Frank W Benson, Amer., (1862-1951), Ducks Alighting Drawing

Frank W Benson, Amer., (1862-1951), Ducks Alighting DrawingEtching, 1921, Ed. 369, for the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, ref. P. 207, 5 7 8 x 4 7 16, on cream simili japan paper 14 1 4 x 10 5 126. The print comes with its original mat and tissue guard, in it's original gray portfolio cover, all in fine condition, ok, the tissue guard has one corner crease.

Baker Campbell 87

The uncertain volatility of our own current civil divisions and those abroad cannot help but point again to the agency of this masterpiece of mid ninteenth century printmaking

Graphite to verso for transfer

Gouache and Ink

as well as several etched subjects

on cream wove paper 11-7/16 x 7-15/16

The gouache is affixed to the overmat with a thin white watertape around  the edges

A lyrical and richly textured late day rural English landscape showing a line of houses nearly hidden by trees  at the edge of a rutted road and field

on smooth cream wove simili vellum paper

together they entertained many artist friends in their stylish Manhattan home through the decades until Mildwoff's passing in 1991

Etching Club

some cockling to margins