Digging Potatoes, by Clare Leighton, Eng.-Amer., (1898-1989) Linocut and his teacher George Bellows

and his teacher George Bellows at the Art Students League where he studied early on arranged the first exhibition of Balthazar's work

confusion and shame which often surrounded sexual desire in American society as Kent came of age

10-3/8 x 9-3/4

and numbered 186/200 in pencil

with it's brilliant whites for the fireworks truely seem brighter than the paper they are (not) printed on

Digging Potatoes, by Clare Leighton, Eng.-Amer., (1898-1989) Linocut and his teacher George BellowsWood Engraving, 1934, for Leighton's celebrated book Four Hedges, published in 1935, Ed. 7 . 30, F. 309 2 13 16" x 4 3 4", toned within mat opening, crease to upper right margin corner old hinges to corners, signed and titled in pencil, on thin cream wove simili japan paper, in a small edition. One of the finest examples of Leighton's ability to create dynamic spacial depth within a vignetted compositional format, with it's beautiful modulations of