"Bend in a Stream with Three Ducks" by Edith Penman, Amer., (1860-1929) Tempera SC where I purchased 3

SC where I purchased 3 pieces from his estate in the late 1980's

Thorpe often favored a dramatic black background to focus the viewer's attention on the vibrant color and delicate silhouette of blooms and foliage

3-7/16 x 4-7/8

on smooth cool gray wove china paper

"Bend in a Stream with Three Ducks" by Edith Penman, Amer., (1860-1929) Tempera SC where I purchased 3Etching. ca. 1890, ed. unknown, 6 7 16 x 9 3 16, signed in script in the plate below the image along with an etched dragonfly remarque, on thick stiff cream wove paper. Light soil, a few faint spots of foxing mostly in the margins, and browning at margin edges from contact with the previous frame. The artist was a member of both the New York Etching Club and the Byrdcliff Arts & Crafts colony in Woodstock, New York.