"Church" by Sperry Andrews, Amer., (1917-2005) Pencil " in pencil

" in pencil

There are a few penciled framers notations at bottom margin edge

annotated "Hicken Sulpher Works" in pencil at top verso

famous as both industrial designer of housewares

and to the top margin edges from drying after printing

"Church" by Sperry Andrews, Amer., (1917-2005) Pencil " in pencilColor 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