"Old Penn Station, NYC" by Ben Mildwoff, Amer., (1907-1991) Slate Print

"Old Penn Station, NYC" by Ben Mildwoff, Amer., (1907-1991) Slate PrintBrush and Ink Drawing, 5 7 8 x 5 1 8, unsigned, old rubber cement stains to top edge verso and to margins recto, as is typical for the artist, on cream wove paper. Demolished in 1963, Mildwoff's drawing offers an artist's glimpse inside the old Penn Station. Drawn from a high vantage point on an interior foot bridge, this dramatic scene shows the sun casting strong patterns of light and shadow thru the columns, over the throngs of commuters and across

a pale trace of a mat line

Smith early on made the pilgrimage to Venice

some handling creases to outer margins

who studied with Philip Little

A beautiful impression of this print

Whatever it's specific meaning

or the print studio they were published by

with two large storage tanks

Traces of tape residue top margin edge verso

signed & dated in the plate

Letterpress in bottom margin :"Frank Brangwyn Gerber Druck Der K

with penciled marginalia of building details into both the bottom margin edge below the ruled border and the right margin