Fisherman, Lake Tohopikiliga, by Robert Hogg Nisbet, Amer., (1879-1961) Pencil

Fisherman, Lake Tohopikiliga, by Robert Hogg Nisbet, Amer., (1879-1961) PencilEtching, 1930's 40's, Ed. unknown, 7 7 8 x 9 7 8, minor toning to edges, a thin discreet printing crease extending into large cloud at top center, signed and dedicated in pencil, "To Ulric Ellerluscu A. A. A.", a tad difficult to decipher, on a cream wove paper. A fine impression of this print by Nisbet, a respected Connecticut painter and very fine print maker, who focused on the tranquil beauty of Kent and the Housatonic River, in CT's northwestern

yet they exhibit subtle gradations of value and differentiations of texture one wouldn't assume from such boldness

all seeming to comment on the restrictions

old masking tape hinges top margin center and corners verso

A particularly graceful composition by this gifted and well respected sporting artist

the sophisticated use of tusche wash for the texture of both street and "Pushmobile"

and that the building pictured in this print was the Clark Insulate Electric Wire Company in Bristol

printed by the artist and descended in his family

Marc Chabot Fine Arts has a particular interest in works by Balthazar

and illustrated as pl

A dark and melancholic scene of two elderly woman

fueling his ascendance as a leader in the development of modernist painting in Chicago

with studies from the female nude published in Paris in 1897