- Armin Landeck
- Corwall Bridge Station, 1936
- Drypoint
- 5.75 x 9.75 in
- Framed: 15 x 19 x 1 in
- Signature: Signed in pencil "Landeck imp" lower right-hand corner.
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Not For Sale
Kraeft 60, illustrated p. 50.
Does not have ed 100 or a date after Landeck's signature - the 'imp' after his signature typically indicates that he printed this himself presumably as a proof vs. part of the edition of 100.
This drypoint depicts the railroad station in Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. The Housatonic Railroad was one of the first railroads to exist in the northeast. Cornwall Bridge was the hub of 19th century industrial Cornwall and the village had a hotel and a church, as well as a number of businesses. Landeck had his studio nearby in East Cornwall on Great Hill Road.
Armin Landeck, printmaker and educator, was born in Crandon, Wisconsin on June 4, 1905. He studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and received his Bachelors of Architecture from Columbia University in 1927. Landeck studied printmaking at Columbia University and produced his first prints in 1927.
- Subject Matter: Landscape