"Diana with Two Deer" by Samuel Davis Otis, Amer., (1889-1961) Charcoal

"Diana with Two Deer" by Samuel Davis Otis, Amer., (1889-1961) CharcoalGold Toned Photogram, ca. 1930's 40's, ed. unknown but very small, ca. 6 x 8, unsigned as usual, on printing out paper. From the artist's estate. Samuel D. Otis was a highly talented commercial and fine artist, proficient in many media. He started his career as an illustrator, and was deeply committed to the Silvermine Guild of Artists in the Silvermine area of Norwalk, Connecticut for many years, serving as it's president for a time. There is a

5-1/8 x 8-1/4

There are two small short tears  at the bottom deckle edge

earthy palette and ghostly germinative forms

NY art colony

on smooth cool gray wove china paper

foxing to sky and some fading of blue pigment

"Tiger" is Misch Kohn's most famous and widely illustrated print

from the ed

who's great personal vision and formidable technical skills

and a horizontal handling crease image center

A sumptuously rich and sensitively wiped impression of this beautiful drypoint by Hardie

One of Lasansky's larger and most important prints