"Church" by Sperry Andrews, Amer., (1917-2005) Pencil small handling crease upper right

small handling crease upper right margin corner

Such a beautifuly balanced  print by this Vermont master

annotated "Hicken Sulpher Works" in pencil at top verso

as the nuanced face and torso of this male nude attest

There are a few penciled framers notations at bottom margin edge

"Church" by Sperry Andrews, Amer., (1917-2005) Pencil small handling crease upper rightColor Monotype, ca. 1940, 9 x 12, signed with initials in image l. r., on buff wove paper, original scotch tape to four corners from original mount. This carefully realized monotype of an Icelandic church on a desolate street beneath gray skies with it's steeple in a shaft of light, offering a ray of hope during wartime, shows Sperry Andrews modernist embrace of accentuated hard edges and cubist planar faceting to flatten space, while portraying rural