John Doyle Doughboy Sharpshooters 76 WWI Signed 1975 Stone Lithograph 27/76 For Sale

John Lawrence DoyleSharpshooters \'76 / Doughboy1975 Color Stone Lithograph • Signed, Titled and Numbered 27/76Collector OverviewThis large-format, hand-signed color stone lithograph is John Lawrence Doyle\'s Doughboy, from his eleven-work Sharpshooters \'76 portfolio. Created in 1975 in anticipation of the United States Bicentennial, the series examines soldiers, machinery and the visual mythology associated with conflicts across American history. This example is numbered 27/76 and measures approximately 29 1/2 inches wide by 41 1/2 inches high. Matching-Number Collection This impression is one of seven family-held Sharpshooters \'76 works, each numbered 27/76. The seven matching-number works are Frontispiece, Korea, Sony War, Story Book War, Bombardier, Continentals and Doughboy. All seven are now being offered individually, subject to prior sale. Each listing is for one artwork only unless expressly stated otherwise. Matching-Number Collection Discount Purchase any two available matching-number works: receive 30% off the combined artwork prices.
Purchase any three available matching-number works: receive 35% off the combined artwork prices. Combined shipping: When two or three works are purchased together, they will be carefully rolled together and shipped in one heavy-duty, wide-diameter shipping tube. The buyer pays the shipping charge shown for one print only. The second and third prints ship at no additional charge. Please contact the seller through before purchasing so the collection discount can be arranged. If initially charges shipping on more than one listing, all excess shipping charges will be refunded. Discounts apply to the artwork prices only. Availability is subject to prior sale, and each individual listing is for one artwork only.About DoughboyDoughboy presents a full-length American World War I infantryman bowed beneath the weight of modern warfare. The soldier wears a broad steel helmet and gas mask while ammunition belts, field equipment and a long weapon crowd the figure. A strand of barbed wire trails near his legs. Doyle\'s layered details transform the familiar heroic doughboy into an encumbered, vulnerable figure shaped by the machinery and hazards of industrialized war.The Smithsonian American Art Museum holds another example titled Doughboy and identifies its subjects as a full-length male soldier in military uniform, World War I, gun and ammunition. The Denison Museum\'s chronological presentation of the complete portfolio likewise associates Doughboy with World War I. This listing does not claim that the present 27/76 impression was museum-owned or exhibited.Stone Lithography and PrintingThis is an original color stone lithograph, not an offset poster or digital reproduction. In traditional stone lithography, the artist draws with grease-based materials on prepared limestone. The stone is chemically processed, dampened and inked so that ink adheres to the drawn image areas, and the image is transferred to paper under pressure. A color composition requires carefully registered successive printings.Sharpshooters \'76 was produced through Doyle\'s collaboration with master printer and printmaker Roland Poska at Fishy Whale Press in Rockford, Illinois. Institutional records for works from the portfolio identify Poska as printer and Fishy Whale Press as publisher.The Sharpshooters \'76 SeriesThe complete portfolio comprises eleven color lithographs surveying American warfare from the Revolutionary era through the twentieth century. Rather than presenting war as straightforward heroic history, Doyle combined uniforms, weapons, vehicles, symbols and fragmented human figures to encourage reflection on how conflict is remembered and represented. Denison Museum exhibited all eleven prints in 2017 and associated Doughboy with World War I (1914-1918).About John Lawrence DoyleJohn Lawrence Doyle (American, 1939-2010) was born in Chicago and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving his bachelor\'s degree in 1962, followed by a master\'s degree from Northern Illinois University in 1967. His printmaking was informed by a sustained interest in ethnology, anthropology and the human condition.Doyle produced ambitious stone-lithograph portfolios in collaboration with master printer Roland Poska at Fishy Whale Press in Rockford, Illinois. During his career, he participated in numerous solo, national and international exhibitions and received multiple awards and purchase prizes.Artwork DetailsArtist: John Lawrence Doyle (American, 1939-2010)Title: Sharpshooters \'76 / DoughboyDate: 1975Medium: Color stone lithograph on paperPrinting process: Original color stone lithographMaster printer: Roland PoskaPrinter and publisher: Fishy Whale Press, Rockford, IllinoisEdition: Pencil numbered 27/76 near the lower right marginSignature: Pencil signed and dated \'doyle 75\' at lower rightInscription: Pencil titled \'Sharpshooters 76 / Doughboy\' along the lower marginPrinter\'s mark: Blind stamp in the lower marginSheet size: Approximately 29 1/2 inches wide x 41 1/2 inches highPresentation: UnframedProvenanceFrom a long-held family collection assembled during the period when the seller\'s father represented John Lawrence Doyle. The work has remained with the family since that period.ConditionExceptionally clean vintage condition overall. The printed image remains clean, colorful and visually strong, with no obvious image-area tear, staining or color loss visible in the photographs. The unframed sheet shows only minor age-appropriate edge and corner handling, including slight edge waviness and a small soft bend or crease at an upper corner. The naturally irregular deckled edges are an intentional characteristic of the paper and are not tears. Please review all photographs, including the edge and corner close-ups, as they form part of the condition description.ShippingThis large unframed lithograph will be handled carefully, protected with clean interleaving material, rolled around a wide-diameter support to avoid an unnecessarily tight curl, and placed in a heavy-duty wide-diameter shipping tube with secure end caps. Tracking will be provided. 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