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Original Watercolor Study of Goodwin's Department Store, Brooklyn NY
by LANING, Edward
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
[New York]: n.p., 1960. Original watercolor study, possibly for a potential mural, from noted social realist, WPA painter, and muralist Edward Laning (1906-1981). The painting features a Goodwin's Department Store display being arranged by a window dresser, with hurried interracial city crowds passing in the foreground. The smiling mannequins in the window are contrasted with seriousness of the window dresser and the everday worry of the passersby - the promise of commerce vs. the reality of life for the working class. Goodwin's was an infamous anti-union establishment and was also hostile to the poor and working class, notoriously eschewing both layaway and credit programs - a natural subject for Laning who was occupied with such themes for the entirety of his career. Laning's work is at the Whitney, Smithsonian, Met, and perhaps most famously at the NYPL, where his large mural in the McGraw Rotunda remains one of his masterpieces. Original watercolor on paper, 15" x 20" approx. Executed in a brown and grey palette with pencil. Old matting tape to verso. Penciled framer's notations to bottom edge. Else clean and sound. Very good or better. Signed "Laning" to lower right corner.
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- Bookseller
- Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44008
- Title
- Original Watercolor Study of Goodwin's Department Store, Brooklyn NY
- Author
- LANING, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- n.p.
- Place of Publication
- [New York]
- Date Published
- 1960
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2004
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Brian Cassidy Bookseller is the counterculture department of Type Punch Matrix, a rare book firm founded in 2019 by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. BCB @ TPM specializes in the avant garde in all its various guises, including: The Beats; artists' books; poetry; small journals and magazines (especially those associated with the Mimeo Revolution); modern and contemprary art; photography; music; archives and appraisals; as well as vernacular, folk, and outsider books of all kinds. We are always looking to purchase books within my areas of interest, from single titles to collections. Please inquire. We are open by appointment and are easily accessible by public transit.