated in “Impressions of New York”, Marilyn Symmes, illus. 102. Signed in pencil.

Edward Hopper

Evening Wind

1922

6 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches | 17.5 x 21 cm

Etching on wove paper.

Signed in pencil.

Zigrosser 9; Levin 77.

Emil Nolde

Hamburg, Freihafen (Hamburg Harbor)

1910

15 13/16 x 12 inches | 40.3 x 30.5 cm

Etching on wove paper, full margins.

According to Schiefler-Mosel, there were around twenty impressions.

Schiefler-Mosel 137 ii.

Works Available By:

Sybil ANDREWS
Milton AVERY
Peggy BACON
Gustave BAUMANN
Max BECKMANN
George BELLOWS
Thomas BENTON HART
Pierre BONNARD
Georges BOTTINI
Paul CADMUS
Edward CALVERT
Mary CASSATT
Howard COOK
John COPLEY
Stuart DAVIS
Francisco DE GOYA
Mabel DWIGHT
Lyonel FEININGER
Frank M. FLETCHER
Claude FLIGHT
Wanda GAG
Paul GAUGUIN
Frances GEARHART
Gerald GEERLINGS
George GROSZ
Childe HASSAM
Carry HAUSER
Paul-Cesar HELLEU
Winslow HOMER
Edward HOPPER
Earl HORTER
Wassily KANDINSKY
Rockwell KENT
Ernst KIRCHNER
Paul KLEE
Max KLINGER
Gene KLOSS
Kathe KOLLWITZ
Jean-Emile LABOUREUR
Paul LANDACRE
Armin LANDECK
Doris LEE
Martin LEWIS
Louis LOZOWICK

Bertha LUM
Louis MARCOUSSIS
Samuel MARGOLIES
John MARIN
Henri MATISSE
Jan MATULKA
Giorgio MORANDI
Carl MOSER
Edvard MUNCH
Christopher NEVINSON
Emil NOLDE
B.J.O. NORDFELDT
Max PECHSTEIN
Walter PHILLIPS
Pablo PICASSO
Camille PISSARRO
John Edgar PLATT
Cyril POWER
Grant REYNARD
William RICE
Robert RIGGS
Diego RIVERA
Henri RIVIERE
Auguste RODIN
Arnold RONNEBECK
Anton SCHUTZ
Charles SHEELER
Paul SIGNAC
Raphael SOYER
Benton SPRUANCE
Robin TANNER
James TISSOT
H.de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
Lill TSCHUDI
Charles TURZAK
Felix VALLOTTON
Jacques VILLON
Edouard VUILLARD
Abraham WALKOWITZ
Max WEBER
Stow WENGENROTH
James WHISTLER
Grant WOOD
William ZORACH

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