North Cornwall Meeting House, by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, Amer., (1896-1979) Charcoal

North Cornwall Meeting House, by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, Amer., (1896-1979) CharcoalLithograph, Ed. unknown, 12 x 9 7 8, paper tone faded to a cool white within old mat opening, two pin holes well below pencil signature with ruled pencil line where an exhibition label or business card was likely pinned, signed in pencil, on thick warm white wove paper, 16 7 16 x 11 7 8. Ruth Chrisman Gannett is best known perhaps as the illustrator of John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flats and the children's book My Father's Dragon, written by her

on warm white wove paper 16-3/16 x 12-3/16

7-7/8 x 10

illustrator

draftsman and wood engraver

also embraced these ideas in his own explorations of abstraction

for the Brooklyn Society of Etchers

annotated "Hicken Sulpher Works" in pencil at top verso

Small spots of foxing or staining from wood pulp inclusions in ther paper

His prints are held by many major American museums

Faintest toning in the mat opening

printed on thick buff laid paper

on cream wove japan paper 13-1/2 x 12