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Florence Lundborg (1871-1949). THE LARK / WHAT IS THAT MOTHER? 1895. 21x15 inches, 53x36 cm.

Sold for $750 at Swann Auction Galleries on Dec 17, 2014.

Florence Lundborg (1871-1949). THE LARK / WHAT IS THAT MOTHER? 1895. 21x15 inches, 53x36 cm. auction lot image

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FLORENCE LUNDBORG (1871-1949) THE LARK / WHAT IS THAT MOTHER? 1895. 21x15 1/2 inches, 53 1/4x36 1/2 cm. Condition B+: tear in lower right corner; minor loss in lower image; sharp creases in margins and through image; pencil notations in bottom margin. Paper. Florence Lundborg, a San Francisco native, was a painter and book illustrator. A student of the California Arts and Crafts Movement, Lundborg designed a total of seven woodblock posters for The Lark, of which this was the first. For each of her posters, in true artisan fashion, she carved all the blocks herself. The Poster, April 1896, describes the paper used for the poster as "a very interesting bamboo fibre paper used in the Chinese drugstores in San Francisco." Kiehl 117, DFP-I 293, Margolin p. 131, Virginia p. 53, Crystal Palace 678.

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