"Portrait of Chauncey F. Ryder" by Keith Shaw Williams, Amer., (1906-1951) Ink held in many museum collections

held in many museum collections

An attractive work with a strong Arts & Crafts look

featuring poetically back lit sailboats and tugs in New York Harbor

She is best known for the Art Deco style of her prints

some waviness to the sheet and lightest toning within mat opening

"Portrait of Chauncey F. Ryder" by Keith Shaw Williams, Amer., (1906-1951) Ink held in many museum collectionsEtching, 1940, ed. of at least 50, 7 15 16 x 5 15 16, signed with initials and dated in the plate and signed titled and numbered in pencil, with an old price in pencil at lower left corner, on cream wove paper with small uneven margins of at least 5 8, tack holes to top corners, likely printed that way by the artist. A gentle and reflective portrait of the important American landscape painter and printmaker.