"Pond in Winter" by Edith Penman, (Amer., 1860-1929) Ink

"Pond in Winter" by Edith Penman, (Amer., 1860-1929) InkEtching, image 8 7 8 x 13 13 16, on cream simili vellum paper, signed in pencil, toned within mat openng, handling crease to left of signature, some light retouches to sky, with full margins. Penman was an early resident of Byrdcliffe, the early 20th century Arts & Crafts community founded on the site of the present day Woodstock, NY art colony.

with a nice dedication to his friend the painter Hobart Nichols

signed in the plate and signed

Friendly with the artist Ernest Roth

exhibited at the City Art Museum

on stiff smooth cream wove paper with small margins as issued

faint tape residue to corners as is common

His career as an artist was firmly rooted in both the 19th and 20th centuries

Oil and ink

image 9-15/16 x 6-1/2

descendants of of Anna Weir Ely Smith

Thomas Anschutz and Cecilia Beaux at the Pennsylvania Academy

The image area is fresh save for two small pale stains to lower right image corner