Artist: Armin Landeck (American, 1905–1984)
Date: 1946
Medium: Drypoint and engraving on wove paper
Dimensions: Sheet 320 × 475 mm; image (platemark) 208 × 352 mm
Edition: 100
Signatures/marks: Monogram “LA” in the plate at lower centre; pencilled “Ed. 100” at lower left margin; signed and dated “Landeck 1937” in pencil at lower right margin.
Catalogue raisonné: Pencilled “Ed. 100” at lower left margin; signed and dated “Landeck 1946” in pencil at lower right margin.
Catalogue raisonné: Kraeft & Kraeft (2nd ed.), K. 97, p. 123 — drypoint and engraving; 8⅚ × 14 in. (≈ 211 × 356 mm); “Looking east in New York City with the Consolidated Edison Building in the distance”; edition of 100. Present impression 208 × 352 mm to the platemark; sheet 320 × 475 mm
Description: Rooftop vista framed by sloping skylights and low parapets; party walls and ventilation shafts across the middle distance; beyond, a water tank and the clock-tower mass associated with the Consolidated Edison Building. Finely ruled tones and dense cross-hatching articulate planes and shadows.
Provenance: Sheldon Ross Gallery (Birmingham, MI); David Lebenbom, Bloomfield Hills, MI (1925–2015)
Additional Information
| Collection | European prints and drawings |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Print , Works on paper |
| Period | 20 AD , Mid-20th Century |
| Country | USA |
| Material | Paper , Wove paper |
| Media/Technique | Burin , Copperplate engraving , Drypoint , Engraving |
| Genre | Architectural views , Landscape Prints |
| Subject | 20th century , Architecture , Chimneys , City , Cityscape , Clock tower , Consolidated Edison Building (NYC) , Manhattan , Modern art , New York , New York City , Realism , Rooftops , Skyline , Urban landscape , Water tank , Window |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1946 |
| Catalogue raisonne | Kraeft & Kraeft |
| Acquisition year | 2025 |
