"Honest Weight 3 Cents" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Featured

"Honest Weight 3 Cents" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) FeaturedLithograph, ca. 1950's, Ed. unknown, 13 3 4 x 9 5 16, signed with the cursive initial "L" in the stone, on cream wove paper. This is one of five lithographs by Marian Lerer in inventory. A Carnival gamer waits patiently for his next customer while people cavort on the boardwalk or hurl through space on the ferris wheel in the distance. Lerer's sophisticated use of tusche wash for texture and saturated blacks point to an accomplished print maker with a

further exploring subtle

signed in red pencil over the artist's embossed triangular chopmark

There is a pale trace of mat line in the margins from a previous mount

producing just a few works each year

15-1/2 x 11-1/2

A historically significant Weir family association - legacy print

A tranquil and detailed sport fishing subject by Locke

published by Gesllschaft Fur Verviefaltegende Kunst

9-7/8 x 12-3/8

along with his books and teaching at Yale

Toledo Museum of Art

suggesting the monumental sweep of this grand view within a small scale