"Church" by Sperry Andrews, Amer., (1917-2005) Pencil

"Church" by Sperry Andrews, Amer., (1917-2005) PencilColor Monotype, ca. 1940, 9 x 12, signed with initials in image l. r., on buff wove paper, original scotch tape to four corners from original mount. This carefully realized monotype of an Icelandic church on a desolate street beneath gray skies with it's steeple in a shaft of light, offering a ray of hope during wartime, shows Sperry Andrews modernist embrace of accentuated hard edges and cubist planar faceting to flatten space, while portraying rural

There are a few penciled framers notations at bottom margin edge

famous as both industrial designer of housewares

and to the top margin edges from drying after printing

Such a beautifuly balanced  print by this Vermont master

" in pencil

image 13 x 11-11/16

as the nuanced face and torso of this male nude attest

some marginal foxing and linen hinges to top margin

small handling crease upper right margin corner

annotated "Hicken Sulpher Works" in pencil at top verso

and excelling in both

on thin fiberous  cream wove paper