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Artist: Jacob Burck (1907-1982)
Title: The Lord Provides
Date: 1934.
Media: Lithograph.
Edition size: Proof sheet.
Signed in pencil extreme lower right corner of sheet; titled on the reverse.
Dimensions - Image: 12 x 9 1/16 inches (304 x 230 mm). Sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 5/16 inches (399 x 287 mm).
Excellent condition. Good margins. Printed on buff BFK wove paper. The proof sheet for the printing of The Lord Provides. Burke's notation OK to printer George Miller, applied in the lower right corner, immediately to the left of Burke's signature. Other pencil annotations to the printer occur in the lower left corner of the sheet. One of which states, 100 Buff, indicating the approval of 100 prints to be pulled on buff paper. A print of the Contemporary Print Group first year folio. Of this print Katz (1999:61) noted: With its forceful crayon strokes and strong irony. The Lord Provides reflects Jacob Burke's training under master political cartoonist Boardman Robinson. He quickly absorbed Robinson's political radicalism, and his Fourteenth Street studio became a meeting place for leftists. An interesting and increasingly important print. Very scarce.
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