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Wien 180 ii/ii. Wood engraving on wove paper, watermarked JAPAN with full margins. One of 19 signed impressions in the second incomplete edition (there was another edition of 60). Signed, titled, and numbered II 25/150 in pencil. Red petrel cypher lower right and the Origins of Art stamp verso.
Coachella Valley is an arid basin bordered by the San Bernadino Mountains, largely unpopulated until the 1930s when Palm Springs became a hot spot for Hollywood celebrities. At first glance an ordinary landscape, this remarkable wood engraving with its masterful use of stippling and crosshatching features a train and its long trail of smoke.
