"Headland Light" by Albert Edel, Amer., (1890-1961) Pastel

"Headland Light" by Albert Edel, Amer., (1890-1961) PastelDrypoint, ca. 1920's 40's, ed. unknown, 4 x 4 7 8, sighned and titled in pencil, on thick cream wove paper. Albert Edel was a Provincetown based painter and etcher most active from the 1920's 40's. He specialized in scenes of the landmarks, fishermen and wharves of PTown, and was married to Stella Johnson Edel, an artist well known for her white line color woodcuts.

Large edition as published in The International Studio

with the publisher's info in the plate at bottom

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

embraced these ideas in both his teaching and his own explorations of abstraction

well away from subject

and was a dedicated and inventive printmaker

image 5-13/16 x 3-9/16

She lived in Litchfleld

on cream wove Rives paper

Even with these issues

the exact subject of which after much sleuthing has still eluded me

slight skinning recto top and side center margin edges from previous tape hinges