My First Day At School by Howard Baer, Amer., (1907-1986) Color otherworldly light

otherworldly light

and dated in pencil

a crisp impression in a warm brown ink of this popular subject

has drawn new interest in his prints today

My First Day At School by Howard Baer, Amer., (1907-1986) Color otherworldly lightLithograph, 1940's, Ed. 250 for AAA, 11 7 8 x 9, signed in pencil, barely perceptible mat line, on cream wove paper 13 3 4 x 11. Baer made at least three lithographs remembering his own experiences attending a small rural school as a young boy around 1910 12. Several of his prints are regionalist in feeling, revisiting memories of youth, though I've seen one foreign subject as well. His sure hand and universal themes elicit empathy and nostalgia for