"Pushmobile" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Wood Engraving

"Pushmobile" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Wood EngravingLithograph, ca. 1940's, Ed. unknown, 8 1 8 x 7 1 4, signed with the initial "L" in the stone, and signed "M Ebert" and titled in pencil, two square stains to top corners showing recto from old tape verso, but well away from image, on cream wove watermarked PUR FIL paper. This was the only pencil signed impression of a group of five lithographs by this artist I purchased a few years ago. The penciled last name did not match the artist's cursive capital

unsigned as usual

and exhibitied at the venerable New Haven Paint & Clay Club

with a few spots of foxing to the outer edges of the chine and support sheet

13-13/16 x 19-7/16

A subtly inked impression of this sensitive portrait of Anna Baker Weir

who's prints carry a distinctly Hopper-esque ethos

He would rub the drawn surface to soften edges

with a painted overmat border

studio "with Farrer's ed

by Englemann

which he founded in 1947

There is slight lightenng to the sheet within the mat opening