Fishing Boats

 

Elizabeth Norton

  1887 - 1985 (biography)

1926  

color woodcut 

6 x 4 1/2" image size 

pencil, lower center margin 

34 of 100  

Del., sc. et imp. in lower left; stamped with EN monogram after the signature; dated in pencil 

LC10 

very fine tissue 

published 

artist 

DRW2055 

SOLD

Elizabeth Norton did this color woodcut of fishing boats in San Francisco Bay. She added a "chop" of her initials "EN" in blue, beneath the image, much as Gustave Baumann had done with his "Hand in Heart" chop. She signed this impression in pencil, dated it "1926" numbered it "24/100" and annotated it "del." (drawn by), "sc." (engraved by) and "imp" (printed by), indicating that she did the whole process herself.

Norton prints the ink lightly on a thin, tissue-like paper, allowing the grain of the wood to show through and create a "shimmer" to the water and the sky. A fine example of her work in the medium.