Associated American Artists Prints

Q I have six Associated American Artists prints from different artists that my grandmother originally purchased in the 1950s. I’m trying to figure out the best way to sell them. A quick search of the internet suggests they are worth about $500 each.

A Associated American Artists was founded by Reeves Lewenthal in 1934 to provide works of art at affordable prices. Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and other well-known artists were hired and paid $200 for a picture. Limited-edition prints were made of the work and sold for $5 in department stores and later by mail order and at the Associated American Artists gallery in New York. They went out of business in 2000. Some prints sell at auction for high prices. Others sell for under $20. Take them to an antiques store that sells prints or an auction house that has online sales of prints and paintings.