Date: Fri 17-Sep-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: MARYG

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Reingold-Rachel-Daviws

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Rachel Davis Fine Arts Will Auction American Prints And Drawings Oct 9

(with 1 cut)

SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO -- On Saturday, October 9, Rachel Davis Fine Arts will

present American prints and drawings from the collection of Eileen and Marvin

Reingold, MD, at auction. These works of art on paper will become the desired

prey of a new group of collectors and dealers at 9:30 am on October 9, at the

Davis Larchmere Boulevard gallery.

Works of the American social realists make up the muscle of the Reingold

collection, headlined by three drypoints by Martin Lewis. Lewis created the

drypoint and sandground "The Return" in 1925 in an edition of 60. He

reiterated his familiar theme of urban nocturnal solitude in the 1927

"Derricks at Night" and presented a lyrical view of a distant land in the 1927

"Clearing Rain, Evening, Japan."

A particular favorite of the Reingolds is Bacon's contemporary, Isabel Bishop.

Twelve of her works are in the auction, providing a glimpse into the long and

prolific career of this remarkable artist, ranging from the 1940 etching

"Straphangers" to the 1982 etching and aquatint "Girls at Counter."

Other views of urban and industrialized America are by such artists as James

Allen, Mabel Dwight, Isaac Friedlander, Frederic James, Harold Faye, Otto

Kuhler, to name only a few.

American Regionalism, in the person of its foremost proponent Thomas Hart

Benton, is at its finest in the Davis auction, with such lithographs as

"Sunday Morning," "Aaron," "The Hymn Singer," "Photographing the Bull,"

"Homecoming-Kaw Valley," "County Politics," and "Approaching Storm."

The American Impressionist painter Frank Benson has received equal recognition

for his sporting prints. There are 11 Benson etchings, including the 1935

drypoint "Solitude" from an edition of 35 along with "Summer Yellowlegs,"

"Resting Place," "Cloudy Dawn," "Flying Widgeon," "Dawn," "Plodding Home," "On

the Redhead Grounds," "The Darkening Sky," "Mallards at Evening" and

"Yellowlegs in Sunlight."

John Taylor Arms' 1931 etching "Sunlight on Stone" is soon followed by

"September 13, 1918," the etching, aquatint and sandpaper ground of 1934 by

Kerr Eby.

Preview for the October 9 auction opens Saturday, October 2 and runs through

Friday, October 9. For more information call 216/791-6040.