Subway No. 3, by August Mosca, Amer., (1905-2003) Etching His fascination and knowledge of

His fascination and knowledge of the mid-western birds he portrayed are realized with consummate skill in the difficult medium of color aquatint

but confined to the margins only

along with the subtle play of light reflecting off the water'surface

where he studied in his youth

mat burn to edges from an old acidic mat

Subway No. 3, by August Mosca, Amer., (1905-2003) Etching His fascination and knowledge ofLithograph, 1977, Ed. 20 50, 10 15 16 x 8 13 16, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, on warm white wove Rives BFK paper 17 x 13 3 4. Meticulously printed by George Miller, these urban subway lithographs by Mosca remain true to his early vision of the city. Mosca's dynamic, patterned compositions celebrate the structure of modern transit but steep their symmetry in a luminous atmosphere.