Louis Schanker Prints
A relief print taken from a block of wood, often pine, where the
areas which are to remain uninked are cut away from the image
using a sharp knife or gouge. The natural grain of the wood is
often enhanced by rubbing stiffly with a wire brush.
woodcut in America chiefly stems.
About Prints, Stanley William Hayter, artist, author, 1964,
Louis Schanker-Prints 1924-1971
Brooklyn Museum 1974
Tugboats
1924, linocut, 6.5 X 4.5in, BM01
Bathers
1925, linocut, 6.5 X 4.5in, BM04
Speak
Easy II
1924, etching, 8 X 16in, BM02
Cyclone,
Coney Island
c1933, lithograph
Three Men on
a Bench
c1939, 9.2 X 12.5in, BM35
Seated
Figure
c1939, woodcut, 16.5 X 11in, BM33
Cops and
Pickets
c1939, woodcut, 9.25 X 11.75in, BM26
Polo
1937, linocut, 17.5 X 22.5in, BM12
Family
1937, woodcut, 3.5 X 3in, BM11
Four Figures
c1938, woodcut, 5.5 X 4.5in
Cafe
c1938, lithograph, 9.5 X 5in
Three
Figures, No 1
1941, 12 X 16in, BM54
(Smithsonian collection)
St. George
and the
Dragon
1941, woodcut, 9 X 12in, BM52
(Smithsonian collection)
Composition
with Figures
1942, woodcut, 8 X 14in, BM56
Abstraction
in Grey, Pink and Black
1942, woodcut, 5.5 X 4.5in, BM55
Birds in
Flight
1944, woodcut, 14 X 30, BM61
Birds and
Animals in Landscape
c1945, woodcut, 11.25 X 18.5in,
Carnival
1948, woodcut, 14.5 X 21in, BM94
(Smithsonian collection)
Circle Image
No. 4
1954-55, relief print, 14 X 18in, BM119
Lyrical
Abstraction
1971, plexiglass relief, 16 X 24in, BM148
Abstraction
No. 8
1971, plexiglass relief, 26 X 18in, BM138
Football No.
II
1971, plexiglas relief, 16 X 24, BM143
Abstraction
c1975, relief print, 36 X 24in,
Abstraction
c1975, relief print, 36 X 24in
Abstraction
17
c1975, relief print, 36 X 24in