JAMES COLBERT REID (1907-1989) Original Vintage Art Deco Woodcut THE CRUCIFIXION

Artist: JAMES COLBERT REID (American, 1907 - 1989). Title: The Crucifixion of Christ. Medium: 1930 Original Woodcut done in a highly-stylized Art Deco iconography. Edition: Limited Printing Edition of 1000 impressions.

Size: 9 x 6 inches. Publisher: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. On Murray Hill, New York. Note: Reid's woodcut illustrations of Christ.

Introduced the idea of the graphic novel in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which would explode in the 20th and 21st centuries. Provenance: Hatay Stratton Fine Art, Northampton, Massachusetts. About the Artist: Born in Philadelphia, James Reid completed a four-year course at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, where he studied illustration under Thornton Oakley, a disciple of the Brandywine School made famous by N. In 1930, Reid created seventy-eight stunning wood engravings for The Life of Christ in woodcuts, where he depicted the most important events in the life of Christ using a series of highly-stylized woodcut prints in the Art Deco Style.

This event was important as it introduced the idea of the graphic novel in the early 20th century.