Featured Rare Dennis Cunningham Linocut 1969

Hi all,
I took one of my yearly trips yesterday down the old Sacramento River Road. Visiting all the little towns along the river. This print was in a little pickers type thrift/junk store.
It was $1.00 so I grabbed it.
https://www.orartswatch.org/dennis-cunningham-the-last-catch/


This is Signed and dated 1969. He was only 20.

 

This is so cool. Good find!

 

I couldn't find any of his works that sold. Seems most are in private collections.
I'm not sure what this print is of either. 9/20
Friends?
Mikey

 

Are you sure it is the same artist? Yours appears to be signed "D E Cunningham". The Oregon artist was D L Cunningham.

 

Bulldogs-Cunningham taught just down the road from us at Marylhurst University in West Linn Oregon.He did beautiful work reminiscent of Roosevelt era WPA regionalism.
Re Old Sacramento River Rd.,one of My Wife's oldest friends family founded Locke,CA,a famous 19th-early 20th century Chinese American village in the Sacramento Delta,a beautiful haunting place.

 

I agree, based on the examples I looked at, I would think a different artist.

 

This bit looks like wood block or linoleum block. Worth a punt for a dollar. If you like it, hang it.

 

@2manybooks I had found this earlier.
Signed like mine but described as D L Cunningham.
I just thought later works he changed the way he signs.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/125764...CfBkUSy1L0Wtu4X9b4OV7ivK8bvPDGARoCAicQAvD_BwE

 

Compare the signatures with this example from the Portland Art Museum, a Dennis L Cunningham print from 1975:



http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=24425;type=101


Yours and the Lion you found may be by the same artist, but I don't think it is Dennis L Cunningham.

 

Odds are the Etsy seller misidentified his.

 

You are right as usual. The search goes on.

 

It is all too easy to get excited about a potential good find, and overlook the details. Happens to us all.

 

Keep up the hunt,it's a nice little abstract,and you've got a good eye.Some of my favorite art (pieces that we've had 20 yrs or more),are unsigned,ie: 'priceless' & we love 'em.

 

I was planning to stop in Locke But it is basically a dead town except for on weekends. Two antique shops are only open Saturday and Sunday.
Mikey

 

Lot's of Ghost Hunters visit Locke.It's a unique little inhabited ghost town (perhaps 5-10 people actually live there ?).

 

And it's a 45 minute drive from my house!

 

We stopped by a general store on one of the islands back in the early 80's.They still had some 1940's stock on the shelves-old boxes of Burma Shave and other non-perishables.Is there an island in the Delta called 'Dante's Island' ?...sounded something like that.