Description
Wasserbahn—roughly 'water-road' in German—is documented in dealer listings as a 1979 limited-edition serigraph from Dallas John's surrealist truck series. John (b. 1945) came to printmaking through commercial silkscreening in Denver after abandoning a career in urban and transit planning, building his serigraphs from meticulous hand-prepared color layers, each impression signed and numbered in pencil. The German title is characteristic of the polyglot naming that runs through the series.
Sources: https://www.ebay.com/itm/286476972657 · https://www.rogallery.com/artists/dallas-john/
The certificate of authenticity issued by American Design Ltd. (Aurora, Colorado) records this impression as edition 13/25, 1979, hand-signed by the artist in pencil. The certificate is filed with the work and photographed as a secondary image.
