Eggplant, by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, Amer., (1896-1979) Lithograph A complex and dynamic later

A complex and dynamic later Venetian subject

on stiff crream wove paper

Bilander exhibited internationally and his prints are held in the Library of Congress

as seen here

on very thin cream japan tissue which has been chine colled to a white wove support sheet

Eggplant, by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, Amer., (1896-1979) Lithograph A complex and dynamic laterLithograph, no date, Ed. unknown, 7 3 4 x 4 5 8, a small handling crease an inch above subject covered by overmat, signed in pencil, on thick warm white wove paper, 12 5 8 x 9 1 2. St. Ruth Chrisman Gannett is best known perhaps as the illustrator of John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flats and the children's book My Father's Dragon, written by her stepdaughter Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn. Ruth Chrisman Gannett created a number of fine lithographs in the 1930's