Eggplant, by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, Amer., (1896-1979) Lithograph illustrating poems by Charles -Antoine

illustrating poems by Charles -Antoine Nau

Bilander exhibited internationally and his prints are held in the Library of Congress

on stiff crream wove paper

here in CT

Eggplant, by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, Amer., (1896-1979) Lithograph illustrating poems by Charles -AntoineLithograph, no date, Ed. unknown, 7 3 4 x 4 5 8, a small handling crease an inch above subject covered by overmat, signed in pencil, on thick warm white wove paper, 12 5 8 x 9 1 2. St. Ruth Chrisman Gannett is best known perhaps as the illustrator of John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flats and the children's book My Father's Dragon, written by her stepdaughter Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn. Ruth Chrisman Gannett created a number of fine lithographs in the 1930's