"Logging Train (For Calendar)" by Dale Nichols, Amer. (1904-1995) Charcoal with penciled marginalia of building

with penciled marginalia of building details into both the bottom margin edge below the ruled border and the right margin

who lived not far away

6 x 11-5/8

Witherstine's  style has certain graphic affinities with the woodcuts of Felix Vallotton during La Belle Epoch in France

"Logging Train (For Calendar)" by Dale Nichols, Amer. (1904-1995) Charcoal with penciled marginalia of buildingLithograph, extensively hand colored in oil and varnished by the artist, circa 1940's, 9 7 16 x 13 7 16, signed in pencil, and hastily annotated with mispellings verso: "Finished color on Loging train for Calender from Dale Nichols". Printed directly on a pebbled illustration board, There is a barely noticeable repaired 1" tear to the left of the fishing figure at lower right and a professionally repaired loss at the bottom edge of the illustration