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Leonard Pytlak (New York, 1910 - 1998), "Seabreeze - N.Y.C. Fire Station Boat," screenprint, c. 1930-40, unsigned, measures 13 x 14.50 inches to the matt opening, measures 21 x 23 inches framed. CONDITION: Good. An influential American printmaker, Leonard Pytlak studied art at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art and at the Art Students League, New York. From 1934 to 1941 he worked almost exclusively in the medium of lithography. As this was the troubling times of the Great Depression most of his lithographic work was published by the New York Chapter of the W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration), which kept many artists employed during these years. These commissioned W.P.A. prints were most often published in very small editions ranging from sixteen to twenty-five impressions.