FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869 – 1958)
NEAR TWILIGHT (aka Twilight Nears) c. 1934. Color block print. Signed and titled in pencil. Image 9 1/8 x 5 inches. Good impression, large sheet in good condition with original hinges at top margins edge.. Sheet size, 14 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches. Usual tack holes along the right sheet edge for printing, deckle edges right and bottom. Remnants of a vertical fold across the lower margin 1 1/4 inches from the bottom. A couple of small spots one in right and one in left margins.
An example of TWILIGHT NEARS was exhibited in the Wichita Art Museum Annual Exhibitions of American Block Prints in 1934.
An impression was exhibited in Frances H. Gearhart - Color Blocks in Wichita, 1922-1937, Wichita Art Museum, July 2020 - February 2021 and illustrated in the exhibition catalog. Show curated and catalog written by this dealer Roger Genser - The Prints and The Pauper
California, Arts and Crafts, Color woodcut, Linocut. Contemporary of William Rice, Japanese Prints