People & Family

Six decades of close attention to people — family, figures, faces. The category opens with an early series from the 1950s: At the Movies.

Titles & Info

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Cafe

Lithograph, 1947 · Size TBD

Men gather at café tables in quiet conversation, one pair leaning close in the foreground, another further back over cups and bottles — a scene of everyday intimacy caught in soft charcoal shading.

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Shoe Shine

Color Woodcut, 1954 · Size TBD

A man in a dark suit gets his shoes shined from a red folding chair, while the shoeshine man works below in a light jacket and green hat, set against bold blocks of navy, gold, and red.

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Loretta

Lithograph, 1954 · Size TBD

A woman lies in the grass beneath tall trees, knees bent and feet up, reading a book held above her — a relaxed, sunlit moment of stillness in the woods.

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Man on Dock

Lithograph, 1949 · Size TBD

A man leans on a railing, looking out at boats moored in the harbor, while a child sleeps in a wheelbarrow parked below on the dock — mountains rising in the hazy distance beyond the water.

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Passenger

Lithograph, 1949 · Size TBD

A train passenger sits hunched forward, bent nearly double, head down in shadow — papers scattered on the floor beside them, the weight of the posture filling the frame.

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Backyard 1

Lithograph, 1953 · Size TBD

A woman stands at a window holding a baby, a young boy beside her at the sill, laundry strung across the brick backyard below and trash cans lined up beneath — a tenement scene of everyday domestic life.

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Beach

Etching and Watercolor, 1985(?) · Size TBD

Two figures in swimsuits lounge beneath a striped umbrella, one lying back in a black suit, the other reclining nearby in orange and white — sand and water sketched loosely in blue and rust tones below.

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Beach Artist

Linoleum Cut, 1985(?) · Size TBD

Three figures sit in beach chairs beneath an umbrella, one working at an easel, set against horizontal banding across sky and sand that suggests bright, hazy light.

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The Beach

Linoleum Cut, 1985(?) · Size TBD

A collage of beach imagery — figures beneath a striped umbrella above, bare feet stretched out below, as if seen from someone lying in the sand.

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Departure

Woodcut, 1979 · 22 x 16"

An old man's face is rendered in overlapping, fragmented profiles, with a second, fainter profile — his wife's — folded into the composition, as though memory and presence are merging.

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Restless Sleep

Woodcut, 1950 · 4 1/4 x 13 1/4"

A figure lies stretched across the frame, tangled in sheets rendered in bold, angular folds — the sharp, faceted carving giving the scene a restless, unsettled energy.

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Restless Sleep Revisited

Etching, 1980(?) · Size TBD

The same tangled, angular folds from "Restless Sleep" reappear in bands of pink, magenta, and blue-gray, now reading almost like a mountain range.

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Friday Afternoon

Woodcut, 1950 · Size TBD

A figure kneels low, scrubbing at the floor, the wood's natural grain left exposed as the background, becoming part of the image itself.

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Linoleum Cut, 2005 · 9 x 11 7/8"

A later, revisited take on "Friday Afternoon" — the same kneeling figure scrubbing at the floor, now carved in linoleum's crisper, more graphic contrast rather than the woodcut's grain.

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Guest Speaker

Etching, Date TBD · Size TBD

A man's face is shown close-up and fragmented, an oversized hand hovering above him — a fractured, dreamlike composition rendered in fine crosshatching and etching textures.

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Haircut

Etching with Watercolor, Date TBD · Size TBD

A person's face and figure fuse multiple viewpoints into one form — profile and back view collapsed together, a hand with scissors reaching toward the hair — rendered in soft washes of blue, gray, and peach.

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Haircut (B&W)

Linoleum Cut, Date TBD · Size TBD

A person's face and figure fuse multiple viewpoints into one form — profile and back view collapsed together, a hand with scissors reaching toward the hair — rendered in bold black-and-white line against a dense woven-net background.

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Linoleum Cut, 2005 · 7 x 3 7/8"

A nude figure leans back, head tilted, eyes closed, arm reaching outward — the posture reads as recoiling or dramatically expressive, set against stark black negative space.

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Absurd

Color Linoleum Cut, 1985 · Size TBD

A face with both hands pressed over the eyes, as if to block out what's seen, while a second large hand reaches up below — text woven directly into the composition in bold red, blue, black, and white, evoking alienation in an incomprehensible world.

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At the Movies

Color Woodcut, 1956 · Size TBD

A collage of cinematic imagery in olive green and deep red — a woman smoking in the upper left faces down the barrel of a gun held by an arm reaching in from the right, a bathing beauty below, and another woman's face in the lower right — the whole composition reading like a movie poster advertising the film itself.

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Marquee

Color Woodcut, 1956 · Size TBD

A brightly lit theater marquee glows above the entrance, figures walking toward the doors and cars parked along the curb below — the scene rendered in radiating, energetic red, orange, yellow, and black linework, evoking the glow of a night out at the movies.

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The Fantasy Cinema

Linoleum Cut, 1985 · Size TBD

A solitary figure walks beneath a glowing theater marquee at night, cars parked along the dark street — dense, sharp black-and-white linework creating deep shadow and stark light, a striking contrast to the color woodcut "Marquee."

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Into the Unknown

Color Woodcut, 1956 · Size TBD

A lonely, shadowy figure sits in the foreground, arms crossed, while behind them a lobby scene unfolds — a family at a concession counter, figures moving toward an open door leading out into bright light beyond — all rendered in moody teal and black.

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Double Feature

Color Woodcut, 1956 · Size TBD

A tense, dramatic scene plays across the screen above a darkened, packed theater — the audience rapt, one figure standing in the aisle — the wood's natural vertical grain woven through as texture, deep blue-black tones lit by white highlights.

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Stage Play I

Woodcut, 1952 · Size TBD

A theatrical scene of heightened drama — a figure with a knife makes a getaway through the window as another lies collapsed over a guitar in the foreground — rendered in bold, dense linework against a textured brick wall.

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Stage Play II

Stage Play II
Woodcut, 1952 · Size TBD

A closer view of the same dramatic moment — the fleeing figure's legs and knife-hand seen from below, while a figure lies collapsed over a guitar in the foreground — bold carved textures built up throughout to render dramatic light and shadow.

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