"Bend in a Stream with Three Ducks" by Edith Penman, Amer., (1860-1929) Tempera

"Bend in a Stream with Three Ducks" by Edith Penman, Amer., (1860-1929) TemperaEtching. ca. 1890, ed. unknown, 6 7 16 x 9 3 16, signed in script in the plate below the image along with an etched dragonfly remarque, on thick stiff cream wove paper. Light soil, a few faint spots of foxing mostly in the margins, and browning at margin edges from contact with the previous frame. The artist was a member of both the New York Etching Club and the Byrdcliff Arts & Crafts colony in Woodstock, New York.

and "Pendeltons Lithography Boston" at lower right

barely visible

Thorpe often favored a dramatic black background to focus the viewer's attention on the vibrant color and delicate silhouette of blooms and foliage

on smooth cool gray wove china paper

That Daumier was known to indulge in a little black humor

"Interplay" is one of an important group of early etchings and block prints she made from 1961-63 in the Blackburn Studio

In 1938 Pollak and his wife settled in San Francisco which remained his base

on thick buff colored wove paper with small but original margins

Addison LeBoutillier was an accomplished Boston area artist and architect who is best known today as a designer for Grueby Pottery

SC where I purchased 3 pieces from his estate in the late 1980's

3-7/16 x 4-7/8

the colors bright and unfaded