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St. Louis Contemporary and Classic: The May Collection

Sat, May 9, 2026 11:00AM EDT
  2026-05-09 11:00:00 2026-05-09 11:00:00 America/New_York Woodard Lipe Woodard Lipe : St. Louis Contemporary and Classic: The May Collection https://bid.woodardlipe.com/auctions/woodard-lipe/st-louis-contemporary-and-classic-the-may-collection-23090
St. Louis Classic and Contemporary: the May Collection is a carefully curated auction presenting an exceptional breadth of fine art, works on paper, decorative arts and collectibles spanning multiple collecting disciplines, with highlights including works by Robert Motherwell, Willem de Koonig, Marc Chagall, Hans Bellmer, Sol LeWitt, Leslie Dill, Alexander Calder, Laszlo Dus, Ed Eugene Boccia and Siegfried Reinhardt alongside important American and European decorative arts.
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Lot 13

Anne Rosson Fuller Dillon (American, 1938-1996. Lobstering (1965). Woodblock Print on Paper.

Estimate: $100 - $200
Starting Bid
$50

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Height 23 in., Width 27.5 in. Signed lower right. Edition 4/10. This evocative multi-color woodblock print captures the rugged rhythms of New England lobstering culture at its mid-century peak, when small-boat fishermen still worked the coastal waters in the dory tradition stretching back generations. Dillons confident layering of teal, black, and sage tones reflects the influence of the mid-century American printmaking revival, a movement that elevated everyday labor and regional landscape to the level of fine art. The composition — foreground fishermen hauling traps against a receding fleet and misty headland — draws on a long lineage of maritime genre imagery rooted in the work of Winslow Homer and the Gloucester School. As a small-edition print (4/10) by a skilled regional artist, this work represents the kind of intimate, place-specific craftsmanship that defined American studio printmaking in the postwar decades.

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